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©hr Zebulon Zleroril THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WA KE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN VOLUME XV THIS, THAT, & THE OTHER MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS On Monday I had a card from Dr. B. W. Spilman. It was written on Saturday after he had read my column. He said he couldn’t get to Zebulon that day or Sunday but meant to buy an orange, a lemon, a grape fruit and sugar on Mon day. I take it he will be eating marmalade by the time this is printed, and wish he had some of mine to use until his is made. If Dr. Spilman should ever visit any of you, don’t worry should you fail to have orange marmalade on hand. (You know he is one of the secretaries of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and he gets around.) Just give him a soup bowl filled with clabber. He likes the clabber best when ladled out without be ing broken up much. Pass him the sugar and give him a little grated autmeg, and he’ll be perfectly hap py. O, yes, he’ll want a spoon, too; a fairly large one. I don’t know where they learned it, but the women of the Union Hope section certainly know how to can and preserve. They “pound ed” my husband right after Christ mas and we have been enjoying their donations. Already we’ve e#- en from the cans they gave beets tasting as fresh as if just from garden, snaps that the family thought were from Florida, de licious peaches and fig preserves that is clear as new honey. And the end is not yet. Everything else they gave was good, too, but to me canning represents special work. It seems now that the only cor rect way to speak of a boxwood bush is to call it a box or a box bush. I may get used to it itt time, but up where I came from we’d as soon think of leaving off the wood in speaking of a dogwood tree as of a boxwood. And wouldn’t it sound crazy to speak of the dog trees in bloom! I Another hard task for me who grew up calling them ‘hydrainjers’ is remembering to say hy-dran-ge as —four syllables, please. But I don’t call them high geraniums. . It may not be a cultural form of entertainment, and I wince a bit at anything that seem» to poke fun at marriage; but a womanless wedding is the most screamingly funny performance I ever attend ed. I should say performances. We are all so used to seeing women try to a ct like nfien that it’s not amusing; but men acting as wo men and burlesquing the part gives us a chance to “see oursel’s as ithers see us”. And if I were a girl now, I’d look to my laurels as re gards beauty. Some of those boys at Wakelon on Wednesday night of last week were plumb pretty, and the rest had character parts that didn’t nee® beauty. Somebody said there was not a man in the womanless wedding who looked any funnier than a fat woman in slacks. But a fat woman h> slacks is not a bit comical to me; she’s tragic. CHURCH NEWS BAPTIST CHURCH Following are the services to be conducted in the Zebulon Baptist Church, Sunday, Feb. 5: 9:46—Sunday School. 11:00- -Morning Worship. Ser mon: “Cod’s Expectation.” 7:00 —Young People’s Meeting. 7:30 —Evening Service. Open Forum. Question: “What Does Christ Mean To Me?” Special Services During the Sunday evenings in February there will be open forum or discussion periods in our church. These will take the place of the sermons which usually come at this time. It is hoped that I many will avail themselves of the opportunity of bringing to us re ligious questions which cause them perplexity. In general we shall center our questions around the subject of “What it is to be a Christian.” We anticipate such questions as these: How can one believe in immortality? Is there life after death ? If one is not a Christian will hA be punished in the after life ? Can one be a Christian and not attend Church? What are Heaven and hell like ? You are invited to come and if you have questions or want some of the above ones discussed, will you please turn thc-m in to the pastor as soon as possible. G. J. GRIFFIN, Pastor. .* . - *■ Teachers and officers of the Adult Department of the Baptist S. S. began on Monday night a study of “The Book We Teach” by Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon. The meeting was held in the home of Mrs. Theo. B. Davis. 9 A special service was held at the Baptist church Wednesday night for the ordination of Paul Cash, well, Philip Massey and Robert Edd Horton as deacons. Zebulon Methodist B. F. Boone, pastor Sunday services— Church School —10:00. Worship Service —7:30 p. m. Young People’s Service — 6:30 p. .m Dr. J. H. Barnhardt will be with us in our evening service. After service, he will hold our Ist quar ter ly_ conference. Mrs. Proctor Scarborough was . hostess to the Young Married La dies’ Class of the Wakefield Bap tist chmjph on Friday night, Jan uary 21st. The subject for study was Sin. Mrs. Fred Hood gave an interest ing talk#. Others had part on the program. During the social hour contests were given. Prizes were awarded the winners. The hostess served Nabs and punch carrying out the Valentina, motif. Present were: Mesdames Allan, Herman Eddins, Garen Gay, Ray Harris, Fred Hood, William Jones, Charles Mitchell, Raleigh Sher ron, Alfonzo Starnes and Edison Wood. The class will meet with Mrs. Raleigh Sherron in February. Mrs. B. F. Boone is superintend ent of the Woman’s Missionary Conference of the North Carolina Methodist Conference, which met in Goldsboro last wees in all-day session. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, Friday, February 3, 1939. Rotary Club Invites Guests The faculty of the colored school have worked up a choral program which will be given before the Ro tary Club on Friday night of this week at seven o’clock. Rotarians invite members of the woman’s club and all business men of the town and community to come to the clubhouse and hear this pro gram. It will last 45 minutes and promises to be one of the out standing events of the year. At the meeting last week Edi-, son Mann had the program. Ben Franklin Boone, j Methodist pas tor, spoke on Cultivating and Holding Friendship in dealings with one’s fellowman. This was a splendid talk and was enjoyed by all present, with its urge to think of things other than material. The speaker was welcomed as a new member of the club. Also welcomed were the following visi tors from the Wendell Rotary Club: Rev. Albert Simms, Philip Whitley, Percy Lewis. Fatal Blaze Near Wendell Coroner Roy M. Banks ruled that no inquest was necessary in to the death of James Henry Mor gan, 12-year-old Negro boy burned to death Friday night along with eight baby chicks at his home one mile east of Wendell. Banks said he inspected ruins of the home yesterday and learn ed that the blaze .was started by bricks which the boy had overheat ed and wrapped in paper and cloth as a makeshift brooder for the chicks. The father, Weyman Morgan, store-keeper and janitor, stated that he and his wife rushed down stairs to extinguish the fire, but were unable to return in time to rescue the sleeping boy. Other members of the family either jumped or were thrown to safety from upstairs windows, Banks said. Stedman Store Here Closed The local branch of the chain of Stedman Stores was closed last week and stock on the shelves was moved elsewhere. This store had been operated for a number of years by Bob Sawyer who re cently bought the City Market from R. H. Bridgers and now man ages it. Closing the Stedman Store means that all Zebulon’s grocers who carry fresh meats, fruits and vegetables are on one block of the town’s business section. Meat Stolen W. P. Narron, near Emit, lost five or six pieces of meat Monday night. The thief entered Narron’s smoke house. It seems the fellow getting the meat, went towards Wilson with the meat on a trailer. Bloodhounds were brought but failed to pick up the right trail although they did trail some men cutting wood and also a colored man of good reputation who had been to Wilders Store early Tues day morning. CLUB COLUMN STUDY COURSE FEB. 9 The P.-T. A. Study Class will meet in one of the class rooms at Wakelon for the February meet ing on the afternoon of next Tuesday, the 9th. All interested are urged to attend. The lesson will be taken from Child Welfare. The January meeting was most encouraging as to attendance and enthusiasm, with Miss Cox lead ing the discussion. Winter Weather •' T Monday of this week saw the worst weather of the winter des cend upon the northern states. Chi cago had a blizzard with snow falling 14 hours at the rate of an inch an hour. Schools are closed in many sections. New York has ten inches of snow with roads blocked in places. Wrecks have caused injury to more than fifty persons because of storms. In this state the cold wave came Mon day night, though Tuesday was clear. And there has been no wea ther to prevent ordinary activities. Chicken Dinner On Thursday, February 9th, a chicken dinner will be served by the ladies of the Methodist Church at the Woman’s Club building from 6:30 to 7:30 o’clock. Price 45c per plate. SEEN & HEARD DID YOU KNOW’ HER? We read in the Graham County News the other day abont a good woman who died in the county last week. The preachers (there were tiiree of them) stated that ‘‘she was never heard to talk about her neighbors” and “they had never seen her mad.” Not like most of us, was she? Two Os A Kind, But Different Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, good American citizens, named their eighth child “Herbert Hoover Depression Rogers. Recently an other child was born in this home. He was christened “Franklin Del. ano Roosevelt Recession Rogers.” What’s in'a name? Nothing much, but they are rather suggestive at times. DID YOU GET ONE? There never have been such op portunities to get-a-home as ex ist today. The big U. S. Govern ment endorses your note, gets low interest rates for you, and makes it possible to almost pay-as-you please. This sweet paternalism of Government will not always last, and those who appreciate the value of acquiring a home of their own should not dilly-dally about mak ing decisions as the National Gov ernment has found such an absence of enthusiasm over the plan that Uncle Sam may change his mind. I LESS T. B. FATALITIES Deaths from all forms of tu berculosis in the United States have decreased 73 per cent since 1900, accorf”ng to U. S. Census Bureau reporvs. We Don’t Know Nothin’ About It For the last few days the Rec ord office has been besieged more or less by various and sun dry persons inquiring about when the WPA will begin work on the Zebulon cemetery, or if we can possibly tell them where they may enroll or register for work. If something isn’t done about it, we shall have to either sue Uncle Sam or go to Germany, and either would be poor policy. The mayor asked us to say through this paper to those need ing to go to work to go to Ra leigh and enroll at the Montague building. We told ’em. They went. They come again saying nobody in Raleigh knows a thing about the government’s fencing our burial grounds. Some of these anxious ones were sent back to Wendell to register. No one there could give them a job or even would give promise of one. Then because they “saw it in the Zebu lon Record,” back they came to the editor. So we want to tell the world that Mr. Roosevelt has given us nothing that any one would have, even if we offered it to them. The best we’ve got is a tax receipt and a ton, more or less, of every sort of information except the sort we need. Ask Mifyor Privette if you want to know anything about grave-yard jobs, digging ditches, selling planes to France, or such and such stuff. We are mighty busy, but come in and let’s talk it over, provided you won’t ask for a job or tell us how badly that fellow WPA treated you in Raleigh. We might give you our job. It has about as much money in it as a well in the Sahara has water. Please don’t mention a job to us if it is a government job. Our pull is too short to get you anywere with WPA, or Boss Roosevelt. Big Hogs Killed Rev. B. B. Richardson who lives down in Johnston county was a caller at the Record office Tues day morning. He killed two pork eds that weighed 988 pounds a short time ago. The larger one weighed 547 pounds. Mr. Richardson said most of the people in his community had plant beds sown, and that some plants were up. Most of the people have their barn wood cut and quite a lot of land has been plowed. FARM WORKERS DECLINE In 1870, over one-half of all gainful workers in the United States were engaged in agricul ture. In 1930, only 21.4 per cent were employed in this basic in dustry, according to the United States Census Bureau. What is said to be one of the worst crimes in the Jiistory of Murphy was committed early Sunday morning by a masked man who entered Whitefield Hospital, bound and gagged a nurse on duty, assaulted her, then robbed a mo ther who had given birth to a ba by a few hours previously. The nurse was the only attendant on duty in the hospital at the time. Both women were warned against making outcry and police learned of the crimes about two hours later NUMBER 31
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