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Olbe t. buLm VOLUME XIII Second Gas Execution Finished In Less Time Than First Death Ed Jenkins, Gaston county •white man, was put to death in the lethal gas chamber at State prison Friday. He was the second vict'm of the chamber. Doctors pronounc ed him dead 9 seconds after the gas fumes first rose around him. This was in striking contrast to the 11 minutes required for ATen Foster to die the week before. The gas formula had been changed and the chamber heated. However, the argument continues about the ad visability of continuing the gas ex ecutions. Reports from western states indicate that somewhere be tween the 9 seconds and 11 minutes is probably normal time for death to be effective. Jenkins, a strapping man of 260 pounds apparently died easily. Did Ground Hog See His Shadow? There was hardly enough sun shine here Sunday to cast a clear shadow but there must have been enough for the groundhog to be come scared. We have had “ground hog weather” since, with prospect es lots of it the rest of this month. Residents of North Carolina have doubtless felt of late that they are having an excess of cold weather, despite hopes that it may help kill out boll weevils and bean beetles. However, this state has had not nearly such severe weather as has visited northern and wes tern states. To add to the misery in lowa a fuel shortage is threat ened. Transportation of food is also much delayed because of the bitter cold. Temperatures in many places have fallen to 24 below zero and more than 200 deaths have been reported as due to the cold. Zebulon has to date had no deaths and no real suffering has been reported. The fact that many houses were not built with such winters as this in mind has result ed in much added discomfort and the burning of much fuel that might have been saved in warmer houses. Frozen water-pipes are of such ordinary occurrence that they are beginning to be accepted with out any special concern save the fear of their bursting. This is also largely due to the fact that most of the homes in town added water to the con veniences some years after building and the pipes are thus more exposed than when built in with the rest of the house. Roads in this section, while in extremely bad condition off the paved highways, are in most cases passable, though the mail carriers are at their tasks nearly all day long. Several instances are known of cars becoming mired down in the owner’s yard and having to be pulled out. Roofs unused to so much snow and rain have in spots given up the struggle, providing that much more employment for carpenters. No relief is promised at any early date. Still, as was said in the beginning, it is much worse elsewhere. At Beaufort in our own state snow is said to be 18, inches deep and they very seldom have any snowfall. THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER— WAKE. JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN This, That And The Other It may be because I am getting old; but I simply cannot thrill to some of the new songs. The other night I was expressing my opinion of “‘The Music Goes ’Round and Around,” and I said it has no rhyme, no rhythm in its words, no special melody, little sense to it, no—but there the youngest son in terrupted with, “But, Mother, it does have one thing—popularity.” It got that without my vote. I might say, though, that since the Dionne quins retired from pub lic sight for days at a time and are only seen at intervals, I really en joy looking at their pictures. Per haps when it grows old I may like the music that comes out here. The colored girl who helps me was speaking of high prices and unsatisfactory purchases. She thinks that even fatback is not what it used to be, declaring that some of it nowadays is “so poor it won’t even fry itself.” But did you know that lard is much cheaper? Not compounds, but good old-fashioned hog lard. I bought some for fifteen cents a pound last Friday. And, since I am one of those old-fashioned women who can’t get as good results from any other shortening as from hog fat, I was specially glad to find it once more as cheap as substitutes I do, however, like vegetable oil for deep frying. I read the other day that the wife of the governor of Georgia was forced by the cold and the lack of electric current to eat her meals in the kitchen r.ear the coal range. She probably enjoyed it. Eating in a good, warm kitchen on a bitter cold day is no hardship for any body. Waiting in Woolworth’s Monday afternoon I amused myself until my husband came by first counting galoshes on women’s feet. About three out of every five women wore them and a few had on rubber over shoes. The rest looked neater, but damper and chillier. It was interesting to see how dis» ferently the galoshes were worn. Ugly at best, they looked worse when standing wide open while the wearer slopped around. Fastened at the top only, they still looked queer. (The reason I wear mine that way is because the zipper won’t zip any more.) The neatest ladies had their gray rubber footgear closely fastened all the way. The not so neat ones wore var ious colors and materials—rubber ized cloth, felt or mixtures of that with the rubber. And practically all were evidently conscious of the ad dition to weight and subtraction from sigtliness. I saw some of those white rain coats, too. To me they have an al- ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1936 Public Character Presented this week is a mem ber of an organization often envied by those in other walks of life but not i.i this weather Zebulon is proud to have three of these workers and sketches of the others will appear in due order. Just now they are striving hard to carry on nor cold nor rain nor wind nor snow has stayed them in their ap pointed course. Name Starkey Henry Hoyle. Native of— Epsom, Vance County, NL C. Domestic Status Married Eula Pearle Gupton, April 7, 1912, One daughter, four sons. Church Affiliation Baptist. — Rural letter carrier and farmer. Length of Route at present 50.91. miles. Length of Route when started in 1911— 26 miles. Has been in this business 24 years. Has traveled more than 8 times the distance around the earth with Uncle Sam’s mail. Has missed on’y 1 delivery be cause of weather. Came to Zebulon 1927. Transferred from Wakefield. MRS. MAY Mrs. Pattie May died early Thursday morning after having suffered nearly two weeks after a stroke of paralysis. Her hus band died a number of years ago, before she came to Zebulon to live. She was a Miss Moody before her marriage. Surviving are three sons, Carlos, Clyde and Clelland; one daughter, Clemma Lee; besides other rela tives. Funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon with burial at Bunn. Safety Lanes Al! Over State Soon Announcement is made by the State Highway Patrol that within the near future “traffic safety lanes will be set up all over the state, and cars will be forced to drive through them for checks on lights, brakes, steering gear, etc, A well planned raid on vice dens in New York City early this week resulted in the arrests of 70 wom en and 7 men, including four of the overlords of the white slave traffic in the United States. most embarrassing resemblance to an old-time, longsleeved nightgown made of unbleached domestic. I began to wonder as to the pro portion of men and women who en tered the doors at Woolworth’s. It may vary with the hours; but at about 6:00 p. m. I counted, having stationed myself where I could watch all the front doors. It may have been different at the back. The first hundred who entered af ter the count began were 67 women and girls and 33 men and boys. Waiting a few minutes I began again and counted 39 females and 20 males; so nearly the same pro portion that I stopped. Now what do you suppose that many men want at a ten cent store? Two Homes Near Zebulon Hate Burned During Past Few Days » • Occasionally I wander back to those days I spent in the best navy Uncle Sam’s got and become so amused that sudden chuckles of mirth are not unusual. When I am quite old and sit each day in my wheel chair (if I’m lucky enough to have one) I’ll rem inisce and give an occasional laugh at which those who happen to be near me will sadly shake their heads and pity my softening of the brain. I’ll not care though, if peo ple think you’re a little batty, they don’t bother you nearly so much. One of the many laughable mat ters from my naval career took place in the fair city of Hollywood, California. Or rather partly there. A fellow by the name of Shaver and I went over to Hollywood for the weekend and arrived there late at night. Finding a modest hotel, we were put up ingrand style for seventy-five cents a piece. We visit ed the various studios of interest the next day and went to a movie in Sid Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Returning to the ship next morn ing of eourse we were very well pleased with ourselves having been all over the cinema capitol of the world and so on. Someone asked at what hotel we stayed. Naturally to put up the proper front, we had stayed at the largest there, for some reason we could think of no hig-sounding hotel name. Remem bering a large sign I had seen up on arrival I bleated out, “Why we stayed at the ‘Broadway’ of course.” That went off very well, so we expanded the idea, particu larly as to the depth of the carpets, the hugeness of the rooms, the soft ness of the beds, the beauty of the chamber-maids, the luxury of the baths, in fact the ‘Broadway’ was such an enormous place, we both were nearly an hour in description. All was, of course, listened to at tentively, although several of the old-timers had rolled their pants up to knee length at the beginning of the story. We topped the whole yarn off with the beauty of the two joung ladies we had met out at the Metro. Goldwyn Mayer stu dios, et cetera, et cetera and et cetera. The amusing thing about it all however, was our next call to the flicker city. The “Broadway” was a large department store specializ ing in ladies’ apparel and the Me tro-Goldwyn studio had been part ly destroyed by fire the week be fore our first visit. Luckily, none of the ship’s com pany had taken enough interest in the matter to check up on our story. , Another time I had created an intense hate for one Fred Cusic, and on several occasions had invit ed him to enter with me into the manly art of fisticuffs. A mouth later Cusic won the light-heavy crown for agility with the glove*. NUMBER 31 Walter Trevathan, who lives #» A. S. Carter’s place near Murray* town lost all that he owned when his home was burned this week while he was out cutting wood. Hl* wife and their five children were visiting a sister who lives a shaft distance from the Trevathan home. The family is at present in distrain ful condition, all clothing hahrag been burned, with the furniture. A five-room tenant house oa ffe* George Taylor farm burned «a Wednesday, the colored family •*- cupying it losing all they had. How the fire started is not know*. There was no insurance. Church Column The Philathea Class of the Bap tist Sunday School will meet *a Friday night of this week with Mrs. R. H. Herring. All members, active and associate are invited The W. M. S. of the Baptist Church will hold the general meet ing on next Monday afternoon at the church. Miss Velma Preskur will be the principal spe*k®r. Al members of all circles are urged to attend. Club News The co-operative study class net on Tuesday p. m. with the Home Demonstration club in Wakefield. This clubhouse is at its best hi winter with a wood fire burning ia the open fireplace. Mrs. Read, chairman, presented Mrs. J. S. Mclnness, who spoke on A Bal anced Diet and Its Effect on Health and Personality. Mentiem was made of the influence of geog raphy upon diet and food habits and instances were cited to illus trate. The speaker said that ska thinks this section has two item* of food that are not nearly so well known anywhere else. These are barbecue and boiled “Tom Thumb.” She urged her hearers to have curf psity about new and different foods. Mrs. J. O. Newell announced that the reading of books and lease lets has increased greatly sinep Chritsmas and that she has in hand a number of new ones which she is anxious to have widely cir culated. During the social hour refresh ments were served by Mesdame* Hoyle, Willie Bullock, D. D. Cham blee and L. H. Jones of the hostess organization. P.TA. Members of the Parent-Teacher Asociation are hereby reminded that next Tuesday night, Feb. 11, is the time for the regular meet* ing. A program of special interest is being planned with former rep. resentative O. B. Moss of Spring Hope as the principal speaker. Be sure to attend and help your child room win the prize. He was a delicate little fellow and weighed only about 190. To this day I have no better friend than old Dr. Cusic. Great guy!
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