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Two BRUCE’S 'a™ SAUSAGE The Whole Hog Makes It Better Seasoned The Old Fashioned Way Ask Your Dealer For It WEE WILLIE WINKLE RUNS THROUGH THE TOWN.CAUINO TO THE CHILDREN, AS THE SUN GOES down: Wt forget to brush Your teeth/ and see your PRAYERS ARE SAID. 1 AND DRINK A GLASS OF PINE STATE MILK BEFORE YOU GO TO 860." Shopping for CONVENIENCE ? JgP* \\ Automatic controls A f Convenient? Automatic electric | yyr / / / \\ _ If of the modern electric range can Lj washers speed washdays to aII .t . *- ‘I / \\ do the cooking while you find bet- f| happy close. Housewives vote it 7 / / \\ . ter things to do. And flameless kl No. 1 Wife-saver, year after year. /'Vf' I J heat means no soot, dealer soon? —— ... 'I I \t I onvenient? The | S N V ' 1 / til \\ II f P lete, Y automatic electric I I // 111 U vwVv\ ■jj water heater heats all the I I r» // 111 ** ! w ° fcr V l *" ever need. if t (CAROLINA ROWER & LIGHT COMPANY) ' The Zebulon Record Karpsboro Scribblin s For months and weeks now the over-joyed-at-expecting - couples in this community around a dozen of them altogether have been selecting names. In fond hope, junior, by far, heads the list. But grandma and grandpop’s names have been batted around. So have the current theater favorites. Considered, too, have been sainted maiden aunt’s names, and that of a benign old PREMIUM REGULAR l QUALITY PRICE I The Carolinas' Finest Fuel GET THE NATHANE STORY TODAY AT JOHNSON Cotton Company Phone 3871 Main St. WENDELL, N. C. « RUBBER TILE PLASTIC TILE EDWARDS FLOOR FINISHING CO. Specialists on Finishing Old or New Floors PHONE 2146 ZEBULON, N. C. batchelor uncle’s, with the con scious or subconscious thought on the part of the expeotant parents that by attaching uncle’s monicker the off-spring will be left a cool inheritance. In light of this I happened to be reading the current issue of the Virginia Health Department Bul letin, which devoted a discussion to birth certificates. This bulletin also mentions some unusual names on record in the Bureau of Vital Statistics. For example, there are Cran berry Turkey, Celestial Delight, Arie Zona, Fird Nan, Rollen Stone, Gather Pickle, Early Arrival and Alpha Omega. Still checking, I found a list compiled by the Alabama of Vital Statistics some years ago. In this state they have folks answering to such handles as Strawberry Commode, Coming Hard Times Smith, Piece O’ Cake Johnson, Laxative Jones and Semi-Colon Divinity Duke. Now let us come to our very own state. A University of North Carolina professor did some re search and came up with some Tar Heels sporting such monickers as these: I Shall Rise and Go To My Father Smith, and Seven Times Shalt Thou Walk Around Jericho Brown. Brown was called Thou for short. Friday, October 14, 1955 This same professor also found Nary Red, Lightning Twice, No Dice, Sunday The Ninth and Lucy Never Seen Joe Smith. Twins were discovered that bore the names of Gasoline and Kerosene. Even the old Biblical prophet had one called Not Mine. I don’t know whether the own ers of the above names are happy with them or not, but I’ll bet that they wish that Maw and Paw had used some good sense and judg ment. Surveys have shown that more than a third of all the peo ple wish they were called some thing else other than what appears on their birth certificates. But, like it or not, most of us are stuck with the names we have. Oh, yes, a few folks can go to court and get unshackled from the tags they can’t stand, but most of us just bear the burden with a reasonable air of cheerfulness, like the person of North Carolinian parents, who in order to salvage part of the name when expecta tions as to sex proved wrong, sad dled the newcomer with Rosa Bell Ain’t No She. So here’s hoping when you de cide upon a selection you will use some good judgment. Just remem ber Shakespeare said: “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.” The USDA has announced that as of June 30, 1955, the invest ment of the Commodity Credit Corporation in price-support com modities amounted to over seven billion dollars. Laundry Service each Monday and Thursday CALL WAKE FOREST 2441 General Laundry
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