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By MRS. THEO. B- DAVIS
If anybody knows how to keep
I r a cat from catching little chickens
or to break one from such a habit,
I he or she is invited - entreated -
to speak up. Our last wo cats
p have been hastened to the grave
because each was found with a
small Rhode Island Red dangling
from its mouth. It seemed a great
pity to kill cats otherwise harm
less and useful, but our experi
ence has been that once they start
killing chickens there is no cure.
■>The heavy wind last Friday
Jwi’ouffht havoc anong some flow
Jljtrs. My own young rosebushes
JUrwero bruisei a to leaf and bud,
and one bush was -pi it wide open
by being twisted while laden with
fat buds- I have cut the broken
branches smooth and have bound
the split together with adhesive
tape. It may grow again or it
may have to come out from the
root. In that case I’ll need to
watch closely to see that the ram
bier stock the bush was grafted
|f on does not get ahead of the
Lady Hillingdon part.
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It may sound a bit peculiar, but
frl believe my son’s young wife
has had no more sincere compli
ment paid her than when Sarah,
our. colored helper, said to Fen!
last week, “You ought to got mar
ried long time ago. I’ve sho’ got
good help now Selma’s here”.
flu One day this week Mrs. T. C.
”Wppin told me of a trip to Ral
she made some time ago with
an d Mrs. W. R. Bobbitt who
live on Route 1, just across the
highway from the Pippins. There
are thirteen Bobbitt children and
the trip to Raleigh was for buying
scj|ool clothes for them. Mrs. Pip
jHn said it was delightful to walk
around and help select dresses
with no responsibility for paying
for them. Mrs. Bobbitt on that
one trip got twenty-eight dresses
for her daughters. “And,” said
J»Mrs. Pippin in conclusion, “not
jEtfie of those dresses cost as little
.ninety eight cents. They all
were higher-priced.” The young
est child begins school next Sep
tember
P Two other families that have
furnished pupils for years at
Wakelon are the W. H. Winsteads
i,nd the E. P. Dentons. Twelve
«children in each group. Hilda, the
youngest Winstead, will be in high
■school next year and will be the
„only member of her family at
Wakelon. Jackie and Dorothy
Denton will both be in high school
next fall, .the latter being the
youngest in her family. Before
1 we shall have to get used to
commencements with neither a
Winstead nor a Denton among the
graduates-
Commencement Program For The
, Seventh Grade Held At Wakelon
Too late for last week’s paper
the account of the graduation pro.
gram for Wakelon’s seventh grade
was received.
The opening devotional was led
by Jane Baker and Carolyn Man
gum led the prayer. A song,
“Largo,” was given by the class
■ Thurston Arnold was salutato
rian, Faye Williams was historian
the prophecy was given by
Hilda Winstead.
Supt. Moser presented certifi
cates to graduates after which
Carrie Bridges, valedictorian,
spoke words of farewell.
The class sang “Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot.”
Thurston Arnold was presented
the award given by the Woman’s
A Club while the art award from the
\ ' Junior Club went to Mildred Hag-
I wood and*Jewell Hood. A list of
I m the graduates follows:
Jane Baker
Andrew Droughon
Robert Denton
Wat JErimUm Wittotb
Singing Convention
To Be At Middlesex
Already Middlesex community
is making preparation to entertain
the Four County Singing Coven
tion in May. It will be held in the
high school auditorium on the
fourth Sunday in this month, com
mencing at 10:00 o’clock in the
morning and continuing through
the afternoon. Singing classes
from Wake, Johnston, Franklin,
Nash counties will gather for this
big singing convention- Not only
will there be classes and choirs,
but also quartettes, duets, and
special selections by individuals.
There were 1,500 people at the
last convention in October last
year, and twice that number is ex
pected this year. All over the
territory classes nj'e already or
ganized and training for this oc
casion. I-et’s everybody begin
now to plan to attend. Bring your
family and dinner and enjoy a
good day with your friends.
Governor Broughton will be
present and will make an address
in the afternoon.
Any choirs or ’ndividuals wish
ing to enter the contests will coni
municate with Mr. L. A Hagwoo ,
Chairman, Middlesex, N. C. Rt. 2.
Fifteen others are assisting him
on the committee planning to
make this the greatest occasion
of its kind ever held in this sec
tion of the State.
Zebulon Girl
Is President
Miss Ida Cahoon, formerly of
Zebulon, now assistant manager
of the Duke University Store,
Durham, has been elected presi
dent of the Pilot Club, organiza
tion of business women, charter,
ed by Pilot International-
She was formally installed at
the convention of clubs comprising
District Six, meeting this year in
Charlotte in April.
Miss Cahoon’s many friends
here are pleased to know of this
recognition of her efficiency and
wish her continued success.
Magazines
The Northside Circle of the
Baptist W. M. S. is collecting
magazines to be sent to Fort
Bragg for the soldiers’ reading.
All wTio contribute are asked to
send magazines at once to the
store of J. A- Kemp and Son,
where Mr. C. M. Watson will take
charge of them and see that they
are forwarded to their destina
tion.
COTTON
Domestic cotton consumption in
March established a new high
record of 854,000-
Charles Bullock
Delbert Gay
Ned Frazier
Geraldine Gay
Betty Lou Carter
Thurston Arnold
Mildred Hagwood
Dorothy Denton
Elsie Doyle
L. T. Averette, Jr.
Edith Bridges
Elizabeth Baker
Haywood Hodge
Elmo Finch
Mayon Duke
Braxton Eddins < *
Melba Dean Edwards
Emma Vic Gill
Carrie Bridges
Robert Gordon
Bobby Duke
James Robert Fowler
Benny Perry
Jewell Hood
Charles Clark
Maxine Duke
(Contnued on page four)
Draftees
The following men are to be in
ducted into the army May 22,
1941:
William McKinley Dunn, Route
3, Zebulon; Lumas Edward Har
ris, Zebulon; Clement Godfrey
Harris, Method; Archie Dean
Ix-ach, Method; Fred Douglas
Holder, Route. 1, Zebulon; Harman
Harris, Route 1, Zebulon; Mosley
Valine Hunter, Route 5, Raleigh.
Rotary Oub
Hold Meeting
Zebulon Rotarians met Friday
night for the 07th consecutive 100
percent meeting provided Profes
i r Moser, Stewart Black, Vance
Brown and Judd Robertson make
up their attendance. Albert Mcd
lin began bis program by having
Miss Jocelyn House play a beau
tiful piano solo.
The speaker was Mrs. Delia
Sills Garner, a Quaker preacher
whose subject was “Vacations”.
She said we are realizing more
and more the need for vacations;
that one gets bored with the mo
notony of his work and can not
be at his best when ihe mind is
tired She believes that the sloth
ful person has a slow mind and
that this condition should be a
voided. Nature has made the
world beautiful and a n apprecia
tion of this would make living
happier.
The talk was enjoyed in addi
tion to the novelty of having a
j lady preacher address the club.
The following were visitors:
Mrs. Albert Medlin and her aunt,
Mrs. Marion C. Butler
Counterfeiting
Therus Wilson, a farmer of
Sampson County, has been arrest
ed on a charge of counterfeiting.
He is said to have passed a num
ber of bogus ten-dollar bills, one
method being to buy a few gal
ions of gas, give one of the bills
in payment and receive change.
He is thought to be one of the
principals in a counterfeiting
ring. Headquarters may be at a
distance from here.
When the bogus bills first be
gan to appear, R. Vance Brown,
cashier of the local branch of
the Peoples Bank and Trust Co ,
pany, warned against acceptance
of these bills by local citizens-
Wind Damage
The high wind of last Friday
damaged fruit and flowers con
siderably, though it is possible in
the case of the former the fall
now has lessened that of later
weeks. Many trees had more set
than could well have matured.
Flowers were bruised and buffet
ed by the wind until gardeners
looked with dismay at ruined buds
that had been meant to grace
the flower show.
The wind was especially dam
aging to young tobacco plants,
,which had been set Thursday af
ter \\ ednqpday night’s heavy rain.
EXPRESSION OF THANKS
Mrs. Walter Bunn and family of
the Hopkins Chapel community
wish to express through the Rec
ord their sincere thanks for kind
nesses shown them and for sym
pathy extended during the illness
and at the time of the death of
the husband and father of the
household
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NOTICE
Mrs. A. N. Jones announces
that the library at the Woman’s
Oub will be open on Mondays
only, from 8:30-12:00 and 2:30-
5:00 each week of the summer.
The first date is next Monday.
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MAY Hi. 1911
M. O. MANN. CLAUDE R Wl( HARD HAROLD D COOLEY
Three outstanding men at the N. C. Cotton Growers Cooper
ative Association in Raleigh Tuesday. Harold D. Cooley, Con
gressman from this district introduced the principal speaker
Hon. Claude R. Wichard, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture. M. G.
Mann i General Manager of the Co-ops. Five thousand farmers
gathered at the Co-op annual meeting in the Auditorium. Raleigh.
A barbecue dinner was served all present following the meeting.
Local Church
News
Baptist Church
Our services for Sunday, May
18, are as follows:
9:4sSunday School
11:00 —Morning Worship. Ser l
mon subject: “Christian
Education”
7:BO —Young People’s service
8:00 Evening Worship. Ser
mon topic: “The Worth of
the Kingdom.”
Vacation Bible School
Our Bible school begins Friday
of this week with the faculty
meeting at three-thirty in the
church. The pupils will come to
register at four o’clock. Monday,
May 19, will he the first day of
classes. The school will continue
for two weeks.
SPECIAL SERVICE
A special program for Mother’s
Day, planned and directed by Mrs*
Russell Temple, superintendent of
the Intermediate Department at
the Baptist church, was presented
Sunday morning, boys and girls
from the department having the
parts in a playlet, in songs and
readings. Mrs. J. A. Kemp was
chose n to represent motherhood.
It was regretted that Mrs. Temple
was kept away by the illness of
her husband, but her place was
ably taken by Mrs. R H. Herring.
The sermon by Pastor Griffin
followed the line of thought sug
gested by the day.
On Sunday afternoon a memor
ial service arranged by Rev. C. F.
Allen was held in the Zebulon
cemetery. This was somewhat of
an innovation here, but may prove
to be a permanent addition to the
day’s programs. Mr- Allen was as
sisted by the other ministers of
the town in a short service of
commemoration and appreciation.
Methodist
Forty-six members were present
last Sunday. Fifty members have
attended church services for the
last two Sundays. We still hope
there is going to be an increase
in church service attendance.
Services for next Sunday:
Church School, 10:00; Young
People, 7:00; Church Service, 8:00,
Pastor’s subject; “How May We
Find God?”
CHRISTIAN SERVICE
SOCIETY
The Ida Fisher Missionary So
ciety of Christian Service met
with Mrs. J. F. Coltrane, with
Mrs. Coley Arnold assistant
hostess- Mrs. Jethro Stell, vice
president, presided. Mrs. B. F.
Boone had charge of the pro
gram. Mr*. Fred Page discuss
ed the essential value of Prayer.
Mrs- W. D. Finch reported the
Mission Study meeting a t Knight
dale, which included Wendell,
Knightdale and Zebulon. Around
forty-five were present. Mrs.
Doane Stott, missionary from Ja
pan, gave a short talk on her
stay there. After the business,
refreshments were served.
The Lost Colony
Paul Green’s drama, “The Last
Colony,” will again be presented
at Manteo this summer, the first
date being July 3.
It is probable that increased at
tendance may be the result of the
widely-known controversy concern
ing the many stones claimed to
have been found lettered by El
eanor Dare, and which tend to
prove a fate for the colony dif
fering from Green’s finish to the
play. The fact that these stones
are thought to be fraudulent at
tempts to lessen North Carolina’s
claim to the I/>st Colony may
deepen interest.
Press agents state that Roanoke
Island can take care of 5,000
visitors nightly. The play will bo
given each night from July 3
through July 13. After that per
formances will he given each
night except Mondays and Tues
days untiloSeptember 1
Pleasant Hill
Little Miss Billie Dove Hopkins
has measles-
Mrs. W. I’. Robertson has been
some better for the last few days.
Visitors to see her Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Hodge, Sr-, of
Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Hodge, Jr,, and Mrs- J. W. Carol
of Wakefield; Mrs. Carey Moore
of Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. William
Jones of Wendell; Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Horton and Mr. and Mrs.
Rodney Floyd of Bunn; Mr. Clif
ford Richards, Mr Tom Batten
and Mr. Buck Alford of Fort Jack
son.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hood and
sons of Tennessee spent several
days with Mrs. E. W- Hood last
week. His mother, wife, brothers
and sisters surprised him with a
picnic dinner Saturday with a
number of other relatives and
friends present. The afternoon
was spent with social talk and
string music by the Puryear
brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W- Thorne and
children of Varina, Mr. and Mrs.
A. O. Puryear of Wake Forest,
Mr. and Mrs- T. E. Puryear of
Mitchell Mill and Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Puryear and families spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. Y
Puryear.
Mrs. Edd Fowler and daughters,
Sallie and Evelyn, of Fowlers X
Roads, visited Mrs W. P. Robert
son Wednesday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs. W. C. Jones of
Wendell called to see their mother,
Mrs. B. K. Horton, Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Sallie Horton of Fowlers
X Roads spent last week with her
sister, Mrs. W. P. Robertson and
her son, B K. Horton.
Masters Bobby and Billy Rhodes
spent Sunday afternoon with Mas
ter James Ellis Horton.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Horton and
daughters Sunday with Mrs.
Horton’s mother, Mrs. Norman
Dean of Wendell.
The children of Hephzibah Sun
! day School gave Mrs. Marshall
Strickland, one of their teachers,
ji handkerchief shower Saturday
afternoon on the Rocks at Rocky
Branch.
The choir of Hopkins Chapel
came to see Mrs- W. P. Robertson
Friday night and sang for her.
North Carolina’s 1940 grape
crop was the largest on record.
JayCees Elect New
Officers at Meeting
The Zebulon Junior Chamber
of Commerce held the regular
meeting Monday night with four
teen members present Election
of new directors was held. Rob
ert Daniel Massey was appointed
to look after the voting.
Directors elected were: for
two years, Raleigh Alford, Rob
ert Dawson, George Griffin,
Robert Daniel Massey and Tom
Scarborough for one year, to
finish out the term of Jesse Nar
ron, elected last year for two
years and also as secretary
treasurer. When Jesse was trans
ferred from Zebulon, Elmo Bunn
was appointed acting secretary
treasurer until the next election.
After the regular meeting a
meeting of the directors was held
for the election of new officers
for the coming year. Those elect
ed were: Bob Sawyer, presi
dent; Rom Moser, Ist vice-pres
ident; Robert Dawson, 2nd vice
president, a tid Robort Daniel
Massey, secretary treasurer. They
will take office July Ist.
Thanks From
Club President
Mrs. H. C- Wade desires to ex
press the thanks of the Garden
( lub to Mrs. C. E. Flowers, gen
eral chairman, to her committees
in all departments; to Mrs. Ford
Davis, registrar; to the judges
who worked so faithfully; to all
who brought flowers for entry,
and for every act of co-operation
to achieve the success of the
Flower Show.
WOMAN’S CLUB
The May meeting of the wom
an s club will be held on Tuesday
afternoon of next week with Mrs.
frbv Gill directing a program on
Art Mesdames C. F. Allen and
C. E. Flowers will be hostesses.
Weather
Unseasonable cold the latter
part of last week and the first
of this has delayed gardens and
planting of crops. A little tobac
co was set during the slight “sea
son” of last week, but the bulk
of the acreage is not yet in the
fields. Rain is needed before
planting may be expected to be
successful as the ground is too
dry for watering to provide suf
ficient moisture.
CLUB MEETING
The Home Demonstration Club
of Wakefield will hold its regu
lar meeting May 21, 3:00 P. M. at
the club house. Visitors are al
ways welcome-
Mrs. Willie Bullock, Club Pres.
The Bell System Expects To Spend
Nearly $400,000,000 On Construction
The Bell System expects to
spend approximately $400,000,000
on new construction during 1941
as a result of accelerated indus
trial and military activity under
the national defense program, an
nounces President Walter S. Gif
ford of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company.
This represents an increase of
more than $100,000,000 over 1940’s
expenditure for the same purpose.
Long distance traffic is running
about 25 per cent above that of
last year.
Emphasizing the part the Bell
companies are playing in provid
ing for defense communication
needs, Mr- Gifford said, “In the
midst of this extraordinary act
ivity, the Federal Comunications
Commission has instituted a for
mal case against the Bell System
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NUMBER 43
Notice
Electric service will be inter
rupted in Zebulon, Wendell,
Bayleaf, Sims, and Severson,
Sunday, M'*y 18, to allow'
workmen to make improve
ments and install new equip
ment at the substation feeding
electricity to these communities.
Power will be off from 5 to
fi o'clock in the morning, this
time being chosen because it
was felt the public would be
le~st inconvenienced at these
hours.
Flower Exhibit
Great Success
Because of the unseasonable
cold weather following the high
winds of last Friday it was feared
ihat the flower show sponsored by
the Zebulon Carden Club might
be less than the success hoped for.
But, as often happens, the display
of blossoms astonished those who
had doubted.
In number the arrangements ex
reeded any show held here pre
viously, and there could not be
criticism of quality. Iris, roses,
and snapdragons were in the ma
jority, but many other blossoms
were shown.
Judges did not complete their
work until some time after one
o’clock and the doors of the club
house were then opened for visi
tors.
A complete list of the awards
will be published next week.
Bethany
Mrs. E. T. Robertson spent
last weekend in Baltimore with
her daughter, Margie.
Miss Frances Jones of Raleigh
spent Sunday with the home folks.
Mr. and Mrs- Virgil Durranee of
Columbia spent Sunday with Mrs.
Durrance’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Horton.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Wiggs of
Richmond, Va., are spending the
week with Mr Wiggs’ brother, B.
J. Wiggs.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hales of
Zebulon spent Sunday P.M with
Mr and Mrs. R. L. Perry.
Mrs. E. E. Williford invited all
of her children and grandchildren
to a dinner Sunday, it being
Mother’s Day. She received many
beautiful gifts, among them was
a large Mother’s Day Cake, given
by her daughter, Mrs. Lowell Hor
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. O W. Thome of
Varina spent Friday P.M. with
Mrs. L. H. Williford.
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North Carolina’s largest wheat
production was in 1900 when 6,-
800,000 bushels were produced-
Companies.
“We are naturally disappointed
that the Commission should, es
pecially at this critical time, de
part from the practice which it
has followed in the past of hand
ling rate matters by informal con
ference with the Company -a pro
cedure which, the Commission has
said in its annual reports and
other public statements, has been
productive of results without the
necessity of legal procedings.”
He declared that the speed and
vastness of the defense program
and the importance of the tele
phone to its success are a chal
lenge to every man and woman in
the Bell System and expressed
pride in the spirit and competence
with which the entire telephone
personnel is meeting its challenge.