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t iniMTM a~f nr r — w-Tt —i —rrr *49ES3SaK Sag® '■JBrrmKrn jgfci*! yy jL^yaßpi£' '■ B FRED N. DAY I IN MEETING Rev. Fred N. Day is a prominent | business man of Winston-Salem where he has operated a successful jewelry store for a great many years. But the most important th ng about this rnan is that he is also an i unusual evangelist. He ha- held successful revival meetings hun dreds of them, all over North Car olina and n other states. Mr. Day begins a revival at the Kenly Baptist church on Sunday morn ng June 6 and will continue the meetings through the following Sunday. The services will be each day at 8:45 in the morning and 8:00 at night- Those living near: enough to Kenly to atend these meetings should do so. The public: is invited to come and cooperate with the Baptist and other Christian people in having a real revival of religious life in the town and com mun ty around Kenly. BIRTHDAY PARTY On Saturday, May 15, Mary Gor don Massey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Merritt Massey celebrated her ninth birthday with a party. Many ' games were played in the shady j yard of the Massey home and the refreshments were also served from a decorated table under a tree. “Nice-Rolls” of ice cream with cakes were enjoyed and the guests were given balloons as favors. Pres ent were: Emma Vick Gill, Doro thy Ann and Cleo Glover, Dorothy M zelle, Carolyn Massey, Zyba Mas sey, Nancy Whitley, Hilda Lewis, Sarah Ann Eaton. Julia Pippin, Joyce Temple, Tookie Cash well, Margaret Bunn, Anne Massey, Ju dith Robertson, A. V. Medlin. Jr., George Rigsby Massey, Ben Finch Massey. JIM BATTEN Old Mr. Jim Batten, age 66 years, died at h s home near Woodard X Roads, Monday, May 17th, about 10 o’clock. He had been sick for the last 6 months, but confined to his bed only about 3 weeks His wife, a son and a daughter are left to mourn his death Funeral ser vices were conducted Tuesday af ternoon at the home by Rev. L. E. Godwin, of Four Oaks. Interment took place in the cemetery at old Salem Church. Pallbearers were: Messrs. Al fonza Eason, Dillard Tippett, Wal ter Doan, Stanley Atkinson, Eu rope O’Neal, Talmadge Whitley, and J. E. Carter. COAL AT ONE-TWENTY A TON When Mr. Average man pays from SB.OO to SIO.OO a ton for coal next fall and remembers the great state of North Carolina buys its, coal for from $1 20 to $2.25 a ton ; he will wish he was the state or ! something of the sort. But when the state has paid consderably more for freight than the coal costs at the mine, it will not be so cheap as it seems. :> THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MAY THE TWENTY-FIRST, 1937. NEWS OF THE WEEK COMMITEE REPORTS COURT BILL ADVERSELY The Senate Judiciary Committee has reported President Roosevelt’s court bill adversely. All amend ments seem to have been voted down by 10 against 8 for the bill. GOOD TOBACCO PLANTING SEASON i j In tut season following the ra.n a week ago, most of the farmers of ; .hie section set the larger part of 1 their crops. Had plants been large enough nearly the whole crop j would have been planted. Another good season and all crops will be i set. The blue mold did a lot of dam- i i age. but by waiting a little plants , enough may be had to plant all i crops in this section. The plant shortage is not as yet as acute in this section as in the Johnston county section. PREACHED OWN FUNERAL : i A crowd estimated at 5,000 i gathered at Coatsville, Ind., Sun- { day to hear Zade Millman, 88 years \ old, preach his own funeral. His ; casket and tombstone were on dis- | | play and it is said that the old man seemed thoroughly to enjoy the occasion. He is a farmer In a cracked voice he said “When the I roll is called up yonder I’ll be there, j | When my time comes, all I ask is that they let me die unremembered 1 and let me lie in my grave unmo lested.’’ MOTHER MURDERS DAUGHTER I Mrs. Helen Tierman of Long Is- j land, New York has confessed to the murder of her small daughter and the attempted murder of her five-year-old-son. Taking them out,, 1 supposedly, on a picnic the mother ! stabbed the children and tried to burn the bodies. The little boy was able to crawl away from the fire which for some reason went out, I and his story helped to furnish evi dence against the mother. She 1 claims to have been in love with a man and to have thought there was not room in the apartment for him i and the children. At first saying she committed the deed alone, she | later implicated her lover, claim ing that he struck the first blow. This statement was later retracted.! STUDENT KILLED BY FALL j I Miss Sara Atkinson of Woman’s College, Greensboro, died Sunday as the result of a fall from a iad-' der. She had been taking a sunbath j ! on the roof of the dormitory and in ! coming down slipped and fell, her head striking the floor and frac turing her skull. TOBACCO PLANTS STOLEN Because of an epidemic of rob- i beries of tobacco plant beds farm-; ers near Kinston were said to be standing guard with guns over their plants. The unusual scarcity I in that section has made the plants , have added importance and the late [ season makes planting soon imper- ! ative. t A process has been developed by j a nEnglish scientist whereby lens es may be stamped out of crystal clear plastics instead of resorting to the usual tedious process of grind ng. Camera lenses formerly costing SSO can be produced by the new process for $5 at a profit. The inventor claims that spectacle lens es can be stamped out by the new process at a fraction of their pres i ent cost. I BIG SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY i On to Smithfield Sunday after noon, May 30, 1937, beginning promptly at 2:15. The meeting will be in the Smithfield Baptist church. The largest Sunday school rally that has been held by the Johnston Baptist Asociation is being plan ned. This w 11 be a worthwhile meet ing for your entire school to attend- Be sure to come with your officers and teachers. We have conferences planned for ; every department, to be conducted ! by approved state workers and oth ers . Rev. B. E. Morris will make the main address of the afternoon. Oth er prominent Sunday school work ers and leaders from the Associa j tion and other Associat ons will be | \ present and take a part. Every minute will be taken up with Sunday school information., i Your co-operation in announcing the meeting up to the very last Sunday morning will be appreciat ed.. Special music by the asociational quartette. Hear them once and you ! will want to hear them again. C. H. BROWN, Asso. Supt DUFFEL BAG t Ten rules for success: I—Know how. j 2—Use your knowledge. The other eight are just the same as these. —Ex. Bobby—Daddy, what does de : luxe mean ? Daddy—When you buy a thing I you have to pay about 50 per cent j more for de looks. —Ex. Oh, days of warmth and summer sun, So swiftly pass ng by, How you do keep us on the run If we would swat each fly. In Chapel Hill the city fathers' are considering whether any person over six yearsyold may appear in public in shorts. The measure was 1 proposed by a woman. Sing a song of berries • Ripen ng for a pie; Sing a song of sugar You will have to buy. j Which fish is the easiest of ail to catch? The sucker. j Roller skating is forbidden in j the Supreme Court build ng. I * I When you start out in pursuit of happiness better not go seventy 1 miles an hour; you might overtake ! trouble instead. AN APPRECIATED INVITATION The editor and his w fe acknow ledge with plealsure an invitation to the commencement exercises of 1 Atlantic Christian College, Wil j son, from Miss Etta Elane Strick j land. Miss Strickland was former ly a resident of Zebulon where she has a great many friends. We ! congratulate her on her gradua tion. ! i ♦ <fr : i i | Pianos Tuned J | Cleaned $3.50 * ♦ + J Zebulon Friday and Saturday ❖ by factory trained tuner. 4. % DIXIE PIANO SERVICE J X Call Phone 2561 or 2951, J f Zebulon. f I i I Or. Wednesday evening of last| week Mrs. Robert Dawson and Miss | Ruby Dawson entertained at the j home of Mrs. L. M. Massey, honor- j ng Miss Beth Kernp, bride-elect.! The wedding motif was observed in the appointments of the tables for biidge and Miss Kemp was present ed a colonial corsage by little Ca- j rolyn Massey. Mrs. A. C. Dawson j presided at the punch bowl. High| (score was won by Miss Helen Me-j Mullen and low by, Miss Mar.on Whitlock Miss Kemp was present ed dinner plates in her chosen pat tern. The refreshments were ice cream in shapes of wedding bells and in-! dividual cakes decorated in green | and wh te. A bridal shower was ; presented Miss Kemp at the close ! i of the evening. Joyce Temple, ten-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Temple, j was taken on Tuesday to Moore-j Herring Hospital for an X-ray ex- I amination of a wrist hurt in play j at school six week ago. It was ; i shown that Joyce had a broken bone i and a dislocated joint. The wrist | was put nto a cast and she return- | ed home that day. J ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. G. S. E’arbee will begin on J Monday a summer class in piano, j Lessons will continue for eight I weeks. Those interested are asked to communicate with her- MAID SAVES LIVES Mamie Spearman, 19-year-old negro maid n the home of Mrs- Joe Zeigliauser of Fayetteville sa% T ed the lives of the two children in the family when she leaped from the second story with them to escape fre that was burning the house. The older child, three, was not j ( injured, but the younger, three ! months, had a leg broken. The g rl suffered an injured arm. She dis- j covered the fire arid aroused the parents, then rushed to the chil dren’s room. Finding the stairway j on fire she jumped from the win-j dow. GENERAL NEWS SUPREME COURT JUDGE RETIRE Associate Justice Willis Van Ve venter has informed President Roosevelt that he will retire from j active service on the Supreme Court bench on June 2. He is 78, j years old and is considered a con-! | servative. $50,000 FOR X. C. WATERWAY i Army engineers have approved aj $50,000 appropriation for a cut in ! an inland waterway from Cape Lookout harbor through Back Sound to Harkers Island. This will eliminate considerable dangerous water from Lookout to Harkers Is land. WEDDING JUNE 3 Herman Rogers, spokesman for ; the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has announced that they will be married at the Chateau de Cande, privately, on June 3- No member of the Royal family will be present and only a few intimate 1 friends wll attend. June 3 is the birthday of Edward's father. ■* STRIKES KEEP STRIKING The Briggs Manufacturing Co. at Detroit has closed its plant involv-! irig 2,000 employees. Labor unions are still doing all possible to or ganize the Ford plant*. RED WELLS . i Miss Mae Poole has returned to | her home after undergoing a ton ! sil operation at Park View hospital. • Mr. Staley Mitchell, of Bunn, I was a visiter in the vicinity last I Sunday. i Robert Flowers’ condition is yet bad from having a horse kick him last week. His jaw bone is broken and several of his teeth knocked out. j Mr. Edgar Mullens, of Smith ! field, spent Sunday with his par i ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Mullens. Mss Ercell A vent, who is a nurse of Williamsburg, Va„ has re turned to her home after spending a few days with her father, J. T- A vent. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Taylor and I Mrs. Jerome Williams spent Sun- * j day with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Batchelor, of Social Plain. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Avent are visiting Mrs. Avent's mother, Mrs. I McGowan, of Willard. Misses Blondie and Nevada | Green, of Spring Hope, Russel : Windley and John Bass, Jr-, of Mo meyer, were guests of Miss Cleta Weathersbv last Sunday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Stewart re i turned to their home in Baltimore, Md last Wednesday. It was Mr. i Ste art’s first visit to North Car i olina. He saw* many things that interested him. He was especially i impressed by the fields of cotton j and tobacco, as he had never seen either growing before. It will require two years more work to complete the $6,000,000 tel ! escope at Mount Palomar, Califor nia. NOTICE OF RE-SALE OF LAND Under and by v rtue of the pow er? contained in and in execution of the duties imposed upon me by a certain judgment of the Superior Court of Wake County, North Car olina, entered in an action therein ! pend ng entitled “Wake County vs. W. R. Pearce and H. H. Pearson and Wives I will on Thursday the 3 day of ; June 1937 at 12 o’clock noon, at the 1 Courthouse door of Wake County in the City of Raleigh, N. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described lands and prem ses to wit: 1 Lot Wall Road, Book 592, Page 99; 1 Lot Forestville, Book 592, Page 188; Registry of Wake County. The above property is sold sub ! ject to all taxes that have accrued since the year 1932. This 18th day of May, 1937. L. S. BRASSFIELD, Commissioner. May 21-28-June 4-11 NOTICE OF LAND SALE Under and by v.rtue of the pow er- contained in and in execution of the duties imposed up<»n me by a , certain judgment of the Superior 1 Court of Wake County, North Car ! olina, entered in an action therein pending entitled “Wake County vs. R. H Jones and Wife 1 will on Friday the 18th day of June 1937 at 12 o’clock noon, at the Courthouse door of Wake County in the City of Raleigh, N. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described lands and prem&es to wit: 2 Lots Barbee St., For more com plete description see Book 356, Page 474, Registry of Wake County. The above property is sold sub ject to all taxes that have accrued * since the year 1932. This 18th day of May, 1937. L. S. BRASSFIELD, Commisaioner. May 21-28-June 4-11
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