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THE ZEBULON RECORD
Ferd Davis Editor
Barrie Davis Publisher
Entered as second class matter
June 26, 1925, at the post office at
Zebulon, North Carolina, under
the act*of March 3, 1879.
Subscription rate: $1.50 a year.
Advertising rates on request.
This, That, and the
Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
Last week one of the grocery
stores in our town gave me fifteen
cents off a bill, and I appreciated
it. Another store overcharged me
four cents on an article. And
which do you suppose comes of
tener to my mind, the gift or the
overcharge?
It was a poet who called au
tumn days melancholy and the
saddest of the year. But it's a
housekeeper who knows why. At
this season we have to get out the
putaway winter clothes and de
cide whether they can be used
again by former wearers; and,
if not, by whom. I don't mean
Sunday clothes, but the stuff that
goes on when one is at work.
Somehow figures .as well as
styles have • away of changing
from time to time. Catching
sight of ourselves as we try on a
dress several years old, we gasp
in surprise, wondering if we really
looked like that when we used to
wear the thing. With material
worth making up costing what it
does now, we can’t afford to
throw away what may be used.
We bow to necessity and proceed
with our task.
There’s a pile of knit underwear
that was put away without being
mended. Now, if there’s any
household job more lacking in al
lure than patching one or more of
Hanes heavyweight knit union
suits /or men, I have never faced
it. Putting on patches from an
other suit makes the garment like
an old bedquilt. Using cloth
puckers it all out of what shape
it has, unless the cloth is put on
bias instead of straight. Do our
best and results are so discourag
ing we are glad to get to the win
ter socks some of which have
no mates and some of which are
mismated, and many of which
need darning.
An unattractive, unglamorous
work, this sorting and mending:
yet not always thankless. Though
nearly thirty years have passed, I
can still hear the voice of a
$25,000
IN ACItICVLT^^L^|EMIVMS
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NORTH CAROLINA
STATE FAIR
Raleigh, N. C.
OCT. I4th-18th
—Entertainment for Everyone—
iV. C. school children admitted to
fair (grounds JFMtEE on school
tickets October 17th
Presented By
N. C. Department of Agriculture
nephew who had for some time
been at the mercy of hired house
keepers before coming to stay
with us. “Gee, Aunt Bessie,” he
would exclaim, “you don’t know
how good a fellow feels to be sure
of finding his ‘clothes clean and
mended when he needs them.”
Such appreciation does much to
lessen the melancholy of a house
wife’s autumn days.
All week I have enjoyed re
membering the beauty of the
chancel in -the Wakefield Baptist
Church last Saturday, as decorat
ed ft. r the Pippin-Pace wedding.
Palms and white candles, white
gladioli, dahlias, and asters
plenty of all, but not too much.
It was a lovely wedding; and if I
kept being surprised at seeing at
tendants as young men and women
in-tead of very young people they
have eemed to s me, that was be
cause time passes so fast. I can
recall when my husband married
Harold Pippin’s parents almost as
clearly as I can Harold’s and
Emma Jean’s ceremony a few
days ago.
In the Smithfield Herald. Mrs.
J. T. Lassiter, one of the owners
of the paper, comments on the
price of eggs and the small size of
pullet eggs. For years I have be
lieved the only fairway to sell
these is to weigh them. Last year
we had a lot of young chickens
and by the time we had eaten all
the roosters the pullets were lay
ing. I sold their eggs when it
took seventeen to make a dozen
by weight. A little later fourteen
were enough, then they were large
enough for me to count them. If
you allow one and one-half
pounds for a dozen, the buyer will
have no chance to complain; and
if. by reason of size, the twelve
eggs are heavier than twenty-four
ounces, you will be remembered
kindly.
Judge Chester Morris is reported
to have said in his charge to the
Wake County grand jury that we
need more boy scouts; that in all
his years on the bench he has
never had a first class scout
brought before him. *
That impressed me and I read
it to my youngest son. His com
ment was: “First of all, we need
more grown persons willing to
take the time and make the ef
fort to help with scout work. Boys
can’t run it by themselves.” Judge
Morris and Barrie are both most
' probably right.
TOBACCO GRADERS WANTED
Anyone in or near Zebulon who
can grade tobacco see Wilmer
Eddins. Zebulon, N. C.
The Zebulon Record
Miss Jocelyn House accompani
ed by three other teachers and
Supt. Peeler of the State School
for the Blind will go to New York,
leaving Raleigh Oct. 4 for a
week, visiting the Blind School
and The Education School for
Blind. Our own North Carolina
Blind School is rated one of the
best in the Unted States.
Mrs. James Rosenstock of Pe
tersburg, Va., with her little son,
is visiting her parents, the J. G.
Kemps. The Kemp’s small grand
daughter, Mary Beth Allen, is al
so visiting them.
Mrs. Irving Cherry of Stokes
was here the first of the week to
see her sons, Donnie and Richard,
who are staying with their aunt,
Mrs. W. L. Greene, and attending
Wakelon School. Both are high
school students.
Custom rate for combining
wheat in North Carolina averaged
$3.90 per acre in 1945, compared
with 82.90 in 1938.
LOST—Billfold—on fair grounds
Saturday night—contained $2.50
in currency . and pictures. Ilene
Batchelor, Rt. 2, Zebulonl N. C.
Home Made All Chicken
BRUNSWICK STEW
Every day
STOTT’S SPECIAL PIES
Made to order
Mrs. P. C. Stott
Phone 3496 or 2241
WENDELL, N. C.
FOR SALE—Good condition. 1
Sellers kitchen cabinet, 1 maple
play pen, high chair and car
seat. 1 double iron bed and 1
blonde maple baby bed. 1 lg.
(walnut finish) wardrobe, 2
500-foot rolls wallrite (kitchen
pattern, 2 wool coats (sizes 13
and 20, I wool coat size 5 1-2, 1
child's velvet bonnet and muff,
wane, size 5 1-2. Mrs. Allen
Cawdhorne. Zebulon.
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TO 11*. REMOVABLE THAT WITH COMPARTMENT*. _ - - .
- ASSOCIATE STORE
ZEBULON 2 7
mustard
and GRAVY
BIG TENT THEATER
Including Robert Noel s
GORILLA SHOW
See Your Friends Win Awards And Fake
Boxing and Wrestling With the
World's Only Athletic Apes
—i— ? 3 in— — p—»^■
25 c 50c
For Children Adults; Plus Tax
Come Early—Show Starts At 7:45
Friday, October 3, 1947