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VOLUME XIV.
This, That, and
After having been ill less than
ear*! fi v « days following a stroke of pa
/ fIC? ralysis, Mrs. Virgie Colvert Wade
died early Saturday morning, Sept.
MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS 25, at the home of her son, H. C.
•‘ B * ~V a de, in Zebulon. The Burial ser
lling forevermore. J\£ice was held at the home on Sun
cay afternoon, conducted by the
counsel, “Make yourself con- Clethodist pastor, Rev. J. W. Brad
en*» t iey. Burial, was at Rich Square
atever is, is best Tobavhere Mrs. Wade lived before com
>h, the aching heart of me, the haing to Zebulon five years ago. Sur
t cannot be at rest. placed living are the husband, H. F.
I read trie may lcWade; a daughter, Mrs. J. M.Alls
cle on growing tulips. The writers, brook of Scotland Neck; two sons,
who are considered authorities on
growing flowers, we in the
South should not plant tulip bulbs
before late fall; that October plant
ings often result in stunted growth.
It seems that tulip bulbs should be
kept as cool as possible wdiether in
the ground or out; that the sum
mer heat down here is one reason
they “run out" and split up so bad
ly, refusing to bloom well for more
than a few years.
I knew that tulips may be grown
nicely in pots, if they are sunk in
the ground and allowed to freeze
a time or two after being planted.
Bury pot and all. The freezing
makes them think spring has come
when you take them out of the
ground for forcing, and you can
have them blooming not very long
after you paper white narcissus
gets withered and droopy.
Beauty, they say, is in the eye
of the beholder; and so, to a great
extent, is age. As proof I cite the
two examples following.
When our daughter was eighteen
a neighbor one day told her own
daughter how much she wished the
girl would take as much interest in
helping round the home as Crystal
Davis did. The daughter, about 14,
replied, “Yes, Mother; but you see
Crystal Davis is getting on in
years.” To us this has ever since
been a favorite anecdote. And I’ve
just heard another that at least
equals it.
The speaker was telling with
deep feeing of several groups of
persons. He mentioned those of dif
ferent ages and at the last told of
one group who were “aged women”,
of fifty or even sixty years, some
leaning heavily on their canes.
Needless to say that he was a
young man. Twenty years from
now he won’t feel that fifty is old
much, nor that sixty necessarily
means decrepitude.
Didn’t Monday’s cold snap start
us shivering! Wonder how many of
last winter’s wraps were hurriedly
taken out of storage and donned.
And how many fires were started
in stoves or fireplaces. Those for
tunate families having steam heat
are out of luck in weather such as
we had the first of the week; be
cause it was not cold enough to
start a furnace, and they don’t
have heaters like us poor folks.
And cooking on an electric stove is
no great help in taking the chill out
of the kitchen atmosphere as an
iron cookstove or range does. Os
course we shall soon be tempted to
envy the owners of furnace-heated
homes, and shall return to wishful
thoughts of electric ranges; but it
does pep us up to feel superior for
just a day or two.
Banks in the United States
alone have enough money on hand
to keep ten men busy for two thous
and years counting twenty-four
hours each day.
THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSFAFER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN
ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE FIRST, 1937.
H. C. Wade of Zebulon amt A. J.
Wade of Rich Square, and several
grandchildren.
Although she had never been
strong since coming with her hus
band to Zebulon to live, Mrs. Wade
had made many friends here, who
with the immediate family feel a
sense of bereavement.
Reveals Plans For
1938 Soil Program
The 1938 agricultural conserva
tion program is aimed directly at
soil conservation, with as much
cash-crop control as is possible un
der provisions of the AA as it now
stands.
Farmers complying with the pro
gram will need to carry out half
again as many soil-building prac
tices as in 1937, said E. Y. Floyd,
of State College, in announcing the
program for next year.
But these practices will be those
which any farmer interested in con
serving his soil will be glad to fol
low.
A greater effort will be made to
regulate the acreage of soil-deplet
ing crops by providing for heavier
deductions from the payments of
growers who exceed their “soil-de
pleting goals.”
Goals for depleting crops will be
the acreages which would usually
be required to supply the demand
at a price fair to both the producer
and consumer. The national and
State goals will be subdivided into
county and individual farm goals.
The program will be administer
ed through state, county and com
munity committees composed of
farmers, with supervision of an ad
visory nature given by AAA and
extension service workers.
While this is the set-up for the
1938 program, it is still dependent
upon appropriations from Con
gress and possible future legisla
tion.
Don’t Jaywalk
If you should go to Raleigh, do
not try to cross streets against ced
lights or between intersections
where streets cross. Police in the
city are putting on a campaign to
do away insofar as possible with
some of the dangers incidental to
traffic. One of the hardest things
to control, they say, is the habit
so many have of crossing a street
just anywhere the notion strikes
them, with no regard for rules that
say such crossings should be made
only at corners of blocks.
In a town as small as Zebulon
such infringement of rules is not
nearly so liable to result in acci
dent as in Raleigh; but it is not
to be commended here.
Soap is a boon to humanity but
to the small lad of school age it is
a tormentor unmatchable.
CHURCH NOTES
REVIVAL CLOSES
The revival services in progress
last week at the local Methodist
church closed on Sunday night, at
which time six were received into
membership.
Last Sunday was Sunday School
Promotion Day and appropriate ex
excises were held at many church
es. An unusually large attendance
marked the occasion at the Baptist
church here.
The Fidelis Matrons Class of the
Baptist S. S. will meet on Monday
night of next week in the home of
Mrs. L. E. Lonft. Mrs. Willard Gill,
the new president, will present her
plans for the fall and winter
months.
Ladies of the Wakefield Baptist
Church will serve supper in the
church basement on Thursday ev
ening of next week. A choice of pig
barbecue or fried chicken will be
served with vegetables, coffee and
dessert, all for 50c. The tables will
be ready at 5:00 o’clock and meals
will be served until 8:00.
Those who have previously eaten
suppers at Wakefield know that
they serve delicious food in abund
ance for the price. Those who have
not been are invited for an aquain
tance meal. Proceeds will be used
to help pay for a new roof for the
church.
Candor Bank
Robbed Tuesday
Outlaw Bill Payne is suspected
of having had a hand in the rob
bery of the bank at Candor on
Tuesday of this w’eek. The amount
taken is estimated to have been be
tween $2,500 and $3,000. Two men
entered the building while a third
waited outside in a Ford sedan.
The cashier and his assistant were
covered with guns and made to lie
on the floor during the robbery.
The superintendent of education in
Montgomery county, entering the
bank, was also held up and robbed,
all three being locked in the vault
while the bandits escaped. High
way police reported that a Ford
sedan believed to have been used
by the robbers, was found burned
near Seagrove and another car was
stolen near there at about the same
time.
More Markets Open
Tobacco markets in the Old Belt
opened Thursday of this week. Os
these Winston-Salem with ten
warehouses and Danville, Va., with
eleven, are probably most impor
tant. Markets In the Eastern Belt
will be closing next week or short
ly thereafter, finishing a good sea
son. Prices continue to hold up
well.
Fiddlers’
Convention
A real Old-Fashioned Fiddlers’
Convention will be held at Hams
School on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 8
P. M.
Admission will be 15c and 25c.
Liberal cash prizes will be given.
Everybody invited. Bring your
fiddle and your friend.
Doings Os The
Zebulon Rotary
Vaden Whitley had the program
last Friday evening.
Mrs. L. M. Massey sang two se
lections. Ted Johnson, of Raleigh,
was the speaker. His subject was
advertising. He gave an interest
ing and instructive talk. In his
talk he said that Rotary was not
a Santa Claus, but its purpose and
aim was to render service.
He was one of the party who
helped to organize the Zebulon
club, so he had more than a com
mon interest here.
THE FAIR
This week has been a gala occa
sion in Zebulon. Many cars have
been parked along the streets and
the sidewalks have been filled with
people, especially in the afternoons
and nights. Music and ballyhoo ring
out on every side. Two young fel
lows have really put over the new
Five County Fair. The old Tobacco
warehouse is gay with brilliant
paper and flowers. A half block is
filled with all kinds of riding de
vices, side shows and games. It
overflows into the street to the op
posite side.
The exhibits are especially good.
As some one remarked, we would
have had a real agricultural exhib
it if the folks had only known we
were to have a fair before they ate
up their best garden and farm pro
ducts. However, it is a very credit
able exhibit, the best save one we
have seen of the smaller fairs.
The midway furnishes plenty of
entertainment. The free shows
trapeze work and high dive are un
usually good. We are told that
there are only two divers who dive
head foremost into a five foot tank
of water and one of them exhibits
at the local fair twice each day, af
ternoon and night. She dives from
a 95 foot tower. There are plenty of
special devices for separating one
from his unnecessary change.
About the most popular are the
scoops for money. There are a half
dozen of these in two shows. Most
of the time one may see a crowd of
people, mostly children gathered
around them, scooping after nic
kels.
Owing to the cloudy, cool weath
er the crowds up to Wednesday
night were not very large, but on
that night a large number were
present and it is expected record
crowds will be present each day
fill Saturday night. Each night be
fore the closing of the gates fire
works are displayed, both cannon
ading and illuminating. Bring your
family and enjoy the fair with your
friends and neighbors.
Senator Bailey’s
Son Hurt
On Tuesday night about ten
o’clock a car belonging to Senator
J. W. Bailey was wrecked in the
eastern edge if Zebulon by leaving
the highway. Pou Bailey, a son
of the senator, was in the car with
a Negro employee of the family.
Both were injured. They were
taken at once to hospitals. Neither
is thought to be in a serious condi
tion. The curve which caused the
wreck is one of the worst in this
section and many complaints have
been made about it.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENTS
On May 7, 1915, the Steamship
Lusitania was sunk by a German
submarine, with a loss of about
1200 lives. In substance, the in
cident brought the United States
into the World War, just as the
sinking of the Maine precipitated
the Spanish-American War. It was
claimed that the Lusitania was car
rying munitions of war for the al
lies. Giving the proponents the
benefit of the doubt, the mistake
made by the United States was a
failure to lay prompt and definite
embargo against the carrying of
war materials in American ships.
It is gratifying to note that in
the present Japanese-Chinese cris
is, the President has lost no time
in announcing that American ves
sels trade in arms and ammunition
with the contending powers at
their own risk. Thus one ground
for American interference in the
affairs of battling Asia is removed.
If good business men see fit to
drive a bargain with the Japs or
Chinese, and a ship goes up in
pieces, it will have to be charged
to profit and loss, and American
citizens will not be called upon to
quit their jobs and enter the
trenches in the interest of money
making from which they derived
no profit.
Spain is going to pay the United
States 30 million dollars due on
Civil War claims arising in that
country. Going back to the days of
1918, it seems better, so far as
debts are concerned, to be an indif
ferent bystander than a helping
friend.
It is hard to write about current
events without giving to the sub
ject of war what otherwise would
be an unreasonable amount of space
France and England have joined
hands in putting down what is call
ed piracy, a word that has practi
cally passed out of use. At this
the small boy will rejoice. A group
of forgotten heroes may be called
from their neglected graves, even
if ill advisedly. Captain Kidd now
has a chance of appearing again in
the backyard. As a hero, he is
| less destructive of good morals
I than the modem gangsters, at that.
The League of Nations has ap
proved the splitting up of Pales
tine into Arabic and Jewish por
tions, an item of little interest, save
that it brings to mind the circum
stance that the league is still
alive. Shakespeare said that there
is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at its flood leads on to
fortune. The flood tide for the
League of Nations arrived at the
time of the Ethiopian invasion, but
for some reason no advantage was
taken of it. The League may do
things that will bring it back into
general favor, but at present, the
public is inclined to regard it as a
good institution of little practical
use and incapable of delivering the
goods in a pinch.
From six acres of red clover, H.
A. McNairy of Guilford County ob
tained 14 loads of fine legume hay
at the first cutting and 1066 pounds
of recleaned seed at the second cut
ting. He sold 600 pounds of the
seed to the Guilford FCX store for
$250 and kept the remainder for his
own use.
Lead pencils contain no lead,
but graphite.
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