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VoL 1 No. 3 ORANGE FARMERS IMPROTCFEEDING They Are Learning That It Pays, in the Long Ron, to Get the Right Stuff LEGUMINOUS HAY NECESSARY Feed for cows is one of the main things that R. P. Harris, agricul ture teacher in the Chapel Hill school, is talking to OraUge county farmers about these days. With his advice, and with hiiMielp in getting the sort of feed needed, some of them are already pro ducing much more milk from their herds than they used to. Mr. Harris strongly recommends this mixture: 2 parts of crushed corn or corn meatTl part of wheat bran, and 1 part of cottonseed meal, for each gallon of milk a cow gives. J. E. Gooch, of Chapel Hill, who had been feeding his seven cows with Spartan grains and meadow hay, began using this mixture, with soy bean hay, and his milk production jumped from 10 gallons' to 15 gallons a day. .-5 “For evecjueow he keeps,” said Mr. Harris a day or so ago, “a farmer ought to plant at least one or clover, or soy beans. It is folly to expect to keep a cow profitably without some sort of leguminous hay. Wheat straws and meadow hay are practically worthless; it takes as much energy for a cow to digest them as she gets out of them. ’ ’ Orange farmers have begun to improve their feeding methods in the last year or two. Many of Ihem call on Mr. Harris to buy for them, since he keeps acquaint ed with what the dealers are offer ing and their prices. He may order a large quantity of feed, he may order small quan tities. Sometimes he carries a sack with him in his trips back and forth through the county, and dis tributes its contents among half a dozen or more buyers. The improvement in feeding in Orange applies to cattle, hogs, and poultry. As an example, barely a year ago fish meal was practically unknown in the county, but now it is being used extensively. The farmers show a desire to get the right sort of feed when they have been told what good results come from it. “Many*of them buy it immedi ately after I tell them what actual experience has proved,” says Mr. Harris, “and when they have once had their own experience as fur ther proof they are not apt to go back to the old wasteful feeds.” One caution he gives is that cot tonseed must not be taken as the same thing as cottonseed meal. The former has 9 per cent protein, while the latter has 36 per cent, and it is, tife protein element that is valuable. ”r:"5: Turpc |M Evander Neville, who was visiting rela tives, has gone back to his home in Jack son, Mississippi, where he is in the pro duce business. Mrs. C. M. Lewter of Durham has been visiting Mrs. Bessie Williams. Mrs. C. A. Harrison, who is going to New Orleans, visited Mrs. W. 11. Parker last week. Miss Etoyal Parker spent last week end in Burlington. Milton West, who was at Patterson Brothers’ drugstore in Chapel Hill until two or three weeks ago, is working at a drugstore in Mebane now. Mrs. Ernest Ray lias returned from the hospital much improved in health. VISITORS IN TOWN SATURDAY , . If • , , Among the men from out in the coun try, seen around Andrews corner Satur day, were A. S. Blackwood, Joe Hobby, Ralph Copeland, James Maddry, Will Freeland, Oscar Hogan, John Whitfield, Rufus Merritt, and George Hearn. The Chapel Hill Weekly Application for Second Class Mailing Privilege is Pending USE OF FUND OF $1,650,000? _____________ Which University Projects Will Be Carried Forward, Which Postponed ?' How will the $1,650,000, voted by the Legislature for building and other per manent improvements at the University, be used ! This is a question which in terests the whole State, but particularly, of course, the Chapel Hill community. The committee on buildings of the board of trustees will be in session here next Monday and Tuesday to discuss the question. It is hardly expected that they will reach a decision on every point, but at least they are likely to get far enough to allow the architectural and construct ing forces to go ahead without delay. An extension of the water supply fa cilities is regarded as certain. In the budget which the University submitted to the legislature, calling for a total of $2,317,380, the amount put down as needed for a permanent water supply was SIBO,OOO. In 1921 the fall.opening had to be postponed for a week because of the lack of water, aud would have been postponed longer if an emergency line had not been laid. Again in 1922 this me emergency line had to be put down. This experience makes it plain that an adequate permanent water supply must be provided for. The budget called for-A125,000 for ex tensions of sewers and heatuigsiiid light ing facilities, and probably of this work can be dispensed with. These things ipe fundamental necessities. About the other items in the budget there,, is less basis for forecasts. Will there be a women’s building! A chem istry building! A geology building! Nobody knows yet. Three dormitories, at an estimated cost of $118,250 ouch, were down on the list, and the guessing around the campus and the town is that two of these buildings, and maybe all three, will go up. The classroom build ing, expected to cost $185,000 is freely predicted, too. Other budget items were: chemistry building and equipment, $536,000; ge ology building and equipment, $214,8001” women’s building and equipment, $224,- 000; remodelling old buildings, $250,- 000; campus grading, roads, etc., $50,- 000; furniture and fixtures, $64,000; permanent equipment, $83,830; and grounds for student recieation and exer cise, $50,000. For maintenance, the University asked for $715,175 for the year 1923-1924, and $765,040 for 1924-1925. The legislature granted $650,000 for the first year and $725,000 for the second. PARENTS URGE A LOAN FUND Say That Many High School Students Quit for Lack of Funds , A loan fund, to enable high school stu dents to go through with their course in stead of being compelled to drop out after a year or two, is urgently needed in Chapel Hill, and the Parent Teachers Association is engaged in trying to raise it,. Already SSO has been pledged. A country boy or girl often raises a crop of cotton or tobacco in order to pay for board in town during the winter when the school is running. If tho crop fails for one reason or another, the stu dent goes without schooling. The execu tive committee of the Parent Teachers Association held a special meeting a few days ago to discuss ways and means of meeting the situation. A money-raising entertainment was suggested at the meet ing, but it was determined not to resort to this until it found how much money could bo raised by subscription. There will not be any house-to-house canvass, but every one who reads the news of this movement is asked to give what he can afford. Contributions may _ V , , . ...... , . . do fiiuuc to me casiner oi ennui mine, iu the superintendent of the school, or to Mrs. Mclntosh, chairman of the high school Parent Teachers group. All sums, whether large or small, are acceptable. CONTEST IN WRITING VERSES Jim Phipps, manager of the Pickwick, is offering two one-week free passes for tho two best four-ljn everses on Con stance Talmadgc, who is to be seen „on the screen here soon. The verses must reach him by 6 P. M. Saturday. PYTHIANS MEET MARCH 22 The Knights of Pythias are to hold a district meeting "in Chapel Hill next Thursday night, March 22, in Castle Hall on the second,floor of the Brockwell building. This district includes Orange, Durham, Granville, and Person counties, and fully 100 members of the order ar,c expected. Charles E. Gooch is chancellor, commander here. He and his fellow of ficers are preparing to give the visiting Pythians a good welcome. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1923 This Po 9 Little Orphan Road Will Be Reclaimed Some Day State Will Fix Part of It Up, Durham County the Other Part. n Big Hole Will Be Filled Many a Durhamite and Chapel Hillian has wondered why the stretch of road between the city pavement and the State pavement, where cars round the comer at the Durham cemetery, stays so rough. The plight of this hundred yards or so of bumpy surface, which nor body wants to take care of, is pa thetic. It reminds oue of the couplet that was chanted at the Democratic* national convention in Baltimore in 1912: I don’ care if he is jus’ a houn,’ You gotter quit kickin’ my dawg aroun’. The worst part of the stretch is a large and deep hole just at the bend. Nobody who has' driven a car or ridden in one between here and Durham needs to be told of this pitfall. The danger is not great, perhaps, for big cars, but with a Ford it is different. The editor of the Weekly was not great ly exercised over the matter as long as he rode in his friends’ Packards and Durants and Buicks and so on, but when he got a Ford of his own he was seized with the fear that his car would fall in the hole and he could never find it. This fear moved him to in quiries. First he asked the Dur ham city government for (infor mation, ‘ ‘ Not our road, ’ ’ was the answer. —Ask the .Btate or county. * ’ Then the Durham office of the State highway department was visited. CLOSET CONSERVED CURRIE He Wes Crowded Into Convenient Covert by Cannonading Cartridge* Claude Currie was one of the most ac tive workers in saving furniture and other articles from s tlie Graham house when it was on fire Friday. With one wall of a room on the second floor al ready blazing, he was gathering up * things near the window when he was startled by a furious popping. He is a veteran of the world war and he recog nized the sound at once. So ho dived into a clothes closet and slammed the door behind him. W. S. Bernard, who lived in the house, kept a big pistol, as protection against possible burglars, chicken thieves, and other invaders, and there waia box of cartridges on the mantelpiece. When the fire readied them they began to explode. That was what hastened Mr. Currie into the closet. He waited, and in a moment or two the fusillade was over. Then he emerged from the closet, completed the salvage of the remaining articles in the room, and descended to the ground. TOWN MAY HAVE BALL TEAM Available Material Includes a Former Varsity Player, Ed. Tenney There is talk of a Chapel Hill hilschull team this summer nuTYpTm will tie re cruited from the young^men of Chapel Hill and the surrounding country, and possibly baseball stars who are attend ing the summer school will be allowed to try for places. This will be the first time in over ten years that Chapel Hill has had summer baseball. Many young Chapel Hillinns have had training as members of the Chapel Hill high school nine, and Ed Tenney has won his letter in baseball two years with the University team. The following men arc expected to be candidates: E<l Tenney, George Sparrow, Henry Hogan, Herman Melver, Jack Merritt, Dallas and Com mie McLennan, Williq llogan, Dewey I’oythress, Henry Ledbetter, Billy Eu banks, Paul Sparrow, and Carl Durham. No steps have been taken to arrange a schedule, but practice may begin within a few weeks. Probably the high school grounds will bo used for practice, and Emerson Field will be available for match games after the end of the spring Quarter if an agreement can be reached with C. T. Woollen, the University’s graduate manager of athletics. “The part of the road that con nects up the present State high way with Morehead avenue is our province,” it was said there, “and we are going to put it in shape when the Morehead avenue con tract is let, -Jt is not known just when this will be. Os course we are working on it now.” Next, the editor consulted Mr. Pendergraft, the Durham county road supervisor. “Our part of the road stretches from the city pavement to the. cor ner where the State . highway people have taken the road over. We are waiting on the State plans, because ours is such a short stretch that wo couldn’t let a contract for the work except on exorbitant terms. The whole stretch, ours and the State’s, will be done together.” After all, the bad going by the cemetery is a small thing when considers that only a year and a half ago the entire twelve-miles distance between here and Durham was rough. People are still so de lighted with the hard-surface road that they are not going to try to lynch anybody because this short stretch is not perfect. Yet automo billsts can’t be kept from grumb ling a bit. The better roads they gel, the better they want. It is like the case of the man who all his life has been going down the hill to a spring for water, and then, when he ;;retails pipes and a- porcelain bath tub, considers himself mor tally injured if the spigot .is hard to turn. SPARROWS ARE MARRIED HERE Get Tirad of Too Muck Advice from Friends, and Hasten Date i An automobile drew up at tho home, of Rev. E. L. Baskin tho Baptist minister the other night, and a young euuplo came into tho door. They said they wanted to got married. —^ “Here is the license,” the youiig man said, taking a document out of his pocket. “We got it February 17. A lot of people have been setting the date of the wedding for us, and wo just de cided to set it for ourselves.” And so Jumes Sparrow was married to his distant cousin. Miss Jessie Sparrow, daughter of June Sparrow, who lives three miles or so south of Chapel Hill iu the Williams Chapel section. Tho groom is farming ou the Hutchins place, about throe miles southeast of town, and the couple have gone to live there. i _ __ , A CLEAN UP WEEK IS COMING ~ e? March 26-31 Set Aside for Campaign. Empty Lots Need Attention There will be a clean-up campaign in Chapel Hill beginning Monday morning, March 26, and ending Saturday night, March 31. This does not mean that cleaning up is not to begin before that week, or that it is not to go ou afterward, among the citizens as individuals. But during those wiv rlovw flm n/w>iu>r'ititfn nuiumt iu to be emphasized. Everybody is asked by the Community Club to join in tho great renovation, to tho end that the Raster morning sun may rise ou a spot less town. Empty lots cluttered with unsightly ami- often health endangering rubbish constitute especially sore spots. The Community Club urges the owners of these lots to clean them up. Tho hauling is free. That, of course, is important to persons whose premises harbor a great quantity of rubbish. Wagons will make the rounds and take olf the fluff th“matte ready “fortheniT This leaves little excuse for failure to cooperate. Miss Bertha Pickard, chairman of the civics department of the club, is iu charge of the arrangements for clean-up week, and anybody who wants to load a wagon but waits for its arrival iu vain had bettej apply to her. > "■ C. H Dearman, student Worker in the post-office, is back at his job again after a stay in the infirmary with influenza. LOUIS GRAVES Editor SKYROCKETING REALTY PRICES Store Nnt to Post-Office Draws Offer of S2OO A Month W. L. Tankersley says that he was offered S2OO a month not long ago for the 24-feet-wide space next to the post office, in the brick building now under construction. r He has let it to a restaurant which will open for business in the early sum mer, and S2OO is reported to be the rental agreed upon. . This is a fair indication of the re markable advance in real estate values in Chapel Hill within the last few years. They are highest, of course, along the stretch between the post-office aud the banks, but the rise in residential prop erty has been just as sensational. The Robert L. Strowd farm on the east edge of town, along the Durham road> perhaps presents the most striking example. It is knowu among the old-time resi dents of the town that some twenty or twenty-five years ago ■ Mr. Strowd was eager to accept $35,000 for the place but could not do so because of legal diffi culties in passing title. A few years later he was turning down without a second thought an offer of $60,000, and now it is understood that ho will not sell -for less than SIOO,OOO. T The most recent sale of land on the busiest section of Franklin Btreet took place tn 1921 when the plot now occupied by tho cafeteria, with a frontage of 25 feet, was sold for $6,250, or $250 a foot. That was only two years ago, yet now the adjoining land is held at $350 a foot. Mr. Tankersley says he got an offer of that for a small frontage but wanted to part with all or none. It is known that there has been a bona lido offer of moro than S3OO a foot for the empty plot between the Strowd building and the Kluttz building. Five thousand dollars a year is the rental now being paid by the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company for the Strowd building, and the company furnishes all heat and light. this part of the town would not be at tractive as living quarters, but as a matter of fact many students prefer rooms here. Thus the second floors arc in great demand. Tho twelve rooms on the second floor of tho brick build ing next to tho post-office are already spokon for. At a rental of S2O a room, the gross rental for the floor is $240 a month. Farther uptown, at the corner of Col umbia street, the small plot covered by the bakery is said to be held by the owner, W. K. Lloyd, at $9/000. The talk is that Mr. Lloyd uill/not sell his whole property here, running back to Rosemary street, for less than SIB,OOO or $20,000. CLUBWOMEN WILL MEET HERE ______________ * Sixth District Delegates Will Gather in Chapel Hill Monday The annual meeting of the sixth duj trict of the State Federation of Womens Clubs will take plaeo in the I’resbyterinn church from eleven to three o'clock Mon day. The members of tho Community Club, who are. acting as hostesses, invite 1 everybody to attend. Mrs. S. I’. Cooper, president of the State Federation, will mako nn address. There will lie reports from the presidents of tho various dubs iu the district, and a general discussion of local and district problems. From one to two o’clock luncheon will be served. In accordance with a de cision made last year, visitors will bring box lunches; hut the beverage part of the meal will lie supplied for thorn. After luncheon, Mnc\John Gilmer, chairman of the district, will address the gathering. Klic will lie followed by Miss Cli/.iihotli Kelly wlki will micuk on Adult Illiteracy. At three o’clock the Com munity Club will take the visitors for a drive around tho village and campus. RICK BOUGHT HANDSOME BILBE * A book auctioneer stopped with his automobile in front of the post-office one day last week and sold to the highest bidders all kinds of volumes, ranging from religion and philosophy and poetry through political economy and sociology to the lightest of modern fiction. Rick Taylor, a colored man who lias been ii painter in Chapel Hill for more than 30 years, bought a fiue Bible, handsomely illustrated in colors, for $7.50. In the post-office afterward he showed it to friends both white and colored, and they all thought be had got. value for his money. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Howell, C. A. Hib bard, and Miss Ida Gorrlner motored to Greensboro Friday to attend the meeting of the North Carolina teachers of Eng lisb. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy UPJOHN HERE WITH NEW CHURCH PLANS Episcopalians WiU Build to East of Present Structure- Architectural Harmony Is Promised MR. ERWIN DEEPLY INTERESTED Hob';lrt B. Upjohn,. the architect who is designing the new Episco pal Church, is scheduled to be in town today. lie will show his plans to Rj?v. A. S. Lawrence, A. H. Patterson, and other members of the vestry,, and there will be a thorough discussion of the building project. Then the architect and the build ing—committeemen will probably have a consultation with W. A. Er win of Durham. It has already been announced that Mr. Erwin will give $50,000 toward the erec tion of the church. He is deeply interested in the details of the plans and may have suggestions to make about changes. The land lying east of the pres ent structuee, forming part of the University plot often spoken of as the Alexander place (from the fact that the late Eben Alexander and his family lived there so many years) has been definitely chosen for the location of the new church. The University has agreed to sell the Episcopalians a strip about sixty-five feet wide running from the main street back to the campus. Rev. A. S. Lawrence, when asked yesterday about the plans, was un able to make any forecast as to the time Vvh.et^construction would be begun or as to the amount of money that will have to be raised, ft was said a year ago, before any gifts had been made, that the total amount needed would be $80,000; some say, however, that it may be SIOO,OOO. But it is all guess-work at this stage. Mr. Lawrence yesterday reiter ated the statement, made when the project was first announced, that the existing church would be left unchanged. The new one will be of the same type of architecture, and the two will be joined at the rear by the parish house and an addition thereto. Thus will be formed an enclosure, open on the north side, constituting what is known in the language of ecclesias tical architecture as a close. Whether the new church will have a tower similar to that of the old one is not yet determined. SUGGESTS A 'RETURNING DAY" People Uurged to Concentrate on Re storing Borrowed Articles Here is a man who thinks that tho anniversary of the day Cornwallis and the. British troops returned to England, after having been properly walloped by George Washington, might well bo cele brated as Returning Day—everybody to make it a point to return all artieles he or she has borrowed . “The dear people of Chapel Hill,” writes H. D. Carter to tho Weekly, “have ■ La-nan., *~ ..ieau up. liiiiit, boy scout, Near East relief, aud sundry others. I plead for one day, the seven teenth of March, the day oft which Lord Cornwallis returned to Britain, thus ending the Revolution. “ May we not set aside tho seventeenth as Returning Day for all things borrowed! Let every one iu Chapel Hill, man, woman, boy, girl, or student, search diligently and return to his neighbor tliat neighbor’s books, lawn mower, tools clothes, money, egtfs, cupful of sugar, or anything else that has been borrowed. *SO Elijah lifted up his voice and cried, Return ye Children of Men.’ ” Mr. Carter says nothing in his letter about swiping Saint Patrick's Day for his idea. There are not many Irishmen in Chapel Hill, so perhaps there would ho no great protest here; hut let him suggest such a subversion in New York -or Boston and he wouTdHave a'rio ton his" hands. The Sons of Irish Freedom and allied spcietics without number would he coming down on his head with" shil lalies. Tammany Hall would have a tar and-feathering party with H. D. Car ter as the principal guest.
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