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THK FOUR COUNTY NEWSFAFER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND .FRANKLIN
VOLUME XIII
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ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1937
CLUB NEWS
The January meeting of the Wo
man’s Club will be held on next
Tuesday, the 19th, at 3:30 p. m.
Mrs. Alvin Bridges has the di
ction of the day’s program, which
based on Current Magazines.
Members are urged to remember
it there will be only one club
■eting this month and to attend
'nlarly.
Mrs. R. E. Pippin, Pres.
P T A
The Wakelon P. T. A. met for
luary Tuesday night. Preced
: the regular meeting a number
school girls sang three folk
lgs that were much enjoyed by
people present. Mrs. J. E. Gill,
•sident presided,
vlrs. Andrew Jones, school libra
n, made the folowing report: 26
>ks have been contributed by pa
ns; $4.00 raised for new books;
» books have been loaned from
Olivia Library; 1,300 books
e been read by the elementary
des; 253 books have been read
high school students besides 24
fiction.
vfter the business meeting, Prof,
ser introduced the speaker for
occasion, Mr. A. C. Allen, Rep
entative from Wake county in
General Assembly. Mr. Allen
cussed some of the Problems
’.fronting the Present General
Among them he men
led: The Liquor Question, Rais-
Revenues, Social Security Pro
.m, and Highway Fund. Mr.
en made a very clear and in
ning talk. His mother, the wife
former State Superintendent of
ication, was present with him.
he attendance was good except
t few men were present owing
vas said, to other meetings in
community.
SEEN & HEARD
ate Sunday night Policeman
rce arrested a drunken youth
had offered to share generous
f his bottle with others. Some
remarked that the drunk was
nless and not offensive. The
er replied that he was far
i harmless; that he had been
stumbling from one side the
way to the other and that a
ng motorist was forced to use
ossible care to keep from hit
the uncertain walker. Pearce
that if an intoxicated person
killed by a driver, no matter
lavoidable the accident might
re would be trouble, perhaps
re of manslaughter, money
1 heartache, and that it was
r to lock up a drunk than
at is so much worse,
gree most heartily.
—Alf M. Landon,
’’’can candidate
,T ear, ended
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Public Character
For this week we present
another of Zebulon’s enter
prising younger business men
He is a member of the Junior
Order. Is one of the few who
have enjoyed almost perfect
health, having had a doctor
only once in his life.
Name—Joe Robert Sawyer.
Native of Whitakers, Edge
combe County.
Domestic Status—Unmarried.
Church Preference—Baptist
Business—Manager Stedman
Store.
Has been in grocery business
five years.
Came to Zebulon from Kel
ford in 1933.
Liquor Refrendum
Bill Introduced
A bill has been introduced by the
only woman member of Legislature
to refer the liquor question to the
people at the polls on Nov. 2. Nine
men joined with Mrs. Hutchins in
offering the bill. It will meet with
tremendous opposition from the
liquor counties and liquor interests.
One Hundred Forty
Million Budget!
According to the budget commit
tee’s report it will take $140,000,-
000 to operate the great state of
North Carolina next year. It will
be a great deal easier to spend this (
tremendous amount than it will
be to raise it. That will be the one
big job of the Legislature— to find
the money.
Debnam Moving
M. T. Debnam is moving his
hardware store from corner
across from the Bank to the build
ing which he recently bought and
which is a few doors farther north.
With a largely increased space,
newly painted walls and -helves
and new arrangement, the big stock
carried shows up better than before.
The new picture show will shortly
be housed in the building vacated.
BIG RECORD NEXT WEEK
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Next week our new comic
and world-wide news section
will begin. It will appear each
week along with our regular
weekly edition of the Zebulon
Record. Besides four full pages
of comics in colors, there will
be eight pages of fiction, junior
page, movie news, science, radio,
adventure, family page and fash
ions.
Each subscriber will get from
[sixteen to twenty full pages—
nil for one dollar aij<ear.
We still have a .few dollar
lectric lanterns. Remember if
ou pay up your subscription,
r renew, or send us a new sub
scription, you get the lantern
ibsolutely free.
Send your dollar at once, and
we will mail the lantern to you.
General News
President Addresses Congress
On Jan. 6, President Roosevelt
addressed the 75th Congress as
sembled in Washngton. Among
other things stressed were: The
fact that though the NRA has been
outlawed, the problems it sought
to solve are still with us. An en
lightened view with regard to our
fundamental law. The importance
of the Inter-American Conference
with regard to peace. The neces- i
sity for better housing of working
classes. The improvement of the
working conditions of tenant farm
ers. The development and improve
ment of a system for social se
curity.
Men Killed in Accidents
Ransom Dodd of Bunn was killed
and M. J. Beddiingfield of Pine
Ridge was seriously injured in an
automobile accident near Zebulon
on the night of January 6. It is
said another car ran off the pave
ment and its driver, R. E. Mcßrayer l
evidently tried to regain the hard
surface when his car twisted across
the road into the one in which were
Dodd and Beddingfield, the latter
being taken to the hosptal where
he was found to have a dislocated
hip and a broken leg. Dodd was
dead when help arrived. Mcßrayer
j was only slightly hurt and has
j been indicted for manslaughter. I
L. A. Highsmith and W. A. Butler,
both of Wilmington, were killed i
when their car struck a bridge at'
Holt’s Lake near Smithfield last j
Thursday. They were or* their way
to attend the inauguration cere
! monies in Raleigh when the acci
dent occured. A witness said the car
traveling at high speed swerved to
ward the left to strike the concrete
guaid of the bridge. Faulty mech- i
anism was suggested as a cause.
Body of Child Found
The frozen body of Charles Mat-!
tson, ten-year-old boy kidnapped
two weeks ago, has been found,
frozen, m the snow about fifty miles j
from his home. A young hunter
made the discovery and at once i
notified others. The child’s body
showed that he had received a ter
rible beating. Teeth were knocked ;
out, there was a jiole in the head, j
aud numerous bruises. It is thought |
the kidnappers carried the corpse
the night before to the spot where
it was found.
Government G-men have begun
a most intensive drive to apprehend
the child s captors and murderers.
It is said that 40 have been detail
ed to the task.
Poplar Stoppers
Stoppers for bottles are being
made of poplar wood, which, it is i
c laimed, has been found superior in
many cases to cork. The poplar
does not give its taste to the con
tents o fthe bottle in which it is
used and does not so often deter
iorate from acids or alcohol.
REV. DAVIS AT WAKEFIELD
Rev. E. H. Davis will preach at
the Wakefield Baptist Church next
Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock
and the pastor, Rev. Carl Ousley
will preach at the evening service.
doodle W§PP
By
“Men or mice” seems to be on ev
ery dictator’s tongue lately. Well,
I prefer “mice” theoretically on my
! palate rather than “physically”.
Incidentally, I wouldn’t mind be
ing a ‘‘mice’’ long enough to re
place “Mickey” in the pay line for
several consecutive weeks.
i
Continuing the mousey discussion
I find in my category an episode of
action and drama enacted in the
early hours of one morning last
week.
It appears that the Record editor
and his youngest son came down to
build the breakfast fire and spied
a mouse in the sink. The son stalk
ed over for the kill but allowed the
rodent to dodge past his hand.
“Pshaw”, scolded the editor of our
sheet, “What did you let him get
away for? Why, I could have ”
The sentence was left unfinished
as the gentleman clutched franti
cally at the exact center of the
seat of his trousers,
j "What’s the matter?’’ inquired
' the awkward son.
1 “Matter?” shouted the
estater, as he held his seat with a 1
; death-like grip. “That moose is in 1
[my pants!” \
1 When finally persuaded to let go j
his hold, a badly mashed mouse slid
from the darkness of his left pants
leg.
Needless to say, Ye Editor
stands eagerly ready to bear the
J standard in the march toward the
I house of the better-mouse-trap
ouilder.
The madam shrieked the other
night that a mouse was in her
(sleeve and her mother clutched the
mouse and after mashing it tightly,
shook it out on the hearth,
i False alarm. It was only her
j watch which had come loose and
; frightened her half out of her wits.
(I’d make a crack about leaving out
“out of her’’ if I had the nerve.)
(
And one of our local medicos,
j while tired and dejected, one day
last week, lay down to rest
his weary soul. A studio couch
served very well as the arms of
Morpheus and soon the Doctor was
sawing wood in a manner that
would shame many a sawyer.
Rudely awakened by a rythmic
clapping noise, the M. D. cracked
one eye and peered about him in
search of the source. He found it
and opened both eyes to find his
wife prancing about the room and
at intervals, clapping a single clap
with her hands as though she were
doing the spring dance to her own
accompaniment. Finally our friend
could stand it no longer. “Neva”,
he said, “What in the world is the
matter with you? Have j*ou gone
i crazy?” J
Turning a belligerent ey£p>
Spouse the lady repr I
“George you know good f
slapping at a moth, go o » by
sleep and be quiet.” Benj
' George slept. '
Cattilessly yours, r '“
The Swashbuckling
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