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VOLUME 10
THIS, THAT AND j
THE OTHER j
Jjy Muy-Jnm K DAVIS
On Saturday morning Jack High
brought to our place a small, dark
colored young cow that belongs to
Mr. Bennie taking her
away from both her mother and
her child. She was fairly quiet that
day, but on Sunday was so lone
some that 1 'gTieved with her. She
would go to the farthest corner of
the tiny pasture and low. She can t
low very well and it sounded like
strangled sobbing.
About night I went out and stay
ed with her for awhile, scratching
MOftt: ON BACK PACE
THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY THE FIFTH OF JULY. 1035.
Tobacco Curing to
j Begin At Once In
Eastern N. C. Belt
•y weather caused the to
.p to begin ripening unus
]y and curing is beginning j
istern belt of the state, j
; gone out that the first i
*s will open on August 26.
es in the old belt now
-joned to be allowed to
le same date as those in
belt, claiming that many
need of money haul their
the first market in reach
ve their home towns of a
of their patronage.
Sales Increase
of new cars in North Car
iow a big increase for the
t months of this year com
with the same period last
icense plates issued show a
onding increase.
hoid Fever
tivals Paralysis
ist of t\phoid fevp*- patients
en sweding so rapidly since
eek that it is ranking right
with infantile p. talysis. Nine
have been reported in the
from p aralysis; a total of 198
•ases tl is month: 257 cases
ed this year. Nash County
•ported no lew outbreak,
m, I’erson, Piti and Wake
the centers.
hoid cases number 87 this
and IV) for this ye:tr, coili
lainly from Davie, Franklin,
tn, Rutherford and Halifax
es. Typhoid vaccine is being
plenliful'y,
Club News
e Home Demonstration Club
it Wakefield on Wednesday p.
' last week. Mesdames Bullock
Harris, leaders, conducted a
onstration on making cottage
se. The use of this cheese was
vri in making three different
de and a sandwich spread. It
found to be especially good for
in dressing for tomato salad
for pears.
Che members of the Home Dem
stration Club will entertain their
sbands at a picnic supper at Tarp
y’s mill, between Zebulon and
/endell, on Wednesday evening,
aly 10. Each member is asked to
ring a chicken ready for frying,
jard sufficient for its cooking,
bread and pie.
New Sales Tax
Now in Effect
Since Monday July 1, the state
sales tax has been extended to cov
er all ordinary retail sales, includ
ing eight of the nine basic articles
of food that were exen.pt prior to
that time. As the ti* levy now
operates, miik is the omy article
that bears no *ax. It will be effec
tive at the same 37* rate as before.
President Defeated
In Holding Co. Vote
i
The national house of represen
tatives this week, by an overwhelm
ing majority, voted to accept the
committee substitute for the Sen
ate public utilities holding bill.
This substitutes omits the “death
sentence” for public utilities by
providing that the federal power
commission shall have authority to i
permit certain holding companies
to function, rather than making it
mandatory for them all to dissolve
by 1942.
President Roosevelt threw all the
influence of his personality and his |
office behind the senate bill, and
the vote in the house is the worst
defeat he has suffered. However,
that vote means that stockholders
in companies like the Carolina
Power a-nd Light Company may not (
lose their savings, as would have (
been the case under the senate bill.
The bill now goes to a conference
committee of senate and house to
be worked over.
Five County Fair
Office Opens On
Monday Morning
The Five County Fair office will
open here Monday and the adver
tising of the big fair will start at
once. Dates are week of October
Ist to sth and everything will be
new. All shows and rides are book
ed as well as all Free Acts etc.
The Premium List is now in the
hands of the Printers, and this year
the list will be printed in a Breezy
Eight-Page Newspaper carrying
all the news and cuts of the Fair.
Poultry will be added as well as
other Depts. The Premium Lists.
will also carry about $300.00 more •
Premiums than last year. All acts
are way above the average of
County Fairs, featuring Rita and
Dunn, an act working 85 feet in
the air and without safety belts or
nets. Ten other feature acts are al
ready contracted for.
The Exhibits this year will be
| placed under two waterproof tops *
and the tents will be beautifully
decorated. Merchants Displays will
also be stage under canvass. Sea
son Tickets will go on sale here
JULY 15 to 20 at FIFTY CENTS
EACH and only 500 will be sold
so be sure to get your order in. All
Canned Goods this year may be
exhibited in pint or quart jars
and jelly in small glasses.
A Special Parade will open the
Fair here Tuesday, October Ist.
Marvin Mitchell
To Go To Chair
Marvin Mitchell, 30 year old Ra
leigh mechanic, was last Sunday
sentenced to death for the murder
of Ross Teague, Raleigh laundry
owner. The evidence, which was
circumstantial, was given much
more weight by the declaration of
a ballistic expert that the fatal
shooting was done with a pistol
owned by Teague.
An appeal was taken.
Patronize our advertisers —they
| carry the best.
First Blossoms Os
This Year’s Crop
Os Cotton Found
L. A. Hagwood of the Rocky
Cross community brought us the
first cotton bloom we have seen
this season on Tuesday. He said he
found one in his field on Saturday!
before. Then J. M. Beddingfield < f
( Pine Rige brought another in the
same day, and the day followng
J. E. Carter brought along with a
boll which had shed the bloom, still
another.
1 Revival To Be Held
Revival services will commence
at Rocky Cross church on the se
cond Sunday in July at 3:00 o’clock
in the afternoon. Rev. E. R. Stew
( art of Fairfield, N. C., will assist
Rev. A. A. Pippin, the pastor in
the meeting. There will be services
each day throughout the following
week.
Seven Counties
( Vote For Control
Edgecombe, Wilson, Beaufort,
Vance, New Hanover and Craven
counties have voted on “liquor con
trol” and all six counties went in
favor of it. Liquor was legally sold
in Wilson on Tuesday of this week,
the papers in some cases giving the
names of the first men having the
"honor” of making purchases of
whiskey and gin.
Counties scheduled to vote on the
liquor question on Saturday of this
week are: Pasquotank, Martin,
Halifax, Carteret, Onslow, Pitt,
Lenoir, Warren and Nash,
l Doubt is freely expressed in some
quarters as to the constitutionality
of these elections and it is possible
that the Supreme Court may de
clare them illegal or invalid.
Official Mustaches
An order has gone out from the
• Reform Parliament at Budajiest,
Hungarian capital, that every one
connected with the Parliament must
grow a mustache if he does not al
ready wear one. Details of the or
der sent out state the mustaches
must be large, well trained and
waxed. Great are the mysteries of
reforms and reformers.
State Collects Over
Fifty Million Taxes
The State of North Carolina is a
big business. During the last fiscal
year the state collected something
more than fifty million dollars—a
little more than sls from every
man, woman and child in the state!
Over half of the collections were
from automobile owners in the va
rious license plate and gasoline
taxes. About one-third of the re
mainder came from the Bales tax.
This amounted Do $2.40 for each
person within the state
The lslo (Sweden) Museum ex
hibits a well-preserved Viking ship
said to be about 1,100 years old.
NUMBER 52.
YE FLAPDOODLE
By Ttie
Swashbuckler
Ever since publishing a rather
“seemingly sordid” bit of observa
tion last year, I have been hearing
comments— favorable and other
wise—particularly otherwise. Sev
eral Rotarians laughingly brought
up the subject to me and several
were sincere in their objection to
the paragraph. The Rotarian com
ments were to be expected and
were duly considered. But where
the biggest kick came was from
those young ladies living out from
Zebulon. Quite a few voiced their
ideas verbally and in writing to
and about the Swashbuckler. It’s
a free country, and they have every
right to voice their opinions. BUT
I was misunderstood. When I wrote
the bit I had just been standing in
front of the Record office watching
nothing in particular until the la
dies I referred to in the column
came across the street, intercept
ing my view of the evening sun
very slightly with their dresses.
Outlined very plainly were their
legs, well above the ankle. NOW—
here is where the misunderstanding
comes in— When I said “country
gals”, I used it in the sense that
all girls living IN and about Zeb
ulon were “country girls”. While
the Town of Zebulon is incorporat
ed and is run as a town should be
1 still don’t consider the people liv
ing within its bounaries “city-fied”.
So, to each and every person who
took offense, 1 offer my most hum
ble apology. Still, it would
please me greatly if more women
would put shadow-proof pieces in
their slips. Men are always ready
to see the worst, and while not
accused of gossiping, are really
worse than women. Well, most w»>-
men anyhow.
My fellow fourth-estater is the
instigator of the above apology,
Fhilmore Willips has accomplished
her bit. Welcome to the staff, Phil
more.
One of our younger matrons here
asked for cheese-straws in a Wilson
Pender’s grocery. “Cheese straws?”
the groceryman asked, “No ma’m,
we don’t have any cheese straws,
but we have some nice spagetti and
macaroni, but we have no cheese
straws.”
A Charlotte news writer stated
that she didn’t know just what to
call these boys and girls who are
being married at the ages of six
teen and even younger. Why not
call them “WedUngs”?