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(Ehr ZebuUm tßernrit VOLUME 10 mis, THAI AND THE OTHER By Mrs. THEO. B. DAVIS Sing a song of springtime and of garden “sass”; Sing a song of flowers and Bermu da grass; Sing a song of birds that fly to ward the north each day; Sing a song of children small, go ing out to play. The first little scarlet radishes are indeed appetizing, but they have away or resenting being cut down—or pulled up—in their ten der youth and frequently retaliate by giving the eater indigestion. Slicing them in vinegar a short while before mealtime helps to pre vent this, if you do not object to the acid taste. Out in the yard on Monday we saw two hummingbirds sipping honey from the pink bells on the weigelia bush. One would perch on a twig of the shrub and rest for an instant, then go back to the flowers. I do not recall having seen that before and it seems early for hummingbirds. The waxwings are passing on their nothern flight and the starlings have arrived with that queer chatter like gargling their throats. It might be a good idea to teach the small children which plants are dangerous to handle. Show them tne difference between poison oak or poison ivy and Virginia creeper. Teach them that larkspur is poi son, if put into the mouth, and that the milky sap of snow-on-the-moun tain will hurt like a burn, if it touches tender flesh. I have seen several cases of illness caused by chewing the leaves of oxalis or sour grass. Dogwood berries are bitter as quinine and few would eat enough of them to do harm, but occasionally black-gum berries will cause acute nausea. This is a good time to divide clumps of violets for resetting. They are about through blooming and replanted now will have months to grow and may begin blooming in the fall. They are re commended for planting as a ground cover for shrubbery as well as for borders. To my surprise I found hundreds of tiny seedlings around a clump of violets in the back yard this spring. They are now large enough to transplant. The W. M. U. of the Raleigh Baptist Association met at Cary last week. It was a good session and the Cary ladies entertained beautifully, even seating the guests for lunch and serving the meal on plates with hot coffee. On our way home we spoke of the pleasure of the occasion and some one remark ed that the Cary women did it with so much ease. But I am quite sure it was not easily done. Flowers do not assemble themselves with beau ty and harmony in containers; nev er a bowl of salad grew by chance; never were two sides of a sand wich drawn to each other by love alone; never a ham sliced itself nor pot of coffee boiled unaided. Those THE FOUR-COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, N ASH AND FRANKLIN. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SIXTH, 1935. Club News The general meeting of the Wo man’s Club for April was held on Tuesday p. m. Mrs. A. S. Bridges was appointed a delegate to the state meeting in Elizabeth City, with Mrs. Raymond Pippin dele gate ex officio. Mrs. Herring gave her annual report of welfare work and ex pressed to the club the thanks of all who worked in the sewing room for the use of the building during the cold weather. She also had an interesting exhibition of work done in the sewing room. At the conclu sion of her report she presented Mrs. D. J. Thurston, welfare work er in Johnston County, speaker for the meeting. Mrs. Thurston was given rapt attention as she told of cases that have come under her observation and of the difficulties presented by welfare and relief problems. Deploring the use of in toxicants especially by women, and of lax moral standards, Mrs. Thurston declared these constitute a grave danger to the country, and reminded her hearers that no na tion rises above the standard of its women. During the social hour after ad journment tea and wafers were served by Mesdames Herring, F. D. Finch and A. S. Hinton. Mesdames Wooten of Clayton and Jessie Mizzelle and Victoria Gill of Zebulon were welcome visitors. Mrs. A. N. Jones, a former mem ber, was gladly enrolled again. Relief “Clients” Will Not Work Mrs. Thomas O’Berry is investi gating charges that many on fed eral relief at Wilmington have re fused to help pick strawberries, preferring relief to labor at the wages offered. The jobs are said to have meant from $1.50 to $2.00 a i day with board. Famine in China It is estimated that 12,000,000 people in China are at the present time on the verge of death by star vation, being driven by hunger to gnaw the bark of trees, roots, and even clay. Last summer’s long drought is one cause of the famine, but another is robbery of food stuff by comunists. Earthquake, Japan Earthquake shocks Sunday in the Island of Formosa, one of the Is lands of Japan, killed more than 3,000 people, rendered a quarter of a million homeless, and resulted in property damage running into the millions. NOTICE All members of the Philathea Class of the Baptist Church are urged to meet on Tuesday after noon, April 30th at 3:00 in the home of Mrs. T. C. Conn. Impor tant business to come before the class makes it necessary to move the meeting up a week. Cary folks just knew how to do the thing so that the visitors saw only the gracious results of their labors; which is the climax of accomplish ment for hospitality at such meet ings. Baby Contest Interest Soars CLOSES MAY 9th AT 10:00 P. M. The baby popularity contest sponsored by the Philathea class of the Baptist church will close on May 9th at ten o’clock P. M. There positively will be no voting after this time, so be sure you are ready with your votes ere the clock strikes ten. All mothers are urged to have their babies ready in the floats for the grand parade which will begin at 3:00 in the afternoon. Lining up at the Zebulon Supply Store and going to the club house where a baby show will be held im mediately after the parade. Music will be furnished by the Wakelon High School band. Prizes are as follows: Grand Prize in popularity contest —Silver loving cup; Second prize—A com plete outfit of apparel, given by Shorr’s Dept. Store. For best float: First prize—Desk given by Zebulon Supply Company. Second prize—Ladder back chair given by A. S. Hinton from chair factory. Children will be classified by age in the baby show. A prize being awarded one child in each group. Merchants giving these prizes are as follows. Antones Dept. Store Baker and Hocutt S. G. Flowers Kannons Dept. Store J. A. Kemp R. L. Phillips Kannons Case Zebulon Dry Cleaners These prizes will be on display in the window of the Zebulon Sup ply Co. next week. The loving cup will be presented the lucky child at a “Tom Thumb” wedding to be given at fche Wake lon High Sfchool auditorium a few days after the contest closes. Characters for the wedding will appear in next week’s paper. Below are the present scores. Mary Fisher Finch 275 Caroline Massey 155 Laura James Sexton 125 Billie Parks Brantley 65 Julia Pippin 50 Hazel Chambleee Herring 50 Irvin Howard Shorr 1506 Jean Robertson 88 Carl Ely Harper 25 Bobbie Gill 1222 Joellen Gill 185 Clara Joyce Rhodes 100 Charlotte McKee Poole 75 Charles Allan Weathersby 572 Billie Pippin 1023 Charles Bernice Eddins 111 96 Shirley Ann Chamblee 25 Betty Ross Williamson 26 Mary Sue Long 45 George Riggsby Massey 211 Emma Ruth Pace 53 Betty Lee 25 Billie Bunn 283 Betsy Pope Simpson 205 Charles Harris Rhodes 50 Jimmie Green 263 Roderick Horton 35 Nancy Whitley 90 E. T. Cozart, Jr. 60 A. V. Medlin, Jr. 50 Norma Faye Gill 178 Worren Gupton Green 87 S. G. Flowers, Jr. 50 Hazel Aileen Baker 50 Roy B. Wilson 75 Elizabeth Bullock 25 Tommy Temples 25 Georgia Ruth Eddins 30 Ola Margaret Pace 40 Wakelon School COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Sermon Sunday night, by Dr. E. C. Few of Raleigh. Society Night, Monday evening, 8 o’clock. Deelaimers: Charles Flowers, Hilliard Denton. Read ers: Gertrude Carter, Cornelia Her ring. Debaters: Affirmative—Mer yle Massey and James Alford; Neg ative—Dorothy Winstead and Sex ton Johnson. Query: Resolved, That the United States Government should adopt legislation providing for unemployment insurance. Wednesday evening: Senior Class Day exercises. Thursday afternoon, two o’clock: Seventh grade graduation exer cises. Friday morning, 10:30 Com mencement. Dr. W. L. Poteat is to deliver the address. Friday night, play—Page Asa Bunker. Chief Marshals: Richard Hoyle| and Innie Perry. Four County Vocal Union On the afternoon of the first Sunday in June the four-county vo cal union will meet in the audi torium at Wakelon School. It is hoped that 1,000 persons will be present.'All choirs within reach are invited to come out and take part on the program. Send name to | Arthur Lewis, Zebulon, Rl, or to The Zebulon Record. Earthquake Destroys Island A terrific earthquake on last Sunday killed nearly 3,000 persons on the island of Formosa and in jured many thousands more. For mosa belongs to Japan, although many of the inhabitants are Chi nese. More than 6,000 homes were destroyed entirely by the quake and more than 20 000 damaged. Formosa felt another earthquake in 1906 when 1300 were killed. The Red Cross is helping to aid the suf ferers. Formosa’g chief export is cam phor. Rice, tea and sugar are also important in the island’s produc tions. Lots of Work Done Last week, following about four weeks of wet weather, was a fine time for farm work. One farmer suhmised that more work was done in Wake county fields during four days last week than in any like pe riod within the past ten years. Dogwood Festival The annual Dogwood Festival is in progress at Chapel Hill this week. Displays of flowers, parades of floats ,etc., make up the pro gram. It will hardly be up to for mer years, however, due to the fact that Lamar Stringfield, its moving spirit, has been away from the Hill this spring. Five pure bred Angus beef cat tie were purchased at the East Tennessee Cattle Sale at Knoxville by a Cherokee county farmer last week. NUMBER 42 | YE FLAPDOODLE 1 Wrvf uM l.cjV M By The Swashbuckler Rushed through mud and rain, wind and storm to Winston to see the Moravians’ service. It was worth standing in the rain for near ly three hours. On the way back we stopped in l Greensboro for a slight bit of sus- tenance and during the ordering of the chow it seemed that each and every one wanted their egg soft, hard or otherwise. When the waitress came to Claude Arnold, friend Claude ups and says “I’ll take mine a trifle loose. Not too loose deah girl, just a trifle loose.” “In that case,” came back the lit tle blonde bit of surprising ability, as she turned to me, “I suppose you’ll want yours a trifle tight?” | Walking along the street Wed nesday I came upon some of our quite tender citizens playing in the street. “What we gonna play?” in quired the first. “Oh,” replied the second, “Let’s play President. And 111 be the president.” Said the first, “You can’t be president. You ain’t got no money.” “Aw, that don’t make no difference,” was the reply, “Daddy says there ain’t goin’ to be no money by next year this time.” o—o —o I filed too late to file in time. I was planning to run for alderman of our fair city. My only plank in ye platform was a spring board. And that spring board was for “No more Salty Dog’ at four a. m.” Friend, I’d ’ave snow’ed them under with that promise. Anyway, I’d have my vote to look forward to. And my wife’s. And maybe Mrs. Horton’s and Ben nie’s. Why, that’s four right there! Oh the tragedy of it all. why didn’t I file in time. With victory right in my mouth, 1 mean hands, I let it slip through my fingers. Oh well, there'll be another election in two more years. But by that time the Salty Dod record will be worn out. Tom Bye Blounght over to that cute little Puril-Peep service sta tion across the way, had a date Monday night. He had been telling me off and on for two months that he had a date. And intermittently muttering something about moon light, waterfalls, et cetera and et cetera. He asked the gal for a date one night and she didn’t let him know for a week and then, accord ing to Tom, she called up every day for three weeks telling him he might have the date and apologiz ing for not letting him know soon er. Heh, Heh. Tom opened up shop at four the next morning. I don’t know but they tell me it was John R. Baker’s stenographer over in Spring Hope. (John R. Baker is Clarence H cutt’s junior partner here).
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