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Vol. I No. 7 SCHOOL WILL HAVE A FAIR Boys and Girls Wifl Exhibit Livestock and Poultry on School Grounds Early in May MUCH ENTHUSIASM OVER PLAN The agriculture department of the Chapel Hill school is going to have what is called a “project fair” on the school grounds in the first part o‘s May. It will be something like the reg ular county fair, the difference be ing that here the special object is to exhibit the result of school chil dren’s work and to stimulate them to still more fruitful efforts in farming and the raising of live stock and pomtry. Although most of the exhibits will be made by the boys and girls, any citizen of Orange who wants to is invited to join in thejahow. There will be displayed about 30 pure-bred Jersey animals, in cluding young bulls, heifers, and cows. Portions of flocks of poul try will be on exhibition, too, and specimens of grain and vegetables that show the result of up-to-date methods of cultivation. “This sort of demonstration will undoubtedly be an incentive to the school children,” said R. P. Harris, the agriculture teacher, yesterday. “Prizes are to be given, and nat urally there is eagerness to Win them. Then, every exhibitor will see what the others are doing, and there will be an interchange of re ports. The boys and girls are already enthusiastic over the idea, and I believe the success of the fair is assured. We hope to make it an annual event, with exhibitors increasing in number year by year.” MAC RAE WILL PUT OP STORE Brick Building to Replace Wooden One On Pottoffice Corner Cameron Macßae, son of Mrs. Robert 8. Macßae and brother of Mrs. George Elliotf, has decided to put up a brick building on the post-office corner, replacing the wooden structure in which Jacob Thomas now runs a store. Mr. Macßae. a native of Chapel Hill, an alumnus of the University, and an ex-varsity football player, is now in business in Concord. It has been known for some time that ho was considering the erection of a modern building on this corner, but he did not make the final de cision until a few days ago. He was here last week to look info the matter of the demand for stores and rooms, and to arrange details of construction. The plot has a frontage of about 25 feet on Franklin street, and takes in, on Henderson street, the little tumbledown shack back of *l. mi r * . « . —-u.ir-nmnii.n store. rrn.ii vviuil minis of businesses will take the space on the ground floor is not known yet. ft, is obviously a splendid location for a store, a restaurant, a barber shop, or almost any other enter prise depending upon public pat ronage. Mr. Macßae may depart from the common practice of erecting two-story buildings along Frank* lin street and ran his up to three. This is not settled. The upper floor or floors will be devoted to sleeping rooms for students, and will be fitted up with all the mod ern conveniences. The University Musonte Club has been formally installed us the Acacia fra ternity. Thirty six faculty members and ffUdents were present at the installation. Mr. and Mrs. 8. H.' Hobbs are receiv ing congratulations on the birth of a son, Hamuel Huntington Hobbs, Jr. The Chapel Hill Weekly Application for Second Class Mailing Privilege is Pending CARRBORO HOPEFUL FOR WATER SUPPLY Under New Plan, the University May Possibly Run Main Through the Town FILTERING RAISES QUESTION As the day of the meeting of the building committee of the Univer sity trustees draws near, the peo ple -of Carrboro are becoming more and more interested in the question of a water supply. It is settled that the University, which also supplies the town of Chapel Hill, has got to have more Water, and it seems pretty certain that it has got to come from a creek that runs on the other side of Carrboro from the campus. If the stream is tapped at the place where most folk expect it will be, then the main will run straight through the mill community. At first thought, it seems quite simple to take water out of the main, provided there is enough water to spare. But the question of filtering arises. The filter plant is on the campus, and if Carrboro took the water on the way from creek to campus it would be tak ing the unfiltered product. How, (lien, to get filtered water? There have been two suggestions. One is that a separate plant be construct ed ; the other is that the water pass through the present filter and on hack to Carrboro. ~~ The latter scheme would seem to require an expensive duplication of pipes; but for a good part of the distance the main now in service, running from the creek that passes under the railway track northwest of Chapel Hill, could be used. It is said, by those who argue for (he concentration of alt filtering on the campus, that it would be more ex pensive to construed; and operate a separate plant than it would be to buy and lay the additional main necessary to carry the water hack to Carrboro. Which course is the more eco nomical will be decided by the trustees’ building committee—that is, if they decide in the first place (hat the new supply will be ade quate. for the increased demand upon it. If the water should be made available, the town of Carrboro would have to issue bonds, possi bly to the amount of $25,000,. for side street mains and for sewer lines. All or a considerable part (if these bonds would lie of the self supporting variety hat is, there would be regular payments by con sumers of water to meet interest and sinking fund charges. NOW SWAT FLY, SAYS NATHAN For Health’* Saka, All Householders Should Join In War ■ ?>i . S. A. Nuiimn,-dim im of the Chapel Hill board of health, has issued an appeal to all citizens to make war upon flies. “Now is the time to put in fly screens and tise fly swatters,” In* says. “If every householder will do this it will go a long way toward safeguarding the public health. But it is better still to keep the flies and mosquitoes from breed ing, not give ’eih a chance -to-be come candidates for swatting. “The health department of the town asks the co-operation of all Let everybody keep his premises clean. Flies breed in putrifying matter, and the less oj? this the fewer the flies. Do not forget to have the garbage can cov ered. “Keep your own surroundings in a strictly sanitary condition, and you will benefit others as well as yourself.” v, • CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923 POSTPONE CALLING SCHOOULECTION Members of Comity Board of Edu cation Go to Raleigh to Confer with Superintendent Brooks r ALTERNATIVE PLANS PROPOSED In order that the members of the copnty board of education may attend nie conference of county superintendents called by State ckmerintmrflent Brooks in Raleigh, tßeJbbard meeting sche duled for Monday, April 16, in Hillsboro has been postponed. It was on April 16 that the call for a special election on the county wide school system was to be issued. Probably the postponement will be only until the end of next week. The situation with regard to schools in Orange is a serious one, and the board members hope they will get some helpful suggestions from Dr. Brooks and .others at the Raleigh conference. They are expected to make a choice be tween two alternative plans; first, calling for a vote on a straight county-wide school system, with a uniform special '' school tax throughout; second, culling for a vote establishing a system that takes in all the county except Chapel Ilill and. Hillsboro. Something has got to be done if Orange County is not to go back ward in the education of its ehil dren. For, under the new law, enacted by the last legislature, the average daily attendance required to put a school on the two-teacher basis is raised to 40. That is higher than the attendance at some of the Orange schools, and next year the county is threaten ed with having one-teacher schools, which, by common con sent of all educational experts, are inefficient and generally unsatis factory. There are in the county seven local districts in which special school taxes are levied in addition to the county school tax of II cents on each SIOO of uation. The object of the propo sal tu institute a uniform county wide system is to give rural com inanities the benefit of taxes on the extensive corporation prop erly in the county. 'Phis property lies chiefly in the town districts and is now taxed chiefly for the benefit of town children. The acceptance of the county wide plan, either in its entirety, nr with Uhapel Hill and Hillsboro left out, would not raise the school taxes in these two towns; lint it would spread to the country the school opportunities now enjoyed by the towns. PROMOTING MUSIC IN SCHOOLS Children Respond With Enthusiasm to Instruction In Singing Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Sheldon, Mrs. G. H. Paulsen, and Frederick W. Morrison, made a tour of five schools in the township lasi week to set going a movement for more and better music in the schools. They talked to teachers and pu pils about the plan, and at each school they illustrated their ideas by gathering the children together for choral singing. Some of the hoys and girls sang solos. There are to he singing contests in all the schools of the county dur ing the next few weeks, ending up with the final contest at the county commencement in Hillsboro in May. But this is not to end the movement. Entertainments are to he organized, and the work of training the children in music will lie pursued regularly in the future. Chickens Are Raiding Gardens; Annual Spring Warfare Is On Fowl, Not Fenced In, Feed On Vegetable Patches Not Meant For Their Support. Owners Liable To Fine Os $5. Chickens and gardens—the war is on! No part of the village but is in cluded in the battle field. Out along Pittsboro and Vance and Mc- Cauley streets, in the western dis trict beyond the Baptist church, and down in the east end where most of the faculty reside—all over Chapel Hill the irrepressible conflict is stirring up argument and making neighbors eye one another threateningly across their boundary lines. It is an annual spring event, this attack by roosters and hens on vegetable patches. And the time honored methods of waging the campaign are the same this year as .ever they were: sometimes repeat ed protests answered by repeated promises, sometimes vigorous ston ing of the uninvited visitors, some times summary execution and con signment to the pot. Now and then there bursts forth a real altercation between garden-grow ing and chicken-growing neigh bors; but most often the citizen whose domain is invaded, shrink ing from open discord, takes it out by lambastin’ the chicken-owner in conversation with mutual friends. The attitude of the chicken ow nin' ranges from that of the friend ly neighbor who tolls you to “go ■rig!it ahead and kill ’em if Ttiejr get loose and go over into your garden,” to the virtuous indigna tion of the man or woman who thinks you ought to be charmed at the privilege of feeding a neigh bor’s flock. Ts those who are trying to cul tivate gardens* just knew it, they have a ready weapon against the owners of wandering fowl. This weapon is an ordinance that was adopted by the board of aldermen that, “whereas the running at large of chickens is considered a nuisance,” it is prohibited, and a violator is subject to a fine of $5 for each and every offense. But before anybody can lie *‘luid up” somebody lias to make a coin sl(bfint, and thus far no complaints have been received at the mayor’s office. People are naturally loath to go to law with their next door neighbors, with whom, except where chickens are concerned, they are apt to lie on the friendliest terms. They will fume and fuss and sputter through a whole sea son rntlier than make a scene in court. There has been in force for years a State law against marauding chickens. Not many months ago Dr. Charles S. Mangum decided lie would resort to this law for re lief, especially as the appeal prom ised a good joke to hoot. His next- TfoDT inwgtTT)oT’~lirVV. S-RTTHTTson, mayor of the town. The physician walked into the mayor’s office one day and addressed him solemnly as follows: “Mr. Mayor, I want to swear out a warrant to abate a nuisance.” Mr. Roberson drew a sheet of paper to him, took up his pen, and asked in a strictly official tone: “Against whom is the warrant directed ?” “Against W. 8. Roberson, whose chickens are coming over into my garden.” The pen, poised over the sheet, stopped in mid-air. After a mo ment’s pause, the mayor said: “You know, somehow I believe that ease can be settled out of court.” In less than 24 hours the mayor had enclosed his chicken yard in a tall fence of the very best qual ity of wire, and ever since then his .4 "" '-■♦A l LOUIS GRAVES Editor chickens have dwelled therein, gaz ing wistfully toward the Mangum garden but never ememgg from the enclosure except to their death. It was not more than a week or so after the visit of I)r. Mangum to the mayor’s office that the aider men adopted the present ordi nance. Such action as has been taken by outraged gardeners this spring has been of the direct sort. For example, one professor and his wife, who dwell on the east edge of town, becoming weary of'the fruitlessness of protests, slaugh tered a fat visiting hen the other day. cooked it. and ate it. Whether or not they paid the owner it is not recorded, but they are said to have told a friend that this 'hen had already eaten, on their premises, fully as much as it was worth. There are many treasured anec dotes of the depredations upon Chapel Hill gardens. One is of iVofessor A’s duck who persisted in visiting the lot of Professor B. Three protests were made, each a little more positive, than the one before. But the duck still came. At last Professor B had the duck killed and sent over in a basket to Professor A’s home. Mrs. Pro fessor A then had the duck skill fully cooked, reinforced it with de licious* stuffing and sauce, and sent it hack to Professor R- —This ex change was carried on in the ut most good humor—which cannot be said of all the negotiations con cerning chickens in this town. Some of the chicken growers in Chapel Hill enclose their flocks in stout wire, and industriously chase down and rc-imprison the adven turous birds who escape. Others content themselves with*delivering their chickens a lecture from the kitchen doorstep and trusting them to obey. The Citizens who adopt this latter method declare that they express themselves in the simplest and most emphatic lan image. How then can they he blamed it the chickens decline to heed their commands ? TOWN ELECTION DAY IS MAY g Mayor and Five Aldarmen To Bo Chosen By Chapel Hill Voter* < ’hapel Hill’s miiuieipal eleetion is set for Tuesday, May N. On that day the citizens of the town, men and women 21 or more years old, will choose a mayor and live aldermen. The present in eunihents are said to he trembling in their hoots for fear they will be tV elected. There has not been thus far any evidence of great public excitement over the event. Possibly there will he a mass meet ing before long, rather than a par C '.Cii! imi. f,,, rne discussion of candidates. That is the favored praet ice hereabouts. At present W. 8. Roberson is mayor, and the aldermen are J. M. Ulicek, Moody Durham, Howard VV. Odum, Gustave M. Brautie, and R. P. Andrews. Tile registration hooks will he open frbm Friday, April 20, to Saturday, April 28, inclusive, at the school building, with T H. Raney in charge as registrar. Only persons who have not registered for previous elections are required to give in their names now. The school building will also he the polling place on eleetion day. T. If. Raney spent a week not long ago in Roanoke, Virginia, at a reunion of liis five children. He is going to Ra leigh today with a delegation of Knights of Pythias who are to help install there a branch of the organization. Donald Macßae waa here on a ahort visit last week. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy BAD LUCK PURSUED DAGGETT’S VISITOR First Deemed by Pdbaan Agent; Then Robbed, Tbe* Landed at Unhrersky Station at NidH BUT HE GOT HERE AFTER ALL Clinton D. Lewis, a banker, of Providence, Rhode Island, who has just arrived here on a visit to Parker Daggett, professor of elec trical engineering in the Univer sity, had these things happen to him on the way south: The Pullman agent in Provi dence sold him a reservation on a train that had been cancelled the week before. •e After much difficulty he got a berth to Washington. While he was asleep in transit his entire sup ply of money, S6O, was stolen from him. He ate breakfast in Washington without first examining his purse, and just as he was about to settle for the meal found that he had exactly 49 cents to meet a charge of 50. The restaurant proprietor took pity on him and let him keep the 19, on faith. The Pullman agent in Washing ton —to whom by this time many other passengers had complained of being robbed aboard the sleep ing car -refused to cash a check for him; hut after a long search lie found a man who consented to let him have a small sum. ' Arrived in Raleigh, he mis takenly bought a ticket to Univer- Ile got there at 8:22 o’clock at night, detrained, and found the station closed and not even a light in sight. A lone negro told him there was no way to get to Chapel Hill. Finally he aroused the agent, Mr. Craig, in the latter’s home, and Mr. Craig was finally persuaded to take him to Durham by automobile. From Durham he called Mr. Dag gett by ’phone. “Conic over by bus,” instructed Mr. Daggett. “ How iinifli does it cost ?’’ asked the Providence man anxiously. “Fifty cents.” “Hurrah! That’s just, the sum I have left!” 1 So he came to Chapel Hill and alighted from the Inis at the cafe teria. Miss Cates, the proprietor, told him how to get to Mr. Dag gett ’s. “Just go right there to the post office,” she said, pointing to a cor ner about 75 yards away, “and turn to the left and keep on go ing. I’ll phone Mr. Daggett niitl he’ll meet you.” But the end was not yet. Prob ably because the New Englander was so overcome by his succession of misfortunes, he did not quite lake in Miss Cate’s instructions. Anyway, lie Walked jrnst the cor imi’ ami nil in lli«» 11 i >■.»,.1 i,,i> ,>P Durham, thereby missing his host who was hastening up the side street. The professor turned up at the Cafeteria and asked Miss Cates: “Where’s my friend?” “Gone—that way,” said Miss Cases, pointing toward Durham. The professor took out eastward at top speed. At last he overtook Mr. Lewis, and they' embraced and were happy. KEEPING ABREAST OF THE TOWN The way to keep informed of what is going on in your town is to subscribe to a newspaper. The most con venient way to subscribe to this one is to cut out and nuMI the coupon on the last page.
The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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