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WEAVER COLLEGE, WEAVERVILLE, N. C 5CEMBER 1, 1928.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDA; S INCREASED
PUY TO BE GWEN BY
CUO’SANDEUTERPE&NS
On Friday evening, December 14
the Clisophic and Euterpean Literary
Societies will present their annual
play. At this time they will present
“Honor Bright,” a comedy in three
acts by Meredith and Kenyon Nichol
son produced by special arrangement
with Samuel French of New York.
The plot centers about the remark
able events which befall Honor
Bright, an attractive young college
girl who is selling books to pay her
way through Radcliff. In a reckless
moment she agrees to assume the
role of Richard Barrington’s chorus
girl fiance. Complications follow quick
and fast to a surprising denounce
ment.
The cast consists of the following:
Inez Fincher as Mrs. Lucy Barring
ton; William Pruett as Richard Bar
rington; Hugh Rogers as the Rev.
William Carton; Hazel Burchette as
/Peggy Carton, his wife; Eleanor Trow
I bridge as Honor Bright, a book agent;
William Stubbs as Rev. James Schoo-
Snider as Bill Drum, press agenwfor
“Snap It Up Co.”; Loleeta SmitH as
Tot Marvel, a chorus girl “S'aap
It Up;” Eugene Lance as Watts,-the
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INCREASE COMES
AS BIG SURPRISE
Mother of Popular
Student Dies
CLIOSOPHIC SOCIETY T
HARD AT WORK
The Cliosopic Literary Sosgaty
meets each week and is doing vjery
good work. The society has a group
of enthusiastic boys, all of whom are
good speakers. It is true all pepple
have some talents whether they use
them or not. This group seems to be
talented along the lines of debating
and speaking. The society motto is
“These things are pleasant to be re
membered afterwards.” ,
This society has sent out into the
Mr. Kenneth Vinson was called to
his home in Newport, Tenn., last
week to attend thef uneral of hia
mother who died after a few weeks
of illness at her home.
Kenneth is one of the most popur'
-iy- ur.A mne.‘-
and the student body heartily sy;
thizes, and stands willing to help^liim
in every possible way to bear'-tia
great grief.
“Deatbi” let it be remembered, as
Ethel M. Dell so beautifully expreses
it, “is but the opening and closing
of a door.” That door will at some
time swing on its smooth hinges to
receive us to that great unknown
and,
“We can only bring! the wreath
To mark the place,/where last she
was,
But now gone to that other Shore."
Delphians Elect New
Officers
The Delphians after a quarter of
successful work elected new officers
fo^'^ .thie, new quarter, and renewed
their hopes of better work and more
/()f • it. -The election_srpirit _run high
throughput the affair, with the results
s»rR-.
Kenneth yinson of Newport,
Te^., President; Mr.-H. Liner of Lake
Ju®luska, N. C., Vice-President; Mr.
Helms of Mineral Springs, Sec
retly; and Earl Morgan of Canton,
critic.
A program committee was elected
to ^erve for the term. It consists of
T. Liner, chairman; Jack Barden of
Wjj.mington, Gayle Myric of Troy,
and James Duckworth of Canton.
Mr. Connell of Monroe, N. C., was
elected chaplain, and Mr. Lewis of
Dunn, N. C., appointed janitor for the
ensuing quarter.
Trowbridge Makes
Statement
President C. H. Trowbridge today
in a statement to the Pep said that
the Christmas holidays had been in
creased by two days. This action was
taken by the Executive Committee be
cause many of the teachers live in dis
tant states and have to go home for
Christmas.
Holidays Begin Tuesday
The holidays will begin at 3:46
Tuesday, December 18, and will end
Friday morning, January 4, at 8:15.
The classes will meet Friday for
thirty minutes each for assignments,
and then on Saturday students will
attend classes throughout the day for *
thirty minutes each so that only a
day and half will be lost from class
work.
Mr. Trowbridge said that any ab
sences before and after the vacation
will require a double penalty. This
means that a student who is early in r'
leaving and late in getting back from | ,
the vacation will have to make up 5
twice as m work and pay twice | .
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WEAVERVILLE DEFEATS RUTHFORFORD
Library Receives New Books
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The Weaver College library has
been very noticeably strengthened Jyy
the donation of about 500 volumes by
Rev. E. R. Welch of Asheville, N.';C.
Mr. Welch has long been helpful to
Weaver College in his many acts ;of
kindness, and this is just another ex
ample of his wonderful spirit. i,
The books were chiefly religious liiat
a.mong them were 52 fiction books,, a
part set of Dr. Frank Crane’s ediljp-
rials, a set of The World’s Famous
Orations, and at least one book on
nearly every subject represented in
the library. ^
The Weaver College library has now
about 4000 volumes, the major part
being religious books but with num
erous volumes on all other subjects.
On Saturday, November 10, the
Weaver College aggregation showed
its superiority over all the Junior
College teams in the State by defeat
ing the strong Ruliherford College
team 19 to 13. This game, although
expected to be hard, exceeded all ex
pectations. It was one of the hardest
and best the Weaver team has played
all season.
The Rutherford team, even surpris
ing its own supporters, played on even
terms with the Weaverites for th©
first half. Payne, Rutherford back, ran
through Weaver’s line at will during
this half. Weaver, however, showed its
superiority by the great comeback it
made in the second half, holding the
Ramblers scoreless and scoring two
touch dovsms.
Vinson, the Golden Tornado’s quar
ter, was the principal ground gainer
Upshaw Speaks
On Success
The Honorable William D. Upshaw
for eight years Congressman from the
State of Georgia, addressed the Wea
ver College student body Friday morn
ing November 23, on the subject.
Students As Winners.” ,
Honorable Upshaw, one of the most
gifted orators in the south held the
students spell bound. His speech was
one of the most interesting ever heard
in Weaver College and will be long
remembered by all who heard him.
“Friends,” Honorable Upshaw be
gan, “It is the winner who wins. The
far,. Weaver. Robinson and Jordan’s
passing combination helped wonder
fully. Out of 15 attempts 8 were good.
Jordan, Vinson and Teague perhaps
were the most outstanding for the
Tornado on offense. Fortson was one
of the mainstays of the line on de
fense. Begley, Trantham, and Pridgen
also played a good game. Each man
on the team did his part and showed
Coach Talman that he could depend
on his team any time.
■ The game opened with Rutherford
receiving on the 30-yard line. They
mai'ched dovm the field for their first
touch down without once losing the
ball. This was made, principally by
lin6 plays. Weaver was set back sev
eral times by fumbles. In the latter
part of this' half Payne went over
i
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Weaverville Gets
New Pastor
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Coming from some of the best
charges in the conference, the Rev.
A. P. Ratledge seems unusually well
fitted for his new field here. Mr. Rat
ledge has excelent command of the
English language, coupled with a
commanding personality, which is at
tracting friends to him from all his
new acquaintances.
Mr. Ratledge comes directly from
Cherryville, where he has been for
one year. Other churches he has
served in the last few years are: El
kin, Frianklin, and Charlotte.
Judging from the charges he has
held, we are expecting great things
of this new man of God, who has come
to teach and show us the right way!
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