PREVENT DISEASE; DRAIN
? STAGNANT WATER
VOLUME XVIII.
This, That, €r
the Other
* By MRS. THEO. B- DAVIS
It's odd how much difference u
makes when someone gets a wrong
number and apologizes for bothei
ing you. Last week our line must
have been tangled or melted with
others lor there were nume
ous rings not meant for us. Some
times the ringer merely hung up
as sixin as 1 spoke, not explaining
at all. Sometimes I'd hear a short,
exasperated "wrong number"
* Once in a while somebody would
say, "Oh, 1 am sorry to have made
you answer I was trying to get
Mrs. Blank."
One wrong number took not a
bit more time than the other; but.
while I might have felt in one case
that a minute or two had been lost
from work, when an explanation
or apology came, I'd feel glad to
have had a word with such a con
siderate person.
* * *
As is my custom at this season I
am finding the most irritating
reading of all those columns and
pages of advice on how to keep
cool during the hot weather. Much
as they fret me, I can't resist go
ing over them They sound so log
ical and convincing and are in re
ality so impossible tor most ol us.
‘ For instance:
We are told to rise late, keep
\ ing the bedroom darkened against
• the gLre of morning sun. But noth
ing is said of who’d cook break
fast or gather the vegetables for
dinner or get the house in order.
Nothing of Daylight Saving
Nor is there a word as to how the
mockingbird is to be stopped from
singing at that hour. Some vary
this by saying, "rise early, perform
all necessary tasks before the day
grows hot."
But it is necessary for some of
us to work all day.
“Eating of cooling foods is
|* urged, with mouth-watering men
tion of chilled melons and salads;
"tall iced drinks" are commended,
and cold cuts are said to be spec
ially nice. Maybe so, but you just
try such diet on a man with work
in the field to do. His opinion ot
a dainty gelatine salad and a
wafer thin sandwich would hardly
be cooling.
"Freqhent bathing" is one of the
essentials mentioned. Granted and
enthusiastically endorsed. But it s
just like me to remember that with
water as hard as that piped to us
the tub always has to be scrubbed
out — and that is hot work, all
stooped over.
If you have no tub, and many
do not, there s the job of lifting
pails of water at least twuce.
“Entirely fresh clothing at least
once a day is requisite," if we
would be daintily groomed and
cool. Yea, verily. And, if we can
forget for a time the size of the
resultant weekly wash, or the fact
that we ourselves must launder
much of what w'e wear, that may
aid in keeping down our tempera
ture. For with weather like we're
having, no "gentle swishing
/through lightly foaming suds’ will
suffice for garments saturated
with sweat —and I don't mean
•perspiration, much less “prespira
tion.” It takes squishing and rub
bing to get them clean.
"Only moderate exercise should
be indulged in." Does that mean
we are not to sweep floors or
yards, not to pull the grass and
weeds from flower beds? And
should the cow— ol the neighbor s
cow- —get out, or the hens invade
the garden, should we keep our
minds on being ccxil and let them
ravage what they will? Where
does canning come on the moder
ate exercise list’
'* Finally, they insist that we think
only pleasant, unexciting thoughts.
Keep ourselves emotionally axil
and calm. That advice is good;
but if I live up to it I must quit
reading articles like the ones 1
quoted from.
I am convinced that those writ
ers know little or nothing about
the lives we folks live. But some
of them do have imaginations, and
why can't they turn their imagin
ings in one direction as well as
another?
It may be that such realism
(DZrlndim i&zmrb
Stewart Black Is
Program Leader
For Rotary Club
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Kotarians Still Holding;
to Their Perfect
Record
zxbulon Rotaiy Club held
/nth hundred pa cent consecu
t: .. meeting on August Ist
(diaries Allen being the onl,
one absent He p.obaliy was cor.
ducting a meeting com, where an
w.ll make u,. his absence. Stewart
B ack, had the piogram. His sub
Jal was dLav Down. I
litre’ Stewart went to the Stat
Highway Patrol Department in
Raleigh and got the figures or.
ikiidints and hove these accident
a cur. The record allowed that 1
sJioo! childicn had already ban
killed this in North Carolina
i h.o is !>() j) r cent more incrca..
this yeai than las.. He stated tha
moie accidents occur according *
the record on stra ght toads. Fiv •
times more people get killed or
injuied at crossings of intersection
in ..owns thah they uo on the
m. irked ways for dossing. He >ii J
that drunk driving accidents li.t 1
greatly increased since the liquoi
stores were legaliz'd, Hie largest
per cent of accidents happen t 1 ’
automobiles driven by farmer..
The record also shows that the
L ist accidents arc on Tuesda
Tms makes I ue-day the safest d...
to travel. This program given .*.
tins time is to tic a caution F
drivers that they arc the ones ex
p:ctcd to look out for school chi’,
dren, as they are not responsib’e
so; taking chances.
Five county farm agents, a i
members of the Rotary Club,
stopped by and t.Kik supper with
u: There are: C. W. Overma*
of Edcnton, George B. Hobson oi
Taylorsville, Joe B. Gourlay o.
Liilington, Bob Smith of Windso;,
k M. Williams ol Eh xnhtown.
The club will meet at Matthew
Liles next time
Isaacs Sees An
Interesting Town
R. L. Isaacs is enjoying a va
cation :n West Jefferson from
which place lie writes the editor
of this paper. Mr. Isaacs states
that his landlord declares he has
never lost a cent on boarders in
n. fifteen years in the busines
n..r has anytning ban stolen from
las place. Tne barber of the place
reports that they have had no out
standing ca.es in court for 2 4
years. Negiocs Oi the section fre
quently own land and not one
ol them has been indicted in th p
county for ten years.
Barns Burned
Fire is taking its annual toll of
tobacco barns and contents. On
Wednesday of last week a barn on
the Will Duke farm near Zebu
lon was destroyed. On Thursday
a barn on the George Richardson
farm cultivated by Wes Jones,
colored, was burned. The lost barn
was in line with two other barns
and a paekhous: was also close by.
Hard work saved these; though a
well was emptied of water in the
time used in fighting flames.
Odd T omatoes
Mrs Clarence Kemp brought
into the Record office last week
some odd tomatoes. They were of
a yellow variety, the seed having
been ordered by Mrs. Kemp. Two
were unusually large and each had
a small tomato growing on a short
stem from the middle of the large
one. The large one# were almost
identical in snape and size and so
were the two small ones. Two
weighed one pound five ounces,
the other two weighing a pound
and four ounces.
would not sell, and even cooling
writers must have funds for in
activity.
7.EIH LON. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AI Gl . T K. lttll
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C*. -:: -T J
THE RIGHT W AY— Shov 11 is a forest t’ id in Wake
County after it had been thinned. The cut wood iiil he used
for fuel, while the other fries a e left audio <>r lumber.
Some of the standing timber will be cut lor pulp u e.
Hoke Farmers Are Getting
“Guaranteed ’ Gin Work
Something new in the annals
of ginning in North Carolina is a
‘guaranteed ginning" program
to be offered by the ginners oi
Hoke county this year.
Fred P. Johnson, gin inspector
tor the State Department of
Agriculture, has been the leading
a u pmnee ng figure n pushing
guaranteed ginning as an answer
to most of the ginner’s problems.
Here’s his story.
Recently the eight ginners in
Hoke Com.iy suomittied then an
severs individually and as a group
to the so-called gui problem by
agreeing to guarantee their work
during 1941. From the viewpoint
nf the ginners and fat mens in
Hoki County there is nothing pat
ttcularly interesting in tins action
on the ginners part. Good ginning
evidently is taken lor granted in
a county that had 99.3 per cen,
normal ginning in 1940. Nor do
these Hoke County ginners Ice!
tu it they have in. de any heroic 1
.isky amnu.tmenv, ait. 1 gnm. 1
i 0,581 bales last season and hav
ing only 73 bales classed below
normal.
Tiie ginning situation anywhere
is generally difficult to explain
because the nfluences that pro
d eed it arc obscured by time .1
more spectacular factors. For mor
than 25 yeais the gin service in
HoL County has been supplied
by men whose primary interest Wa -
in cotton farming. Being farmer,
themselves they realized that tlv
practices found profitable on their
own faims should be promoted
among their customers As have
ginners in many other sections of
North Carolina, they have been
called the original county agents
They were already grading, di
tinting arid treating cotton seed
and knew the value of better seed
when the federal cotton improve
ment program was undertaken in
their county. Consequently the
v.Ol s of the Extension Service was
greatly facilitated, as evidenced by
die fact that over 25 per cent of
the Noith Carolina cotton classej
under the federal impiovement
piogram this past season was pro
duced in Hoke C unty, and that
4 : > 42 per cent of this cotton was
initialing and belter, while tiie
tern.under of the state had only
34 4.4 per cent that graded mid
dung anu above.
A CUSTOM INDUSTRY-’
Cot.on ginning is .. custom inure
try and the producer is just as
responsible tor the condition oi
the cotton he p’uts on the market
as tue ginner, in fact ne is more
responsible, because the ginner
mer iy contracts to do a job ac
c. rding to tne producer’s specifi
catiois. Technically tliL results
of tne ginning process are delta
minal by the condition of the
raw material, me mechanic’!
eqcuipmcnt and the ability of th'.
gin operator Any one of thc.->e
fact-rs can be responsible Ur
losses due to imp>-opcify ginneu
cotton. The fact that the ginners
m Hoke County are prepared l
guarantee th„ir ginning indicate
that they hate good gin equip
ment. and confidence in tin
ability <md loyalty of their ere
pioyecs, and most essential of ai'.,
that they ca.i depend upon the
intelligent cooperation of their
custi mers.
111 id ARAL 1I i In guar
ante.ing then procc-m . the Hoki
Count, ginners have merely
agreed to iormaii-c or define a
icsponsibihty they h..vc assumed
for many years. Jr. the it situatir 1
the adoption of lhi plan involves
no more than po-.ing on thc:i
premises a notice with tne loiiow
ing ten'ativ. text:
To l >l.r (lustomc;
The management of tin g ; o
hereby agrees to pay the ownc.
of any cotton ginned by us tor
any damage ittnbun J t the gin
lung process, (preparation), as d.
termineJ by U. S. Govcrnmcr.
classification and the price of cot
ton on tiie day it 1, enincd. excc| t
when, after examination of th 1
seed cotton and before the bale .-
ginned, we piesen; the owner o.
ins employee 01 rcpicscnlative
with a written notice that this
guarantee docs not apply to that
i .ah.
(Signed)"
• JW-mc- oi Gin.
It ;s th. practice oi conscientioin
ginners every when 10 exannin
tlic seed cotton puor to ginning
.it at times when the cotton is
like! to be immature, green, wee,
or unfit from .my cause lor gu.
ntng The additional burden in
vok d in the Hoke County p!a 1
would rcquuc. on»> that the g.r
employee win. examines coton In.
m .1 printed form reading abou.
.is follows:
Mi Jol ill Due :
Tins is to notify you that w.
are unabie to guaiantec oui gin
ning on bale No because w
f nd-the a tton to fee u:.J
wc nereby so inform your em
ployee whose signature appears lx
low.
Name of gin.
(Signed)
Name of ginner.
(Signed; ’
Emi loyec.
Inc Federal Government is at
present manifesting its concern
good ginning by paying 1
bonus of $2.-0 a bale to groups
of farmcis raising one variety only
of coton having staple ol on. u :
(r more in amounts of zS(K) oaL -
(4n August 7 and 8 the North
Carolina G 111 n ers Association
meets 111 Raleigh. 10 be discussed
~rc such subjects as Objectives of
the Association; Farmer Gmne
Contracts: Merchandising Improp
cr'.y Ginned Cotton; The Wa re
houseman's Stake m Better Gin
ning: Ginners Responsibility for
the Cotton Industry; B iter O.n
rung in North Carolina. This
meeting prom -es much lc.r cotton
s iov.ers, if to y wall cooperate.
It is to bt hoped that Wake
County will fall in line with this
foiward movement and develop
the best ginning facilities to be
led. •
Javcees to Meet
J
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce will hold its regular semi
monthly meeting next Mondav
night at 8:00 p. m., Daylight Sav
mg Time. Ferd Davis will have
charge of the program, and 1 1 ev
ident Bob oawyei asks that ai'
members be present.
Tiipplon Golf Course to Be
Opened Sunday Afternoon
at 3:00 p.m. with Exhibition
Local Church
News
Zebulon Baptist
b i vice's in our church fur Sun
J.y, Auguc 10, aie as follows:
1h:45 D. S. T. Sunu iy school
1 _ <)0 D S. 1 ‘.Vorst.ip s rvicc
o.in.on lopie Thi owing St mc.s.
Vesper Service
8.00 D S T. We will mec •
on tii - lawn north of die church
for Jus acr,i.c. Ih< message wilt
I. : B.ukwaid Tl.eii Forward ''
Fidelis Meeting
The Fidchs Senior Class of the
Baptist S. S. met on Monday
I night in the home of Mrs. Run.
(fill with Mrs. Willard Gill as
sue late hostess
The devotional was lead by Mrs
Graham Conn. Mrs. Theo. Davis
conducted a round tab! discus
sir hi of suggestions for improving
the efficiency of the class. It was
decided to study another book dm
ing the winter. The hostesses
served cooling refreshments to the
twenty present.
G. A. Course
The Intermediate G. A. or
Wakefield w b h.i.e a study nrrse
at 8:30 I). S. time on Friday t
this week. .Mrs. Carl Lewis will
le.ich the class. 1. is nnpeu that
tm entire membership may altenJ
Pastor Honored
Members of the Wakefield co.
go. gation gave a serprisc baiLecu
s'rppci on Wednesday honorin
tiic:r return,, pa. tor, Rev. C.u
Lewis. Mr. Lewis le.t 'es at an
early date for h.a newiy accepted
work at Ciiadbourn.
W. M. S. to Meet
l’hc W M. a. of WaketieU
ciiurch will meet at tiie church
on next Mi . day night, August ! 1
a. 8 o’clocft. At that time Miss
Mary Ann Fceb.cj of iv.leigh, rc
■('ot graduate ol the vV. M. • 1
Ti..ining S.I100! 1.1 Louisville, Ky.,
will speak. All members ol tb
society are urged .o be present an
all others interest J aie cord.ail,
invited MiSo Panics till d.stu:
siane phase of missionary wcu.
Fhilatheas Meet
Baptist Puilatlwas m.t on M.in
ky n.ght with Mrs. (dame. ol
nnsi -s Co nelia Herring leu d .
piogram. Kns. Mike wliitlcy pr -
sioed during the business session
During the social hour .he no;: ■
i scived deli, ous it.frcsl.mei,.
Seen and Heard
A small girl declaring that she
would never get over Mr dislik
for a man who accidentally killed
her Title dog, adding wondenngly,
Bu, Daddy likes him yet.” . . .
A s:cndcr, fastidiously neat young
w :man stating that zhe kopec
six hundred sticks of tobacco on
Monday—enough to fill a barn.
But it took three 10 wail on her,
handing leaves, and laying down
the sticks when filled . . . Tha*
same young woman attending a
mee'ing on Monday night
Car. ling and more canning it
mig.it be sate to wager that this J
■y/:' Ju /
vy//-.
Klteii.il —-»'
Pictured is Gladys Swarth
ouf, who will sing in Raleigh
this fall under the auspices of
Ihe Raleigh Civic Music Asso
cialion.
Wakelon School
Opening Sept. 9
Announcement has no n in.id.
by County Sup. Rar.uolpn Ben
r.in tli.it white Jicxii- in Wak
(aunty wtii open Sept. 9 Negr
• iiools will open a week lit -r
(1 corgi* Dean Lome economic
tea riict w.d beg,n then work o<
August U, 'licit being supported
by th, F dcral govcnanei.t am’
lasting lor ten months.
Schools nr bus duvers n. ve
I ,1 n lied and a Ciitckup is ; iam: L
rn bring • ire of gastifmc in Ink
with nation, I defense practice.-
1.0111 pa: isoii;, are to 1* made of
tin. costa IP. 11l f CiUlt 'Chools
flew Shoemaker
Ralph Halstead of Wendell has
been employed by C B Edci,ns,
Sr., to manage the shoe shop in
Zebulnn. He is an expert snoc
maker, having had 15 years ca
penene. He says he is going to
give the folks in in. D.i ulou ci.lll
munity the very best service pos
sible and will guarantee fuily hi
vvoi k.
Street Paved
Work of resurfacing the part of
Arrcndall Street from the Baptist
Church to M.issey’s Hatchery
progresses well. The new coating
i." of bituminous soil and will give'
a good highway tor travel Tin
str'- - t is also Ix'ing widened. Par
ticui.i’ly desirable is the broaden
mg at the Baptist church where
cinbs h vc ix.cn !i d and the gutt.
filled in,
Bogen Buying
Mr Bogen of the Leader De
partment store left Sunday night
for the markets to purchase fall
and winter line of men,", women’s
and children's ready-to-wear, and
furnishings.
is one of the canningest section,
of tne state. So neaiiy
is grown in gardens and truck
patcies . . . Sam Narion, th..,
community’s best known baseball
star, mentioned in the Saturda>
Evening Post in a sports articn
. . . Confusion among some con
gregations as to whether services
are set for daylight saving or
Eastern Standard time, sum •
therefore, extra early; some extra
late . . . Smuli, wooliy dogs pan
ingly attempting their usud
j rounds, but without their usu.i.
| vigor . And, always, the wcathei
PREVENT DISEASE; DRAIN
STAGNANT WATER
Country Club Is
to Ke Organized
Best Ball Match to Be
Flayed at Official
Opening;
FAIRWAYS PERFECT
Seven Hole Layout Now
Ready for the
Public
z billon s beautiful new Tipp
ion Golf Course will be official 1 r
"j 11. d to th. public next Sunday
afteinixn, / lUgust 10, when an
exhibition match will be played by
101,1 of the best golfers from this
action of the state, ad of whom
-shoot m the seventies.
The match will begin at 3 p
m, and will oc so. 18 holes. Sines
the coiuse is only 7 holes at pres
nt, tin courst will be played twit •
c till an adciid 4 holts, provided
die match is not won earlier. The
P-.‘> wi!' k - besti.ail; two players
j w.il be partners and the lx-st score
on each holt, ot either of them
~:il be matched with the best scar
of tne othe” twosome.
Tiler will be no admission fee
Hie public is cordially invited to
iltenJ die exhibition, noth to
g.od golfers in action and also to
v.ii.it a giKxl job Mi Tippet'
in don. in building the course.
1 lie entire layout is seeded with
Bermuda grass ana is mowed reg
ul.irly with .1 new gang mowe
designed especially for golf courses
ki -exy Brancii winds through th:
iTiiddic of the couise, pioviding a
natural hazard, though it has to
lie etossed omy twice in the course
of pl.iy
Follow ng the exhibition, a
local goll club waii be organized
Colt clubs horn Clayton, Louis
burg, and Wake Forest have a!
lf.idy asked for matches with the
local group, and other invitations
-lie expected to Lx; forthcoming
H L Thom, von, who is promot
ing the match here next Sunday,
slated that tournaments wer-'
planned by tie prospective mem
bers, which tournaments would be
gin immediately after die oody s
o: g.iniz ation.
Ine first hole of the course
luns from the driving range across
the old pasture about 400 yards,
all on the south side of Rocky
branch. The second hole is across
the branch, with the golfer driving
toward the highway. Hole nun.
her three extends about three hui
died yards towaid Wakefield
with the player driving across the
bi inch, while hole number fou*
1 almost .on the Wakeficld Peara
I, .ad, the go’fer again crossing th’
I 1 inch Hole five is about half
way between the road and th
highway to Spring Hope, extending
II .nit f've hundred and fifty yard-.
Number >ux is almost on the high
way, and number seven is down
behind the Tippett house, abou
thirty yards from the branch. A’
hole seven the branch is deep bo
1 use of the dam below the high
way (forming the swimming p<xil )
A large aovvd is expected t' 1
attend the meet, and many of them
wall probably join the club in or
der to retain for Zebulon the re
markably good course. Any pet
-nils interested in joining who can
not tx' at the course Sunday aft
ernoon ..rc a,-ked to see Mr. Tip
pett.
Cheaves Praised
Many commendations have bei 1
ivard this summer about the way
W. S. Cheaves looks after the
!. Iwi 1 of the Baptist chuich. Nevei
before has it been kept so con
sistently in first Jass condition
Such carefulness is bound tc im
press itself upon those passing
tmough Zebulon as well as the
local citizenry.
NUMBER 3