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VOLUME XIII
Rocky Mount Ss
Large Leaf Market
This, That And
The Other.
MRS. THEO. 1!. DAVIS
Since Wednesday of this week
I have been fifty-five years old.
Mention of this fact is not made
boastfully. To boast would be un
seemly since acquiring years is a
mong the things not done by one’s
own efforts. Indeed, the efforts are
usually made in the opposite di
rection, most of us dreading to be
known as “old folks.”
Therefore, I am glad to be able
to announce that being fifty-five
is not nearly so bad as it looks.
By the time one lacks only five
years of three scores there is no
need to remark that the women of
the family all have prematurely
gray hair—or most of them. No
body ever paid much attention to
that remark anyway. Dental plates
and spectacles are regarded as a
matter of course and are not com
mented on. If the sermon or ad
dress is long and one becomes
fidgety, references to neuritis or
rheumatism are accepted at joint
value and one is spared the stig
ma of having misbehaved.
A woman past fifty is not ex
pected in a small town to pay too
much attention to fashions; by
that time her mind is supposed to
be freeing itself from all such
bondage. It is held to her credit
if she keeps herself in hearing dis.
tance of styles that are not too
loud. And it is a lesson in tact to
watch how the sales-women, es
pecially the younger ones, try to
steer us oldsters past the gaudier
prints toward those that are more
subdued; to hear how they say,
“Yes, that is pretty, but I think
this piece would be lovely for you”
Slight accent on you.
At fifty-five you find that while
you can work about as fast as
ever and can probably plan your
work better than when younger,
you can’t rest as fast. But you may
have found also no one person can
do everything and you may be able
to choose the more important tasks
You may be surprised to know that
after fifty you are not too old to
learn. (I detest that saying about
not being able to teach old dogs
new tricks. Persons are not dogs.)
And while your taste in reading
may be different from that of
years ago, it is probably better.
You are not yet too feeble to
take an active part in church and j
community work and from exper-!
ience you know that too much
should not be counted on as to
results; so you will not be disap
pointed often.
You have more freedom from
•jme cares than you have knowm
since the first baby arrived; that is
unless you are one of those mar
tyr souls that are happiest when
harnessed to all the duties that
THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAFER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND ..FRANKLIN
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA: FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH; 1936
Known for years, not only in
North Carolina and the United
States, but also in foreign coun
tries as one of the world’s great
tobacco markets, Rocky Mount has
set out thisi fall to better an al
ready enviable record.
A great season for Rocky Mount
warehouses has. begun. During
last week, the first of selling this
year’s crop, nearly a million
pounds of tobacco were sold in the
city’s warehouses at prices that
| compare most favorably with those
. received on any other market. The
average for the entire week was
more than $23.00 per hundred
pounds* It is no wonder that the
tobacco market is the pride of the
: city. Nor is it strange that boosters
for the market there are not only
the warehousemen themselves, but
the citizenship as a whole.
Watch the official reports and
see Rocky Mount’s place on the
the list.
On Monday of this week tobacco
sold in Rocky Mount averaged
j $25.39 per cwt.
Woman’s Club
The first meeting of the fall of
the Woman’s Club will be held in
I the club house at 3:30 on Tuesday
afternoon of next week, Sept. 15.
Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn of Raleigh
l has been asked to speak to the
i club. Miss Grace Coltrane will give
a program of musical numbers.
Mrs. R. E. Pippin, president, re
quests that every member be pres
ent and bring with her at least one
prospective member.
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should be divided among the other
members of the family.
You know again what it means
to go to bed and stay there all
night, never getting up to fetch
some one a drink of water or more
cover, rub a chest with camphorat
ed oil, pat the back of a colicky
baby, warm a bottle of milk, or as
sure a young dreamer that mother
is right there and nothing can hurt
him. To be sure, your own aches
may keep you awake sometimes,
but that doesn’t mean anything
special.
I am truly thankful not to have
lived when elderly women wore
little shoulder shawls and felt out
of place among current events.
Os course young persons think
any one past fifty must be decrepit
My grandmother died at fifty-nine,
when I was fourteen, and I thought
it no wonder the poor soul was
worn out; she had lived so long.
Now I realize it was disease and
not old age that killed her.
I’d never say life begins at forty
having too much proof that it be
gins long before then; but neither
does it end at fifty-five.
Still, the fifties are sort of neg
lected. Just try to buy a hat that
doesn’t look like either seventeen
or seventy. 1
Public Character
The subject of this week’s
sketch is among the town’s a
... lert, enterprising young men
of business, and the progress
of the community depends
largely upon such as he is. He
attended King’s Business Col
lege. During the World War
he was for eleven months In
Prance with the 81st Division.
Name—WiHiard Allen White.
Native of Granville County
Came to Wake in 1902.
Domestic Status-Married Miss
Hoye Jones, Dec. 28, 1926.
Church Attlliation —Methodist
Member of Board of Stew
ards iiTuical church.
Business—KTanager of Chevro
let Co., in Wendell. Ban
ner in J. M. Chevrolet Co.,
in Zebulon.
Came to Zebulon in 1927 afc
buyer on Tobacco Market.
PTA To Meet
The Parent Teacher Association
will hold its first meeting for the
present school year on next Tues
day night. A full attendance is
much desired. Mr. Moser will speak
on the school program for the year
explaining things and outlining
plans.
Church News
Repairs to the Methodist Church
here are about completed. With a
new roof and new timbers replac
ing old where needed, with fresh
paint in soft shades, the building
shows remarkable improvment in
appearance.
Next Sunday is the regular time
for worship services and it is hop
edthat many visitors may join the
membership as a whole in atten
dance.
Pastor Read announces a confer
ence of the membership at the
night service.
Pastor Herring filled his. pulpit
last Sunday at the Baptist Church
for the first time since his recent
illness. WTere were five additions
to the church membership at the
morning hour, three of these being
for baptism. Revival services are
planned for the congregation In the
near future.
Large Lithographs
Os Harvest Festival
Soon To Be Posted
Large lithographs and cards ad
vertising the Merchant's Harvest
Festival in Zebulon to be staged
Oct 5,6, 7, $, 9, 10th, have arrived
and will begin making their ap
pearances in all communities with
in the next week or so.
The Greater Atlantic Shows own
ed and managed by Brownie Smith
who is famous for his great exhi
bition shows, rides and good clean
rides and concessions will be on
the midway for your entertainment
and amusement. Twelve rides and
shows will be on hand and there
will be no main gate admission.
Free entrance to the grounds will
be allowed everyone. Don’t forget
tKfc date, October 5- 10th.
828 Pupils
Monday
Wakelon Begins
The Year’s Work
With 247 at the portals of the
high school and 581 lining up be
fore the elementary building Wake
lon’s doors opened Monday morning
for the work of the school year.
The total, 828, exceeds that for last
year’s first day More have enrolled
since Monday, but the week’s total
j can not be given yet.
j In his address on opening day,
Supt. Moser stressed character
building as the greatest work of
the school. He emphasized the fact
that all factors of a child’s envir
onment radio, moving pictures,
the farm, business the
i professions ,and especially the
: home and the church—must hold to
' high ethical standards or the school
; is hampered in it» task. The school,
he said, is the center of life for the
child.
Mr. Moser stated that the book
rental system appears to have
found high favor. This rental va
ries with different grades and does
not include pencils, paper, etc., but
does pay for the book rent for the
entire school year. It also includes
labratory manuals for high school
pupils; the use of 36 new diction
aries by grammar grades; all draw
ing books; Palmer writing; 160
books in four groups of 40 each of
the Progressive Song Series or the
Public School Music; six new sup
plementary readers for Ist grades;
3 supplementary readers for each
of the grades from 2nd to 7th, in
clusive. Pupils will be responsible
for rented books.
Public School Mugic classes will
meet in the gymnasium this year.
This gave an opportunity to en
large the lunch room which occu
pies the west wing of the elemen
tary building. When the work now
under way is completed, Wakelon
will have an unusually large and
attractive place where pupils may
be served lunches or may eat those
taken from home. Carpenters and
painters are doing their best to
finish their labors and Mrs. Jones,
again in charge, is much pleased
with the prospect.
Mrs. Dowtin of Spring Hope has
taken the place vacated by Mrs.
Patie Haps at the dormitory and
will doubtless give
tion.
Supt. Moser is deTTghted with
the way the new teachers as well
as those better known here have
taken hold of the situation and all
things point to a good year for
Wakelon.
Suits and Coats are now being
sold at Lucielle’s Dress Shop in
Wilson, N. C. at prices from $5.95
to 1/9.5U. Purchase youtp mere
and get the 1937 styles.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jenkins an
son at' Rex hospital on Sunday
naunce the birth and death of a
morning, Sept. 6.
NUMBER 10
Register
For 1936-37
Flap-
I was just thinking today about
what a time our guardian angels
must have.
I remember passing a house one
(day which was built on the side
of a hill. When it was built, no ex
cavation was made at the back for
various reasons and consequently
> the front porch was some twelve
feet from the ground.
On the porch was a swing and
in the swing, which was of the
l ordinary porch variety, were eight
’ children w two of whom were stand
ing up “pumping” in an effort to
make the thing go higher. How
their guardian angels must have
sweated keeping all those children
in that swing and at the same time
1 holding the rusty chains toegther.
1 Then I heard a man tell of how,
1 when his parents were away from
home, he had when a child, with
a brother and sister, dried wet gun
powder in a frying pan over an
open fire.
[ And I myself, forgive me for
bragging, once pounded a dyna
mite cap for half an hour between
two bricks in an effort to hear the
explosion. I also used a hammer
and a hatchet on the cap with no
avail. Finally building a fire I
placed the cap among the embers
! and still got no result. As a last
resort, I started for the house to
procure some kerosene with which
to intensify the heat and flame. As
I reached the back step an explo
sion rent the anr and I found
shat my cap had indeed gone up
and with it the dirt from a foot
I deep hole. No trace of the fire
, was left. > ■ I
1 ?
Yes, sir, I doubt there being one
person on earth who but at bne
time or another, took just such
chances when a child.
Some of us grow up though and
would be grossly insulted if some
one insinuated that we had no
better sense today.
Os course we put our wives,
our children, brothers, sisters,
mothers, fathers, and other kin in
an automobile and tear down the
highways at sixty-five and. seven
ty. We pass on hills and curves.
We ride on white side wall tires,
bat the sidewall in down the cen
ter of the tire. We speed on wet
pavement, we drink and drive and
drive no more. We put six on a
seat. Dim our lights? Never! But
who says we haven’t good sense?
Darn fools, we may be, but w®
still have good sense.
Gray matterly yours,
The Swashbuckler.