The following is from the New Bernian of January 18, 1927:
ZORAH, Jan. 17–Miss Eloise Wiley of this section spent the weekend with Miss Madie Bell Franks at Ernul.
Guy Wetherington of Hallsboro spent Saturday night and Sunday with his mother, Mrs. H.B. Wetherington.
Miss Mae Ipock of Jasper, who is teaching school at Clayton [sic, should be Caton], spent the week-end at home.
Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Sutton were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toler Sunday evening.
Henry Wetherington and son, Lewis, who are working at Havelock spent the week-end at home.
Misses Oleta, Ora, and Mary Gray Wetherington were visitors at the home of Mrs. Nannie Toler Sunday evening.
A large crowd attended Sunday school at New Haven church Sunday afternoon.
Several new families have recently moved to this community.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toler were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Toler Sunday afternoon.
About a week later, the following article appeared (New Bernian, January 26, 1927):
ZORAH, Jan. 25–Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Toler and daughter, Thelma, spent Sunday at Bridgeton.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toler spent the week-end at Spring Garden.
Dalton Roberson, Mack Norman, Albert Morris, Hodil Norman [Hudie? Norman], and Hyman Stubbs were visitors at New Haven Church Sunday afternoon.
Luther Lane, Miss Sena Knox and Miss Edna Whitford motored to Edwards Sunday.
Miss Mae Ipock returned home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Rowe of Beaufort County spent Sunday afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Stilley’s home.
Holmes Turner of New Bern passed this section en route to C.B. Wetherington’s home.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sutton of Vanceboro spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Norman.
T.E. Whitford and son, Edgar, motored to Edwards Sunday morning.
There will be a minstrel show and a box party combined at Coyton [sic, should be Caton] School Saturday Jan. 29. All are invited.
Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Wetherington spent Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. H.B. Wetherington.
Henry Wetherington and son left Monday morning for Havelock.
Eloise Wiley was the daughter of John Redding Wiley and Effie B. Price and was born about 1914, while Madie Bell Franks was the daughter of Daniel R. Franks. [1930 census records for Pamlico and Craven Counties].
Guy Wetherington was the son of Henry Bryan Wetherington and Laura Toler. He was born in 1894 and died in 1948.
I don’t have much information on Mae Ipock, other than she was a teacher.
L.M. Sutton married Dorcas Knox. Bill Toler married Nan Ipock.
Henry Willis Wetherington and son Louis Henry Wetherington worked with North Carolina Pulp Company.
Misses Oleta, Ora and Mary Gray Wetherington were the daughters of Henry Willis Wetherington.
Bill and Nan Ipock Toler were visiting his sister, Tom and Lucy Toler Toler.
Beginning with the second article, James Robert Toler and Celia H. Stilley Toler and daughter Thelma went to Bridgeton.
Bill and Nan Ipock Toler went to Spring Garden, probably visiting some of Aunt Nan’s family.
Dalton Roberson later married Gladys Sutton; Albert Morris is possibly the son of Ed and Augusta Jones Morris; Hudie Norman was son of John Henry and Victoria Toler Norman; while nothing further is known about Hyman Stubbs.
Luther Lane married Essie Knox, the sister of Sina Knox. Edna Whitford is probably Edna Earle Whitford, daughter of David Purifoy Whitford and Grace Leona Price.
Mae Ipock (see above comments).
Jesse and Sina Stilley Rowe lived in Blounts Creek and were visiting her brother Joshua Stilley and his wife Penny Toler Stilley.
I’m not sure who Holmes Turner is, but he was visiting Charlie Bryan Wetherington, son of Henry Bryan Wetherington.
Luther Sutton (see above L.M. Sutton) was visiting George Norman, no further information on him.
T.E. Whitford should be I.E. (Ira E.) and his son Edgar.
The other families mentioned in the article are identified above.