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VOLUME XVI.
SCOUTS PLAN FULL PROGRAM
FOR ANNIVERSARY WEEK
Troop No. 40, Zebulon Boy Scouts
are planning a very full program of
activities for National Boy Scout
Week, February 8-14. Beginning
on Thursday night, Feb. 8, at the
Agricultural Building of the Wake
lon School at 7:30 P. M. will be a
Parent’s Night Program to which
all parents and friends of the
Scouts are invited. At this time
a full demonstration of Scout work
will be presented. On Friday night,
February 9 at 6:30 P. M. the Scouts
will be guests of the Rotary Club
at supper and will give a demon
stration of Scout work. On Sat
urday afternoon, February 10, at
4 P. M. a demonstration and Pa
rade will be held on the streets of
downtown Zebulon. On Sunday
Night, February 11, at 7:30 P. M.
a service will be held at the Baptist
Church in which the Scouts will
participate and the Scoutmaster,
C. F. Allen, will preach.
On Tuesday, February 13, at
12:30 P. M. the Scouts will have
charge of the Chapel Program at
the Wakelon School, anl give a
demonstration of Scout work and
a playlet, “The Thirteenth Scout
Law.”
A special program will be given
at the scout meeting on Tuesday
night, February 13th at 7 P. M.
On Wednesday night, February
14th, a weiner roast will be held at
the home of Scoutmaster C. F. Al
len at 6:30 P. M. followed by a
theatre party at the local movie
house.
Windows will be decorated show
ing camping and first aid activi
ties of the Boy Scouts at the City
Market and the Drug Store thru
the kindness of Messrs. Sawyer
and Daniel. Be sure and see
these exhibits.
All local Boy Scouts will wear
uniforms during the entire week,
and be ready to answer questions
about Scout Work.
The Scout Troop is a local pro
ject of civic value, and urges the
interest and support of all Zebulon.
Memorizing safety rules is not
enough—you have to practice
them.
THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
The sunshine was so welcome
last Friday that one could almost
forgive it for shining on Gound
hog Day. As usual, when asked if
I believe in the groundhog, my re
ply was that it is not really belief,
but a recurrent thought of a su
perstition that impressed me too
long ago to be forgotten.
On Tuesday of last week I went
to Raleigh with Mrs. Ida Hall and
she showed me over the new quar
ters of the Wake County Health De-
Depiartment in what used to be
Rex Hospital.
You’d hardly know the old place
now. The walls are tinted a soft
green and make an effective back
ground for the nurses in their blue
dresses. In the reception room with
Miss Margaret Lester is Mr. Leroy
Robertson, who is Miss Mary Kil
patrick’s nephew and who stayed
with Miss Kilpatrick here and
went to school at Wakelon towards
the close of her administration in
THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY NINTH, 1940
AT CHURCHES
BAPTIST CHURCH
The services to be held in the
Baptist Church, Sunady, February
11, are as follows:
9:4s—Sunday School
11:00—Morning Worship. Ser
mon subject: “Opportunities and
Obstacles”
7:oo—Young People Meet.
7:3o—This will be a special ser
vice in which the Boy Scouts of the
local community will take charge.
It is in keeping with National
Scout week that we encourage such
a service as this.
G. J. Griffin, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Our first quarterly conference
will be held next Sunday night, Feb.
11, at 7:30 in the Wendell church.
Services for Sunnday, Feb. 11:
Church school 10:00.
Church service 11:00.
Young people 6:45.
Ben F. Boone, Minister.
WAKEFIELD BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. Carl Lewis will preach his
first sermon at the Wakefield Bap
tist Church at 11 o’clock next Sun
day morning.
The public is cordially invited,
especially all the church members.
Sunday School will be held at the
regular hour, 10 o’clock.
D. D. Chamblee, Supt.
INVITATION
All members of the Senior Wo
man’s Club are cordially invited
by the Junior Club to the celebra
tion of the Golden Jubilee at the
clubhouse on Thursday, February
15, at eight o’clock.
A special program is being ar
ranged.
You won’t live to be 80 if you
try to reach it on the speedome
ter.
the primary department. City and
county nurses have offices in what
were private rooms, and ’way down
at the south end of the hall Dr.
Bulla has his office in a large
room with a big bay window back
of him. (Mind I said back not
front.)
In one room was Miss Anna John
ston, still filing what one of my
sons when small persisted in calling
“vittle statistics”, which death no
tices are sometimes, without a
doubt. It doesn’t seem to affect her
cheerfulness. There is a stock room
for supplies and the whole thing
gives an impression of efficiency,
besides being so much more attrac
tive ttian the old quarters in the
basement of the county courthouse.
One thing amused me a bit: I
was going out to my daughter’s and
spoke of phoning Mrs. Hall to find
whether to meet her or take a bus
home; and she said let her phone
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Business Section
Knigthdale Burns
The large mercantile business of
Robertson Brothers of Knightdale,
two dwellings, another store, a
barber shop and hot dog stand
were completely destroyed by fire
early Wednesday morning. Mayor
J. E. Davis estimated the total
damage approximately at $60,000.
The amount of insurance carried
is not known.
The origin of the fire is not
known. It was discovered at 2:40
a. m. in the back of Robertson
Brothers general store, by 19-year
old George Robertson when he
saw flames in the rear of the
store. He first tried to get to
the fire to extinguish it, found
that impossible, then gave a gen
eral alarm. Soon the whole vil
lage was awake and, with buckets,
trying to extinguish the flames.
The Raleigh Fire Department was
called but could do little except
assist in confining the fire.
Os the buildings in the block
only the drug store and post office
were saved. The Norfolk South
ern freight depot across the street
was seriously threatened. A new
store house which was to open
next week was burned. The beau
ty parlor had just been opened.
Several hundred dollars in mer
chandise had been unloaded in the
Robertson store the day before.
Their loss is said to have been
$23,000. Knightdale has no fire
department or any special
provision against conflagrations of
this magnitude.
SCHOOLNEWS
WAKELON TEAMS TAKE
FOUR MORE GAMER
The Wakelon Bulldogs, boy and
girls, added two victories each to
their already long string this week.
Methodist Orphanage was conquer
ed Tuesday night and Wendell the
following night.
The boys ran over the strong Oo
phanage team, 24-12. Hardin Hint
on with 12 points and Forest (Ba
by) Mitchell with 6 led Wakelon.
Jones was top scorer for the Meth
odists with four.
The girls won their second game
this year over the Methodist in the
preliminary game. Gloria Massey
led Wakelon with 12 points. Ruby
Mae Alford and Mary Finch ac
counted for the others. Hawkins
led the losers with seven.
Wednesday night the Wakelon
girls, eager to avenge the 19-18
loss handed them last week by
Wendell, pinned their rivals ears
back with a 20-13 win.
Ruby Mae Alford paced Wakelon
in this game with 13 points. Gloria
Massey was next with 5. Naomi
Herndon, speedy forward, led Wen
dell with eight.
Janet Massey played an excellent
game at guard. Her game was de
scribed rightly by a spectator who
said: “If the ball’s to be gotten,
that Massey girl will get it.”
The boys topped Wendell 12-18,
for their eleventh straight win for
this year. Wilbur Debnam led
Wakelon with five points, and ad
ded very good defensive work to
his scoring. Forest Mitchell and
W. S. Pearce were next.
Jeffreys of Wendell opened the
scoring for Wakelon by dropping
a beautiful crip shot in the winners
goal. From that time on Wendell
never took the lead. Liles led Wen
dell with five points.
TOTAL OF 148 POINTS SCORED
IN LOCAL COURT CONTEST
CLUB NEWS
P.-T. A. STUDY GROUP
S. J. Austin will be the speaker
at the meeting of the P.-T. A.
Study Group to be held Thursday
night, February 15, at 7:30 o’clock
in the Vocational Building.
Vocational guidance for young
people will be discussed under the
subject “Where Are You Going,
My Pretty Maid?”
The Home Demonstration Club
will be the hostess at the meet
ing.
The public is urged to attend.
FOUNDERS’ DAY TO BE
OBSERVED BY P.-T. A.
Founder’s Day will be observed
with a short special program at
the February meeting of the Wake
lon Parent-Teacher Association on
next Tuesday night. Past officers
will take part in the candle-lighting
ceremony.
Because of inclement weather
the program arranged by Miss An
derson was not given in January as
had been announced, and will be a
feature of the meeting next week.
EUROPEAN SUMMARY
Helsinki —Russian planes bomb
prison full of Red army prisoners
but Finns take Russians to shelter;
Russians keep pounding in vain
at Mannerheim Line after estimat
ed losses of 20,000 wounded,
killed in a week.
London Britain reveals dis
patch of “war material” to Fin
land, appoints new minister to
Helsinki; Irish mourn two Irish
republican army zealots hanged at
Birmingham gaol.
Washington—House twice re
jects efforts to end diplomatic re
lations with Russia; Senate
foreign relations committee ap
proves measure to help Finland by
$20,000,000 loan.
Berlin Authorized German
sources disclaim existence of
German-Russian military agree
ment.
THE POET AND THE PEASANT
By DOCK
“It seems,’’ said the Poet, “that
there is a lot of folks in and around
Zebulon that feel that all we try
to do is to find something to criti
cize."
“Reckon maybe that it does seem
that way to some folks," said the
Peasant, “but if we could just find
something to praise we would be
more than glad to praise it. We
are not pessimists, but at times I
wonder if we are not rapidly be
coming chronic knockers."
“Now,” said the Poet, “ that’s one
thing I don’t want to become. I
know that Zebulon is one of the best
little towns in North Carolina, and
I want to see it made the best. We
have as fine and courteous a bunch
of business men and women as any
town can boast of, yet somehow
there is a few things that, as a
citizen, I would like to see changed.
Take for instance that fire truck
we were talking about a few weeks
ago. I don’t want to criticize any
one all I want is the proper pro
ALL STARS TO PLAY
SATURDAY NIGHT
A total of 148 points were scored
in a basketball game played be
tween the Zebulon All-Stars and
the Wake Forest Scribes here Sat
urday night.
Long John Jettt, center for the
scribes, was top scorer for the nite
with 31 points. Harris and Moser
were next for scoring honors.
The score for this game was 90-
58. Payne hit the hoop for the
most points for Zebulon with 21.
Hinton played a good defensive
game.
This was the Scribes first game,
but rumors have it that they are to
challenge State College in the near
future. A return game will be play
ed on the Wakelon court in the
near future. Two new stars have
been added to the Zebulon squad,
and the locals promise wins, if hu
manly possible.
Monday night the All-Stars top
ped the Selma Stars, 37-19. This
game, which started out to be real
ly close, was turned into a run-a
way when Zebulon warmed up.
Payne and Lewis, Corinth-Hold
er teachers, led Zebulon along with
Hinton and Green. These two
players, who are extremely popular
over at the Corinth-Holder school,
will be playing for Zebulon Satur
day night when the locals play
Spring Hope.
A preliminary game between the
Zebulon girls and the Spring Hope
girls will start at 7:30.
WfcrtE YOU ABSENT?
Did you go to Sunday School
Sunday? If you didn’t try and
be present next Sunday. The Al
ford Bible class, extends a special
invitation to all young men be
tween the ages of 18 and 36 to be
come members of the class. Al
though it is the youngest class in
the local Baptist Church, we have
an enrollment of 44 but our average
attendance is not what we would
like to have it be. I’ll be expecting
you next Sunday. Come!
Robert Ed Horton.
tection for the property owners, of
which I am not one. I want the
proper protection for lives five
of which I think an awful lot of.
Now when a man asks for these
things and someone comes along
and calls him a chronic kicker that
someone either is not a very good
citizen or else he has not been
thinking. He is willing to let things
just be status quo.”
“There is something else that we
were rather proud of some time ago
our merchants had virtually
quit putting things on the sidewalk,
yet last night when I came to the
show, one of our merchants actual
ly had coops of chickens on the
sidewalk,” said the Peasant.
“I am sure,” said the Poet, “that
they were merely placed there tem
porarily as those fellows running
our grocery stores are just about
the most cooperative fellows I have
ever known. They want Zebulon
to be attractive and sanitary."
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