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<Ehe Zrbulmt tßecurii THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER — WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN VOLUME XVI. THIS, THAT, & THE OTHER MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS No time of summer is more sat isfying than when home-grown to matoes first become plentiful and no longer have to be bought with care and consideration by the pound. Then it ceases to be a calamity when a tomato is found to have failed to grow up to what was ex pected of it and must be discarded. What would have caused a moan of disappointment a few weeks ago is now only a matter of a toss in the direction of the chicken-feed bucket and picking up another to mato. Nor are the slices thin and floppy now, even when one can’t afford it. And when they are placed on the table you don’t have to watch hus band and children as they estimate the number of slices in the bowl and then mentally divide it by the number in the family, carefully sub tracting before dividing, if there happen to be one who does not TTke tomatoes. Don’t waste time arguing wheth er tomatoes are a fruit or a vege table. They are fruit at breakfast, vegetable at dinner, and sandwich filling or a salad at supper. They are the cook’s delight, an ornament to the table, a joy even to those who diet, and a regular mine of re search and discovery to the vita mine hunters. But it is possible to eat too many of them. If the king and queen of Eng land did all that the press reported while on this side of the Atlantic, they kept busy and, in the lan guage of youth today, they can take it. But the fiction writers have pounced upon that trip like cats after catnip, dogs after an unus ually fine bone, chickens after your favorite flowers, boys after ripe cherries or any other simile you prefer. The stories were most prob ably written before the visit was made. I have read several of them already and look for many more. The scenes are laid from Canada to Washington, a rather weird one having its setting in Pennsylvania. All bear down hard on the friendly, sympathetic interest shown by the couple; and, while not great as literature, make pleasant reading. Do you like detective stories? Do you try to solve them as you read ? I don’t. I just go along serenely, letting the author use as many or as few clues as preferred, not wor rying about any of them; knowing that at the last, when the sleuths have done their work, all will be made clear, even to my mind un less I’ve skipped too many para graphs or pages. I can stand more than one mur der in a story, but think three should satisfy any but the most bloodthirsty. Evidently Agatha Christie has other ideas. In her most recently published serial, “And Then There Were None”, in in the Saturday Evening Post ten persons were killed, that being the number at all prominent in the events related. Not one of them was really a nice individual, so it was not so bad as it might hive been. And it is certainly a mys tery story of the most mysterious kind. CHURCH NEWS METHODIST CHURCH This is decision month. Each service will be built around the idea of beginning the Christian life. It is hoped that many will decide to become followers of Christ. Fourth Sunday morning at the 11:00 service is the appointed time to receive those who wish to join the church. Services for next Sunday, July 9: Church School 10:00 Worship service 11:00 Subject: Beginning the Christian Life. Young People 7:00 p. m. ZEBULON BAPTIST CHURCH G. J. Griffine, Pastor Announcement of services to be heln in the Baptist Church, Sun day, July 9: 9:4s—Sunday School. 11:00 —Morning Worship. Sermon Subject: “I Am Two Selves.” The ordinance of Communion will be observed at this hour. 7:3o—Young People’s Meetings. B:oo—Evening Worship. Sermon Subject: “Paul’s Prayer for Pow er.” CLASS MEETING The Fidelis Matrons Class of the Baptist S. S. met on Monday night in the home of Mrs. G. J. Griffin. The month’s chapter in the study course was discussed by Mrs. Theo. Davis. During the social hour refresh ments were served. COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Closing exercises of the Vacation Bible School were held at the Bap tist church last Friday afternoon. The children gave evidence that much careful work had been done, the exhibits being of special inter est. After the program an iced fruit drink was served in the basement. Attend Furniture Exposition C. V. Whitley and Raleigh Al for of the Zebulon Supply at tended the Furniture Expositior in High Point on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Mr. Alford, manager of the Furniture Depart ment in the big store here, reports that while there is not a decided change in the styling of furniture, there is an increased use of mod ernistic designs with a trend to ward the Swedish. However, con servative styles are largely used also in furnishing the modern home. In woods, light mahogany and prima vera are perhaps favor ed above others, but maple is here to stay, along with regular finish mahogany and walnut. JESSE BAKER DIES FROM STABS Jesse Baker, young man of Pearces, who was stabbed five times in the stomach last Sunday by Joe Bounett, died Wednesday in a Rocky Mount hospital. Bounett is under f 2590 bond. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1939 Town Clerk Pays Interest R. Vance Brown, cashier of the local branch of the Peoples Bank & Trust Co., who is also city clerk, has mailed a check for $2,149.50 to the Chase National Bank, New York. This is for six months’ in terest on Zebulon’s bonded in debtedness under the new financial plan which was perfected during the administration of the towm’s affairs through the last two years. Under the old plan the interest would have been such that the town would have paid $4,458.00 more during a 5-year period. The commissioners have effected a saving of $4,458.00 through a period of five years to the town. Child Badly Bitten By Dog Clara Joyce Rhoades, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rhoades, was taken to Rex Hospital last Fri day suffering from the effects of being bitten by a dog some days previously. The animal, a German Shepherd, was tied at the Matthew Liles place just west of Zebulon, and the child walked too close to him. When he sprang upon her, biting deep into her thigh, she fell and rolled out of his reach. This is thought to have saved her from more serious injury. The wounds made by the dog healed over on the surface, but the bruised flesh between the imprints of the teeth became infected and had to be opened and drained. It is thought that the dog was not mad, but it is being kept under observation by a veterinarian. “I want to congratulate the po lice department of Zebulon for the nice manner in which they handled the situation on the streets Satur day night,” said the Peasant as he met the Poet in the drug store Wednesday morning. “Yes,” said the Poet, “the mer chants did the same volume of busi ness as usual and there were not so many people on the sidewalks. It looked as if everyone w’as either going somewhere or just getting back. I too would like to congratu late the police department, but I would also like to add my congratu lations to the people who cooperat ed so nicely. I feel that when any thing of that nature is attempted and carried through without any trouble or apparent hard feelings, everyone concerned deserves con siderable credit for it.” “In spite of what the young lady said over the radio about Zebulon,” said the Peasant, “I think that it is just about the best town in our state. I don’t know so many people but all of those I do know are just as nice and friendly as they can be and when we start something here we finish it.” “Thank you,” said the Poet, ‘‘for the fine words you have said about us and also for feeling that Zebu lon is your town. That is what we want all of our fanner friends to feel. Be one of us. Help us do the things that we want to do and that I will mean something to you as well The Poet and Peasant By DOCK Rotarians Met In Bailey Friday The Zebulon Rotarians went to Bailey last Friday night for supper. They were entertained by the Wo man’s Missionary Society. Those ladies sure know how to feed Ro tarians with barbecue and fried chicken. Albert Medlin was the only Rotarian absent. He was away on business. A good many of the cit izens of Bailey, including the may or and postmaster, ate supper with the Rotarians. People have a dif ferent opinion of each other when they eat together. Dr. Massey introduced the speak er of the evening, Professor E. H. Moser, who spoke on the South’s rural problem, the problem of tenant farmers. He stated that three-fifths of the land is being cultivated by tenants and the av erage farm labor of the South and the West was only SIBO a year. This, as w r e know, is too small an income on which to support a fami ly. Professor Moser stater that this condition would eventually bring about “wide class distinction’’ which would in the end lead to a revolution and that something should be done about it. The best solution he thought of at this time would be provisions made for more tenants to own homes. This is a national problem and President Roosevelt’s plan is to remedy this condition in the South. He has already helped a good many ten ants through the “Home Owners Bill,” to buy homes, giving them about forty years to pay. Profes sor Moser’s talk was timely and this question is a local but a national problem. as us. W T e are primarily a farming community and expect to remain such, so what is done for the im mediate community will also help those in the outlying district. By the way, you haven’t said a thing about the merchants and their dis play on the sidewalk this week.” “Really,” said the Peasant, “it is rather embarrassing to me for the merchants to mention it. I>ook how nicely the folks cooperated with the police department, how nice the town has made the streets and side walks look by cutting the w r eeds and practically every thing else has been done that one could ask for in reason, yet our merchants are per sistent in stacking their merchan dise on the sidewalk. There are those who have gotten the impres sion that I only mean the grocery stores, but I don’t. I mean all the stores should keep their merchan dise in their place of business.” “Aren’t you afraid that they will get mad with you,” said the Poet. “I don’t care if they do,” said the Peasant. “I ain’t going to get mad with them. lam trying to tell them something for their own good. It is a nuisance to have to lug all that stuff out on the sidewalk and back in every day. They are wasting their time and making their places of business look bad. I guess though that business men are like the rest of us, we have to have laws to protect us against ourselves.” Not a new charge but two old ones brought Herbert Sherron be fore the bar of justice. Under a suspended sentence of eighteen months for non-support, he was cited for contempt for failure to comply with a court order to pay his wife $7.50 a month. Now he will pay her just twice that amount, via the clerk of the court, or will be back from an ex tended vacation just in time to see the last rose of next summer, John Cleveland Perry Was pres ent because an old superstition proved to be false. Seven has long been thought of as a lucky number, but it proved otherwise for John. He slapped his wife seven times and was sentenced to 60 days on the roads, suspended upon payment of the costs. * A charge of non-support and aban donment netted him eight more moons, suspended upon payment of costs and $7.60 a month until further orders. John Cleveland thought it over and decided that if he can stay away from his wife for two years he can get a di vorce; if he serves eight months on the roads he will be one third away; therefore, he will do his eight months. " *«, John Smith was accused of reck less driving after his car nudged the bicycle of William Hartsfield. John said that he had never been in court before, except once for toting a pistol, but afterwards ad mit? r-1 doing eight years for mur der. Tie said the reason that he lei, a small matter of eight years in the big house escape his mem ory was that the murder didn’t take place in Wake county. May be it doesn't count if you don’t kill the home-folks. John must pay a one-fifty doctor’s bill, the costs of the court, and not be reckless for the next year or he will be working for nothing for 60 days after his failure. Clarence Timmons is extremely fortunate to be doing the next 90 days on the state highways. He was caught, for the third time, by a man with a pistol, peeping into a room occupied by a female. If he does not think himself lucky to be the guest of the State in stead of the honoree at a funeral, his opinion does not coincide with that of those who heard him sen tenced. Lester Medlin was accused of being drunk and disorderly, knew he was guilty, and knew he didn’t have money to pay the costs. He was among the sheep today, not coming to court to take his re served seat with the goats. Les ter is a logical man—what’s the need of coming to court if you can’t do w'hat the judge is cer tain to order. Clifton Denton, accused of be ing drunk and disorderly in a pub lic place, was presented with 30 days, suspended upon his presen tation of the costs of the action. Chief Shannon testified that he didn’t resist arrest, but was just unable to co-operate in getting into the chief’s car. (Please turn to bade page.) NUMBER 1
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