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Zrhnimt 3Rrtm*ii VOLUME XIII Norfolk Southern Railway Plans New customers’ Delivery Service Beginning on February 1, or as near that date £:s possible, the Nor folk Southern Railroad will in augurate a service of collection at the consignee’s place of business of freight in less than carload lots. Should the shipper prefer to haul his own freight to the depot the Railroad will allow him five cents a hundred pounds for doing so. This service is planned to bring about a more equal adjustment of rates in competition with truckers on the highways. Prior to laws en acted last year railroads were not in position to measure charges made by truckers, which were fre quently changed. The competition should result in greater service to the public, and as both systems of hand ing freight are now under practically the same rulings, it should not be detrimental to either. To The Local Unit Os TheC. P. & L Users of electricity are prone to regard the service as something en tirelv impersonal and to feel that the lights and heat come like sun and rain with no human e’e ment concerned. To all such may be news to read that G. T. derry, district manager of the Car olina Power and Light Co. states that the company’s full force of workers had to be called for and put to work on Sunday, Jan. 19, as a result of the severe storm of that dav. In many instances lines were down and men worked day and mVht until service was restored. From the local office J. W. Nar ron, C. T. Eudv, S. R. Hodge, I. C. Fan-, aided bv J. B. Comer as spec ial helper and by a number of col ored men set forth as soon as pos sib'e. In one home a young man and his wisp were both sick in bed. A call to the office brought ■word that every worker was out, bu+ that the matter would he reported as soon as possible. The current was on again and in use, when in the night, “Ikey” Farr made a spe cial trip to see if everything was all right. Crews from Raleigh and Nash ville worked with the corps from Zebulon, Wendell, Middlesex and other towns were left by the storm in worse shape than was this town, and there was no rest for the wea ry on the C. P. 4 L force until all was repaired. For commercial service we pay; for strenuous effort by our friends and neighbors, we can only speak our appreciation and thanks. Coldest Weather OM timers say Monday-Tuesday nfoht was the coldest weather this part of the country has aeen in 24 years. That isn’t hard to believe. The thermometers in many houses bad hit bottom and might have gone fur*her, if there had been any fur ther to go. And headlines said "Weather man shivers as he pre dicts more cold weather.” So ao w« wh<-n we read the prwfiction. Wyoming oilmen completed 81 we”s during 1935. THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE. JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY THIRTY-FIRST, 1936 r-v.. 1 This, That And The Other Now is the time for all dwellers in houses with water piped in to confess the sometimes greater ad vantages of the old-fashioned well, which, while hard on the back and so often accused of being insanita ry, was never yet known to freeze. Does anyone remember when ra dios were much more of a luxury than today and when impassioned arguers contended for a certain pro nunciation of a word, giving as the clincher the fact that a radio an nouncer had pronounced it that way. And when it was held as truth inviolate that what radio announ cers said was correct in every part as regarded grammar, articu’ation and inflection? Have the mighty fallen or have we learned more of words? I’ve just heard a radio talk that sent me to the dictionary to "onfirm my impression that sever al words were badly bungled in the saying. My own taste in reading is so li able to be imperfect that I hesitate to insist that others read the things I enjoy. But there’s one new book so different, so practical and so true, that I do want as many as posible to read it. It is “If I Have Four Apples,” by Josephine Law rence and concerns a family such as many of us have seen —and as some of us are. The author holds 1 that the family in the book does not know plain arithmetic and lives upon the idea that if four app es are owned and three are eaten, eight will be left. Irene Pitts thinks it is a depressing book because no body in it reforms and decides to buy only what can be afforded; but I’ve learned that reformation must come from within and can never be forced upon any individual. It seems as impossible for some folks to buy only what their income al lows as to keep from breathing. Nothing ever teaches them that three from four leaves one. The deepest tragedy of it all fa Is upon those plodding, practical relatives or other* who must come to the rescue over and over or be thought stingy, hardhearted and unfeeling. Some of these day* when a speak er begins to tell us how little time we really spend in work because we sleep at least one-third of our lives and at least another third in rest and recreation, I’m liable to speak right out and ask him why h* doesn't take it to the Lord who made us so that we are compelled to have sleep. And I may add that if he takes careful surveys, he might find that many of us fail to have eight hours daily for “rest and recreation”. Then, if he as sumes that we do not work before school days an over, I am liable to dispute the statement. It always seems a pity for a good speech to be weakened by fallacious argu ment. Public Character Among those who have had much to do with the upbuilding of this section is the subject of this sketch, who has been iden tified with this town since soon after its beginning, and who has in many ways shown his inter est in its development. He is a member of the local school board. Name—John Knox Barrow. Native of Dinwiddie, Va. Domestic Status—Married to Miss Lilian Erma Gupton of Wakefield, Oct. 10, 1910. Has three daughters, one son. Church Affiliation—Baptist. Business—Lumber and Farm ing. Has been in Lumber. Business 30 years. Come to Zebulon in Sept. 1909 from Dinwiddie Co.. Va. Because of the valuable lum ber in this section. Club Column STUDY CLASS On next Tuesday p. m. at 3:30 the co-operative study class will meet in the Home Demonstration Club at Wakefield. Mrs. J. S. Mc- Inness of Raleigh will speak and members of the c ub will be host esses for the day. A cordial invi tation is extended to all members of the organizations sponsoring the course —Baptist and Methodist Mis sionary Societies, P. T. A., and Wo man’s Club—to attend with all oth ers who may be interested in Chris tian Homes, the general topic for the year’s study. f DEPARTMENTAL MEETING Os unusual interest was the meet of the Department of Litera ture of the Woman’s Club on Tues day p. m. Mrs. Raymond Pippin spoke most interestingly on Greece basing her talk not only on special study but also on what had been told her by a s ster, Dr. Helen Law of Wellesley College, who spent last year in Athens studying. Mrs. Pippin showed a number of photo, graphs taken by Dr. Law together with specimens of embroidery and other curios from Greece. Miss Cornelia Herring pleased the audience * th two piano solos. Reuben Combes In Bad Accident Reuben Combes of the local Tex aco station was badly hurt on Mon day night when his car skidded in to a ditch as he was returning from Pilot to Zebulon. Thrown from his car he managed to crawl back into it and tried to summon help by sounding the horn. Dwellers in homes nearby heard the noise, but paid not attention and Mr. Combes endured pain and cold for hours before a passing bread truck found him and called assistance. After being brought to Zebulon and giv en treatment, the injured man was sent to a Raleigh hospital. Be cause of the intense cold and his long exposure, pneumonia i* spec ially feared. First Lethal Las Execuiion Was One of “Horror” Say W itnesses j§®j I admire the way James Cag ney’s hair remains in place in the various and sundry performances he puts on regardless of the strug gles he struggles strugglingly thru. But the cake is taken away from friend Cagney by our titian-haired John Boles in “The Littlest Rebel.” Onnijay spends the entire night going through the swamp, swim ming rivers and floating down var ious streams past Yankee camps, his clothes are slightly rumpled at the end of the trip but his head is as neatly combed as it was when the first scene of film was shot. Certain darkies in and around town apparently have acquired some of John’s hair dressing for the kinks have went and they have beautiful straight hair “as advertised”. “Anything Goes” is one of the screwiest pictures I’ve seen this year, but if you like Bing Crosby and the gang he usual y has in a picture, see it. He has a new cast but they’re all good. I am screwy enough to like that type picture. Ev en if you aren’t. The funniest thing at the Sally Rand show was Frank Tunnell and three friends who sat on the fourth row from the stage and had three pair of binoculars.. The field glass es appeared to be about seven and a half power and of the type used for night work. They seemed to en j joy Sally’s artistic wiggles of her J various perfumed and powdered anatomical portions. The bubble dance was quite lovely and Sally kicked, threw and chased the huge balloon abou the stage in a most delightful manner (to the men). However, I can’t help being remind ed of a trip from Wake Forest one rainy day. I had my lady friend, now my wife, with me and as we passed the home of a Deputy of an adjoining township we were greet ed with the sight of his 5-year-old daughter tearing across the back portion of the yard at fu’-l speed ahead as naked as the proverbial jaybird. While Sally was in some what less haste, the child seemed to have been the more modest of the two. However, more was to be seen of Sally than I had expected. An English lady of the stage and a comedian whose mouth looked as though a razor had been run from one ear across the lower portion of his face to the other ear, saved the whole show. All in all, in entertain ment the show was above the aver age of the general run of shows we catch on the theatre routes. I’m puzzling over the why and wherefore of two certain young plump people in this town who have right ingredients for perfect hap piness, et cetera, et cetera, and yet don’t tie the nuptial knot. They claim that they’re afraid the mar. riage wouldn’t click because they’re both no afraid of failure. Well, once there was a fellow namer Co- NUMBER 30 The fact that Allen Foster, who is assured a place in history by vir tue of being the first victim of the lethal gas execution east of the Mississippi river, required eleven minutes of evident agony to sue eumb to the fumes, has occasioned a furore of protest from all over the state against the gas chamber. Substitution of the gas chamber for the electric chair was authoris. ed by the last legislature. It was offered by its sponsors and accept ed by the legislature as a more hu mane method of execution than electricity. Several members of the legislature were among the wit i nesses at its first trial last Frlady. Most of them now say that the leg islature made a mistake. The protest has even gone so far as to suggest that the governor call a special session of the legisla ture to repeal the law, and that meantime he grant wholesale am nesty to all inhabitants of death row. The governor has made H - clear that he does not intend to do I either. Foster, the Negro who was ex a | cuted Friday, hails from Birming ham. He was sentenced to death from Hoke county for raping a white woman. Church Column Rev. J. M. Ormond of Durham delivered a timely and forceful mes sage at the Methodist Church last Sunday morning. This congregation is considering rebuilding or remod elling. Their efforts along this line should command the co-operation of every member of the church and of all others concerned for the spiritual welfare of the town. Twelve women attended the meet ing of the Northside Circle of the Baptist W. M. S. on Monday p. m. despite cold and snow. Mrs. Lester Green was hostess and the day’s lesson was taught by Mrs. J. O. Newell. This circle is at present studving the Year Book of the W'. M. U. of the Southern Baptist Con vention. The meeting of the Central Circle was postponed from last Monday because of the rough weather. Milk Bottle Law Held to be Invalid Phillip Brockweß won his appeal to the supreme court in the famous “milk bottle case.” Indicted some months ago at the instance of the county hea’th authorities for using a mi’k bottle for purposes other than to contain mi’k. Brockwell was convicted in Wake Superior Court He appealed, claiming among oth. er things, that the law was uncoa. stitutional. The supreme court in an oninion last w»ek sustained that position and declared the special Wake county act unconstitutional. lumbus but I hope they don't leave this earth in the same man ner he vacated his premises. Remember D old gal, it’s leap year Prosperous lip year to youhl
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