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SUfe Zcbulnn ißrrorb VOLUME 10 THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER BY MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS Once more it has been impressed upon me that things often are not what they seem. The latest im pression was made as follows: An issue of The Wake Forest News wag to be delivered last Fri day night, and because of the heat and of unusual fatitrue I decided I’d decided I’d like to ride with the son who was taking the papers. The married son and his wife went too. We were proceeding at moderate speed just beyor.d Wakefield when suddenly the car lights went out. Investigation show ed that a fuse had blown—if that’s what they do. The sons changed seats that thej older one might drive back to, town for us to change to his car. I We crept along slowly, pulling off j far to .one side* of the highway I whenever we saw the lights of an appoaching car our driver sound ing the horn in warning. And every car honked angrily at us when we met, each probably thinking we were scofflaws out for a joyride. But there’s precious lit tle joy creeping down a road won dering what instant some one may crash into you from the rear and knowing only a small part of the blame would be theirs in such case. Reaching Zebulon we drove down the town’s main street, and of course there was our night chief looking larger than 1 ever saw him before —and right at us. 1 am posi tive his badge had been newly pol ished. But he was mighty nice about accepting our explanation, and we were soon on our way again in a car which had one of those do-funnies to show how much gas is in the tank. Ths one said half foil. ■—OOO ” Coming back from Wake Forest Ted chose another road, hoping it woufil be less bumpy than the one we had just traveled. It wasn’t. And right after we passedthat big roc k between here and Wendell — the one that did have A1 Smith’s face painted on it that now looks like a skull, the features having i faded so—Ted found that the car was out of gas. That gadget had simply fibbed about its being half full. We all got out except Evelyn, who was to steer the Ford while the boys pushed. The wouldn’t let me push, but I insisted on carrying my own’ weight. They pushed till we reached the top of the hill above Little River and we all rode down the hill in the glad expectation of buying enough gasoline to bring us home. —ooo — But the filling station was clos ed. And we found that not one of us had a penny except Ferd, who was the possessor of sixteen cents. After a conference it was decided that it would not be fair to go up the hill and wake the man who ran the station when we could buy less than a gallon. The sons thought one of them would thumb a ride to town and bring back gas. In my eagerness to help I took a position right at the edge of the road and Ted tactfully suggested that since it was he who was thumbing I had (Continued on back pas*) THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE TWENTY-FIRST, 1935. Infantile Paralysis Is Still Spreading With several new cases of infan tile paralysis reported each day, authorities are becoming more con cerned. Dr. J. S. Leake of the 13. S. Public Health Service came down from Washington this week to aid in combating the spread of the dis ease. To date there have been 7 deaths in North Carolina, four of them in Wake county. The total number of cases in the state is around 170 now On Thursday paralysis cases in the state numbered 108. Wake County had 3 new cases. The first news of the outbreak in the pied mont section came Wednesday. I Some Text Books Rented This Fall j The new state text book com- j j mission has decided that it will be j impossible to get plans for renting! school books working fully by this fall. It hopes to be able however, to rent 60 to 70 per cent of the books during the next school year. The commission elected E. N. Peeler of Greensboro as secretary at a salary of $2400. Raleigh Hottest Place on the Map With the mercury playing on 94 on Monday, Raleigh was the hottest place in the United States. Tues day the thermometer reading 96 and only Washington could tie that and none could beat it. Local showers relieved the op pressing heat but did not afford as much moisteure as was needed for crops. Crops Generally Are Looking Good The past ten days have been busy ones on the farm, despite the hot dry weather. Wake county’s wheat crop is better than usual and the •harvest has kept folks busy. Field crops have demanded lots of work. Crops in all sections of the county are looking fairly good for the season. Cotton and tobacco are both small but hale and healthy looking. Modified NRA to Go Till April, 36’ Pesident Roosevelt has signed a new NRA act hurriedly passed by congress, continuing in force the many of the NRA provisions until next April. The supreme court hav ing declared much of the original recovery act unconstitutional, the new law has omitted many of the more objectionable features. Huey Speaks for Sixteen Hours Senator Huey Long of Louisiana fc the champion filibusterer in the senate. He spoke for 16 hours one day last week to prevent a vote on a measure that he did not like. crops. LOCAL CHURCH NEWS | Next Monday p. m. i s the reg ular time of meeting of the North side and Central Circles of the Baptist W. M. S. and of the Circle meeting of the Methodist women. The Baptist Northside Circle will begin in the Study of “The Person al Service Guide.” No change has been made in the announcements concerning the sus pension of children’s classes in Sun day Schools in Zebulon. Because of infantile paralysis it is thought best to keep small children away from crowds. Pastor Read will hold the regular | pleaching services in the Methodist Church next Sunday. Club News The Home Demonstration Club will meet on Wednesday p. m. of next week. Making of cottage cheese will be demonstrated with suggestions for using it in different ways. To Mark Historic Spots on Highways l The state highway and public works commission has allocated $5,000 a year for two years for the purpose of marking historic spots along the state roads. The last leg islature provided for the work to be done under the state historical commission’s direction. The assessed value of New York City's largest buildings—Empire State, Equity, Stock Exchange, New York Life, American Tele graph, and Paramount, is said to be greater than that of the entire State of Arizona. '•T l.^ Avon Privette of Phil-Ett Motor Co. has been presented a handsome plaque by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a token of their ap preciation of his loyalty as a Good year dealer. This plaque of bronze occupies a prominent place in Mr. Privette’s place of business and bears the name of the Arm. He w ! ll be glad for all interested to see it. Max Baer Knocked Out by J. Braddock James J. Braddock. Brooklyn roustabout of Irish descent, with a wife and several children is the new world heavy weight champion. He knocked out Max Baer in the Madison Square Garden in New York last Thursday night. Prac tically unknown to fight managers and fans, Braddock got into the; game by a sort of fluke, but having : gotten in he soon went to the top. j Many Killed in German Blow-up j A terrific explosion of unknown j origin in a munitions plant in Ger many resulted in the death of sev eral hundred workers last Thurs day. Rigorous censorship on news has made it difficult for the out side world to learn much about the catastrophe. The explosion occurred at Reinsdorff and estimates of the dead go as high as 600. I Lobbvists Draw Over $100,000.06 Reports of lobbyists filed with Secretary of State Wade on their activities during the recent legis lature show that they were paid a total of $106,448 for their wmrk during the session—half as much as the members got. The law requiring lobbyists to report expenditures is a good one. Congress is now considering a bill similar to the North Carolina act. Lobbying is legitimate and their is no reason why a lobbyist should be ashamed to report on his activ ities. Fulk to Head New Division of Safety Arthur P. Fulk, deputy revenue) collector in the wrstern part of the state, has been named by Gov ernor Ehringhaus to head the new division of highway safety. This division will have charge of the highway patrol now being greatly enlarged. The new set - up leaves L. S. (Pete) Harris with little more| than a skeleton of his department. J Cotton Mills Sue To Recover Taxes Several cotton mills in the stale have joined in suits against Chas. H. Robertson, Revenue Collector, for recovery of processing taxes paid. The mills claim that the AAA under which the tax is levied and collected, is unconstitutional Former President Calles of Mex ico has fled into the mountains and the revolution which he engineered against the Cardenas regime has crumbled. There was not much bloodshed in it. The convention of Rotary Inter national was held the past week in Mexico City and for a day or two it looked the meeting might be spoiled. However, the fcMnlMi soon quelled the revolt. NUMBER 50. YE FLAPDOODLE By Ttif Swashbuckler The Boss and I were riding out near the water recently and seeing so much water, outside the bath tub, brought to mind a pleasant thought. “You know,” I said to the little woman, “My ancestors caane over on the Mayflower.” “That’s nothing,” chortled the wife, “Mine came over on the April Showers, a month before the Mayflower.” “Say!” I expostulated. “Is that joke original?” "Nope,” she came back, “I made it up myself.” Futhering the conversation I brought up the subject of sunburn. “You know Fannie Belle Bray who spends her waking hours at the Chevrolet place drawing her pay? Well, she went to the beach the oth er day and got badly burned. In fact her whole anatomy was badly sun-scorched.” “Serves her right,’ replied the spouse, “She ought not to have had that showing in a pub lic place.” “Honey ” I said soothingly, “There are two kinds of women, the talka tive and the other kind.” “What other kind?” she asked sweetly. But speaking of the little clothes that women wear now and then, brings to the mind of a middle aged lady a writer who used the nomme de plume “Lizon”. He wrote for the Raleigh Times some twenty years ago. Lizon wrote the follow ing poem about the ladies of Ral eigh and he was immediately run off the map of fourth-estaters. Read it and see if times have changed. I “Little girl, you look so small, Don’t you wear no clothes at all ? Don’t you wear no shimmy shirt? Don’t you wear no petty skirt? Just your corset and your hose— Are these all your underclothes? “Little girf when on the street You appear to be all feet; With your dress so very tight You surely are an awful sight; Nothing on to keep you warm, Crazy just to show your form. "Little girl, you won’t live long, Just because you dress all wrong, Can’t you wear more underclothes Than just your corset and your hose? After awhile, I do believe, You will dress like Mother Eve.” Yes sir, 1916. Twenty years ago. I “Lizon” should be here today and stroll not only along the thorough -11 fares of our great state, but also ' upon the beaches in season.
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