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Zrbulmt VOLUME XIII This, That, and The Other MRS. THEO. B DAVI6 I don’t know who the tiny boy was, and I don’t know whose dog it was; but I saw it bite the child on the street just in front of Sted man’s Store last Saturday. The lit tle fellow was about three. He had come out of the store, all clean and happy and smiling. He stooped ov er to pat the dog, which was on the sidewalk. It was one of those shag gy white ones and it jumped up and bit the child’s arm near the shoul der Luckily he had on his sweater and the wound was not serious. His father told him it d dn’t hurt much and so did Mr. John Robertson. Nobody knew where the dog be longed; but we all knew it didn’t belong on the street without a leash and with all that temper. It stood there with ears laid back and proudly wicked eyes. Several persons remarked that THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER— WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MAY THE TWENTY-FIRST, 1937. Ofily a few peaches are to be found around Zebulon. It is said that North Carolina peaches prom : is* less than half a crop At this time the crop is 10 per cent below the 10-year average. The Georgia crop shows even a poorer average than North Carolina’s. George Estes, a negro, fell from a window on the second floor of the home of Marshall Perry Sunday afternoon and was killed. He was drinking and went up-stairs to see a furM hand. No one saw’ him fall and he lay on the ground till the following morning. they didn’t have any idea the dog v/as mad. It may not have been, but both Aloneous Hinton and I were. It was fortunate for the little beast that we were not the Law just then. f What Liquor Has Done for Danville, Va. Danville, Va.. May 10, 1937. To the United Dry Forces of North Carolina: Gentlemen: On August 15th, 1934, our city pened two ABC stores for selling •galized liquor. From that date to larch 31, 1937, two and a half ears, they sold $1,641,217.95 worth if liquor, an average of $2063 dai y (that the stores were kept open). It was such an enormous amount >f money spent I figured out what t would buy and am giving these igures and these are just for the lecessary things that people have n iheir homes every day. Every dollar of this money left lanville at night and left only the mployment of six men here operat ig the two stores and a small rent Church News Announcement was made at the iptist church last Sunday that the ilding will be dedicated on the rd Sunday in June. According to lominational custom the dedica l could not be made until the se was free of debt. An appro te program will be aranged. lily Vacation Bible School will i at the Baptist church on the iay following the fourth Sun n this month. Mrs. F. E. Bunn J rect and will be assisted by workers in the church. All •en are invited to attend. HODIST CHURCH NOTICE ’s break the record at S S. Sunday 10 a. m. ching at 11:00. Topic: “Abra he Gentleman;’’ followed by icrament. Everybody invited rship with us. dren served at f rst table. iip also at 8:00. Topic: “Lock pward.’’ You are specially in to this evening service. brary to Open e library at the Woman’s Club be open beginning next Tues from 8:30 m the morning till o’clock in the afternoon, and be open each day thereafter pt Saturdays. ’each Crop Small that is paid. In any other l gitimate business taking in this much money and doing this much business in two and a half years they would have employed several hundred men and women. The following items is what this amount of money would have bought and ai of these goods would have been sold by the mer chants of our city. I am confident that a large percentage of this mo ney came from the poorer homes where it \cas badly needed by their families. 12,000 Pairs ladies hose at $1 $12,000.00 12,000 Gallons syrup at $1 12,000.00 12,000 Tons of coal at $7 84,000.00 600 Homes, rent S2O per mo. 144,000.00 Wakelon Gets Into Tobacco State League LOCAL CLUB TO HOLD ORGANI ZATION MEETING AT SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SATURDAY NIGHT AT 8:00. The four-club Tobacco State League, semi-pro circuit was or ganized at a meeting in Clayton Tuesday night and will open its season on June sth. Members of the league are An gler, Erwin, Clayton and the Wake lon team representing Wakefield and Zebulon. R. Lawrence Cooper of Clayton was elected pres dent of the league. The league’s schedule will call for four playing days—Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday each week. Further plans for the league will i be settled at a meeting in Clayton | on Tuesday of next week. Local fans will be interested in j knowing that the Tobacco State League will have the stiffest line ups of any of semi-pro leagues. No one of the teams participating can by any means be called “easy". In fact, a stiffer line-up is expected than was encountered by the loea’ boys last year. The local club will organize at the school building on Saturday of th s week at 8:00 o’clock. Eugene Jones, manager of last year’s team will preside until a new manager is elected. It is thought that he will be re-el cted. All players and fans interested - i «/ in the club are invited to attend the meeting. ELECTRICITY FOR OCRACOKE An allotment of $40,000 by the Rural Electrification Administra tion to a private corporation which will be formed to serve Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. The allot ment sets aside $15,000 to build 14 miles of line to serve 151 custo mers on the island; $25,000 is for the building of a generating plant to furnish energy. The island, lo cated south of Cape Hatteras and between Pamlico Sound and the ocean, is the home of an isolated community supported principally by fishing. The coming of electrici ty will mean the building of an ice plant which will further add to the well being of the community. ■ - | 30,000 Pairs men’s socks at 50c 15,000.00 i 150 Su ts furniture at $llOO 15,000.00 30,000 Boxes oranges at $2 60,000.00 9,000 Men’s suits at S2O 180.000.00 4,500 Men’s overcoats at S2O 90,000.00 12,000 Pairs shoes at $3 36,000.00 6,000 Pairs boys shoes at $2 12,000.00 6,000 shirts at $1 6,000.00 3,000 Boys suits at $lO 30,000.00 3,000 Hats at $3 9,000.00 3,000 Ladies dresses at sls 46,000.00 I Continued on Page 7) Flower Show The Flower Show here last week, sponsored by the Woman’s Club with the Garden Club in charge, ' was pronounced the most beautiful seen in Zebulon. With Mrs. C- G.! Weathersby chairman, the Woman’s 1 club was most attractively arrang ed for displaying the flowers. On 1 entrance visitors were served punch from a large bowl pres ded over t|y Mrs. Rayo Senter. Next to this was a breakfast table arranged by Mrs. C. E. Flowers, all appointments be ing in red and white. A rock gar den designed by Mrs. H. C. Wade show’ed many woods plants, moss and a miniature pool with fish. Ad joining this were arrangements of wild flowers, behind which the entries of peonies were shown. One table was massed with verbenas in varied colors and next to them (Continued on Page 2) Corinth - Holder j Commencement The editor and his wife wish to ! express their appreciation to Ruby ! P. Martin, Zebulon, Route 1, who is a member of the graduating class cf the Corinth-Holder school at it»j commencement exercises this Fri-! day evening for the following invi-I tation: The Senior Class of Corinth- Holder High School commencement Exercises on Friday evening, May the twenty-first, at half after eight o’clock. Auditorium. The members of the graduating class are Sarah Beatrice Alford, Eula Pearl Batten, Martha Cleo Boykin, Rachel Frances; Cope, Mae Belle Creech, Lucy Gladys Driver, W lliam Harris Driver, Elbert Ed ward Eason, Mary Elizabeth Eat mon, Lucile Glover, Anna Blanche Griswold, Gladys Odetta Hinton, Hazel Ree Hocutt, Ruby Pearle Martin, Annie Viola O’Neal Mil dred Dorothy O’Neal, Harold Mc- Donald Parker, Esther Lucile Price, Louise Kathleen Price, Rufus Dewarner Richardson, Nancy Mabel Snipes, Eulas Bennett Strickland, Douglas H. Tippett, Talmadge L Vann, Eva Louise Wall, S. T. Wil son Wall, Roger Gaston Whitley, Mary Magdalene Williamson, Ver non Brunei Wright. Mascots: Nellie Gray Batten, and Jimmie Ray Narron. Sponsor: Miss Marguerite Louise Payne. NUMBER 47 Egotism and conceit go hand in hand- But there is that degree just be fore you reach the superlative known to us as self-confidence. Every one loves to watch the fel low who is confident as he plays or works. There is no faltering uncer tainty about his actions that marks the unaccustomed workman or the amateur player. At the same time, nobody likes a conceited person. Detestabte to the nth degree, few admire him. Some people are conceited about their looks, their work, their abili ty to excel in books, others are egotistical where skill in certain games is concerned, and invariably, instead of making the other fellow think more of us, it lowers us in ! his opinion. There’s one thing that thousands of us are conceited about—Our driving ability. I have seen dozens of accidents that would never have occurred had I been driving. Hundreds of per sons are killed each day simply be cause we have an over supply of confidence in our ability to handle an automobile. Autos are built for speeds that no average driver can handle. And we little realize the terrific rate at which an accident can occur. We have no time to fig ure out which is better, to turn to the right, to turn to the left, to apply the brake, to step on the gas, or to just throw up our hands, shut out eyes, and screamingly hope for the best. At times the latter might, ; after all be best. Roads were built to accommodate the high speed cars, then cars were bu It that were faster than the ex i sting roads, then, etc. Like the ! armament races, an impenetrable steel bulkhead for a battleship is 1 introduced and then a shell is man ufactured that will p erce it, then ' more bulkheads and blisters are j constructed, and so on. Now about this conceit. Ask me, or anyone else who the best driv er in the world is— Cannonball Ba ker or Sir Malcolm Campbell? Not on your life, it’s me, or you, or who ever happens to be asked. What’s that? “You don’t think you’re the best driver in these United States?’’ Then why is it you’re never uneasy when you’re behind the wheel and in hysterics when someone else is? I contend that any person, who drives above fifty-five on our high ways under normal traffic condi t ons is conceited. And in taking a chance with that kind of conceit, is liable to lose (and probably will) in the long run. They tell me that there’s still a fool-killer around. Sincerely, The Swashbuckler. CITY FARM TO USE CONVICTS Five convicts with short terms will be assigned by Judge Barnes in Raleigh police court to work the city farm. The vegetables grown on the farm are distributed to needy families in the city.
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