THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXIV. No. IS
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Pictured is Jack Potter, operating the Elrod machine at Theo. Davis
Sons printing plant in Zebulon. The Elrod, which is made by the
same company that manufactures the Ludlow, is used for casting
spacing material, rules, and borders. Its use will increase the ef
ficiency of printshops up to fifty percent, since it makes available
in quantity to the printer materials that normally must be purchased
from type foundries. This Elrod is the only such machine used by
a weekly paper in the South, and one of the few in North Carolina.
Jack Potter Prints for a Living,
Racks Up Piper Cub for Pleasure
This article is the third in a series designed to acquaint you with
the men and machines that produce your newspaper.
That young fellow you see around the Record office who
looks much too young to be driving a car, let alone an airplane,
is considerably older than he looks —and that is still not saying
Masons to Fete Ladies
With Evening Supper
Wednesday, June 25
The Zebulon Masonic Lodge No.
RO9, AF&AM, will observe its an
nual Ladies’ Night Wednesday
evening, June 25, with a supper to
be held at Lake Mirl. The meal
will be served at 7:30.
All members of the Zebulon
Lodge who plan to attend are ask
ed to give their names and the
number of guests they plan to
have to R. H. Bridgers. chairman
of the Ladies’ Night committee.
Members of the Whitestone
Lodge of Wakefield and other
Lodges are also invited to attend.
Local Chamber of Commerce Begins
Two Week Campaign for Members
The drive for membership for
the Zebulon Chamber of Commerce
began Monday night when com
mittees met to plan the campaign.
The drive will be under the di
rection of Ralph Talton and Pat
Farmer and will continue
through June 19.
The Chamber of Commerce was
officially organized at a meeting
held June 5, when a constitution
and by-laws were adopted. A
preliminary meeting was held
April 15.
The membership drive w T ill con
tinue for two weeks, at the end of
which time a roster will be made
so much.
Jack Potter, who runs the Elrod,
Ludlow, and about anything else
in the printshop, is the only print
er on The Zebulon Record staff
! who was born in Zebulon. He
first saw the light of day nearly
twenty years ago at the home of
his grandparents, Rev. and Mrs.
Theo. B. Davis.
He has spent most of his life in
the South, although he lived in
Philadelphia long enough to quali
fy at least partially as a “dam
yankee.” Just now his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Potter,
live in Raleigh where Mr. Potter
is assistant director of purchase
and contract for the state of North
Carolina.
Jack is one of the youngest
members of the Zebulon-Wendell
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of all members, and from this ros
ter the Directors of the Chamber
of Commerce will be elected.
Serving with Ralph Talton to
solicit memberships from busi
nesses are Raleigh Alford, Ed
Hales, Avon Privette, R. H. Brid
gers, and Vance Brown. Serving
with Pat Farmer on the commit
tee to sign individual member
ships are M. J. Sexton, Joseph
Tonkel, Ferd Davis, Worth Hinton
and J. C. Debnam.
The next regular meeting of the
group will be held Thursday
night, June 26, at 8:00. At that
time the permanent officers will
be elected and installed in office.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, June 13, 1917
Drillers Hit Rock at 100 Feet;
Little Water Produced by Well
Work on the first well being drilled to furnish the Town of Zehulon with water was slowed
Thursday afternoon when workmen were forced to remove the 8-inch pipe from the well be
cause it had crimped when it struck soft rock at a depth ot 100 feet. Drilling is expected to re
sume this morning, according to representatives of Heater Well Co., who are doing the work.
Little water has been found in the well, although there was some evidence of water at the
Zebulon Farm Bureau
To Sponsor Tax Levy,
Clinic for Community
—by D. D. Chamblee
Every farmer in this area is
urged to vote in the July 12 election
for the proposed 10c per acre levy
on tobacco. The money collected
will be used in finding new mar
kets for the weed crop, members
of the Farm Bureau were told at I
their regular meeting Monday:
night. The dime pe acre will be
paid after the first market sale.
A large vote in the election next
month is desired so that tobacco i
buyers will have an idea of the |
strength of tobacco growers.
E. H. Moser, president of the!
Bureau, told the members that the I
membership quota for the local |
organization has been raised 100 j
members. For Wake County, the
quota is up by 375 new members.
The president called attention to
the Colonial Freezer Locker n lant,
which, he said, the Farm B. reau
was instrumental in establishing I
in Zebulon. Today its services
are saving farmers hundreds of j
dollars, and its value to the com- I
munity is increasing daily.
Mr. Flake Shaw, meeting with j
the group, asked for a committee
to work with him in establishing l
fair prices for farm produce. Rob
ert Ed Horton was named as
chairman of the committee, and
will be responsible for working
with the tobacco crop. Others on j
the committee are Vester Brantley,
who will work with cotton; Gar
land Richardson, general crops; j
Graham Bunn, peanuts; and Oris j
Horton, small vegetables.
Committee Appointed
Mr. Moser spoke on the need of
a medical clinic in Zebulon and
suggested that the members work
with other civic organizations in
establishing a clinic. Dr. L. M.
Massey spoke favorably of the
clinic, telling of the amount of
money which goes to other places
because there is no place available
to care for the sick here.
Motion was made and carried
for the Zebulon Farm Bureau to
work for the clinic, and the fol
lowing committee named: H. H.
Eddins, Joe Pulley, Mack Perry,
Henry Averett, Leonard Gay, j
Herbert Perry, Jim Croom, B. C.
Baker. Dr. L. M. Massey. W. L.
Bobbitt, Graham Bunn, and Lea
mon Wilson.
H. V. Andrews Now
In Brooklyn School
H. V. Andrews, linotypist for
Theo. Davis Sons, left last Sat
urday for Brooklyn, N. Y„ where
he will attend sqhco' at th** Mer
genthaler Linotype Company fur
three weeks.
Andrews will study linotype
maintenance at the school, which
is ODen only to operators with at
least one year’s experience.
65-foot level, but not in quantity.
Drilling, begun Tuesday afternoon,
will continue until the water sup
ply from the well is tested to be
at least 60 gallons per minute.
Cost of the well runs $6 per
foot, regardless of the depth. The
drillers expect to go at least 200
feet down so that a dependable
supply of water can be established.
If the drilling is successful, the
wells will fill a long-time need
for good water in Zebulon. At
the present time, the 12,000 foot
water line from the Little River
pump station to the water plant in
Zebulon is over half filled with
deposits from the river water and
is in need of immediate cleaning.
The water plant, if it is to provide
good water, requires the services
of a full-time engineer. The wells,
however, are practically automatic,
needing only a weekly check and
a minimum of maintenance.
The wells were proposed and
approved at the first meeting of
the new town board in the June
meeting, after they had heard es
timates of the cost of putting the
present water plant in good ope
rating condition. A state of emer
gency was declared, and Mayor R.
H. Bridgers was asked to have the
drilling started immediately.
Religion School Dean
Resigns Local Baptist
Pastorate; Plan Revival
Dr. Sankey Blanton, supply
pastor for the Zebulon Baptist
Church and head of the Depart
ment of Religion of Wake Forest
College, announced Sunday that at
the conclusion of the revival ser
vices which begin June 29 he will
end his term of service with the
local church.
Dr. Blanton has supplied the
Baptist Church since the resigna
tion of George J. Griffin, who left
last year to do graduate work in
Scotland.
Morning services during the
week of revival will begin at 8:15
and will last for no longer than 30
minutes. The evening worship
service will begin at 8:00 and con
tinue for an hour. Dr. Blanton
will conduct the services.
Funerals Held for G. M. Hagwood
And Mrs. Dora Richardson Here
Mrs. Dora Ann Richardson, 68,
died at the home of her son, S. K.
Richardson. Wendell, Route 1, late
Sunday afternoon, following sev
eral months of illness. Funeral
services were held Tuesday after
noon at 3 o’clock from Hales Chap
el Church, conducted by the Rev.
Mr. Turner, pastor, assisted by
Rev. J. N. Stancil of Rocky Mount,
and Rev. A. D. Parrish of Zebulon.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, S. K.
Richardson of Wendell, Route 1,
and J. V. Richardson of Zebulon,
Route 1; one brother, C. H. Driv
er of Middlesex, Route 1; one
adopted sister, Mrs. B. M. Price
of Zebtdon; and seven grandchil
dren.
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561
Willie B. Hopkins Is
Speaker at Rotary,
Discusses Rat Menace
“Rats,” Willie B. Hopkins told
the Rotarians Friday night, “de
stroy more in this country annual
ly than 200,000 farmers can grow
in a year! The rat population to
day is larger than it has been ever
before, and it's growing all the
time. Not only do they destroy
needed food, but they also endan
ger the health of our people.”
The Rotarians sat up and took
notice as Police Chief Hopkins
quoted statistics which graphically
illustrated the terrible damage
inflicted by rodents.
“It does not do any good for one
place to clean out the rats,” he
continued, “unless everybody
cleans them out. Rats will cross
from one business to another and
from one house to another, and if
you let any of them live, there’ll
soon be more than ever.”
He told a story of a night po
liceman in a coastal town, who,
while walking his beat one night,
spotted a wharf rat crossing the
pier. He took aim with his pistol
and blasted away at the rat. As
if at a signal, the pier swarmed
with rats, and they converged on
the startled policeman, scratching
and biting. The policeman was
unable to beat the rodents off,
and it was only through valiant
efforts ol bystanders that he sur
vived the ordeal.
Douglas Chamblee Gets
Advanced Degree
Douglas Chamblee, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. Chamblee of Zeb
ulon, was awarded his Master’s
Degree in Science of Agronomy
(Field Corps) in exercises at
North Carolina State College Mon
day.
The degree was awarded by
Governor R. Gregg Cherry and
congratulations were extended by
Dr. Frank Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina.
George McLean Hagwood, 20,
died May 29. at his home at Mid
dlesex, Route 2, after an illness
of four months. He w’as a mem
ber of Rocky Cross Baptist
Church in Nash County where fu
neral services were held May 31
at 3 p. m.
Services were in charge of his
pastor, Rev. J. N. Stancil, assisted
by Rev. H. C. Bowers of Middle
ex, and Rev. R. H. Herring of
Zebulon. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Surving are his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Leon A. Hagwood; a brother,
Spurgeon Hagwood of Wendell and
| a sister, Mrs. Mary H. Bond of
; Newport News, Va.