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Vol. I No. 4 SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION_MAY 22 New Law Gives Country Folk Chance to Get Educational Advantages, Including 8 Months Term AN EQUALIZING PROPOSITION The, people of Orange county will vote Tuesday, May 22, upon the question whether or not the county shall take over all the schools and give the children in the country advantages equal to those now enjoyed by the children in the towns. If the proposal-carries, there will be a uniform tax rate for schools, not exceeding 50 cents on the hundred dollars, throughout Orange. This will wipe out the lo cal school taxes, for the county will take over the indebtedness and the cost of operation of the schools. As far as Chapel Hill citizens are concerned, the total school tax will be cut down, since they are now paying heavier local rates than the highest possible county rate under the new law. For some time, the lack of school facilities for thg people who live out in the country has been hold ing the county back in education. The county board of education has issued a statement saying that the demand for better accommodations is being voiced on all sides. The law under which the special elec tion will be held was passed by the last legislature for the purpose of equalizing school burdens and “school advantages. : r With the new scheme in effect, all communities, no matter how small or how large, will share alike in the revenue coming from corpo rate wealth such as cotton mills, power plants, power lines. Under the present system, it only .the children living in places where such wealth exists who get the benefit of this revenue. The proposed county-wide rate would maintain all the schools in the county for a term of eight months. It would make possible the building of high schools in the various townships, and the larger children could be transported to these high schools. It is not planned to abolish the small schools for the lower grades. Before the election comes off there are to be many meetings, all over the county, to discuss the whole question. - PAY CUT AT POSTOFFICE Notice came from Washington the other day that there would be no more overtime pay for post-office employes, for the reason that the appropriations were not adequate to provide it. This is a serious mutter for Chapel Hill, because the heavy volume of mail here requires great deal of overtime work. It is known among Postmaster friends that he has been paying th# men out of his own pocket recently, father than let the service collapse. There is some wonder as to' what the incoming Ha Wiffr TTorHnn will Hn tn solve this difficulty, since, as far as peo pie know, he is not a man of independent means and can hardly afford to pay the clerks himself. BISHOP CHESHIRE VISITED US Bishop Cheshire; was in town from Sat urday to Wednesday. He administered the rite of confirmation in the Episcopal church Sunday, and delivered a series of three talks on “The Rule of Christian Faith. His many friends here were.d#-* lighted to see him looking so well. CEDAR GROVE MANSE The Methodist congregation of Cedar Grove are planning to build a manse on the north side of the village, near Stewart’s Heights, the home of J. F. Stewart. This will give Cedar Grove two resident pastors, the Presbyterians having built a parsonage not long ago. The Chapel Hill Weekly Application for Second Class Mailing Privilege is Pending FARMERS BUY BLOODED COWS Harris, Agricultural Exprt, Went to Hickory for Registered Jerseys __ ■***'•" 0 R. P. Harris, agriculture teacher in the Chapel Hill school, made a trip to. Hickory a few days ago to buy blooded cattle for farmers in the country around Chapel Hill. He arranged for the purchase of 28 registered Jersey heifers between six months and a year old. The men who are going to take the heifers are: Blackwood section: M. C. Black wood, Herbert Blackwood, Robert Blackwood, Will Nunn, L. C. Pat terson, and Clyde Hogan. Calavander section: Lewis Lloyd, Henry Hogan, Arthur Hogan, and Rod Cate. Antioch section: Marvin Daw son, Melvin Lloyd, Ernest Whit field, Jeter Lloyd, Aubrey McLen non, and Wade Atwater. Damascus section: Robert Dan iel, W. Womble, and S. C. Wilson. White Cross section: Paul Cheek, Iloyt Smith, C. Stanford. Elm Grove: Albert^Dodson. Merritt’s section: B. Bennett and R. Fowler. TRADE WEEK" NOW AT HAND Chapel Hill Merchant* Have Set Out to Attract Country Folk to Store* The merchants of Chapel Hill are celebrating the next few days by putting on a “trade week” campaign. The idea is not only to draw the citizens of the town to the home stores, but also to bring in a flood of country people. To that end, announcement sheets nave been" printed and are being circulated among the farmers throughout the southern end of Orange county and in part of Chatham. Considerable reductions in prices are being made at many of the stores. The Chapel Hill merchants say they are-going to show the population that there is an abun dance of superior goods at reason able prices here in the shops on Franklin street. “If people will just compare prices, through the whole list of ar ticles needed for the household,’’ said qne merchant yesterday, “we believe they will find that there is no reason to go away from home for purchases. Os course, we have the expense of delivery and charge aeounts, which the cash-and-carry stores do not have. If this differ ence in the kind of service be al lowed for, Chapel Hill prices writ be found to be reasonable. Dur ing this special ‘trade week,’ of course, they are lower than usual.” POSTMASTER IS BRIDEGROOM DeWitt Herndon Wat Married Friday to Mi** Blance Estelle Welch The new postmaster, De Witt Herndon, was married to Miss Blanche Estelle Welch by Rev. E. L. Baskin in the Baptist parsonage, last Friday. They had been en gaged some time, hut the decision to have the ceremony last week a sudden one. M. E. Ilogan, the cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, under whom Mr. Herndon has been working, and Mrs. Baskin were the only witnesses. The bride is the daughter of O. 11. Welch, who lives in Chatham county neat Pittsboro. For a while before the marriage she had been living in Winston-Salem. Mr. Herndon will take possession of the post-office on the first day of April, it is expected. He signed his bond several days ago. * . SPARROW'S NEW HOME Carl Hnarrow has built a new home four miles southeast of Chapel Hill. He expects to move in scion. T. A. Whitener, one of the-’agriculture teachers in the Chapel Hill pchool, has been suffering from a light attack of in fluenza. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1923 METHODISTS SOON TO BEGINCAMPAIGN Hope to Raise SIOO,OOO for New Chvchiroiii Methodists in North Carolina BUILDING IN COLONIAL STYLE The campaign to raise SIOO,OOO among the alumni and Methodist people generally throughout the State, as the final amount necessary before beginning work on the new Methodist Church, will start in the late spring, it is announced by L. R. Wilson, a member of the Joint Commission on the -Chapel Hill Church. The total cost of the new structure will be approximately $200,000. The two Methodist conferences of the State, the North Carolina Con ference and the Western. North Carolina Conference, have each pledged $30,000 toward the cost, and the Chapel Hill church $20,- 000. The general boards of the pisc op a 1 Church, South, with headquarters at Nash ville, Tenn., have been asked for $50,000 of the one million which that body was authorized to use for churches in educational cen ters. This contribution is regard ed as reasonably certain. The ex cess over the cost of the church itself has been used for building a parsonage. James Gamble Rogers of New York is the architect for the church, and on bis last visit to Chapel Hill he expressed himself as ly interested in the undertaking. He said that he had given more per sonal attention to the designing of the Chapel Hill church than to any other building Jje had ever plan ned. Mr. Rogers is the consulting architect of Yale University, and 4t was he who planned the henuti ful Darkness Memorial Quad rangle at that institution. The church is to be built in three units: the main auditorium on the site of the old Seaton Barbee house where Robert A. Fetzer now lives; a connecting structure, with a cor ridor running parallel with the main street toward the present building; and a Sunday school and reception ball on the site of the present church. The first two units are to be built immediately and the third later on. Between ”he auditorium and the Sunday school building, there is to be a court with a big elm tree in the center. The court will have walks, grass plots and flower beds. The church auditorium will be of Colonial architecture, red brick with a tall spire rising 207 feet above the ground. In front will be white columns. Including the balcony, the audi torium will seat about 1,000. To the rear of the auditorium will be the pastor’s study. Probably, a paved walk will run through the - "* 1 * ■ *♦»»»«* >»**/■.♦ 11 4 1,. street to the University campus. The Sunday school building will contain class rooms, a small audi torium, rooms for reading and studying, a general reception hall, a dining room and a kitchen. The entire site has a frontage of 280 feet and a depth of 300 feet. The Methodists are stronger in the University than any other de nomination. The records in the registrar’s office show 594 Mctho-. dists, while the Baptist come next with 468. The Joint Commission on the Chapel Hill Church is made up of fifteen— members, —five —from the North Carolina Conference” five from the Western North Carolina Conference, and five from the Chapd Hill congregation. The members are: From the North (Continued on Page Four) LINKS UNDER WAY, ' GOLFERS GLEEFUL Ground Broken a Few Days Ago aid Work Will Proceed. En thusiasm k ures Success * CLUBHOUSE ABOUT COMPLETED Ground has been broken for the new golf course of the country club out on the Raleigh road. This momentous event took place without any ceremonies. There was no solemn Masonic procession with abbreviated smocks flopping in the wind, no awesome incan tation said over the turning of the first elod. W. C. George of the University medical school, acting on behalf of the club, simply hired a man with horqg and plow and started them to work. One of the hillsides has been plowed, and others will receive the same treatment. The sewing of grass seed is underway. An attack will he made in force before long, in all likelihood, upon the count less thousands of stones scattered over the club territory. A little while ago there was talk of a gen eral mobilization of club members for the reaping of this harvest, but that is not settled yet. Maybe the professors who compose the male part of the organization will de cide that it is more economical to engage in brain-work and employ others to pick up the stones. Some of them are already committed to this view, while others decl§re"it folly to miss such a good chance Tor beneficial physical exercise*" Anyway, work upon the links is -to proceed. It can’t he done all at once, because funds are limited. But there is a vast enthusiasm among Chapel Hill golfers, and they are not going to let the job sleep. Various suggestions for hastening it have been mwjTe. One is that the golfing element raise a special fund, to he contributed both by themselves and by alumni who have been badly bitten by the golf bug and may want to come in as non-resident members. Then, there is the prospect of a considerable student membership. It is already about decided to ad mit students to the golf privi leges, at a certain fee to }>e fixed later- Since the building up of golf courses near the principal cities of the State, the number of University students interested in the game has grown steadily. Many of them have expressed their delight at the prospect of playing on the new course. Os course there will he more and more golf ers in the student body every year. The construction of the club house is in its final stages. Prob ably the building will he finished in the next three or four days. The plasterers got to work with their tools last Thursday, and the layers shortly afterward. In the next day of two, if the weather is good, there will no doubt he a trek of members to look the place over. An agreeable feature of it is a broad veranda. There is much concern about ac cess to the club grounds. For two or three months the Raleigh road has been well nigh impassable, hut the appearance of a scraper the other day cheered strollers. Event ually there is going to be an exten sion of Cameron avenue from the east gate of the campus, to pass through Battle’s Park and connect with the turn-off from the Raleigh road to the clubhouse. Nobody, knows yet when this extension will be put through. It is obliged to come some day, because of the ap proaching erection of dormitories on the west fringe of the park and the almost certain opening-up of nearby land for residence pur poses. . LOUIS GRAVES Editor WILL IMPROVE SWIMMING POOL Owner of Carr boro Resort i* Pr*p*rui| for the Summer Rush H Joseph Sparrow, owner of the Carrboro swimming pool that proved so popular last summer, is preparing to make it .still more popular. He is going to get water from the regular University-and-town supply, so that the pool may be drained out oftener. Os course this depends qpon there being an ade quate supply. The general under standing is that the University is going to expand its water system, in which ease there will be no more shortages. Mr. Sparrow is building a ce ment walk all the way around the pool. He is to engage a swimming teacher to give free lessons to all who want them. The establish ment is already equipped with showers, and a rule is to be put into effect that everybody will be asked to go under the shower be fore entering the pool. This will insure the best possible sanitary conditions. A lot of new bathing suits will be available for those who want to rent them. The .opening of the pool will probably take place about the mid dle of May. FLOWERS ALL THE TALK NOW Once More Spring Roll* Around, And Everybody I* Bust Planting The wood anemones are peeping forth in Battle’s Park. Violets are blooming in the gardens. Hedges of spiraea along the stone walls are bursting into white. People have once more begun the annual March pastime of arguing whether the popular yellow flower is a jonquil or a daffodil. In short, spring is here. W. C. Coker, the botanist, is at the height of demand. People stop him on 4-iic street, and call hiiq on the tele phone to question him anxiously as to what and where to plant. Gar den lovers, busy with hoc and rake, work over old plots and enthusias tically plan new ones. At this sea son, when spring is yet a novelty, even the human clods known as men wax pqtfffc over flowers. Much planting is in progress on the campus. The University has its own nursery now, behind the Peabody building, so that the sums spent for shrubs and flowers are decreasing year by year. Plans are' on foot to improve Battle’s Grove. It will be plough ed, so the report goes, and graded, and sodded, and the grass will he cut periodically like the grass on the rest of the campus. The “suburban” developments projected around Chapel Hill are threatening to make busy Mr. Coker busier than ever. Up on the Pittsboro road, and on the Tenney tract to the north of town, new homes are going up, and the ground around every one of them calls for expert advice. MEYER ON VALUE OF PLAY f Harold D. Meyer addressed the Parent Teachers’ Association of Carrboro Tues day night on “Tho Value’of Play.” Gone Away From Chapel Hill Have you a relative or friend who used/fo live here but has now gone away? f 3Vnat could be a better gift than a subscription to THE WEEKLY? Fill out, clip, and mail the coupon on an other page of this issue. (Im portant postscript: Also, if' you want to get this paper for yourself, but have not yet entered your subscription, please do it now.) $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy PEAK LAND PRICE FOR CHAPEL HILL Tiakcrde; Plot Near Cafeteria Sail to Realty Company for $24,000 or $33333 a Froat Foot STORE BUIUMNGIs PROBABLE W. L. Tankersley has sold the remaining 72 feet of his frontage on Franklin Street for $24,000, This rate of $333.33 a front foot is the highest price ever paid for real estate in Chapel Hill. The purchaser is the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company. It has been known for some time that the company has had,a yearn ing gaze fixed upon this plot, but the yearning did not reach the three-hundred-and-thirty-three-dol lars-a-foot point until a few days ago. The genial oetupi, Roberson and Whitfield, finally decided, how- that their list of assets would not be really satisfying unless they captured this stretch along the main street. What they are going to do with it is not announced yet. But the obvious probability is the erection of another brick business building, with stores on the ground floor and eiflTer offices or students’ living roonis^bove. This skle emphasizes once again the canniness of people who hold and keep on holding laud in a growing town. Thirty years ago three or four thousand dollars would have been considered price for the whole Tankersley irt^n?rty—betweetr--the post-office and the cafeteria. Now, counting in the value of the plot where Mr. Tankersley himself is building stores, the property has brought about $40,000. “Kittin’ tight is a great game,- Bill,” a friend of his, passing by, said to him the other day. f Y>w, and if I sat tight a little longer I’d get still more,” he, im plied. Which is no doubt true. But he went on to say that the noise and dust of traffic had made the place undesirable as a home, and that his mother had to leave it and live else where. *' As always, when a piece bf land goes at a high price, condolences are extended (o people who sold adjoining property a few years ago at a much lower figure. Old friend’s of William de B. Mac- Nider, meeting him on the greet him with such cheering re marks as: “It’s a shame, Bill, that you folks didn’t hold on for a while longer to the land you sold to the government for a post-office. You’d get a whoppin’ price for it now.” And tho doctor walks sadly off, reflecting upon the beautiful microscopes and tissue carving weapons and other laboratory de lights he might now he buying if he had held on. The high price of real estate along this most crowded stretch of the.main street leads one to wonder if builders will change from the two-story to the three-story plan for their business structures. As land increases in value it has to be used more and more intensively; that is, the owner has to get more revenue, out of a given ground; space, in order to make thr-owner-A ship of it profitable. Yet, in Chapel Hill, there is hesitation about put ting on third stories, for the reason that the efflertion of walking up two flights of stairs from the street level frightens off tenants. There are some buildings which are only two stories high now but which have been made strong enough to support another floor if the de mand for it is urgent enough. Automobile radiator* had to bo drained Monday night when a sudden freese Struck the town.
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