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(Kbr Zrbnlmt IKenirii VOLUME XVI. Christmas Story In Song And Pantomime On Sunday, Dec. 17 the Christ mas sitory will be told in song and pantomime by the glee club and other pupils of Wakelon school. The program begins at 4:30 and the public is invited. Miss Barrett, teacher of public school music, has arranged the different numbers for best effect and is directing the performance. This annual concert is one of the most enjoyable features of the Christmas season here. For some years it has been given on the Sunday before school closes for the holiday vacation and never has it failed to draw a large attend ance. This year promises to pro vide its full measure of enjoyment for those present. METHODIST W. M. S. The Ida Fisher Missionary So ciety met with Mrs. Irby Gill, Mrs. A. A. Pippin being assistant host ess. Mrs. B. F. Boone led the program and the devotional was led by Mrs. J. M. Whitley. Medi tation, War Cries, from the World Outlook, Mrs. M. J. Sexton. Mrs. Boone interestingly discussed the life of Kagawa, Japanese mission ary. Mrs. Dewey Massey spoke on “Our Available Resources” for meeting the New Year. Mrs. C. E. Flowers gave her annual re port. , At the beginning of next year a party will be held when the “capsule sisters” will be announc ed. As reporter for the society I ask that you bring your yearly re port to this party. Mrs. A. R. House. THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS Coming into the office last Thursday afternoon I found on my desk a small basket filled with partridge berry or turkey berry, as some call it. The sprays trail over the edge of the basket most gracefully, the red berries glow; and when my eyes are tired and strained from too long read ing figures in statistical tables they are rested by lifting them to that basket. Mrs. Ida Hall brought it to me, and she got the vines from Seven Springs; but some of (them grow in this sec tion. Each of the berries has two tips instead of one, because it takes two blooms to make one berry, and the green leaves are exactly opposite each other, two and two all the length of the vine stem. It’s a lovely thing, gay and Christmassy looking. Have you a little avocado tree in your home ? If not, do you want one? Early in the fall my daughter brought me two avoca dos; and just at that time I chanced to read that the avocado seed if placed in water like a nar cissus bulb, would root and might be later transplanted to a pot of soil. Curiosity * impelled me to try it, and the big seed did split to let out a pale green shoot. It is stall in its glass of water and is THE FOUR COUNT T NEWSPAPER— WAKE, JOHNSTON. NASH AND FRANKLIN AT CHURCHES THE METHODIST CHURCH A Christmas Candle-light ser vice in which the children, young people and adults will have a part is being held Sunday night at 7:30. Everyone is cordially in vited to worship with us. Come and join in singing the Christmas Carols. Schedule of services for Sun day: Church School —10:00. Church service— 7:30 Ben F. Boone, Pastor. BAPTIST CHURCH The services which will be con ducted in the Baptist Church on Sunday, December 17, are as fol lows: 9:4s—Sunday School. 11:00—Morning Worship. Ser mon subject: “Are We ready For The Christ?” 7:oo—Young Peoples’ Meet ings. 7:30 —Evening Worship Ser. mon subject: “The Pageant ry of Christmas.” G. J. Griffin, Pastor. CIRCLE MEETING The Southside Circle of the Bap tist W. M. S. will meet on Monday afternoon of next week in the home of Mrs. C. M. Watson. CLASS PARTY The Fidelis Matrons of the Bap tist S. S. will have a party at the Woman’s club on Monday night, Dec. 18, Each member is expected to come bringing her husband and two gifts, both of which must not cost more than 25c. There will be a specially prepared program. about six inches tall; and I have no earthly use for it. It is not pretty, looking much like a young apple tree; it has no fragrance nor grace; yet, because I started it growing I hate to toss it on the trash pile. Anyone wanting to give a home and a half-cup of cold water at intervals to this tropical plant is welcome to it. Its other name is alligator pear. The son who is taking a course in journalism at Wake Forest in sists that I go over my writ ing and prune out the adjectives that at times infest it. He says an article is stronger with the main thought unencumbered by verbi age. He is most probably right. Since he suggested those im provements to me I’ve been won dering if a good many o's us don’t clutter up our lives with too many adjectives and adverbs; too many non-essentials that take time and effort which might be better spent. Is that why we are forever “rushed to death” and never know real leisure? The fundamental simplicities of living do not take all our time. Would our lives be stronger if we had the coirrage to cut out the adjectives and ad verbs of striving after effect? (Continued on page 3) ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939 J. M. BROUGHTON Second Candidate Gets Into Race J. M. Broughton, Raleigh at torney, is the second man to announce his candidacy in the forthcoming gubernatorial cam paign. Formal announcement was made on Tuesday of this week. Mr. Broughton states that he en ters the campaign upon his own initiative and not as the mouth piece of any group, bloc, or po litical faction. He plans to speak in every county in the state. He believes in party government; that the tax question should be studied with a view to reduction; that the state school system is our best investment; that our highways must be maintained and extended; that natural resources should be conserved; that farm methods should be improved, par ticularly as to diversification and marketing. He holds that condi tions as to welfare and law en forcement must be improved. Mr. Broughton brings to his campaign a wide knowledge of the state and a name already familiar to thousands. PT A. The meeting of the Parent- Teacher Association on Tuesday night was featured by a program given by pupils in the primary grades. Christmas songs were sung, directed by Miss Barrett. Special numbers were solos by Becky Clark and Bobby Bridgers, and a reading by Joellen Gill. The entire program delighted the audience. Attendance was unusually good. Mrs. C. G. Weathersby gave a short address appropriate torthe Christmas season. Mrs. Irby Gill presented Mrs. B. F. Boone, speak er of the evening, who spoke on “Hobbies and Their Value,” men tioning her own hobby of collect ing pitchers. She exhibited a number of these, relating their history. Mesdames F. L. Page and C. G. Weathersby also spoke briefly of their pitcher collections, parts of which were on display. NEAR RECORD A near record consumption of cotton by American mills during the last three months has been announced by the U. S. Census Zureau, says J. A. Shanklin, of State College. CLUB COLUMN GARDEN CLUB PROGRAM The Garden Club will give the program at the joint meeting of this organization and the Wo man’s Club on Tuesday afternoon of next week. This is a special program and the public as well as all club members will be wel comed. GARDEN CLUB PRIZES Notice has been previously published concerning the decorat ing contest sponsored by the Garden Club for Christmas. There will be only one prize given in cash in each class, the amount be ing two dollars. Contestants are urged to send their names to Mrs. A. N. Jones not later than Tues day of next week. Judges from Raleigh will make their rounds and give decisions on Friday night, December 22. A summary of the rules will be given in this paper next week. BOY HURT ON HIGHWAY Charles Massey, fifteen-year-old son of Preston Massey of Pilot, was seriously hurt on Wednesday afternoon on the highway near his home. The youth with a friend, a Stallings boy, was watching the compressor in use for construction work. A driver for the company is said to have failed to sitop in time for the warning signal flash ed by the workman directing traf fic, his truck hitting the boys and wrecking the compressor. Massey was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and fractured skulL Stallings and two workmen were slightly hurt. i THE POET AND THE PEASANT By DOCK “Boy,” said the Peasant, “there was certainly a crowd of folks in Zebulon last Saturday.” “Yes,” said the Poet, “I heard a number of people say that there was at least 3000 people here.” “I don’t know whether there was that many here or not,” said the Peasant, “but there certainly was a crowd. And that reminds me. It has been a long time since anything was said about the mer chants moving their store out on the sidewalk. I certainly do wish they wouldn’t do it. When there is a crowd of folks here it just makes it difficult for them to pass and repass on the sidewalk. The fellows at the grocery stores are cooperating nicely, but there are other stores that still feel that they have to put their merchan dise on display on the sidewalk. I certainly do wish they wouldn’t do this.” “I certainly think that you are right,” said the Poet. But let me tell you something that I am proud of— the window displays in the various stores throughout the town. I do believe that the store windows here are as pretty as any I have ever seen. A number of the windows would be a credit to a town much larger than ours. The chamber of com merce is to be complimented in Two Games To Be Played Here In Cage Opener The Wakelon Bulldogs, sporting the best girl’s team ip the history of the school, will play a fast squad from Clayton Friday night in the Wakelon gym. The girls lost only two regulars through graduation and their team has an excellent chance to win. The starting whistle will blow at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be 6c for grade students, 10c for high schoolers, and 15c for others. Coach Austin’s boys will be without the services of seven let termen from the great team that played last year. That team won 18 games straight in the greatest season Wakelon will probably ever enjoy. The following lettermen will probably be the backbone for this year’s team: Hardin Hinton, For est Mitchell, Dwite Debnam, and William Stanley Pearce. Other boys who have shown promise in practice are: Wilbur Debnam, Wade David, Craven Par rish, Albert Green, Levere Pearce, George Henry Mitchell, Charles Carrol, Jack Liles, James Alford, Harold Pippin, Billy Keith, Berdon Eddins, and Oren Daniel Massey. Girls who will represent Wake lon are: Gloria Massey, Mary Margaret Finch, Rut>y Mae Al ford, Lib Sexton, Betty Lee Win stead, Alease White, Janet Mas sey, Zyba Massey, Evelyn White, Letha Mae Simpson, Dorothy Driver, Corrinnia Pearce, Lucille Pearce, Ida Mae Eatman Food tastes better when cook ed the electrical way. sponsoring this program. I un derstand that some thought about asking for street lights, but that would be rather expensive. It is estimated that the cost for one block would be $750 for the first season and $250 for each adidtion al season. I, like many others, feel that with the town needing a fire truck as badly as it does that this would be utter foolishness just now,” said the Poet. “You know what,” said the Peasant, “something should be done about that fire truck. If there ever was a town that need ed a fire truck, Zebulon is one of them. There are those who would suggest something cheaper than an American-La-France truck, but these (trucks have been tried and proven by both large and small towns. They can be bought as easily as any other inferior firefighting equipment and they are complete they are the best that money can buy they are also expensive, approximately $7,500.” “What is $7,500 compared with one life?” asked the Poet. “One fire, with the wind right could do more damage than the total cost of the truck in two hours, and stretched over a period of years, a number of /these trucks could be (Continued bn page 3) NUMBER 24
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