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This, That & The Other BY Mrs. Theo. B. Davis One day when Howard Bunn and I were talking he quoted from "Goodnight, Sweet Prince” these words: "The years are always short: it is, only the days that are long.” I almost agree: but the distinction should be made be tween darkness and light. It is the nights that are long. One can always speed daytime hours bv work until time, defeated, steals away. It is when the hours, divid .ed into squadrons and companies of minutes and seconds, press upon us in the darkness that we ciinge, dreading to lace them. Mr. O. N. Phillips of near Wen ' c : came into our office recent ly bringing copy for a circular he wanted printed. It was well ar ranged and the linotypist would have had no trouble in setting type from it. Mr. Phillips wanted us to check hie copy, adding that he had never been to school. Surprised. I asked where he learned to read and write so well, and lie said at home. Again surprised, I re m- rked that he must have had good teachers. He said he was taught by two Negro boys, hired bv his father as farm hands; that one had been to college a year and the other had been to high school. At the noon rest hour the three boys would sit on the wood pile and the two colored ones read and studied, teaching the smaller white boy who became so much interested that he kept on. If this is not a unique record I should like to hear of one more unusual. Now that children are in school and cold weather not far off, mothers should see that not one child leaves for the bus ride or the walk to school without having had breakfast. And, if you think some haven’t been doing that, you may be shocked as I was to learn it. And when I say break fast I don’t mean dry cereal and milk: but something nourishing and hot. School lunchrooms pro viding a warm meal at noon are <■!’ great value: but even they can not take the place of breakfast; and no child should be allowed to go rom suppertime till lunch next day without really breaking the night’s fast. This is not merely a notion of mine; doctors and dietitians agree on it. Last week I read of a light bulb that had been in use twenty years which was held to be a record for such things. And it set me think ing and remembering. When our home hurned, nearly ffteen yeaars ago and we went' to WakeEeld to live in what was known as the “Cliff Ferrell place” there was a bulb in the hall, left by the Eugene Jones family, last occupants of the house. Kathleen (Mrs. Jones) said when I men tioned it to her that it was such an old one she was sure it would n’t last much longer, so just let me go on using it. When we moved back to Zeb ulon that bulb was, by mistake, brought along. It had <eon months of service since I knew it, and I screwed it into the socket in the ceiling of our little entrance porch, expecting to have to re place it soon. But it seems as good as ever, even to this day. Kath leen, when questioned about it last week, thought it may be one her grandfather (Mr. Ferrell) had in the house. It is the kind that lets the light sort of creep along its wires instead of flash ing on all at once, is round like the old-style Christmas tree balls, and has been red; though a good bit of the color had been scraped off before I saw it. We know it has been used more than fifteen years. Can anyone around here beat that? If so, please let us hear from you. One Fire Prevention Week cau tion urged that careful smoking habits be cultivated by all mem bers of the family. I like to oe cooperative; but not even for fir ■ prevention will I take up any soi of smoking habits. Like many others I have at times said “I declare I’m ’fraid I’m losing my mind.” But I was not really serious when making that remark and it actually scar ed me to find myself one day re cently trying to get a telephone number by dialing the typewrit er, which sits right by the phone. THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume 21. No. 8 Rotary Notes The Zebulon Rotary Club has assumed the obligation of can vassing Little River township to laise the War Fund allotted. Wake County’s allotment is S 193,000. Raleigh has obligated to raise be iwteu $ 125,000 and §160,000. Lit re River allotment is around §3200. Rev. George Griffin is chairman. C. V. Wh Icy, Vance Brown, Ralph Trite n, Mr. and Mrs. Irby Gill and ethers will canvass Zeb ulon. Robert E. Horton is to work south of the railroad. D. D. Cham blee chairman of rural section, north of Zebulon. The campaign starts Oct. 20th and ends Nov. 2nd. There are a good many objects listed so th; t one can have a choice of giving to any one the main one is the U. S. O. All work ers are giving their time without compensation. This money is needed by the war torn suffering humanity. It is needed to help our boys in the army and when they are traveling etc. IJSO is doing a good job but they must have n .ney to carry on. Be ready with your gift and look up these workers. They all have jobs and are busy folks so look them up to make your offering and save them time. Any Surplus Plates With the new Federal program at Wakelon’s lunchroom several hundred more plates are needed. Two hundred have been bought. If the remainder can be supplied from the shelves of community housekeepers, it will leave money so-- other purposes, even if plates ; r<' available in quantity. In many homes there are fewer plates needed than formerly. If yours is one of these, will you not help in the present emergency ! y giving some that are not used, but simply sit on the shelves? Not from your treasured best dishes, but plates that have seen every day service and ought to see more of it. Send them direct to the lunchroom or to Mrs. Dewey Massey. This is the opportunity for mothers whose children have finished high school to show their continued interest in Wakelon. Give a plate, or plates that you can spare. A CORRECTION In our issue of July 21 in the report of the Little River Record er’sL Court proceedings it was stated that Joe Brantley of the Union Hope community came to town drunk on Saturday, the day of the bond sale. He was tried in the court. The report, as the paper got it from the court records, states that he was sent to the roads for 30 days. Mr. Brantley has stated to the editor that this is incorrect, that he was not drunk, nor was he sentenced to the roads. We are glad to make this statement for him. Although most of us would prefer some things never being made public, none of us want derogatory statements made about us that are untrue. MRS. ADA PRIVETTE Final rites for Mrs. Ada Priv ette. 52, of Raleigh, were held Friday afternoon at the family cemetery at the old home place near Zebulon. Surviving are two sons, A. C. Privette of Zebulon, Route 2, and B. C. Privette of the United States Navy in the South Pacific; three daughters, Mrs. Blanche Y. Carter of Newport News, Va., and Mrs. D. L. Smith and Marie Priv ette, both of Raleigh; a sister, Mrs. Katherine Poland of Middle sex, Route 2; five half-sisters, Mrs. Nettie Brantley of Creed moor, Mrs. Pearl* Jones of Zebu lon, Route 2 and Mrs. Lillie Tuck er, Margie Gay, and Geraldine Gay, all of Durham; and six bro thers, J. T. Gay of Wendell, Rt. 2, Melvin Gray of Sanatorium, J. H. Gay of Spring Hope, Rt. 2, Loom is Gay of Wilson, Silas Gay of Wake Forest, Rt. 2, and J. R. Gay of Raleigh. Zebulon, N. ( ~ Friday, October 2(1,1911 Men In Service i PROMOTED Edward E. Hood, son of Mrs. Alice Hood of Zebulon and the late E. W. Hood, has been pro moted from major to lieutenant colonel i nthe Army. He is serving as assistant chief of staff, G-4. reneral staff corps, of the 75th Infantry Division at Camp Breckenridge. Kv. He received his commission as a second lieuten ant upon graduation from State College in 1926. was called to active duty in 1934 with the Civi lian Conservation Corps and serv ed as company commander in several North Carolina CCC camps. In February, 1942, he was ordered to duty with the armed forces with the rank of captain I and later was promoted to major. I His wife and family are making | their home at Boonville. Newman Russell Baker, seamon | first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. I N. Baker, Zebulon, R. 3, is home on a nineteen-dav leave. He was in the southern invasion of France and came back to Ameri ca in September. He has been in service fourteen months. During this time he was in Russia and South Africa. Mirvin Adolph Horton, son of Marvin Horton, Zebulon R. 3, en listed in the navy Wednesday of ! this week. He will take his train- J ng at Bainbridge, Md. 15th AAF in Italy—First Lt. Rom F. Moser, 28, of vebulon. North Carolina, a pilot on a 15th AAF Liberator Bomber, has been awarded the Silver Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal, it f was announced by 15th Army Air Force Headquarters. In the words of the citation, Lt. Moser was decorated “for meri torious achievement in aerial flight while participating in sus tained operational activities a painst the enemy.” He is a mem ber of a Liberator group that has flown over one hundred missions aeainst targets in occupied Eu rope. A graduate of Lubbock. Texaas Army Flying School, Lt. Moser is the son of E. H. Moser of Zeb ulon. North Carolina. Word was received here Tues day night that Horace Mullen of the AAF had been killed in action on October 8. He was a brother of Mrs. Russel Temple and was for some years employed by Zebulon Drug Co. here. MRS. SIS PEARCE Mrs. Sis Pearce of 708 Belmont Street died at Rex Hospital after an illness of a few days. She was 68 years of age and was the widow of W. K. Pierce of Raleigh. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Pierce Baptist Church near Zebulon. Burial Was in the family cemetery. MRS. TONY HILL Funeral services for Mrs. Tony Hill cf 432 Fayetteville Street were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from the home of her mother, Mrs. Elsie Glover, near Zebulon. Burial was in the family cemetery. Mrs. Hill died Monday afternoon while being taken in an ambu-. lance to a hospital. She had been ill only a short time. Mrs. Hill was the former Kath leen Glover of Zebulon. Surviving are her mother; her husband; a daughter, Effie Hill; a sister, Mrs. Roy Edwards of Louisburg; and two brothers, Da rion Glover of Molton, Ga., and j Leamon Glover of Zebulon, Rt. 3 United War Fund At this time special appeals are being made for the Umted War Fund; hence it might be well to repeat or emphasize some of the causes for which the fund is col lected. There aie 35. Perhaps most important in the minds of many of us are the USO, War Prisoners Aid (Albert Wiggs is a prisoner), Relief for foreign countries friendly to the Allies, Boy Scouts, Gir l Scouts, Commun ity Council and Mental Hygiene Clinic ol Wake County, and the Salvation Army; though all are important. A list i the local committee, under the chairmanship of the Rev. G. J. Griffin, appears in the Ro tary news. It is hoped that dona tions may be adequate for the al lotted quota for this community— s32so.oo. Church Ne ws k— _/* BAPTIST CHURCH 10:00 Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship. Ser mon topic: “Pilgrimage” 7:15 Training Union 8:00 Evening Worship. Message: ' God's Presence.” W. M. S. The Dora Pitts W. M. S. met Monday afternoon in the home ol Mrs. C. M. Watson. The day’s topic, Our Chief Aims, was well presented by Miss Annette Frank lin. Mrs. S. A. Horton presided over the business session. This society has promised to furnish magazines so; use by the Sun beams. During a social hour the hostess, assisted by Mrs. M. I). Hood, serv ed refreshments. ] HARVEST DAY AT HALLS CHAPEL On Friday, October 27th, the Harvest Day sale will be held at Hales Chapel Church. There will be services at 11 o’clock. Dinner will be served on the grounds, af ter which an auction sale will start. The public is invited. We sincerely hope that all members will cooperate in the sale. Mrs. .J. O. Allen. HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL There is fun in store for the whole family on Hallowe’en at Wakelon. Everybody is invited to come and enjoy a carnival and stunt show sponsored by the ' school. A program, of laughs and chills and real pleasure guaran- ! teed. General admission is 10 and 20 cents and the hour 7:30 p. m., Friday, October 27th. P. T. A, Wakelon P. T. A. takes this op portunity to thank those who have contributed toward purchasing plates and glasses foV the school lunch room. The lunch room, be ginning Monday, will be operated under the Federal Aid program. This program gives to each child a well balanced plate lunch in cluding 1-2 pt. of sweet milk for 10c. For those who bring their lunch milk may be had for only 2c. This service is something that every child in Wakelon school may enjoy. And we feel that as parents, we should stand behind the program and see that the re quired necessary equipment is placed at the disposal of those who are trying to put this pro gram of service in our school system. If there are others who are filing to give, please seq, Mrs. Ruric Gill. Our needs are many. The following patrons have al ready ‘contributed: Dunn Gi*»cery Store, $5.00 i Flowers Dept. Store and Caro lina Power and Light Co., $3.00 , each W. B. Bunn Co. $2.50 Worth Hinnant, Massey Lumber C 0.,. Zebulon Hdwe, Co., Kannon Case, Frank Kemp, $2.00 each; H. C. Wade, A. G. Kemp, Jim Radio Shop, A. D. Privette Mill, Lucy F. Massey, Elite Beauty si.so Per Year, 1*3X3010 In Advance Dr. I. G. Greer To Speak At Thanksgiving i By Toni M. Freeman. Pastor' Members and friends of Thanksgiving Baptist Church will gather on Friday. November 10th, for the Annual Harvest Day Ser v.ces. Speaker for the occasion is Dr. I. G. Greer, past President of tL Baptist State Convention and Supe: mtendent of the Nbrth Car ol : . Baptist Orphanage. He will bring a chorus of high school boys and girls with him, to furnish much of the music for this pro g,i am. Exercises begin at 10:30 a. m., war time, with the Service of Worship and Dedication in the Church, when members will ded iit itr to God the offerings of o av . nd produce which they have brought to the Church, and ] Dr. Greer will bring an inspira - tional message. An added feature \ I be a vocal solo, by Dr. H. Royster Chamblee, ol Raleigh. Alter the Worship Service ev er > present will be in- ited to a free dinner, after which the Sal-.! of Produce will begin. To ! c, o and hoy will be sold before Harvest Day. but there will be so ale that day: Canned fruits 1 and vegetables, jelly and jam, j curves, dried fruit, peanuts, 1 oa . popcorn, wheat, corn, coi n r v d. cotton, pigs, dressed meat, cured meat, canned meat and sau sage, lard, cows, calves, sheep, • i . chickens, eggs,, potatoes, 1 peppers, collards. flowers, pecans, candy, cakes, lightwood, knit goods, quilts, and crocheting. It will be a great day for everyone who comes. Union Hope News i * Most farmers of this section are very busy these days, some pick ing cotton, working tobacco and others getting up their wood sup plies for the winter. We had our first frost last Sunday night, so guess there will be a lot of pota to digging now \ a.den Stncklkand. son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Strickkland, left for army service last Wednesday, Oct. 11th. He is now at Fort Bragg. r io. d SiricKiand, tin of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Strickland, left for service in the Army last Wednes day, October 11th. He is now at Fort Bragg. Floyd Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Stricklkand, was also called for service last week. t aye n Whitley left home Mon day night for Norfilk, Va. He has been home on a 30 day leave, and has gone back to duty with the Maritime service. Pvt. J. L. Massey was home last Sunday for a short visit. He is sattioned at Camp Croft, S. C. Vi.ss I.ettie Whitley visited a friend in Raleigh last Sunday. Mrs. Sissie Deans had a visitor from Durham last Sunday evening, Mrs. Estelle Williams, her sister in-law. Mrs. Dula Mae Edmundson cele brated her birthday last Sunday, October 15th. She was given a surprise dinner by her aunt, Mrs. Calvin Brantley of Rocky Cross. Kay Francis Brantley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Brant ley, is on the sick list this week. BETHANY SHORTS S 2-c Everette Vance Perry, Mrs. Jack Taylor, Mrs. Linwood Young, Mrs. R. V. Young, Mrs. Nettie Atkinson and Doris and Inez Young all visited Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson Sunday. Miss Louise Cox is in New York • City on her vacation. Mrs. John Blackard and Mrs. Dewey Ray visited Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cox Sunday. Mr. Cox has been in bad condition for the past weejc, suffering from neuritis but is much better now. •Salon, Martin’s Case, J. E. Long, Robert Phillips, T. R. Watson, L. E. Strickland, J. M. Sellas, C. B. Eddins, M. T. Debnam, J. A. Kemp and Sons, Raleigh Alford, SI.OO each; J. R. Hinnant, 75c; Thurman Murray, 50c; Carvie Seawell, 25c.
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