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VOLUME XVI.
Wakelon Takes
Its Fifth Win
The Wakelon Bulldogs, fresh
from a one-sided win over Clay
ton, slapped a 33-15 win in the
face of an inexperienced Knight
dale squad.
Hardin Hinton led Wakelon with
17 points. Wilbur Debnam starred
at defense for Wakelon with
speedy defense work. Debnam was
runner-up for scoring honors with
eight points.
Keeler led Knightdale with five
points. Lassiter played a good
game at defense.
The score at the half was 14-5.
Knightdale scored but two points
in the first quarter. Both those
were foul shots. Wakelon players
made one out of three foul tries,
and Knightdale made three out of
seven tries.
This was Wakelon’s fourth
total points lip to 134. Their oppo
straight win, and brought their
nents have snored hut 36.
and led Wakelon to a 37-15 vic-
Rubv Alford scored 15 points
tory over the Knightdale girls.
Ruby has scored 54 points thus far
this season with her whizzer shots.
Mary Margaret Finch and Glo
ria Massey also starred at for
ward making eight points each.
Betty T*ee Winstead accounted for
the other two points.
Games are scheduled for both the
girls and boys teams here next
week. They play Archers Lodge in
the Wakelon gymnasium Tuesday
night and Methodist Orphanage in
the gym Friday night.
DEATH
J. E. Winston, 84 years old, of
the Emit community died Monday
afternoon. The burial was Tuesday
afternoon at Corinth Baptist
church. Rev. Debro Stancil officiat
ed.
THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
There’s one thing to be said for
this cold weather; it enables the
housekeeper to cook in quantity
and put away for warming over.
Some vegetables are much better
freshly cooked than re-heated; but
they are not potatoes, black-eye
peas, collards, nor navy beans.
Nor dried fruits.
And a large piece of meat is
always better boiled or roasted
than is a small piece. With the
main part of the cooking out of
the way for a day or two, the
housewife can sew, read, write, or
—blissful thought—simply sit still
for a while, happy over having
saved time, and energy.
A woman columnist recently as
serted that no one likes to wash
dishes. I do not enjoy washing
the dinner dishes on a hot summer
day when already tired; but most
of the time that task is pleasant
for me. It may be the result of ap
plied psychology long before I ever
knew the word itself.
One of my early duties was to
share the dishwashing with two
sisters, and we took turns at it. To
amuse myself I pretended that no
one on earth could so perfectly
clean up after a meal as I could;
that kings and queens sent for me
to go to their palaces and wasfy
THE FOUR COUNTY HEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHHSTOH. HASH AHD FRAHKLIH
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940
AT CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH
Services for Sunday, Jan. 21:
Church School 10:00.
Young people’s service . . 6:45
Church service 7:30.
Come and worship with us. Re
member that “you need the church
and the church needs you.’’
Ben F. Boone, Minister.
BAPTIST CHURCH
The services to be held in the
Zebulon Baptist Church, Sunday,
Jan. 21, are as follows:
9:4s—Sunday School.
11:30—Morning Worship. Ser
mon subject: “Imperatives of a
Christian”
7:oo—Young People’s Meetings.
7:30 —Evening Worship. Ser
mon topic: “Paul’s Change of
Values.”
G. J. Griffin, Pastor
The Southside Circle of the Bap
tist W. M. S. will meet next Mon
day in the home of Mrs. Ben Bunn
with Mrs. K. P. Leonard in charge
of the program.
METHODIST W. M. S.
The Ida Fisher Missionary So
ciety met with Mrs. Pearl Massey
Monday afternoon. The first part
of the program was taken in
planning the year’s work.
The following officers were elect
ed: President, Mrs. Chas. Flowers,
Vice-President, Mrs. W. D. Finch;
Sec. & Tr easurer, Mrs. Pearl Mas
sey; Social Relations, Mrs. J. L.
Stoll, Mrs. H. H. Bridgers, Mrs.
Coley Arnold; Supt. Mission Study
Mrs. J. M. Sexton; Supt. Children’s
Work, Mrs. F. L. Page; Corre
sponding Secretary, Mrs. R. V.
Brown.
The programs are planned and
printed before the January meet
(Continued on page four)
dishes. No home demonstrator ev
er put on a better act than I did,
alone in our kitchen. Not until I
accidentally overheard Mother tell
ing a neighbor how nicely Bessie
cleaned up the table did I realize
the pretending had helped in two
ways.
I love warm soapsuds, anyway,
They hold rainbows of promise of
cleanliness and comfort. Who does
n’t enjoy washing things easy to
handle, not much soiled and re
quiring not rubbing but sloshing
and squeezing?
Does any one but me rub the
skin off knuckles when trying to
get dirty garments clean? Never
yet have I mastered the knack of
putting pressure on cloth alone;
skin shares it. I’ve watched Ne
gro women go smoothly through a
week’s wash that I couldn’t pos
sibly have done and be smiling and
ready to begin at another place
when I’d have been prostrated by
what they had already done.
Strange how they manage!
It may be that I rush too much.
Yesterday I read that he who
works with the soil must never
hurry; and the clothes in wash are
certainly soiled.
(Continued on page four)
Best Junior Play
In Years Is To Be
Given Tonight
The annual Junior play will be
given in the Wakelon auditorium
tonight, January 19, at 7:30.
The play, “Smart Boy,” stars
Jean Flowers as Leslie Sabor and
Billy Green as James Montgom
ery Flagg. It is a side-splitting
farce in three acts.
The supporting cast includes
Virginia Bridgers, J. W. Carrol,
Courtney Allen, and Myrtese Hag
wood.
Virginia Bridgers and Billy
Green played leading roles in the
prize-winning play, “Grandmother
Pulls the String,” given last year
by the Wakelon Dramatic Club.
This play won over five other
schools in the district contest, and
took second place at Chapel Hill.
The plot of “Smart Boy” con
cerns the plight of a young man
who took a girl out one night,
little knowing that she was a na
tionally known star, and didn’t re
turn until the wee hours of the
morning.
Those who have seen this play
practiced are loud in their praise
of Mr. Lawrence Decker and Miss
Swain, Co-Directors, for their work
in coaching the players.
Zebulon Rotary
Club Doings
Albert Medlin had the program,
which meant the trade mark for a
good program.
Music was fumieshd by the Wil
liams brothers of near Pine Ridge
and a Pearce boy from near
Pearces. Albert introduced them
as being from the wild and woolly
West, from somewhere down
around San Antonio, Texas. The
boys were dressed in picturesque
cowboy costumes. They sang, sev
eral selections and played on
stringed instruments. It was much
enjoyed by all.
A reading was given by Fred
Page 111, He delivered it well as
it was full of wit and humor.
Prizes were offered for the best
looking man. There was a visitor
from Texas who won the prize. A
prize was offered for the best
looking lady. The Rotary Sweet
heart, Miss Frances Barrett, won
first prize and Mrs. Boone, wife
of Rev. Ben Boone, won second
place.
EUROPE TODAY
Helsinki. Death-dealing cold
hits Red army invaders, grounds
bombers; Finns reported driving
toward new victory in Arctic.
Rome.—Fascist party secretary
tells Italians they “may face ne
cessity’ of fighting at any mo
ment; fails to name possible en
emy.
London.—British says blockade
has reduced Germans to near
starvation of 1916; Allied, neu
tral shipping losses continue.
Washington. Gamer reported
joining opposition to further Fin
nish loan on grounds of possible
conflict with neutrality.
CLUB NEWS
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debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 7th day of December,
i 1939.
j J- W. Strickland, Executor
Estate J. S. Strickland, deceas
e<*- Dec. 15 Jan. 19
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Marion Louis 1
Rigsbee late of Durham and of
Wake County, North Carolina, !
this is to notify all persons hav- j
ing claims against the estate of j
said deceased to exhibit them to .
the undersigned at Zebulon, North *
Carolina, on or before the fir«<
THE POET AND THE PEASANT
By DOCK
“Greetings, friend,” said the
Poet as he met the Peasant at the
drug store for their morning drink.
“It is rather hard for me to
make conversation this morning,”
said the Peasant.
“What seems to be your great
est trouble this morning?” asked
the Poet.
“Well,” said the Peasant, “I
don’t reckon I have much trouble,
but when I voted this control busi
ness some how I forgot that I was
voting control on myself and then
yesterday I got my allotment and
maybe I am cut just 20 per cent,
but it seems to me that it is nearer
50 per cent than 20 per cent.”
“Just a minute there,” said the
Poet. “I thought you told me that
you made more money on your to
bacco under control than you did
last year that you planted a
great deal more tobacco and had
about as good a crop yet that you
had no more money than you did
under control, and besides that you
had to pay additional for fertilizer,
labor, etc., and that in the long
run you actually had less money
for yourself.”
“Yep,” said the Pesant, “that’s
right, but somehow I just got to
find something to squawk about.
We farmers are human just like the
rest of you folks. If we can’t find
AAA Offers
Payment For
Home Garden
Farmers of North Carolina are
I offered the opportunity to earn a
conservation payment in 1940 by
planting a home garden, announc
es E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive of
ficer of State College. One unit of
l credit, or $1.50, is offered for the
planting of a garden consisting of
not less than one-tenth of an acre
per person. In families contain
ing more than ten persons, a one
acre garden will suffice to qualify
for the payment.
Floyd said that the requirements
are that the garden be adequately
protected from poultry and live
s stock, that good cultural methods
.be followed, and that proper steps
be taken to control insect pests.
< Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes,
* corn, and field peas may be plant
j ed elsewhere on the farm.
i The AAA recommends that
! three or different vegetables be
c growing in the garden each month
for at least eight months of the
t year. Not more than one-fourth of
the garden area should be planted
to any one vegetable at any one
time.
The Triple-A officer suggested
that farmers write to the Agri
cultural Editor at State College,
Raleigh, for one of several publi
cations on home gardens. The Ex
tension horticulturists at the col-'
lege also have materials on the
same subject whch will be sent
free to interested persons.
11. R. Niswonger and L. P. Wat
! son, horticultural specialists, say
that every home garden should
I contain at least 12 different kinds
■of vegetables, exclusive of Irish
'and sweet patotoes.
one thing to squawk about we will
another.”
“Just for an example,” said the
Poet, “I’ll show you where you
farmers are protecting yourselves
with this control measure. A cer
tain man owns a farm in Wake
county on which there is over a
hundred acres of cleared land. He
has not been growing tobacco on
any of this land, but this year he
applied for an allotment. He got
one less than an acre. Now
that is where your control comes
in. Control is a good thing if it is
treated right. The whole success
of this program depends entirely
on your county agent and local
committee.” ,
“I think,” said the Peasant,
“that there is something to what
you say, but nevertheless it is
rather hard to have someone else
tell you how much of anything you
are to plant, especially when you
own the land.”
“I hope,” said the Poet, “that
you farmers will cooperate and try
this thing out fairly be fair with
yourselves and each other if
you feel that a mistake has been
made, try and get it corected in an
amiable manner remember that
you are working for your own good
that you have all to gain and
nothing to lose if it proves satis
factory.”
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