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<r»um Il4i ULU 'null r/L'Ul(l IIIU VAOTn r A DAI TV a nnintv M * nnn \ M/< THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH TWENTIETH, 1936 I "I HOSTILE VALLEY | by Ben Hmes Williams • Copyright by Ben Ante* William*. WNTT flerTloe. They exhausted the subject pres ently, and must by and by have for gotten It But a little before noon, when he was done fishing, Saladlne, mistaking Will Ferrin’s directions and seeking the road to Carey’s, took the way in to Marm Pierce’s farm instead, and so came to the house divided. Marm Pierce and Jenny were In the dining room when rain suddenly began to fall. Jenny rose to close a window, and as she did so, Saladlne came running around the house to take shelter on the porch; and Jenny called over her shoulder: “Granny, here’s that man I see down brook!’’ They saw him pass the windows and go toward the kitchen door, and the girl made haste to open to him there. When Saladine thus saw Jenny again, he was surprised afresh at her beauty, and amused at this sec ond encounter. The rain had wet ted him. “Come in and set,” Jenny invited him. “Till the rain’s done. To’re soaked through!” She pushed the screen door wide. “I’ll drip on your floors,” Saladine pointed out. “And it’s not cold! I’ll stay here on the porch till it passes. Then maybe you can put me on the way to Carey’s.” “Come in, come in!” Marm Pierce insisted. “Water won’t hurt the floors, and you’ll catch your death out there!” So he leaned the loose sections of his disjointed rod against the weather-boarded wall and stepped into the kitchen. “I fished down brook, after I saw you,” he said to the girl. “It’s all a bog, below there. I got enough of that, and cut back up to the road. Will Fer rin told me to take the first road right . . .” When he spoke that name, the girl’s pulse caught, then pounded in a quicker beat. To think suddenly of Will could always shake her long composure. She stepped back, into the shadowed end of the kitchen by the sink; but Marm Pierce —she had put aside her knitting—came out from the dining room and said briskly: "Chunk up the fire, Jenny,” and to Jim: "You get up close and dry.” Jenny obeyed, glad of this pre text of activity; and Saladine told them his name and errand here. "The road in here fooled me,” he explained. “I thought it’d bring me to Carey’s. It looks like a traveled road.” She nodded, with clucking chuckle. “ ’Tis!” she agreed. “A lot of peo ple come in here, take It by and large!” "Why?” * Her little black eyes twinkled at him. “It you lived anywhere around here, you’d have heard of Marm Pierce,” she told him, a crotchety pride In her tones. “Folks come to me for doctoring. Yarbs and sim ples. I’ve healed a pile of hurts in my day. "A real doctor can’t make a living here, so they come to me, and pay me with help in hay time, or they get my wood In, and do the chores that’s too heavy for Jenny.” Tt must be hard for Just the two of you,” he hazarded. Marm Pierce eyed him shrewdly. "Now yo’re wishing you dast ask qnestlons,” she guessed. “You’ve got eyes in your head to see the looks of this honse, and you’ve got a bead on yon to wonder about the why of it!” She related, almost proudly, her ancient stubborn quarrel with her brother. He said, amused: "Looks to me you cut off your own nose to spite your face!” "Folks get so they hanker for a fight, around here,” Marm Pierce declared. “Quarreling with your kin comes natural in Hostile Valley. I take a heap of satisfaction out of I seeing the Win-side of this house go to rot and ruin. Serves him right, I say!” “He around?” Saladine asked. “He sneaks back, oncet in so often, to see to’t I'm letting things alone,” she said. “Or he says that’s why.” Her tone was dry with scorn. Then old Marm Pierce asked: “You say you come in by Will’s?” And at his assent, she said: “Will’s a fine man! He deserves better!” Saladine explained: "I left my car at Will’s. Mis’ Ferrin showed me the path down to the brook.” Marm Pierce’s tone was suddenly unfriendly. “Guess likely you vis ited with her for a spell?” Saladine shook his head; and the other said tartly: “It’s a wonder she let you get away!” Continued next week. Silks and Satins, Scarlets and Velvets, put out the kitchen fire. GENERAL NEWS STORMS COST LIVES Winds and floods in Canada and the northeastern United States took at least nineteen lives and did other great damage. Homes were destroyed, trees blown down, com munications cut off, and freezing cold added to the danger and suf fering. The Hudson river on New York, the Connecticut in Cinnecti cut, and the Merrimac in New Hampshire were among the larger streams which rose to flood stage. President Roosevelt has authorized the use of more than $5,000,000 of federal funds in work relief in the stricken area. NEGRO COFESSSES MURDER _ Arthur Tate, negro man of 29, has confessed the murder of Alex ander Warren, 18, on the night of February 28, and also the as sault of Tate’s companion, Miss Helen Phelps. He claims to have had an accomplice, but the young woman says she saw only one man, who jerked open the door of the car, shot her companion and pull ed her from the vehicle. The killer was at one time cook at East Carolina Teachers College, but was discharged some weeks before the crime. He was arrested in Green ville. RIVER TRADE RESUMED Commerce between Wilmington and Fayettville byway of the Cape L -V- -t- ■«. *- » -* -» *- -t- *- -*■ -*■ * TTTTTTTTTTTTttTtTTTtTTTT' ! 5 T A TEi !THEATRE j * + | Again Today & Sat. $ | King of | | Burlesque ! t WARNER BAXTER t t ALICE FAYE t t JACK OAKIE t t Also | ♦March of Time & News* 4* % % Sun. - Mon. - Tues. + i Myma Loy ! ♦SPENCER TRACY in| ! “WHIPSAW” I jAlso Hit & Run Driver! I Specialty & News % I * J Beginning Wednesday % % EDDIE CANTOR in J f“Strike Me Pink”| J with Ethel Merman % l Parkyakarkus & The | X Goldwyn Girls Also % | Color Cartoon & News | Fear river has been resumed after an interval of 13 years. The first boat in the new system passed up the river on Friday of last week, a tow boat drawing a barge loaded with 200,000 gallons of gasoline and kerosene. Deepening the river channel and building locks to in sure the depth of water allowed the resumption of shipping. WHITLEY LEAVES WPA POST Phil Whitley of Wendell has re signed his position as director of WPA work in district no. 3. He will be succeeded by E. C. Dorsey of Henderson. Mr. Whitley has issued a statement that he is re signing for personal and private interests, but many believe that reasons public and political have had much weight. He has been highly commended for his work with the federal government. SAY EETHER NOW Estelle B. Hunter, educational director of Better Speech Insti H IgSSk*** SPECIAL j % ZEBULON BEAUTY SHOP $ J Mrs. R. E. Barnes herself will give * * FOR TEN DAYS | < f & EUGENE PERMANENTS I $ s. Jk Jr AT $3.50 I I oil O’Castor Permanent $2.50 $ X • u u ■>' Miss Nellie Pearl Bryant || j* Miss Louise Hayes * T T $25.00 JUST 35 MORE DAYS TO WIN IT! The Zebulon Record Is an 8-page weekly newspaper with a monthly 12-page photo graphic supplement. It will GIVE a YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION to any one bringing any kind of a hen. One man has paid for 3 years with 3 hens. You can pay old or new subscriptions with hens. Re ceipts given on delivery. First Largest Hens Get Prizes. SSO“ IN CASH PRIZES Ist Prize For Largest Hen - - $25.00 2nd Prize For 2nd Largest - - SIO.OO 3rd Prize For 3rd Largest - - $ 5.00 And Ten 4th Prizes Os SI.OO Each will be given absolutely free in addition to the Record, as follows: The weight of all hens will be kept and at the end of campaign, judges selected will award the prizes. . Hens may be delivered any day during the contest at the follow ing places and stores: Bailey—Baker Pearces—Perry Bethany Community-Robertson Pilot—Stallings Broadway Community—Allen Pine Ridge—Mullins Bunn —Weathers Rileys—Johnsons Corinth-Holder—O’Neal Hiley Hill—Weathers Eagle Rock—Martin Rolesville—H. E. Perry Hopkins X Roads —Bunn Samaria—Morgan & Frazier Knightdale—Robertson Union Hope—W. E. Brantley Middlesex —Bunn & Co. Wake X Roads—Jones Mitchells Mill—Perry & Son Wendell —Marshbourn’s Mt. Pleasant —Brannon & Son Wilder’s Grove —Wilder New Hope—Perry’s; Stallings i tute of America states that simp j ler words and construction of j sentences with changing pronun- I ciations are gaining favor in this country. She says that “diction’ry”, “cemet’ry” and such words are bet ter pronounced with all syllables used. Finally, “eether” and “nee ther” are held preferable to “eye ther” and “nyether.” Road Deaths Drop Traffic accidents in North Caro lina decreased by 46 during Jan uary and February as compared with the same period in 1935. A comparative drop of 17 was shown for February alone. However, there was a total number of accidents this February of 444 as compared with 375 for the corresponding month last year. An interesting feature of the record is that there was not a single woman involved in a fatal accident during February. ' \ Mrs. Jodie Wells of Wendell, for merly of Wakefield, has had a serious operation in Rex Hospital and is now said to be improving, which is good news to her many friends here. ! WENDELL J I THEATRE | t WENDELL, N. C. * * | * Program for week of March 20$ $ FRIDAY MARCH 20th | | JACK HOLT in + I Storm Over The | ! Andes | | SATURDAY MARCH 21 + * “BIG BOY” WILLIAMS in $ | Thunder Over ! * Texas i | MON. & TUES. MARCH 23-24$ | Remember Last ! ! Night | | with EDWARD ARNOLD & * $ CONSTANCE CUMMINGS 2 SWED. (Bargain Day)'March 25 J | FRED MacMURRAY & * | CAROLE LOMBARD in $ ♦Hands Across The! | Table ! + Matinee 3:30 —lO c all $ $ Night 7:00 & 9:00 —lO c 15c$ $ THURS. & FRI. March 26-27 * | GINGER ROGERS in $ | “IN PERSON” !
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