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SMte 2ctmlmt tßcrnrfi THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER— WAKE. JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN VOLUME XI. rHIS, THAT AND THE OTHER RY MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS First of all: Don’t put paprika in your cottage cheese if you like it better without. The government won’t care. 1 much prefer the cheese that has paprika and so wrote it in thoughtlessly Uncle Sam’s recipe does not mention any seasoning except salt and cream.; o o So many people seemed to d >ubt that cows have tears that I asked my brother, Dr. H. T. Fa-n er, of Richmond to back me up in what 1 said about it. I wrote him for two reasons: He knows cows and he doesn’t charge me for informa-1 I tier. He says that for tears to Dow ■from a cow’s eyes is by no means rare and may be caused by any of several conditions. One of those j mentioned was an irritant, which 1 am sure flies and gnats ire and we can’t keep them from a cow in the pasture. Probably thev and not ... ■ < homesickness caused the weeping 1 , noticed i i O O 1 don’t know whether they are uninterested or whether they are too warm to exert themselves un duly. but to date I have had only a few responses to my request for visualization of a hot dav. o o A young mother thinks it rnay be because she was once alarmed b yher babv’s, becoming overheated that whenever extra hot weather is mentioned she at once has a men ial picture of an infant wearing only a diaper stretched out on a pallet, limp and white, seeming scarcely to breathe. Another person declares that his idea of the hottest day is walking] on paved city streets between tall buildings when not a breath of air is stirring. O' —{) M iss Constance Mat i* ews, as sistant editor of The No>h County News sent me her visualization of a lid day, which is as fol’c-vs: JULY The pun broils down In dancing mote? Os dusty heat. Each sluggish town Stolidly totes The rays that tea. On torpid homes A >f copper loam- Shriveled com blades Rootbound, held slave To a part hod world Reaching for shades Wearily wave Their sheaths— >rray curled. In meek protest At the hotness, Hazy sounds drone Prom languid throats— An indolent Vague under tone Over whieh floats The restive scent Os tobacco Curing yellow. Fowls spread lax wir«* Or gravely preen ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY THE SECOND OF AUGUST, 1935. Negro Lynched In Franklin Co. AFTERMATH OF BRUTAL MURDER OF PROMINENT FARMER i j leader of mob sought MOO REWARD OFFERED | Franklin County has now on its j records the most gruesome affair of its history—the lynching ofi Govan (Sweat) WaTd_ 25 year old 1 negro who Tuesday afternoon went berserk, striking his employer Sturgeon Ayscue with a bottle fa tally wounding his sister with ! whom he lived and murdering and decapitating C. G. Stokes, 67, I prominent farmer of the Kearney’s j Store section in Hayesville Town ; ship section of Franklin County. The negro’s recurring fits of violence that led him into these 1 heinous crimes, was today describ ed as the after-effect of some po tent drug or liquor that rendered him crazy mad. He seemed to have no emotion during the series of events save a crazy desire to kill. The drug was believed to have been secured on a trip to Norfolk the day before. Following lynching his body was unclaimed as he came from up north about 8 weeks ago, st burial was made almost immed iately in Franklin County Ceme tery. A personal interview with Louis burg elicited small information but their silence spoke eloquentlj of feeling that is still running high. However none of this feel ing is between the races as the mob of some 30 persons was com posed of both whites and negroes from Vance and Franklin Counties. Neither is there any feeling of blame on the actions of the new sheriff John T. Moore, who only Monday had been appointed to fill out the 18 month unexpired term of Fenner N. Spivey, auto victim of the week before, who tried to carry the prisoner to safety in a Nashville or Raleigh jail. A hearing of the case has been set for Thursday when District Judge Harrs and Prosecutng At torney W V. Bickett of Raleigh will come to Louisburg to confer with officers there. Officers are still searching to knit together evi dence to arrest the leaders andi participants of the mob, who went ts the seen unmasked in high pow ■ ered cars. Their attempts will be' assisted by the formal announce-! j rnent Wednesday by Governor Eh- I ringhaus of the State’s offer o r S4(M reward (the maximum; for evidence leading to the arrest or conviction of persons responsible for the lynching. Since JBSC Alaska’s gold, silver, copper and lead mines have yielded ! $663,600,000 in wealth. The United States Government purchased Alaska from Rusna. m 1*67. at a cost of 97,200,000. And dust their back*. i Puss languidly clings < And lolls between . 1 Two flower rocks. t All hot and dry, j It is July! 1 Sheriff Massey Captures Runner j Single-Handed I ! V\ here were you Friday morn- ! mg? Well t if you missed the fun i down between the post office and |, the Zebulon Supply Co.’s place you ' i missed about half your life as val- I, ued in good East Lake Liquor. I, But to begin at the beginning: ' Thursday night along towards its 1 1 middle Sheriff Massey got a grape j t vine message that a job was wait- t ing him down Wilson-way on Moc- “ casin creek. So he “set” himself s and it was not long before Jack j a Banks came along in his high gear- ' f ed joy carrier. Now Jack is in bus- d iness, or was and it is reported that he carries “the goods” with him. So the Sheriff decided he would give Jack a run for his, no, not his money, but his liquor. And it was a great race while it lasted. The pity was the lack of an audience. Banks was somewhat en cumbered by “the impedimenta,” as the Romans would say. Massey was travelling light and running in high. But like a fox hunt the j pleasures of the chase were all with the chaser. As they went through Zebulon about midnight it sounded as though the whole state highway patrol was on its way to stop a lynching bee. Jack just couldn’t shake G. C Having no smoke screen, he decid |ed to make one. When he got to ] Wake Forest road beyong Edge mont, he turned to the right and “took off” up the dirt road. Tell it not in Gath! The dirt would not dust. The powers that be were for once against Jack. It had rained | on that dirt road only a few hours before and the road just would not aid the lone lawbreaker in his dire I distress. Near Robertson’s store five miles beyond Wendell the race end ed when the Sherif cut in front of Banks and forced him to the road j aide. Jack just sat with motor run jriing and so did the Sheriff. He had anticipated the next move of! *he pursued to race away when he left his own car lo make the ar rest. Then Jack jackrabbited across the field. The officer called, “It’s no use running, Jack, I know you. Come on back.” And Jack replied, “Dammit, you would!”, or words to that effect. f Then they went a-visiting at ■ j Sheriff Weathers’, who joined the ■ parade and all arrived in Zebulon. Bondsman Crawley was: called in Raleigh. He hastened forth and ar- Tanged the necessary- bond, and soon Banks was on his way again, but empty handed, leaving all his known worldly possessions with the efficient officer of the law. Now to continue the first part of our interesting story which will be concluded at the courthouse in Raleigh sometime later. Ninety (yes. 90) gallons of good East! Lake liquor was poured in to the gutters of Zebulon Friday mom- j ing. Either the sound or the scents elrm-ted a large crowd of Zebulon’g citizenry. Jug after jug was emp tied. Someone struck a match to the Cowing stream; the heat ex ploded a vessel; men hollered. 11 laughed, joked and everybody had * i State Has Surplus In General Fund ( Governor Ehringhaus announces j that the state closed the year on ■ June 30 with a general form sur plus of $712,253. He along with all [citizens of the state are p oud of • the fact that the state is living within its income and that its bonds ! are selling well. j We are not so proud of the fact that some o fthis suri ?us was ac-- cumulated by underpaying school teachers and by refusing to repay “loans” deducted from employees’ salaries in 1933 and 34. Law suits are now pending against officials' for recovery of some of these de ductions. Raising Money j And Spending It Both Hard Jobs I " Reports from Washington indi cate that those trying to raise money for the government bv way of taxes and those who are trying to spend the billions already ap propriated are both having a hard time. The problem of spending” is probably as difficult as the other, if it is to be spent properly. Where to get the money, the bil- lions needed, with the least injury to business, the least squawk from , the taxpevers is a real problem. Where to spend it so it will do the most good, not necessarily the most actual physical good, but the most 1 political good, also calls for real ( brain work. This situation calls to mind th* comment made by Marvir, Nash, now a High Point attorney, but formerly a member of the legisla ture from Richmond county. The University, according to M . Nash, j! j came to one legislature and asked for money to build a library *aid j they had thousands of valuable books going to waste for lack of library facilities. The appropria-' tion was made, the library ti.-it. Next session the same folks came J back and asked for money t > buy 1 books, saying they had ave y fine building and if was a shame not lo have some hooks to put in it. Polio Quarantine Hie Klfit* of Delaw ,t, l,a, im | posed a quarantine against infan tile paralysis. People coming into the state must register and must report for daily examinations for a week or more. The paralysis situation in .With Carolina continues to improve hut the disease is still spreading in Virginia and the District of Co lumba. i L j a r oo * time Really we never saw | a crowd of men with the liquor on ■ the inside who had a better time than that crowd of sober ones did. And some of the best citizens of! Zebulon participated in the “dissi- , pation.” “Now," as one good man com- \ merited, "There’s a Sheriff who ] know f something about liquor con trol!” | NUMBER 4 VSMWI According to the boys around at the “He Men’s Club”, 412 Sy camore Boulevard a certain young and tender gentleman known to the unsuspecting as Bob SaMvyer. has been mortally bitten by the “Bug of Romance”. Not only has the hug bitten Sir Robert, but it has also crawled up in him and is far from dead. George and Bill declare that this is the sole reason for Bob’s going around with that look on his map that reminds one of a dying mouse staring at a piece of cheese. Hotcha! -o- The Bug has evidently smitten | another “kid” with a pouch and a wife, for he can be seen now and then in the wee hours of the morn ing” with one of the various and sundry town charmers (?) draped artistically about his neck. Boys will he boys, yuh know. -o- Ineidentally I’ve just discovered what became of the kid who used to slip in and sit on the front row at the movies. He’s grown up and now slips in and sits on the back row at church. -o~ The madam was humming that catching tune Swannee River re cently when I happened to be un occupied. “That’s a pretty tune,” I comments to make conversation. “Yeah,” she replied, “I wrote it.” “You wrote it?” I queried querily. “Yep, I wrote it.” "That’s funny,” I continued the verbatum, “I al ways thought Stephen Foster bad something to do with writing that.” “Oh ” sniffed the little woman, “He was hanging around at the time.” Dam clever .these Chinese. -o- On second thought I’ve decided <) add “Ha!” to the above qouta ion. “Dam clever these Chinese, fa!” -o- I suppose that the lynching” chich took place in our neighbor ng county some few days ago is ust another small item in that im mense category known the world ver as “Southern Hospitality.” I was conversing (I thought sen sibly) whth a friend when he took out a knife a very attractive knife. "You know,” he said, "This knife was left me by a very rich uncle.” "Is that so?” I ejaculated, “What very rich uncle?” “Uncle Wool worth,” he continued, “But I had to pay a dime inheritance and one cent sales tax before I could get it.” Roll me over easy mother, the bullet’s in me laig. -o -v Raleigh Alford brought in the following clipping: Camper’s note written by a high j school girl—“—And when you get | through with your fire, you want to put the fire out good because you don’t want to bum up all our forests and make the woods look like hell.” Well that’s one way of putting it.
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