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VOLUME XIII
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No matter how many painted
finger-nails I see flicking ashes
from Camels or Lucky Strikes; no
matter how many brightly colored
pictures of beautiful women testi
fy to the merits of this or that cig
arette; no matter how elaborate
their surrounding may be; when
ever anybody mentions smoking by
women memory inserts between my
eyes and whatever I’m supposed to
see another picture so different
that it would never be used by any
manufacturer and yet perhaps
more exactly true than many of
those paid for.
When I was a child there lived
on land adjoining my father’s farm
two old women, unmarried and
owning only their few acres of
rocky soil and a log house with one
room and a loft above it, reached
by ladder-like steps. They were al
ways together and we children nev
er thought of them separately. In
deed, we combined their names in
to one and called them both by it.
One was Miss Jane, the other Miss
EHie; to us they were Miss Jayn
ellie. They were small, stooped, in
credibly tanned and wn-inkled, well
nigh toothless, with chins almost
touching their noses, sharp-voiced,
wiry and active. They wore Mother
Hubard dresses that somehow fad
ed from the first and around their
waists there was a belt or string
above which they hitched their
dresses to keep them out of their
way when stooping in garden or
field work. Sometimes when they
straightened up the effect of this
continued pulling was startling.
And over their heads they wore
head kerchiefs, tied under their
chins with a point hanging down in
the back. Tn summer they went
barefoot much of the time.
Their father had been well-to-do
and we had heard that in a trunk
up in the loft Miss Ellie still had
a pink satin party dress and that
she had been a beautiful young
girl. We would look at her and
wonder about it.
“Miss .Taynellie” always had their
supper long before dark and after
wards when weather permitted
they would squat on their front
door-sill and smoke. They cooked
by an open fireplace and never let
the fire go entirely out; so that
late any warm afternoon the pass
erby might see three slender lines
of smoke in the air— one from the
low chimney and two from the
pipes in the mouths of the old wo
men. But the pipe smoke had lots
more smell to it than the chimney
smoke, and its odor drifted to orr
nostrils before the house was well
in sight.
While we were small we dreaded
to pass the place, though the road
was some distance from it. Miss
JaynelKe seldom spoke; but they
watched us from the time we came
in sight until we were hidden from
view. They seemed motionless ex
cept for the slow turning of their
heads as they watched us *nd the
slight motions of their lios as they
expelled smoke. We felt like tne
man who said he didn’t believe tn
ghosts and witches but was cer
tainly skeered of them. We never
knew Miss Jaynellie to harm any
one, but we were nervous about
them. Tired though we might be
THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN
ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH SIXTH, 1936
Club Column
The study class sponsored by
various organizations ol the com
munity held the regular meeting
for this month with the Woman’s
| Club. Mrs. C. E. Flowers discussed
! the day’s topic, Leisure Time. She
j mentioned the uses of radio, read
ing and moving pictures with em
phasis upon selecting the best of
I each. In addition to these uses for
! leisure the speaker urged that her
I hearers learn to relax and to rest,
I both of which are most necessary
for health and happiness.
Mrs. C. L. Read spoke briefly on
1 the new WPA projects for this sec
tion, explaining its aim and the re
' suits hoped for.
I Mesdames C. V. Whitley and
j Theo. Davis, hostesses for the day,
served refreshments during the so
cial hour.
j The next meeting of this class
, will be at Wakelon on the first
Tuesday afternoon in April.
On Tuesday, March 17, at 3:30
p. m. the general meeting of the
Woman’s Club will be held. The
program will be on gardens and a
speaker from the Horticultural
Department of State College is ex-
I pected. All members are urged to
! be present, and this announcement
is made at an earlier date than us
ual that there may be no conflict
of dates.
IMA.
The Parent Teacher Association
will meet on next Tuesday at 7:30
p. m. in the auditorium at Wake
lon. Hon. O. B\ Moss of Spring
Hope is expected to make an ad
dress and all members are asked
to attend.
Confesses Murder
The mystery concerning the mur
der of W. F. Jones, Eagle Rock
merchant, on January 9, has been
solved by the confession of Na
j thaniel Gooch, 19-year-old negro
of near Wendell, that he shot tie
store-keeper because of a grudge
against him. Deputy Clyde Weath
ers has worked on this case from
the first, believing that the Good
son brothers, negroes first arrest
ed, were not guilty. He was pres
i ent with jailer and coroner when
Gooch confessed.
Stanley Resigns
Perhaps C. E. Stanley never
would have made front page as an
employee of the State Highway
Safety Division had he stayed so
ber. His job was to keep a record
of the drunks who lost their driv
ers license. Perhaps his job got
dull, so to help business he got
drunk one night recently and the
next morning resigned his job.
and laden with baskets of wild
strawberries, dewberries, blackber
ries or huckleberries from tne
mountainside, our pace would
quicken and we could not feel
quite comfortable until we had
passed beyond the range of those
still, watchful eyes. •
The impression this made on me
may be one of the reasons why I
still feel ill at ease when I see a
woman smoking. They all remind
me of Miss Jane and Miss Ellie.
PUBLIC CHARACTER
Among the better known
characters of the town there
are few who have wider ac
quaintances than the subject of
this week’s sketch. He is inter
ested in every phase of activity
in both town and county.
Full Name John Thomas
Robertson.
Native of- Wake County.
Domestic Status Married
Miss Mary E. Horton. 5 Chil
dren, One son. Four daughters.
Church Affiliation —Baptist.
Business Farming and
Dealing in live stock.
Came to Zebulon —Jan. 1909.
Why i/ocated Here—Because
| it seemed a good place to come
! to do business and to educate
| children.
I :
ALL BOLONEY
In Wallace Temple’s market,
j supported above the refrigerated
' show case for meats, is an immense
bologna sausage. It weighs 4m
! pounds—and Wallace expects to
■ sell it all. He has either a good
trade or a hopeful disposition, or
both. Anyway, that sausage is cer
tainly worth going to see, and this
is not boloney.
Picture Supplement
To Record
Next week the Record
will have 20 or more pages. We
have just added an illustrated agri
cultural section of 12 pages giving
several nages of unusually fine
photos and many items of interest
about rural life. This section will
appear once a month and we be
lieve our readers will enjoy it very
much. Although this will cost us
considerable, there will be no ex
tra charge for it to our subscribers.
The price will remain at SI.OO a
year.
Read our full page ad in this is
sue about how easily and cheaply
you may get a year’s subscription
to the Record and perhaps $5.00.
SIO.OO or even $25.00 free. The of
ker is open to everybody. We make
it on past-due subscriptions, new
ones, or renewals. One hen, any
size pays for a full year’s subscrip
tion, and the number of hens
brought is not limited to any one
on this proposition.
Bring on your hen and win one
of these cash prizes. Some one will
get the $25.00. Why not you ?
Typewriters Stolen
When pupils taking the business
course at Wakelon assembled for
classes Tuesday morning they
found no typewriters ready for use.
All five of these machines had been
stolen on Monday night. Aside
from their monetary value the
theft of these machines is a severe
loss to the school.
Big Cotton Bolls
E. E. Mann of Rocky Mount was
in Zebulon the other day and was
showing some of the Sikes Early
Big 801 l Cotton. He had a number
of stalks and we have not in years
seen cotton so large in the boll
nor so many bolls to the stalk. Mr.
Sikes sells the seed of this cotton
which he says has taken 20 years
of careful breeding to develop it.
Church Column
On next Monday p. rn. the Bap
tist W. M. S. will hold the regular
meeting for March. All circles are
urged to attend.
The Annual State Meeting of
the Baptist W. M. U. will convene
in Raleigh next week on Wednes
day and Thursday. All churches or
societies should be represented
there.
The regular Sunday services will
be observed at the Methodist
church here next Sunday morning.
Pastor Read will preach at both
morning and evening hours.
The Workers Council of the Bap
tist S. S. met on Monday night
with Miss Velma Presiar in charge
of program and discussion.
Pastor Stancil will fill his ap
pointment at Hales Chapel on next
Sunday morning, services having
been changed from third Sundays.
Recorders Court
There is an old saying that Sa
tan always finds something for id
le hands to do. If the converse is
true, then the folks round about
Zebulon have hen pretty busy for
the last few weeks. Only three cas
es were passed on by the local re
corders court this week. Here they
are:
Willis Alford just had to and
wanted to drive his car so badly
that he thought he would take a
chance of going places without a
license, since hard times had not
permitted getting a 1936 state per
mit. Someone reported him on or
our watchful officers just nabbed
him anyway. The court was easy
on him and let him off with the us
ual warning in such cases with the
payment of $5.00 and necessary
costs.
Then James A. (Buck) Perry de
cided he would buck both the law
and his fellowman, using some sort
of deadly weapon and another of
the same sort, only it was an auto
mobile. The court found him guilty
of the double header and sentenced
him to serve 18 long months on the
state roads. He gave notice of ap
peal to the Superior Court and
bond was fixed at SSOO.
The State had somewhat against
Curtis Harris for stunt driving his
or somebody else’s car, which the
law calls “careless and reckless
driving.” He goes to the roads for
sixty days.
Why should a fellow not be al
lowed a little joy riding after such
a winter and better roads? We
take a chance occasionally our
selves, hut if the law catches us at
itthen there is no one to blame but
ourselves and we must take our
medicine according to the prescrip
tion written into law.
Jefferson Davis
Play
On March 16 in Hugh Morson
High School, Raleigh, New York
actors present the play Jefferson
Davis. This production is sponsored
by the U. D. C. of Raleigh
as a truthful portrayal of South
erners and southern customs.
Tickets can be bought at the
door for 76c and 60c plus tax.
NUMBER 35
Great Crowd Sees
Gifts Presented
The thousands who gathered at
Zebulon on Saturday to see the dis
tribution of gifts by Zebulon Sup
ply Co. made up as orderly an as
semblage as has ever been seen in
these parts| Conservatively esti
mated at 5,000, they arrived in ap
proximately 1,000 cars not to men
tion those who came in wagons,
buggies and afoot.
Following is the list of gifts and
the names of those to whom they
went. It happened that not one was
awarded to a person living in Zeb
ulon and the distribution chanced
to be in varied sections of this and
other counties.
1st —Car—J. P. Fowler of near
Rolesville.
2nd —Living Room Suite—W. Z.
Whitaker —County Line.
3rd—Sellars Kitchen Cabinet—Bud
Jeans—Pilot Section.
4th—Ton Orange Wrapper Ferti
lizer—Rellard Edwards, Moore
School.
sth—Ton Victor Tobacco Grower
O. B. Gay-*—Near Hopkins Store.
6th —Ton Golden Bell Fertilizer—
Johnnie Stallings, Pilot.
7th—Half-Ton Arcadian Nitrate of
Soda—W. E. Baker, Zebulrn. Rt.
3. .
8th —Set Silverware —H. S. Wall.
Archer Lodge.
9th —Aladdin Lamp—C. N. Rogers,
Rolesville.
10th — Linoleum Rug —Henry Cof
fey, colored—Eagle Rock.
Peculiar Accident
Howard Robertson of the Beth
any community is in the hospital
seriously injured in a most pecu
liar accident. Wearing fleece-lined
winter weight underwear he stood
before an open fire, stretching his
feet to the warmth. Flames ran up
his legs inside his clothing. Tear
ing off his outer clothing he ran
outdoors and rolled in the snow to
extinguish the fire. The garment
showed little if any injury and no
other clothing was hurt but Mr.
Robertson’s flesh was covered with
blisters and there are doubts as to
his recovery. It is thought that .’he
melting snow made a steam which
added to the extent of the bums
and to the danger from them,
to danger from them.
Wendell Broadcast
On Saturday night of this week
the Athletic Association of the
Wendell High School will sponsor
a broadcast from Wendell over
WPTF. The program will be a
“Crazy Barn Dance” by the Crazy
Water Crystals performers. Place;
School Auditorium; Time, 7:00
8:00 p. m.
WELL-KNOWN SEED FIRM
For more than 64 years the firm
now known as Jop P. Wyatt A Sons
Co., in Raleigh, has been in exis
tence. For 29 years it has been un
der the present managment. Hand
ling implements, hardware and
seed, the firm has three salesmen
on the road in the Carolina*.
Zoo polar bears have been known
'to bask contentedly in sunshine hot
enough to give sunstroke to leo
pards and tigers.