Tuesday, March 25, 1952
TURPENTINE DRIPPIN’S
Compiled by Bill Sharpe
Good for Lonnie!
Oxford Ledger
B. S. Royster and Lonnie Nelms
were chewing the fat recently over
one got up earliest. They
carried on at length, but neither
was able to convince the other.
Next morning, at about 4 a. m., j
the telephone in the Nelms home
began ringing constantly. There
was no answer, but Mr. Royster
held the receiver-transmitter at
his end of the line.
Finally, at long last, there was
a drowsy answer to Mr. Royster’s
call. “Thought you were an early
bird, that you got up before I do
each morning,” Mr. Royster teas
ed the half-asleep Mr. Nelms.
Quickly sensing the situation,
Mr. Nelms had an answer. “I am
sorry it took me so long to answer,”
he said. “I had been at work in the
garden for an hour and I had to
come in to answer the phone.”
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Not at Any Price
Harnett County News
One thing the locks down on the
Cape Fear River has done is to
stop shad from coming up this way.
Before the locks were put in,
fishermen were known to catch a
towsack full of shad on some
nights.
Along about thirty years ago we
saw a man on Lillington’s main
street with sacks full of shad, and
he was offering them at a quarter
each.
True, that was before the days of
inflation but now there aren’t
even any shad.
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They Stick It Out
Hickory Record
North Carolina public schools —
both white and colored are im
proving their “holding power”
over children, according to infor
mation compiled by the State De
partment of Public Instruction.
There are fewer “drop-outs” the
official records reveal in fact,
taking the State as a whole, nine
ty-five per cent of the pupils en
rolled remain in school the entire
term.
For all North Carolina the drop
outs in the city unit white schools
amounted to 7.7 per cent, and in
the colored schools, 6.2 per cent.
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Road repairs were frequent
in the old days; that’s why
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iently tilted back to make its
“innards” accessible. It’s not
known whether the seats ev
er spilled back when the car
was in motion
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In the rural schools of the State 1
the white enrollment showed drop- '
outs of 7.7 per cent and colored
amounted to 6.6 per cent.
Taking into consideration, for
county and city units, that a part
of the drop-outs shown did actu
ally enroll in school in another
unit, then the actual number and
percentage of dropouts are sub
stantially less than the survey
shows. In other words, such stu
dents did actually drop-out of
school in one unit, but re-enrolled
in another.
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The Cold Treatment
Salisbury Post
For years every time I met him,
he had a sad tale of woe to give
me . . . He was always belly-ach
ing, so I wuz not surprised when
he cut loose on me with “both
slightly inebriated barrels.”
“You know Mack, my old lady;
has always been tight ... I just
had to steal a bit to hold out a
few quarters to get a few beers on
weekends.” He sobbed in his beer.
“But here of late she has got
worse . . . Every other pay she
takes my Cannon Mills check and
cashes it, and puts the money in the
deep freeze compartment of our re
frigerator, pours water over it, and
slams the refrigerator door shut,
and defies me to open it . . . She
calls that our frozen assets,” he
cried.
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The Outworn Topic
Smithfield Herald
But what a list of cough and
cold “cures” have been on the
market in my lifetime. The old
fashioned remedy which my
mother used to administer was a
dose of castor oil with a drop or
two of spirits of turpentine. If
my chest seemed tight, she would
get out her piece of tallow which
she always kept on hand, and af
ter warming it before the fire she
would rub it over my chest and on
the bottom of my feet just before
she put me to bed at night. In the
course of time one recovered and
due credit was always given to the
treatment.
By the time my children came
along, various cold and pneumon
ia cures had replaced tallow, and
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The Zebulon Record
every mother kept the salves of
her choice in the medicine chest.
Castor oil still rated high as in
ternal treatment, but it was as
bad a dose to give as it was to take.
Present-day treatment seems to
favor soda and aspirin. In cases
of deep-seated infection, the physi
cian administers some of the new
ly discovered drugs.
But scientists are still working
to find out the causes of the com
mon cold. I hope I live to see the
day when medical science can im
munize us from bad colds which
are said to be responsible for one
third of the lost work days in this
country. I for one will be glad to
yield bad colds to some other topic
of conversation.
Tough on Goose Eggs
Watauga Democrat
Thunder storm early Monday
morning awakens the residents of
the town . . . the rain patters down
here, while in the western sections
of the county, hail is reported to
have accompanied the noisy blow
.. . These thunder showers, of
course, are not usual this time of
year, and Mr. W. M. Cook calls
THE DRY GOODS & GROCERY STORES
OF ZEBULON
WILL CLOSE EACH WEDNESDAY AT t P.M.
BEGINNING MARCH 26
And Continue Until The Local Tobacco Markets Open
All Zebulon Stores will Be Closed All Day
Easter Monday but Will Remain Open
The Following Wednesday.
THIS ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED BY THE
ZEBULON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
the Democrat to give us the dire
consequences of mid-winter elec
trical storm ... Says he: “If there’s
thunder in February, there’ll be
frost in May, and the goose eggs
won’t hatch . . .”
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
WAKE COUNTY
Having qualified as the Adminis
tratrix of the estate of C. M. Hon
eycutt, late of Wake County, this is
Leghorn Cockerels $5 per 100
WOODARD'S CERTIFIED
HYBRID SEED CORN
Grown in Nash County
LEONARD'S CERTIFIED
HYBRID SEED CORN
Grown in Franklin County
Adapted to Our Soils
Massey’s Hatchery
to notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present them
to the undersigned on or before the
18th day of March, 1953, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebt
ed to said estate will please make
immediate payment to the under
signed.
This the 18th day of March, 1952.
Mrs- Zadie Honeycutt, Adminis
tratrix, Route 3, Zebulon. N. C.
M18,25A1,8,15,22
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