THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXX. Number 18.
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Druggist Helps Progress, Sees
Many Changes in Half Century
E. C. Daniel, president of Zeb-,
ulon Drug Company, has been a
man of vision and far-sightedness
and ever-minded of the advance
ments of both his trade and his
community.
“I have always worked for the
betterment of the Town of Zebu
lon and the surrounding commun
ities,” he said in a recent inter
view.
“These are my friends and
folks,” he continued, “and I love
everyone* of them.”
Mr. Daniel was born in Gran
ville County on September 15,
1885. He is the son of the late
William and Esther Daniel, both
natives of that locality.
At the age of seven his parents
moved to Franklin County, and
two years later the family moved
to Wake County. He has been a
resident of this community ever
since.
He was a farm lad and attended
to the many chores that farm boys
are required to do.
“I have plowed over most of
Zebulon,” Mr. Daniel said, ex
plaining that when he was a
young man the town of Zebulon
was not established and was just
a wooded and farm land area.
He obtained his primary educa
tion at Wakelon High School and
later at Page’s Pharmacy School
in Greensboro.
New Zebulon Corporation Formed
To Manufacture Shirts, Pajamas
Louis Rosenstock, president of
The Devil Dog Manufacturing
Company, has announced the for
mation of a new corporation for
the manufacture of shirts, paja
mas and underwear.
The company will bear the title
of Lordley, Incorporated, and its
offices at present will be maintain
ed at the local dungaree plant.
Plans are being formulated for a
permanent home in this vicinity for
the corporation.
Harold Seavers, who will serve
as vice president of the corpora
tion, will have charge of this new
enterprise. He was formerly asso
ciated with the Birnie Company of
Atlanta, Ga., and Wilson Bros.
Company of South Bend, Indiana.
Mr. Seavers comes from a long
line of clothing manufacturers.
His father operated a plant that
did an estimated output of $5,-
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E. C. Daniel, Sr.
. . . former mayor . . .
When he left Wakelon School
he became associated in a general
grocery business in the village of
Wakefield. Three years later he
decided to sell this business and
enter the drug trade.
“My drug store was located be
tween the Frank Massey home and
the Wakefield Baptist parsonage,”
he said. v .
Some time after entering the
drug business, he was encouraged
by Dr. Z. M. Caveness, then a
l'ooo,ooo a year. His uncle is at
present in charge of the Wilson
Bros, plant at Crawfordsville, In
diana.
Mr. Rosenstock said that he
feels that the company is very
fortunate in securing a person of
Mr. Seavers’ ability, qualifications
and drive. He said that Mr. Sea
vers comes well-equipped and
able to make a successful com
pany of Lordly corporation.
Seavers will make his home in
Zebulon.
Officers of the new corporation
will be Louis Rosenstock, presi
dent, Harold Seavers, vice presi
dent, Lee Doliver, secretary, and
Elliot Rieger, treasurer.
The officers, including Mayor
Allen Barbee of Spring Hope, are
on the Board of Directors. Bourke
Bilisoly of Wendell is counsel for
the corporation.
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, December 2, 1955
prominent physician of Wakefield
but now for many years a prac
ticing physician of Raleigh, to en
ter a pharmaceutical school and be
come a druggist.
After receiving his pharmaceuti
cal training he came back to Wake
County and has remained here
since as one of the leading drug
gists of the county and State.
Back in the early days, the oper
ator of a drug store was faced
with many problems and a mos.
serious one was that of transporta
tion. At times he had to resort
to hauling his drugs and merchan
dise from Raleigh by wagon.
“I bought my first soda foun
tain from the W. H. King Drug Co.
and hauled .it from Raleigh by
wagon,” he said.
The variety of confections serv
ed at the soda fountain were not
as varied and sundry as now.
They served cokes, lemonade, and
ice creams.
“We cut the ice from the local
ponds,” he said laughingly, “and
stored it in sawdust ice nouses.”
He said the ice came from the
ponds that were located on a por
tion of Wakelon Heights, and was
then hauled to Wakefield.
Mr. Daniel said that he had to
close his drug store twice daily in
order to go and get the ice.
W. C. Ferrell of Wakefield built
Mr. Daniel’s first durg store and
ice house.
Mr. Daniel has always been
proud of the fact that his business
telephone was the first to be in
stalled in the town and that its
number was “one.”
“It was installed in 1908,” he
said, “by the old Will Wynne
system out of Raleigh, and was a
one-line system with phones at
Knightdale, Eagle Rock, Wendell
(See DANIEL, Page 2)
All Night Sing
On Saturday night, December
3, beginning at 8:00 p.m., in the
Wakelon School Auditorium, the
best - quartets, trios, and vocal
ists in our state will gather as
featured attractions to give an
enjoyable evening of clean, whole
some entertainment in an all
night gospel singing. It will be
sponsored by the Lions of Zebulon.
Coming from all around, each
and every one is well-known and
has achieved acknowledgement of
talent by winning different con
tests.
Drug Firm Celebrates
Golden Anniversary
Fifty years of service to the community will be climaxed Tues
day morning when Zebulon Drug Company celebrates its Golden
Anniversary with an open house beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing
through the day until 5 p.m. There will be no receiving line, but
E. C. Daniel, Sr., will be on hand to greet the thousands of friends of
the drug firm who visit during the day.
Zebulon Drug Company is lo- r
cated at the corner of Horton and !
Arendell Avenues in the heart of
the Zebulon business district. It
occupies a two-story brick build
ing constructed in 1920 for the
firm.
Th(? firm was originated »n
Wakefield, then a growing, thriv
ing town, in 1905. Two years later
it moved to Zebulon, and was first
located where Kannon’s Case is
now, becoming one of the first
businesses in the new community.
Mr. Daniel said he especially
wants the older people of the
community to come in the store on
Tuesday, He hopes the open house
can be a homecoming for many
hundreds who will come to see old
friends.
Gifts will be presented to men
and women who attend the anni
versary celebration, and favors
will be given children.
Everyone who visits the store
will register for many valuable
free prizes to be awarded after a
drawing scheduled for 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
Prizes to be awarded after the
drawing include two $25.00 gov
ernment bonds; five SIO.OO bills; a
silver serving tray; and a Wads
worth wrist watch made by Elgin.
Winners do not have to be pres
ent. The persons who win the
gifts will be notified if they are not
in the store at the time of the
drawing.
Baby Found Dead
A five-month-old Negro baby
was found dead in its crib re
cently south of the city limits of
Zebulon.
Deputy Sheriff Earl Duke said
the parents of the child, William
and Mary Pearce, found the dead
baby. Duke said there were no in
dications. of any faul play in the
death, and that the baby apparent
ly died from choking on some
thing.
Rural Wake County Assured Clinics
If Hospital Bonds Receive Approval
Wake County citizens outside of
Raleigh have again been assured
that clinics would be built with
approximately a million dollars
of the $5,000,000 they will be asked
to approve in the county hospital
bond referendum to be held Der
cember 13.
Paul Lyman, chairman of the
seven-member County Hospital
Authority, was questioned recently
regarding the Authority’s plans
for clinics in the county after
members of the Wake County Ru
ral Medical Society expressed
doubt that the bond vote would
carry in rural Wake unless the
people were informed of clinic
plans.
Lyman said recently, as he has
on numerous occasions, that the
Authority hopes to construct a
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
PHARMACIST
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Haywood Jones
. . . U.N.C. graduate . . .
Haywood Jones
Here Since 1939
Haywood Jones graduated from
the University of North Carolina
School of Pharmacy in 1939. He
became associated with the Zebu
lon Drug Company immediately
following his graduation.
He grew up on a fa n just
outside the city limits of Tarboro.
During his high school days and
following his graduation from
high school, he went to work for
R. E. L. Cook cf Tarboro.
“I worked behind the soda foun
tain on Saturdays in Mr. Cook’s
drug store,” Haywood said. “It was
here that I first got a taste of the
drug business.”
Haywood said that the had no
idea of ever entering the pharma
ceutical trade, even though the
(See JONES, Page 12)
300-bed hospital in or near Ra
leigh before construction of the
clinics is begun.
Clinics will be constructed, he
said, as they can be fitted into the
total hospital program. Just when
and where they will be built is
not known yet, he stfid.
He added that no one can say
at present just how much the
hospital will cost but a figure of
$5,000,000 has been set by the
Medical Care Commission as being
adequate to finance the hospital,
including a nurse’s home and nurse
training center.
Four of the five million dollars
needed for the hospital will come
from the bond money if the refer
endum being provided by Medical
Care Commission. The estimated
(See HOSPITAL, Page 8)