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THE ZEBULON RECORD
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THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Zebulon, North Carolina
THEO B. DAVIS, Editor
MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS, Associate Editor
Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925,
at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina.
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he says it so often
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By mistake the first safety rule was omit
ted from the editor’s leading editorial last week.
However, all who know him can supply the miss
ing words, which are “Do not try to drive while
drunk or drinking.”
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M B. CHAMBLEE
No town can have too many men who hoid
its interests dear; hut it may he that large towns,
having more men, feel less keenly the loss of one.
However that may he, this paper speaks for thou
sands in expressing regret over the death of Millard
Brown Chamhlee, g<x>d husband and father, good
neighbor, good citizen.
The editor of the Rf.CORD knew Mr. Chamhlee
when he and his wife were a young couple and their
oldest children were small. The hospitality of their
home has not been forgotten and years deepened the
friendship that came as a result of acquaintance.
Today, mingled with sympathy for the family
in their deep bereavement is a sense of personal loss
that brings sadness. With the town and community
we join in paying tribute to one whose worth de
served it. He was the last of a trio of Chamblees
his father and brother being the others who did
much for this section.
CHRISTMAS SEALS
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Annually this community cooperates with
others in selling and buying the Christmas seals
which help to provide funds for fighting tuber
culosis. This year, as usual, chairmen have
been appointed to look after the sales by va
rious organizations. Children in school take
some for selling at home or on the streets and
the community has a percentage of what is
made.
The hitch is that in advance of the date the
children begin selling, numerous persons in
town are sent from headquarters at least a hun
dred of the seals with veiled requests that they
forward payment. Many do this and thus
their purchasing completed before the children
get to them. This is a disappointment and is
discouraging to the little ones whose contribu
tion can be only what they may do in furthering
the sales.
Results may be practically the same in the
long run; but, looked at from the viewpoint of
the average person, it seems a bit unfair to can
vass from a distance those most likely to buy
before homefolk have a chance at it.
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ZEBULON S HOPE CHEST
With apologies to the Charlotte News we
appropriate an editorial heading in that fine daily
with the slight change of Charlotte to Zebulon.
Our town has a lot of good things— such as
good folks, good churches and schools, good business
establishments and so on. But it does not yet have
all the good things we need.
In our hope chest for Zebulon we have care
fully placed this need — not to be forgotten till re
lized: A city hall, town house, community
center or what you please to call it. That is one of
the many hopes we have for our good little town
for 1941.
ONE SIGN OF CHRISTMAS
Each week that efficient safety promoter of the
State Highway department, Ronald Hocutt, has been
sending the newspapers of the State a revocation
list of automobile drivers who lost their licenses be
cause of drunkeness. Tuesday's mail brought us
five sheets in the list instead of the usual one or two.
Five of them all in the same mail. There were
over 150 names. Then we remembered these are
Christmas holidays and as Carlyle once said when
seeing a drunken crowd of men, this is the way some
people celebrate the birth of the Savior.
We happen to know some gfxnJ (?) members
in and around Zebulon whose breath is already
smelling like this kind of Christmas!
“BAD APPLES” THAT SMELL
While the dry forces have been marshalling
their efforts against the evil of hard liquors, a soft,
subtle, purring beast has gradually ingratiated itself
into our social life. Not unlike the roll of mighty
tanks before marching armies, does this foe prepare
the way for King Alcohol. Beer lias gained a re
spectable standing by the claim that it is not intoxi
cating and really is a respectable and decent nourish
ment to sell to our people. The promoters of this
evil actually claim they are benefactors of mankind.
An advertisement recently carried by the press
stated: “You'll find a few bad apples in every
bushel. That is the way it is with beer retailing.
There are several thousand wholesome, law-abiding
retail beer establishments in North Carolina." They
say, “In 18 months 133 dealers have been forced
out of business because they refused to operate ac
cording to the high standards required. The truth
about the whole matter is that the places closed
were becoming a stench to public decency such that
the whole beer industry was endangered. The
moral element was not a factor whatsoever in the
purpose of Mr. Edgar Bain and his beer bosses. It
was wholly a matter of self-protection.
In all their platitude-like sounding words not
one is said about the actual results of beer drinking.
The bad apples are those who sell beer the wrong
way- according to beer sellers and makers. If beer
is sold by Mr. Bain’s prescription as supplied by his
bosses, then the sellers are “wholesome, law-abiding
men”, setting a “high standard ". The attention of
the public is directed to the character of those dis
pensing beer and away from the curse of beer itself.
Not only docs the use of beer lead to the drinking
of greater intoxicants, but enough of it will make a
man just as “crazy drunk” as liquor. One of the
drunkest men we have seen in a long time came to
that state drinking beer sold by a “wholesome, law
abiding retail beer establishment in North Carolina.”
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ZEBULON
(An over-abundance of editorials limits the
space given the History of Zebulon this week. What
is here is very interesting, though, so we know you'll
enjoy reading it.—The type-setter.)
By A. G. Kemp
About 1910 A. W. Meldrum came here and
bought the lots that Bertie Gill now owns and with
Northern capitol, built the Zebulon Cotton Oil
Company, and put it in operation. The superinten
dent's name was Mr. Sasser from South Carolina.
Later he sold to B. T. Bobbitt and Company of New
Jersey, soap manufacturers, and Mr. Ransom Cruch
was superintendent for the Company. Later they
sold to our S. J. Gill and .... Martin, later Mr.
Martin sold out to Mr. S. Z. Gill who added the
Cotton Gins and ice plant and ran it until his death
in 1936, when Mr. Bertie Gill bought and took full
possession, and now owns the entire property.
During the world was in 1917 and 1918 Town
lots and property began to advance, and after the
world war in 1920 and 1921 property and lots went
sky high. The land sharks and auctioneers telling
the people to buy as there would never be any more
land made, they bought, real estate changed hands,
and building went up as if there would be no end,
and Zebulon's population grew. Everybody made
money, tobacco and cotton sold at unheard of prices.
(Next week Mr. Kemp will tell of the price of
cotton, and if there are not so many editorials, will
give a longer chapter than was printed this time.
Be sure to pay up your subscription, so that you
can get two good towels and not miss this History.)
THE ZEBULON RECORD
CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT WAKELON
The Wakelon High School Mixed Chorus, under the direction
of Mrs. Robert Daniel Massey, will present a program of Christ
mas music in the High School auditorium, Sunday afternoon,
December 15, at 4:30. Miss Jocelyn House will accompany the
group. The is cordially invited to attend.
Selections to be presented by the mixed chorus and those in
which the audience will join are as follows:
Oh Come All Ye Faithful J°hn Reading
Audience
Break Forth O Beauteous, Heavenly Light Johann S. Bach
Mixed Chorus
Westminster Carol English
Betty Lee Winstead, soprano, and chorus
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard VCillis
Audience
Shepherds, Their Night Watch Keeping Old French Carol
James Alford, J. W. Carroll, Wilbur Hales, Ira Joyner, Basses
Emma Jean Pace, soprano, and chorus
We Three Kings of Orient Are John Henry Hopkins
Sam Horton, Billy Green, Harvey Hood and chorus
Silent Night (Piano Solo) Arr. by Clarence Kohlmann
Miss Jocelyn House
The Sleep of the Child Jesus : F. A. Geuaert
Mixed Chorus
Lo How a Rose E’F.r Blooming Michael Praetorius
Mixed Chorus
O Little Town of Bethelehem Lewis H. Redner
Audience
Let All the World In Joy Arise Johann Brahms
Dorothy Mizelle, soprano, and chorus
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Gregorian Melody
J. K. Watson, baritone, and chorus
Joy to the World George F. Handel
Audience ‘
A Joyful Christmas Song F. A. Gavaert
Mixed Chorus
0 Holy Night (Cantique De Noel) Adolph Adams
Martha Clark, soloist, and chorus
Members of the chorus are as follows:
Sopranos: Margaret Ihrie, Emma Jean Pace, Alma Gray Pulley,
Eula Lee Denton, Jackie Denton, Margaret Keith, Lyd ; a Ree Hin
ton, Inez Hood, Martha Clark, Doris Sherron, Betty Lee Win
stead, Norma Lee.
Second sopranos and altos: Courtney Allen, Christine Croom,
Elizabeth Cone, Jackie Green, Mazie Horton, Rachel Horton, Re
becca Horton, Mary Elizabeth Eddins, Doris Kimball, Mabe.l
Evans, Daphne Lewis, Edna Phillips, Faye Carter, Dorothy Glover,
Beth Massey, Dorothy Mizelle, Betty King, Helen Averette, Annie
P. Bpwling.
Tenor: Charles Carroll, John Kimball, Dave Finch, Marshall
Keith, Harold Pippin, Ronald Green, Fred Pippin.
Bass: J. W. Carroll, Billy Green, Wilbur Hales, R. C. Horner,
Ira Joyner, J. K. Watson, Sam Horton, James Alford, Harvey
Hood, Fred Page, Earl Pierce.
Draftees Honored
Locai Board No. 3, of Wake
County, with headquarters at
Zebulon, gave a program honor
ing the first men to be drafted
from this district. They were:
Herbert William McMillan, Wil
lard Dwight Lloyd, and Winston
Edward Stephenson. The cere
monies opened with a parade
through down-town Zebulon by
the Boy Scouts of Troop No. 40,
in charge of Rev. C. F. Allen,
scoutmaster, and the band of the
Wendell High School. Ceremonies
were held on the vacant lot in
front of the water tank. The Boy
Scouts gave the scout oath, and
then the pledge of allegiance to
the Flag in which all joined. The
band played “God Bless America.’’
Professor E. H. Moser of Wake
lon High School spoke, represent
ing the mayor of Zebulon. A. C.
Dawson presented the draft pa
pers to the three, with tickets to
Fort Bragg. Members of the Lo
cal Draft Board were introduced
as follows: Mr. Dawson, chairman;
Dr. H. M. Vann, and W. H
Rhodes.
Other selections were rendered
by the Wendell band. The draftees
left on the bus shortly after the
ceremonies.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of H. D. Belvin,
Friday, December 13, 1940
late of Wake County, North Caro
lina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate
of said deceased to exhibit them
to the undersigned at Zebulon,
North Carolina, R.F.D. 3, on or
before the 15th day of December,
1941, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said .estate will
please make immediate payment.
This, the 6th day of December
1940.
Volcie Belvin, Administrator
Estate H. D. Belvin, deceased.
(Dec. 13-Jan. 17)
STUDY CLASS
The study class of the Parent-
Teacher Association met immedi
ately ia,fter adjournment o fthe
P.-T. A. Tuesday night, gathering
in the sitting room of the home
economics building. J. Howard
Bunn was speaker of the evening,
Mrs. Earl Horton, wdio has not
been well for some time, has been
feeling worse than usual this
week.
I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Gray,
I lent him to a lady
To ride a mile away,
Because she wished to hrury
Right quickly to a store
That advertsied such bargains
As she’d scarce seen before.