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3The Zrlutlmt tßcrorfi VOLUME XVI. THIS, THAT, & THE OTHER MRS. THEO. a DAVIS When you feel that the trouble of cleaning- up melon rinds and seeds is almost enough to balance the pleasure of eating any but a really superior watermelon, you are probably afflicted with one of two things: age or indigestion. Also you probably have a sensation of wonder as to whether “this here is me or not me”; but the chances are that it is your own self dread ing to dispose of rinds that have been scooped out and seeds spat where they shouldn’t have been. One melon worth a peck of trou ble was given us last week by J. O. Thome, super gardener. It was very large, very green outside, very red inside, with jet black seed, and delicious flavor. I don’t know its name, but have an idea it’s one Mr. Thome developed according to his own ideas. One day recently Ferd and I watched a female redbird as she stood on the ground only a few feet from the back steps. Because of her actions we got the notion she was eating watermelon and re fusing the seed; but closer watch ing showed that she was cracking the seed, eating the kernels and spitting out the hulls. She was not alarmed at our staring, or at our low talking, and ate her fill before flying away. Since then I’ve put out a good many melon seed for the birds and all have been eaten; though I can’t say how many other birds have helped the cardinals. After supper Monday I sat at the table a while reading the evening paper. Hearing a call, I went to the door. There stood Percy Hop kins, who makes a crop on the C. V. Whitley farm at the edge of town, as well as acting as handy man around the grounds of the Whitley home. He held out a pa per bag, explaining that here were some of the eggs Lena, his wife, had borrowed from me to set a hen, then turned to take up the basket of shucks, rinds, peelings and such that I save for his pigs. Naturally we spoke of the heat, and I said Sunday night had seemed to me the worst of the summer. ‘‘Lawdy, lawdy,” Percy said, “it was bad. Looked like wa’n’t no rest for me nowhere. Hot every place. And it hurt me wusser ’cause I so tired.” That he was really tired, I al ready knew, having seen almost continuous fires at his tobacco barn since the first of the curing season. Many a time in the night I’ve waked and looked across there, noting the glow from the fireboxes. Working all day, at the barn all night—no wonder he was worn out. Ivena had helped with the fires some early in the night, but the main work and all the re sponsibility were Percy’s. I asked him if he were through curing. “Yes ma’am, all through, and some of it done graded and on the floor to sell tomorrow.” “And you’ve had a haircut and a shave,” I remarked. “Are you celebrating ? ” “Yes ma’am. I’m go’ rest now. Set down and rest; lay down and sleep. So ti’ed for so long. Rest THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON. NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939. ! CHURCH NEWS THE METHODIST CHURCH Ben F. Boone, Pastor Services for Sunday. August 27: Church School—10:00 Worship Service —11:00 Young People— 7:00 p.m. BEULAH S. S. PICNIC The Beulah Christian church is having a Sunday School picnic Wednesday, August 30. We are in viting everyone to come and bring a basket. The Missionary Society will have a booth and sell ice cream, candy etc., which will go for the building fund. Mrs. Albert Perrry. CIRCLE MEETING PICNIC PLANNED The Southside Circle of the Bap tist W. M. S. met on Wednesday p. m. in the home of Mrs. Robert Phillips. Mrs. W. N. Pitts led the devo tional and the day’s topic was dis cussed by Mrs. Theo. Davis. Mrs. S. A. Horton presided over the business session, after which the hostess, assisted by her daughter, Gloria May, served refreshments. This circle will hold its annual picnic at Tarpley’s Mill on Tues day, Sept. 5. Members are re quested to bring supper, and to meet at 5:30. WORKERS COUNCIL The Workers Council of the Bap tist S. S. will meet on Monday night, August 28, at the church. In addition to the business scheduled, there will be a lesson from The Book We Teach. All members are urged to be present at 7:45. BAPTIZING AT ROCKY CROSS The revival services at Rocky Cross Baptist Church closed last Sunday night. Rev. J. F. Gaddy of Rocky Mount assisted the pastor. Rev. A. A. Pippin in the meeting. Pastor Pippin says Mr. Gaddy is one of the best preachers he ever had to assist him. There were three received for baptism. This ordi nance will be administered next Sunday morning by the pastor at the mill pond near Samaria church at 9:30 o’clock. W. B. KEMP W. B. Kemp, 83, Zebulon, Rt. 1, died at 6:15 p.m., Sunday. Funeral services were conducted Monday at 3:30 in the afternoon, from the home of J. B. Kemp, in Johnston, and the body was taken to the old home place in Nash, near Middle sex, for burial. Suriving are the folio-wing children: Clarence Kemp of Zebulon, J. B. Kemp of Zebulon, Rt. 1, H. W. Kemp of Farmville, W. G. Kemp of Oriental, A. C. Kemp of Wilson, Ed Kemp of Zeb ulon, and Mrs. Norman Tucker of Louisburg. feel good.” He stooped, picked up the bas ket, slung it to his shoulder and started off, repeating, ‘‘l go’ rest. Dunno what it do to me; but I gonna try it.” I went in thinking of the many, many farmers just as tired as Per cy; for never, it seems, has there been quite such a rush in saving the tobacco as this year brought. And I hope each gets the rest he craves and needs. THE SQUASH EGG liSi • 1 ' *■ Above we give an exact repro duction in shape and size of an egg W. L. Bullock of the Union Hope community brought in to the Record office a few days ago. Not being able to print white we had to reproduce the egg in black. The whole egg was the color and had the shell hardness of an ordinary egg. The reader will note that the egg is shaped very much like the old-fashioned cushaw which older people remember as grown exten sively years ago. The egg came from the home of Mrs. S. V. Brant ley. BEAUTY SHOP HAS NEW MANAGEMENT Mrs. Hazel Lynn has bought the Zebulon Beauty Parlor formerly owned by Mrs. Evelyn Antone Harris now of Louisburg. Mrs. Lynn says she expects to continue giving the very best possible ser vice to her customers, guarantee ing her w r ork. The has experienc ed operators. The name under the new management is The Hazel Beauty Salon. CHEEVES REPAIR SHOP W. S. Cheeves, local manager of the ABC store has rented the Debnam shop and it will be oper ated by his brother. The shop is fully eqquipped for any kind of repair work in wood or iron. They will also do horse-shoeing. The Poet and Peasant By DOCK “W r eil,” said the Poet, “I guess you have finished getting your to bacco in and ready for market?” “Yes,” said the Peasant, “sold some Tuesday and I can’t say that I wasn’t fairly well pleased with what it brought.” “I understand that there is about an 18 cents average in this belt,” said the Poet. “Yes,” said the Peasant, “that’s about right, but I am afraid that it is a bad thing for the average to be that high. If that average keeps up we farmers will make a little money and then next year we will see just how much more we can plant and then the bottom will drop out. I certainly do hope that there will be some kind of away to keep this from happening.” ‘‘Well,” said the Poet, “I don’t think that you will need to won y about the bridge just now. From what I can gather from the news papers we are going to have us an other nice world war pretty soon. The dictatorship nations have, along with the other nations, built up a strong war machine and something is going to happen. It might not come in the next few days, weeks or months, but it is Bunn Schools To Open September 6 Bunn, Aug. 21—M. T. Lamm, Su pervising Principal of the Bunn Schools, has announced that all white schools in the Bunn District will open for the 1939-40 session on Wednesday, September 6. Teachers for the various schools are: Harris: C. C. Brown of Magnolia Principal, Miss Margaret Williams of Zebulon, Miss Marjory Groace of Jonesboro, Mrs. Pattie B. Justice of Louisburg, Miss Ruby Cone of Spring Hope, Mrs. M. C. Wilder of Louisburg, Miss Catherine Pearce of Youngsville. Pilot: Mr. Dewey E. Broome of Elon principal, Miss Ollie Wester of louisburg, Mrs. Valmore Jones and Miss Myrtle Elta Gay both of Zebulon. Pearce: Mr. A. E. Mercer of Franklinton Principal, Miss Gerald Turnage of Louisburg, Misses Dar nell and Wilma Phillips of Zebulon. Bunn Elementary: Miss Mary Eleanor Jones of Louisburg, Miss B'elle Mitchiner of Franklinton, Miss Beryl Stallings of Zebulon, Miss Eunice Wilson of Magnolia, Miss Mildred Manning of Bethel, Misses Lucy Wiggs, Nonie Hol lingsworth and Lucille Johnson all of Bunn, Miss Faustina Shearon of Wake Forest, (Public School Mu sic). Bunn High School: Miss Eliza beth York of Cary, Miss Wilma Woolard of Rocky Mount, Mr. Wade H. Hallman of Iron Station, Miss Helen Edwards of Seaboard, Miss Maxine Middleton of Wake Forest, Mr. Norwood Dobson of Rose Hill, Miss Lois Jolly of Boil ing Springs, Miss Nellie McGirt of Maxton, Mr. M. T. I-ammos Louis burg, principal, and Mr. O. J. Rochester of Bunn, agricultural teacher. When a man marries he gets a life-lease on a cook. coming. Germany, Italy and the Japanese leaders have to justify their making slaves out of the peo ple to build up the large arma ments that they have. If Poland gives Danzig to Germany, Hitler will want still more. Ido not be lieve that he will be satisfied until he has him a war. He has based his entire career on that of a strong German of many years ago. He wants to be another Dismark of Germany. He wants to go Bismark one better though—instead of a unification of Prussia he is trying to unify all Germanic people un der his wing.” “This fellow Hitler,” said the Peasant, “is a remarkable felloy. He would make a nice character for the man who used to write the Alger books that I read when a boy, but he is riding for a fall and when he does fall I am afraid that it will mean almost extinction to one of the most intelligent nations in the world. The Germans are an intelligent and industrious people.” “I hope,” said the Poet, “that we can keep out of another war, but I am afraid that we can’t. We are too closely connected with the wel fare of our English cousins.” ' Jaycees Add Three New Members Three new members were wel comed into the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the regular meeting Tuesday night. Robert Daniel Massey, president presided, with 17 members present. A round-table discussion was held at which time various projects were discussed. It was decided to ask the members of the town council to meet with the group on the next regular meeting and the merchants the following meeting night. A rather lengthy discussion was held on the condition of the ceme tery on which there was about $7,- 000 spent a short time ago. It was learned that most of this work was gradually being washed away on the account of lack of gullies or some means of keeping the dirt from washing during rains. It was decided to have a committee approach the town council and see if something could not be done about it. To further advertise the trade booster campaign, it was decided to give one ticket on the automo bile to some member of each fami ly within a radius of about twenty miles. These tickets will bear the name of the Junior Chamber of Commerce on the back of them and will be used to advertise the campaign. Donkey Ball Game The donkey baseball game of which notice was given last week, rounds up fast into the most prominent social event of the kind this season among the donkeys. R. Vance Brown will captain one side, selecting his players from the embarrassingly large number of professionals in Zebulon. R. H. Bridgers will go out into the highways and hedges to secure the nine opposing champions. Ad mission will be 25 cents for grownups and 15 cents for child ren. The game will be called at 8:00 o’clock next Wednesday ev ening, August 30. You can’t af ford to miss this once-a-year sports event. The Bar X Ranch will supply the donkeys on which the players will ride to victory or defeat. They move so fast that frequently they appear to be go ing in the opposite direction. Ev erybody be there and get a big laugh. Seen and Heard STRAWBERRIES IN SEASON J. Brantley Richardson of the Hales Chapel community, was in town Thursday and was telling the editor about his strawberry patch. He said last fall he heavi ly mulched it with manure from his chicken house. The vines grew rank and had a good crop last spring. Now there is a second crop of ripe berries. They are not large or abundant as the first crop, but he has them just the same. HUMIDITY AND SWEAT Lately one sees a great deal about humidity in the air being the cause of the heat’s being so oppressive. One boy in town was overheard a few dayp ago to say: “There’s so much humidity in the air that I can’t sweat!” NUMBER 8
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