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3Lhe Zebulon ißrcorb VOLUME XVI. AT CHURCHES BAPTIST CHURCH The following services will be held in our church, Sunday, No vember 26; You are invited to worship with us: At Sunday school—9:46 At the morning worship ser vice—ll:oo. Sermon: “Recaptur ing Thanksgiving” At the young peoples’ meetings —7:00 At the evening worship service —7:30. Sermon: “The Value of Silence” G. J. Griffin, Pastor THE METHODIST CHURCH 1. Please allow me to say that we are happy to be back in Zeb ulon. We are indeed grateful to the members of the church for their fine Spirit of fellowship and church loyalty which has been manifested during the past Con ference Year. We wish to express our appreciation for every kind ness and courtesy shown us by both the members of the church and the people of the community. 2. Our Thanksgiving service will be held next Sunday, Nov. 26, at 11:00. Let us gather in the church and give thanks to Goid for all His mercies and bless ings. 3. Schedule of services for Sunday, Nov. 26: Church school—10:00 Church service—ll:oo Pastor’s subject: “In Every Thing Give Thanks” Young people’s service—6:4s Ben F. Boone, Pastor CHURCH SUPPER—PILOT There will be a supper served (Continued on back page) THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS Over at Mrs. Kemp Leonard’s Monday I couldn’t help staring at the attractive buttons on her tan flannel dress. They were oval in shape, brown in color, and ap peared to be intricately carved. That carving kept reminding me of something, and finally I real ized it was the inside of a black walnut shell. Curiosity overcome silence, if not politeness, and I asked about the buttons. She had made all but the first three her self, after Mr. Leonard made those by her directions. The wal nuts were held in a vise, and sawed with a hack-saw a bit on either side of the middle, each button being about an eighth of an inch thick. After the sawing they were polished and shellack ed —and there they Were, with holes for sewing on, and every thing a proper button needs in addition to being different from anything others have. The Leonard baby, Pat, is on ly a little more than two, yet he can spell a bit, and knows all the phonic sounds. Yes, his moth er used to be a school teacher. And his father is not wholly un interested in the son’s develop ment. Speaking of talking babies, you just ought to see the one belong ing to the Woodrow Watkinses. She is ten months old, and can THE FOUR COUHTT NEWSPAPER— WAKE. JOHNSTON. NASH AND FRANKLIN A few days ago the mayor and town clerk requested the editor of the Zebulon Record to come across the street to the bank. When he arrived, he found them and the chief of police in earnest consultation. Mayor Privette said: “We sent for you to see if you could help us do something about delin quent taxes. We believe if you write something about the condition of the town’s finances and the amount of taxes past due one, two, three, four and even five years, it may help us. We have done all we know to do except to go the legal lim it and we hate to do that. Some of the leading citizens of Zeb ulon have not paid their tax es in years. Look here!” And I looked. Sure enough there were the names of men, lead ing citizens, men who it seems would be interested in the wel fare of the community and see ing that the town’s obligations were met. Some of them are making good salaries or have successful businesses. They W. L. TUTEN NEW AGRICUL TURE TEACHER HERE W. L. Tuten has come from South Carolina to take the place in Wakelon’s faculty made vacant by the leaving of J. E. Mclntyre. Mr. Tuten will teach Agriculture and related courses. Married, and with a small daughter, Mr. Tuten does not plan to begin housekeeping here until after the Christmas vaca tion. say whole sentences. I know, be cause I heard her one day in a car talking away, and went up and asked her a question. She re plied right off, and nobody told her what to say. Vance Privette, her uncle, says she can talk a blue streak all day long and into the night. He, too knows, because he kept her for the rest to go to the movies one night. If you’ve seen me within the past week, you may have noted a different lift to my head and my heels, an air of urban sophis tication instead of my former countrified appearance. That’s be cause I am now a town woman. Although, like the purple cow, I’d rather see than be one, the distinction has been thrust upon me; and, like a goldfish coming up for a caterpillar, I have striv en to rise to the demands of the occasion. I’m getting rather old to learn new things; but I may make it. And I’ll admit that in my cloud of objections to being in town, there is a silver lining. It’s gar bage! Getting that stuff hauled off has been one task I shall gladly surrender. No more shall I pay a son or a colored helper to load a wheelbarrow with tin cans and other un-bury-able re fuse which I want dumped into the gully between the Broughton (Continued on back page) ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939 PAY YOUR TAXES NOW! own their own homes, nice well-kept homes. Yet these men will not pay their taxes even when the town needs funds to pay current expenses. We believe taxes are too high. For those who pay taxes will be higher for them if every cit izen does not pay his part. The debt on Zebulon was not incur red by the present administra tion, but years ago when the light and water systems were installed. It was during the war period when everything was ex pensive. There has been no in crease in the town’s indebted ness since that time, but the debt has been reduced thous ands of dollars. At that time the value of taxable property was $1,250,000. Today it is around $650,000. So one may readily see that every citizen must pay his taxes if tin town meets its obligation. Every cent of taxes is needed to meet cur rent bills and prevent new debts. So, this paper wishes to urge upon all those citizens of Zeb ulon who owe back taxes to pay them at the earliest pos- MORE PRIZES Approximately 2500 persons gathered in Zebulon last Saturday to shop and to attend the week ly distribution of prizes. To William Hoyle went the first, $25.00. Goldie Adams of Wakefield, Gray Powell of Route 1, Mattie Wells, Virginia Kemp of Route 2 and Elizabeth Brough ton were given one dollar each. Five dollars went to Mary Strick land of Rocky Cross, and John Bailey of Route 1 was awarded SIO.OO. Business in Zebulon is fine on other days than Saturday. A merchant commented on the crowd buying on Thursday. Observances The mix-up over Thanksgiving Day Ss rather unfortunate, be cause there is no sense in observ ing two days. Most of the States have officially disagreed with the President who arbitrarily changed the national custom of observing Thanksgiving Day at the same time each year. And while kicking about that why fail to mention the fact that Armistice Day has lost its great significance as an anniversary for celebrating the peace of the World. Nevertheless, the Ameri can Legion veterans made the day quite as important this year as it has been in the past, even in the face of a new war that threatens to involve many more countries than are now engaged in it, even endangering the peace of the Western Hemisphere. California snowed under the Ham and Eggs proposition by a vote of two to one. “Thirty dol lars every Thursday” was sim ply as crazy as it sounded, and the good people of California vot ed accordingly. Ohio also defeat ed a proposal for enlarged raids upon its State treasurv. Every thing indicates that States and the Federal Government favor old age pensions—but the terms of payment must be reasonable. sible time. Delay may embar rass the town. It no doubt will in the end embarrass the citi zen who fails to pay. Not only that, but it will make added ex pense. The advertising and sale of such property as one owns will be expensive. Not only will the full amount of taxes due have to be paid, but all the costs will be added. This is every citizen’s business. How ever, the editor would not say all this had he not been request ed to do so by the town authori ties. He speaks for them and the tax payers. It is one time at least when he and the town au thorities are heartily agreed. And we believe every citizen will admit if not endorse the fact that we are right. Some citizens may lose their homes by due process of law. This is to be greatly regretted. But the law is impartial and what it demands of one citizen it de mands of every citizen. Will our readers not agree that a good citizen pays his taxes? So we conclude as we began: Pay Your Taxes Now! t * COMMUNITY MEN IN WRECK Wesley Pearce and Talmadge Gay, formerly of this community, were in an automobile accident in Trenton, N. J., Monday night, No vember 13. Gay was not seriously hurt, but Wesley Pearce received a fractured skull, a broken leg, and injury to his right eye that is expected to cost the sight in that eye. THE POET AND THE PEASANT By DOCK (I am more than glad to give over this column to our scout master this week. I am more than glad to have someone contribute the conversation between the Poet and Peasant. It is my purpose to make this column not only inter esting but constructive. Any crit icism of any public official is done with the spirit of making Zebu lon a bigger and better town. This is where I live and where I make my living. If there are others who feel that they have either constructive criticism or praise for anything in or pertaining to Zebulon; you are invited to use this space. Thanks Dock.) “There sure was a large crowd on last Saturday for the drawing,” said the Poet to the Peasant, as they met at the Post Office. “There must have been several Thousand present.” “Yes,” said the Peasant. “And there were all kinds of people in the crowd; town folks, country folks, and negroes.” “Such a crowd creates a traf fic problem for the officers of our town.” “It is important that no one gets hurt on such an oc casion,” remarked the Poet. “And our officers are doing a nice job too,” said the Peasant. “The Boy Scouts are helping in the handling of the traffic, also, said the Poet. “You know, that is fine training for them.” CLUBCOLUMN ’ JUNIOR CLUB MEETS The Junior Woman’s Club held the November meeting on the night of Nov. 16 in the home of Mrs. L. M. Massey. Mrs. Wallace Chamblee and Miss Ruby Stell directed a pro gram on Current Literature. Mrs. Eugene Privette gave a sketch of the life of Thomas Wolfe and Mrs. G. J. Griffin discussed Miss Elizabeth Page. Mrs. L. M. Massey sang two solos, Danny Boy, and Make Be lieve. Mrs. L. M. Thompson gave a biographical sketch of Phillip Stem, and Miss Dorothy Toler spoke on the life of Edna Ferber. Miss Marion Whitlock discussed several writers of short stories. Plans were perfected for the Turkey Supper to be given on Nov. 28 to raise funds for the club’s projects. The major project for the year is Child Welfare and it has been decided to donate lunches to needy children at Wakelon, be ginning Dec. 1. As much as can be spared from the treasury will be used in this way. The hostess with her associat es, Mrs. Robert Dawson and Miss Ruby Dawson, served refresh ments during the social hour. TURKEY SUPPER Attention is again called to the turkey supper at the Women’s Club Tuesday night, Nov. 28. The Junior Club is putting on the sup per to help raise funds for wel fare work. Hours are 5:30—7:30 and plates are fifty cents each. The public is invited. “Those youngsters are learn ing fast, and look nice in their uniforms,” affirmed the Peasant. “I was talking with Scoutmas ter Allen, and he said that it is part of the program of the Boy Scouts of America to render any civic service they can for the Community in which they live. The Boys of Troop No. 40 stand ready to help at all times. And he asked me to thank everybody for the fine cooperation they are giv ing the boys. Everyone obeys the signals, and are cheerful and courteous about it. And the boys are courteous to all. They are all of them working to protect lives,” said the Poet. “By the way,” said the Peas ant,” we have some real traffic problems in Zebulon.” “Can you suggest any ways to help solve them.” “Well,” said the Poet, after a pause, “some traffic lights will help. Since Zebulon has extend ed its city limits it should consid er making some improvements.” “Why not traffic lights at the Post Office and Drug Store Cor ners, and a Caution light at the Highway intersection?” “But such things cost money,” objected the Peasant,” and Zebu lon is in debt.” “Sometimes we may be penny wise, and Pound foolish,” rejoin ed the Poet. NUMBER 21
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