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2rhulmt Sternrd VOLUME XI. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER I BY MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS If ever anybody believed in work, ] do. and I should certainly liate to feel that I had made it harder for anyone to earn a living. But every now and then some agent makes me so angry that 1 don’t get over j1 for days. For instance: It was a hot afternoon. I thought ] had done all the household tasks that called imperatively, had bath ed and lain down for a few min utes when I remembered the rolls for supper were not set. It would take only a few minutes to make the dough, so I didn’t dress—mere ly slipped my feet into a pair of Japanese sandals that have only soles and two straps that cross over the instep. These and a print ed cotton nightie were my sole items of apparel and my hair hung down my back in a gray plait. Still, the doors were all closed and I was alone in the house —our house, o o My hands were in the dough as 3 stood behind the kitchen table and someone knocked at the back door. “Who is it. please?” I called, thinking it was a neighbor’s child. Instead of answering my question a large face surmounted by tousled hair was thrust close against the screen of the casement window and a voice announced: “I want to come in and talk to you abou magazine subscriptions.’ (That window bv actual measurement, is > # 66 inches above the floor.) In vain 1 protested that I could not talk to him at that time: that I already get the magazines he mention°d. He insisted that I let him in even after 1 said in scandalized exas peration that 1 simply could not talk to him—that 1 was not even dressed. I should have left the room had it not been that my ap pearance was a bit more respecta ble back of the table. Finally he shook his head and asked: “Do I understand you to mean that you PC NOT INTEND to give me a subscription?” Wearily I replied that I had done my best to make that meaning clear from the first. “Well,” he declared. “I hope some time somebody goes out and tries to get subscribers for your paper; and 1 hope they get treated just like you’ve treated me.” And he stamped down the steps and away, o o It was an unpleasant experience from several standpoints and later information showed that the young man had succeeded in making him self highly objectionable at another Zebulon home that same day. o o A few days later a member of the youngest married set told me of a woman who came to our town trying to secure agents for a line of cosmetics. My son’s wife, easßy persuaded to help others, consented t.c take the stranger to see a few prospects and drove to homes. It was unsuccessful One trouble may have been that she wanted only pretty women to rep resent: her firm. Another was that she told them it didn’t matter what their husbands thought about their doing the work; that husbands don’t need to know what wives are doing all the time. The chief reason was THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER— WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. NINTH DAY OF AUGUST. 1935. Church Column At the Baptist Church on last Sunday morning Rev. R. H. Her ring made mention of the day’s be ing the eighth anniversary of his coming as pastor. He cited briefly some of the changes that have oc curred during that period and de clared that the suspension of class es in Sunday School for children was the greatest blow the church has suffered, overshadowing the financial depression in its effects. He spoke of the growth in mem bership and commended the inter est that has resulted in painting the walls of the auditorium, car peting the rostrum and aisle and cleaning and waxing the seats, in which the Philathea Class led with the Fidelis Matrons taking charge of the minor project. I’astor Read requests that it be announced that regular services at the Methodist Church will be held as usual on next Sunday morning. Sunday School at 10:00 and preach ing at 11:00. Announcement of the evening services will be made at the morning services by the pastor. Hard for Lawyers The state board of law examin ers making it harder every year for would-be lawyers to take the bar examination. It is proposed af ter next January to limit appli cants to those with full law college work to their credit. Heretofore it has been possible for a young man to study under any reputable at torney and take the examination. ;If he made the grade he was li- I censed. That will not be possible after next year, according to the board’s plans. probably that one who lives here knows it would be almost im possible to make a worth while job of selling cosmetics in Zebulon at this tfme. o o Anyway, the would-be employer ; became furious at our town and at us. She declared it to be pathetic to see a place so blind to beauty and charm and to the opportunity > to simply coin money. She bemoan ed our ignorance and our satisfac tion with our benighted condition. Her young chauffeur (I don’t know the feminine for that word) be came more and more embarrassed | and could not truthfully say at j parting: “I’m so glad I met you.” o o i The final scene was in Zebulon Drug Store when she who con demned us was waiting for a bus. which she declared she would glad ly board, hoping it w-ould take her so far away that she would never see this town again. And I find in my heart no cen j sure for a girl in her early teens 1 who, hearing this emotional fare well, remarked: “And I hope so, too.” o o It is comforting to be able to state that the above are examples of the agent at his - and her - worst. Some of the most pleasant and po lite persons 1 have met were agents. But 1 suppose that they were, first of all. ladies and gentle men. NEWS OF THE WEEK WAR AND LEMONS Geneva, Switzerland.—Diplomat ic backing and filling continues ov er the Italo-Ethiopian question. The League Council has ceded to Italy’s demands and no steps have as yet been taken to make war seem any less inevitable. Meanwhile the price of lemons rises in America. Musso lini is sendng all he can to Africa j to stave off dysentery among his troops. j NOT NOW—IN NOVEMBER i Washington, D. C. The huge $4,880,060,000 work relief program has so far put only 100,000 to wark Controller General John R. Mc- Carl watches New Deal expendi tures with an eagle eye. President Roosevelt took him on a week end fishing trip and McCarl promised to do all he could to expedite dis tribution of the money. With Mc- Carl cooperation the I*resident hopes to have 90 to 95 per cent of the country’s employable idle at work by November. o “BORE FROM WITHIN” Moscow, U. S. S. R. At the Third International’s seventh con gress, Earl Browder, Kansan sec retary of the American Communist Patv. announced that his 30.000 followers were busily sowing pro- I paganda among 1 000,000 laborers. * Delegates instructed Young Com munist Leagues to join all groups .and societies, athletic cultural, re igious to “bore from within.” When Washington cocked its ear for vio lation of the 1933 agreement. Mos cow quickly appended the dictum: No Soviet meddling in the domestic affairs of individual national Com munist parties. o TEMPTATION N. J.—Flyers over darkest Africa and wildest Aria expect casual fire from ardent na tives. But in civilized America ri flemen can resist anything but blimps. After a flight along the coast off Point Pleasant, N. J., hangar men found the hole of a high-powered bullet in the stabili zer fin of the navy’s all metal ZMC-2. Twice previously this ship has suffered direct hits. Pilots of blimps dread unsettled country in the hunting season. o BRITISH INDIA BILL UNSAT ISFACTORY London, England.—After 15,000,- 000 words of oratory, 50 days of | debate and 300 amendments, the India Bill emerged, a 100,500 word document. To the delight of Eng lish diehards, practically every group in India objected to the bill on one grounds or another. Estab lishing a federal government in India and granting the franchise to 29,000,000 men and 6,000.000 women, the bill pleased neither conservatives nor radicals in either country, but agreed that it gave the Indian Empire a chance MORE ON BACK PAGE S. A. Horton I | After an illness of 18 months S. A. Horton, w-ell-known farmer of this section, died at his home here at about 5 o’clock 'Tuesday morn ing. He was 61 years old, the son of Blackman Horton, and was highly esteemed. He was a deacon in the Baptist church. Mr. Horton married Miss Ver nona Jeffreys of Johnston county, who survives with two children, Robert Ed and Rebecca. A son. ! DeWarner, died 13 years ago. Also surviving are four brothers, Nathan Henry, Earl and Cliff Horton, all I of Zebulon; two sisters, Mrs. Alor- 1 1 zo Chamblee of Zebulon, and Mrs.! I L. E. Johnson of Tennessee. Funeral services were conducted at the home on Wednesday at 4 o’clock by Rev. R. H. Herring, as- j sisted by Rev Theo. B. Davis, Bur (ial was in the Horton family ceme -1 tery. Active pallbearers were: W. P. j Lewis, K. Corbett, J. T. Robertson, Pittman SteM, Ivey Narron and P. G. Curtis. Honorary pallbearers were E. C. Daniel, J. 11. Barrow- Dr. C. E. Flowers, L. R. Temple, Dr. Z. M. Caviness, Dr. B. J. Law rence. Millard Alford, Graham Conn, Mahlon Temple. C. S. Cham blee and the board of deacons of the Baptist church, W. N. Pitts, J. G. Kemp, F. E. Bunn, Dr. L. M. M. Massey, C. V. Whitley. J. M. Whitley, John Broughton. P. F. Massey and A. C. Daw-son. Brief News Items 100 Below Zero \ The Dupont Company announces i that in the making of synthetic , rubber they use the lowest temper ature yet known to industrial sci i ence—loo degrees below- zero. This intense cold separates from other gases the material which is the : basis for synthetic rubber, turning j it into a liquid. Needless to say the j handling of 0\ materials in this cold is done by machnery. o Pork High Hog prices on the Chicago mar | ket have reached the highest point for five years. Choice hogs sold on the hoof Aug. 5 brought $11.35 per | hundred-weight. o Two Apologies The Department of State at , Washington has been twice railed < upon in the past week to make apology to foreign powers. The first was for the defacement of the Nazi emblem from p German liner in New York harbor. The second j was for a caricature of the Japan- I ese emperor in an American maga zine and which was deemed offen j sive by the Japanese. Franklin Lynching | Still Not Solved Following an all day investiga tion last Thursday. Judge Harris, Solicitor Bickett and Attorney Gen- 1 eral Seawell adjourned the hearing t to some future date without finding out anything about the lynching party in Franklin county last week. A AF*£Wm My one ambition is to tell one (ONE) joke, good, bad or other wise, that before the last word is from my lips, “Mac” of the Caro lina Power and Light Company’s super (suds) salesmen will not bleat out with—“Woh! Wahl Woh! I done heard that one. Woh! Woh! Woh!” 1 Lost, Found, Stolen or Something. Somewhere between Carolina , Beach and Zebulon—One Large, Juicy Romance Bug. If found or sighted, please notify Bob Sawyer, 1 Stedman Stores Building, Me tropolis Square. Zebulon, N. C. It appears that one fine day last week—one gentleman referred to ! in these columns as “Wee Bill the I Fletcher”, was lying abed rather late. As chance would have it, one or two of the two pigs owned and operated by the Young Men’s Club ! got out of the w-ell-constructed pen. Now this is quite a common oc currence around at the club and the several interested gentlemen counted upon their fingers and found that it was Bill’s time to go j a-pigging. S-o-o-o-o Bill was called ; by the cook and informed that the i hour had come. Drowsely Bill open ed one eye and flapping his lips in a muttering way said, “Just get a tub of slops and when the pig comes up to eat the slops—grab him before he knows what it’s all about and into the pen with him, my good man.” Wherewith, Wil liam rolled over and back to sleep he went. Z-z-z-z-z-z. Now the several young men talk ed and discussed, thought and re discussed the matter and finally drew- up plans for sweet revenge. At a later hour Billious awoke with a rare and buxom smell in his nostrils, also a healthy snore was in his ear. “What ho!” thought Bill out loud, “What manner of man be this?” Rolling over for a view of his bed fellnw of two hours or more, Bill came face to face with the pig! Bill needed no pictures drawn to prove tha-t his advice as to how to ca-Uch ye piggy had been quite suc ■ cessful. Why has a certain John sudden . lv begun talking marriage in a real !lv serious manner? Before a re cent trip to Wilson this young man treated marriage as very delicate matter even in conversation. Three Die in Rare Sort of Accident Almost an entire family was wip j ed out in an unusual accident near | Durham Monday. Hr. and Mrs. Harvey Gatchett of Ohio, show people, were driving from Hender son to Durham. Near the latter city a tire ‘blew out, the car skidded | into a high tension power line pole, j throwing the wires onto the car and electrocuting Gatchett, his wife and one child. A nine year old boy escaped injury. NUMBER 5
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