"Killing Negro Ain't No Fun" Remarks Frank V. Scott After Car Accident, Oct. 1, 1926

Killing Negro Ain’t No Fun. . . So Says Frank V. Scott Who Came Darn near Killing Two at One Crack

Killing a Negro isn’t much fun, according to Frank V. Scott of Elizabeth City. Mr. Scott didn’t kill one, but he almost killed two on the North Carolina-Virigina Highway near St. Brides, Va., Monday afternoon.

Mr. Hudson was driving his Hudson coach, headed for Norfolk, at a speed of 35 miles an hour when a Ford touring car with two Negroes on the front seat came out of a ross road and stopped in the middle of the main highway right in his path. Mr. Scott didn’t have time to stop. His wife and Mrs. J. C. B. Ehrinhaus were in the car with him, he couldn’t ditch his car to save two men and endanger of the lives of Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Ehringhaus. So he just hit that Ford touring car head on with a force that sent the Ford rolling over and over for a distance of 40 feet or more. The Ford was completely wrecked. Mr. Scott’s own car looked like a wreck, the impact driving his radiator into the engine, crumpling up the hood, stripping one fender, smashing is headlights and taking off a front tire. Neither Mr. Scott nor his companions were injured.

But the two Negroes looked like dead men when Mr. Scott went to them. The eyes of one were set as in death and no heart beat could be detected. “I tell you, it gave me a wretched, sickly feeling,” said Mr. Scott. The Negroes were carried to a Norfolk hospital and an examination revealed only external injuries of no serious nature.

A Virginia magistrate who investigated the wreck exonerated Mr. Scott. The accident was one of that unavoidable sort. The poor Negroes just don’t know why they stopped sideways plumb in the middle of a fast highway with Frank Scott on the road.

From the front page of the Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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John D. Holloman Killed on Way to Work, Oct. 1, 1926

Man Killed in Mishap on 9-Foot Road. . . Negro Plasterer Victim When Car of J. H. Price Skids Near Edenton

Almost instant death came to John D. Holloman, negro plasterer of this city, when the car driven by J. H. Price of Dyer Street skidded on the clay embankment of the nine-foot road about three miles from Edenton and plunged eight feet into the ravine below. Holloman was in his early fifties and leaves a wife.

Shepherd Eason, another Negro plasterer in the car with Mr. Price, escaped without injury. Mr. Price, who was driving, received only a few scratches and a cut over the left eye.

Mr. Price, who is a housemover working from this city, was on his way to Edenton with the two plasterers to go to work on a job underway there. Just as he reached the ravine on the Hertford-Edenton highway, near a logging crane and sawmill and about three or four miles from Edenton, the driver of a log truck blew his horn. Mr. Price swung his car, a new Ford sedan, off the road to allow the man to pass, and when the wheels struck the clay, they skidded, and he never gained control of the car again. The car plunged down the embankment and was badly damaged. Holloman on the front seat was severely cut about the mouth and is believed to have bled to death from the wound.

Dr. T. A. Cox, Perquimans County coroner, was called to the scene immediately after the wreck.

From the front page of the Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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"Aunt" Sarah Mason Sent Seven Sons to World War, Oct. 1, 1926

“Aunt” Sarah Sent Seven Sons to World War

Kinston, Sept. 27—Sarah Mason, living in an outskirt of this city, might have hung out a flag with seven stars on it during the unpleasantness with Germany some years ago. She failed to do it, and it is only now that white persons have discovered the champion war mother of the negro race.

“Aunt” Sarah sent seven sons to the army. She doesn’t know what regiments they served in. She is unfamiliar with any of the details of their service. They didn’t “rush off to ‘list.” They just hung around and the draft got them all.

One was wounded. The other six escaped from the fighting unhurt and sans medals of wealth. “They was just hearty eaters and middlin’ good chilluns,” said Aunt Sarah last evening in telling about them, but she was none the less proud when the bands had ceased playing and the flags had been furled and her boys came prowling in to ascertain what “mammy” had to eat.

From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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Buck Caudle, 18, Arrested Sunday after Crashing into Telephone Pole, Oct. 1, 1926

Charlotte Youth Caught with Whiskey in His Car

Charlotte, Sept. 13—Buck Caudle, 18-year-old white youth, was arrested early Sunday following an automobile chase which ended when Caudle’s sedan crashed into a telephone pole on the Concord road. Two fruit jars containing liquor were found in the wrecked machine, while broken jars were found in the rear seat.

Caudle was only slightly injured when he wrecked his car, and after treatment to minor cuts about the head, he was taken to the city police station.

From page 3 of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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N.B. Finch & Co. Moving to Old Chamblee Store, Oct. 1, 1926

New Store

N. B. Finch & Co. are removing their stock of goods to the old Chamblee store where they will be until they can rebuild on the corner of Arendall Avenue and Vance Street. They will build a new store about double the size of the old store so as to take care of the trade and have better display.

From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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Performing in Wakelon School's Production of "Cupid Up-to-Date, Oct. 1, 1926

“Cupid Up-To-Date” at Wakelon School

Don’t miss the chance of seeing chickens, monkeys, moons, stars, clocks, cats and cupids this Friday evening at the Wakelon High school.

Brought to Zebulon by the P.T.A. “Cupid Up-To-Date” is the celerest[cleverest?], newest and funniest musical comedy ever presented here and is good for a laugh a minute.

The cast is as follows:

Cast

Dan Cupid, Melba Chamblee

Dolly Extreme, Mary F. Dunway

Father Time, Ivy Brown

Common Sense, Sophia Campen

Domestica, Annie McGoogan

Bully, Hubert C. Shull

Will Steady, Aubrey Tilley

Dora Dumb, Doris Chamblee

Cora Dumb, Biddy Campen

Eddie Freevase, Jack Harris

John Scientist, Joe Richardson

Senator Joshua Bing, Crystal Davis

No one should miss seeing these and the many choruses perform at 8 o’clock Friday evening.

Chorus

Edna Earle Sexton

Frankie Hall

Mary Frances Cockrell

Janie Cawthorne

Fairies

Margaret Bunn

Eunice Outlaw

Gladys Godwin

Clara L. May

Charleston Babies

Caroline Jacobs

Jack Temples

Fred Davis

Richard Hoyle

Ralph House

Frank Massey

Chas. Flowers

Moorefield Aiken

Stars

Addie E. Winstead

Olive Lewis

Delilah Cahoon

Margaret Brown

Anne Kemp

Mary Robertson

Chorus Girls

Lucia Flowers

Fannie Lou Wiggs

Hazel Weathersby

Marion Whitlock

Emma Lucas Ward

Mattie I. Card

Corinne Tucker

Evelyn Speight

Louise Frazier

From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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Messrs. Gill and Brantley Turning Old Post Office into Cafe, Oct. 1, 1926

New Lunch Room

The old Post Office building is being remodeled and fitted up for a café or lunch room by Messrs. Gill and Brantley. They have repainted and refurnished the room and will have an attractive place which is badly needed in our town.

From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926

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