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. ABC STORES IN VIRGINIA (Continued from front page.) * 3,000 Ladies dresses at $lO 30,000.00 15,00 Women’s coats at S3O 45,000.00 600,000 Pounds meat at 15c * 90,00000 900,000 Pounds sugar at 5c 45,000.00 . * 30,000 Barrels flour at $6 ' 180,000.00 300.000 Pounds lard at 15c 45,000.00 j 300,000 Bu. meal at $1 300,000.00 3,00 bbl. apples at $3 9,000.00 6.000 pr overalls at $2 12,000.00 9,000 Suits underwear at $1 9,000.00 i 15,000 doz. eggs at 25c 3,750.00 ' 30,00 Chickens at 75c 22,500.00 : , i $1,541,250.00 This leaves a balance of $99,987-' .95 with which to buy luxuries. The above figures are startling to anyone and you can hardly be-, lieve they are true The amount 1 spent for liquor was far more than $1,641,217.95 during this time as this amount went through the ABC stores. Os this $1,641,217.95 Dan ville got in revenue $27,557.15. I would be ashamed to ever mention *• revenue from the sale of intoxicat , ing liquor to ruin and damn women and children of any community. The bootlegger still flourishes in our midst. He has no taxes toj pay and can buy his liquor very cheap and sdl it for half the liquor stores can. Evidently there is more ' bootlegging in our city and state than has even been in this country. Our c ty during the month of Feb ruary arrested 100 bootleggers here in one day and they are continuing to make arrests from time to time of those selling illegal liquor. The ABC store is a shield forthe 1 boot • legger. Drunkenness continues to in crease n our city and state. In 1934 we only arrested 492 people for drunkeness and in 1938 there were I Wi^fn~^k flr "Well. BUl—Tt# tried them cdL cmd w (bar* * no doubt about bus trarel being cheaper. Only 1 !4c a mil* -think of It— that's what Fee found to bo the average *4-- n „_ cost of going by bus. Why It used to cost ms 8c psr mils to opsrats my car. Caro- S.f and Carafraa „ comlorlable . too . *„ and thsy always get you tbsrs on time/' Martin and McDowsll Strssts „ 1 1■ 11 i. , I ■# _1»1»1» f Vll 1,1 —THK ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MAY THE TWENTY-FIRST, 19.37. 1676 and I am sure the officers did not get more than half those who were drinking. I am sure the old open saloon was much better than t the liquor stores are. Women nev | • • vent into the saloon and now i j they are large patrons of our ABC stole-, The sta.e comes in here and opens their stores just where it i suits them, open and close their I i stores as they w sh. Our city offi- j e ais have no say in the matter- We j furnish police protection at our ex ' P enss an <i lake care of the drunks ! j -hat i oilow m the wake of iiquor. ■ On Saturday, our payday, their i stores keep open until ten o’clock j night to get the last penny the poor working man has made that week. On other days they close at eight o’clock. Lots of our merchants thought it j ; would help bring business to Dan- 1 j ville by opening stores here. Nearly 1 i three years trial of them has pass | an d I would be glad for you to come here and talk with every mer i chant in our city. They tell me that i j with the high prices of tobacco for the past three years that business s from 10 to 20 per cent under ] what it was in 1934 when we had no | ABC store here. I guess they are telling the truth about it. All this; ! money leaving Danville for legal liquor will cut the profits of the j merchants very much. Some thought it would help the tobacco market too. It never has brought one pound of tobacco extra to our cty It has had a tendency j to keep some good farmers from j com rig here that preferred to go to the places where there was not so much liquor being sold. The reason i I know it has not caused tobacco to come to Danville, while we have one of th? largest markets in :he world, they come here through Lawj renceville and South Hill, over 100 ! miles, an 1 haul ‘.heir tobacco j through these towns t’ at have ; A F'C stores If there is anything good that can b * sad about the snr>s here I d- n't know what it an be. They are conducted in an trderly manner at the same time tr- rg to sell all the liquor they can ’>r th<* state of irginia. The total legal sales in i Virginia last year for all alcoholic | beverages amounted to over $25,-' 000,000.00 I I have no quarrel with my good friends who do not see this liquor evil as I see it. The Eighteenth j Amendment was poorly enforced | but it was a long ways better than i to have liquor stores in your midst . The facts and figures I have g ver. here are not mine but I got them from the State Auditor of Virginia and from the clerk of the police court of this city. (Signed) M. O. NELSON, Sr AID DEPENDENT CHILDREN I One of the most human pieces of legislat on ever enacted in North Carolina is the Aid to Dependent Children Act which goes into ef fect July 1. this year. Children under 16 years of age, living with ether their father, m> - ther, brother, sister grandparent or other relative will be cared for if it is shown that those charged wi;r. their keeping ar£ not situated so as to give them the advantages to which they are entitled. The largest amount anyone chili may receive is SIB.OO per month, wth each additional child in a family being allow’ed $12.00 pe r month, provided the total aid does not exceed $65.00 permonth. One third of the cost will be borne by the county, one third by the State and one third by the federal gov- j ernment. The a d will be admin s- j tered by the State Department o; \ Charities and Public Welfare |, CAMEKA6B^^S| s, like this are occurring every day in civil.war torn £5381 t/ //' 4 Span. This remarkable photo lK* ' / V%,i»'.•, r '<^ was taken as a bomb-struck I f J auto burst into flames on a * IlMSPr'Sl*i3 * /-mini c r»e 1 iruTU/eirur /'i-iamoc Madrid street. 1%.-/ '%! A COUPLE OF LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPS JS l * mfmK jur t —Tony Canzonen, Worlds Lightweight C-———— *7**t * y. f: Champ for many years, re'axes in his ji y New York restaurant with another light — o fojf 1 I JtW/Jp.i weight king, the Steinie beer bottle. The I , ~Ct popular lightweight container helped the * , •/;/ lightweight contender rest up for the tMrf I, the crcwn on 7. Steinie itself h.,s ECT/ /4 ' asvjSSlßiF ?• »| little opportunity to rest, being ir at .* ' i * ef 1 I' l ' J i. ad'.gb' 1 m— .. I,* bb “ \ ioa A >. country club dances is tr « J|m stunning zotos coiffure featur. I J ,VH mg the l-igh coronation 11 ■ J Jf yjv Press with a curl on top of tr 5 ■ # , head and |ar o« nat curls m ‘ \ > ’^F' r ‘ l|||pll b,lct ' | to fo,m 1 n attract, .e 1 .jf ' ad'' I ■ BOOK.WORM Del mar 1 mondson the scholar / fer 4ij.»,.'j look ng editor who starts t J. £KpHniP H ■QG^adfll i’"'''' ",n,rg cn Coiur. “ Hl mz Magazine of th- A \ J&. £,.■■. a Shown poring throo.h £ P hH £Hr T" KT V to Jh r *.^u r e' ra°d"o 1 ■ -1. - inornfng***** * n<l f ‘ d LETTHE ZEBULON DRY CLEANERS Clean your winter clothes the mot'i-proof way and store them in moth-proof hoes. We 'o fibie to have vour laundry work done also. Send your laundry Tuesday and get-It hack Thursday. ”*■ specialize in cleaning and blocking knitted nits. Phone lor representative to call for your clothes. ZEBULON DRY CLEANERS Worth HINTON. Proprietor TOMATO PLANTS Wilt resident Biakemore and Break O’Day Transplanted, Well rooted. Field grown plants. I 10 Cents a Dozen. From bed 25 cents per 100. ; Holly Hill, Phone 2951 Or Record Office, 2561 > IWTIIIW—— II
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