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Vol. 1 No. 8 (MED PEOPLE . IN A BIG SING Well Trained ‘Congregations from Five Counties Will Gather for Event HUNDREDS ARE EXPECTED The colored folk of this re-j gion are going to have a big “sing'’ next Saturday and Sun-! day at the Barbee chapel about! four mil&s out on the Raleigh road. They are going to gath er there from five counties Orange and parts of Chatham, Durham, Alamance, and Wake.; It is the annual New Hope ; musical Convention. Anthony; Johnson, guardian of the medi cal building on the campus and known to the medical students as Dean Anthony, is president of the body and leads the sing ing. He says that there were a thousand singers present last, year and he expects fully that many this time. The convention is 26 years old, and has become one of the great; events of the year for the ne groes. The New Hope associa tion is Baptist, but Dean An thony says the constitution is going to be amended so that the musical convention will belong to all,denominations alike. For weeks ahead of the sing the congregations of Baptist churches within a radius of 15 or 2Q miles of Chapel Hill prae-j tice on the'songs that make up the program. So, when they come together they are well trained, 'phe president of the convention extends a. .welcome to all white people who want to come and hear the singing. Those participants who come from far off are entertained o ver Saturday night in the homes of those who live nearby. With Barbee’s chapel such a short distance from here, many of the colored people of Chapel Hill will have guests. The midday meal Sunday will be eaten picnic fashion. The singers will bring dinner baskets with them, and if the weather is good they will eat under the. trees around the church. Reverend L. H. Hackney, who has been a clergyman in Chapel Hill for close on to half a cen tury, will preach a sermon. The Itev. Harrington of Durham will also make an address. The main trouble the officers of the convention have is find ing room for the crowd. They have' never yet had a church that would meet the demand. Part of the assemblage has to stay outside while the other part Only Baptist beesi used so far, but’ when the proposed change is made in the constitu tion it is hoped that some lar-, ger auditorium may be made available. t .. .. .. H 1.l ■■ I Bruce Strowd spent the week-end there for medical treatment. EDITOR’S NOTE ■» This week for the first time The Weekly was printed in its own home in the basement of the new Strowd building. There occurred, of course, the difficulties usually encountered when the complicated machinery of I a- printing shop is first put into operation.. For whatever mistakes | our readers find we ask their in-! dulgence. We will try to get the | place into smooth running order i promptly, - » ' ■ »<• The Chapel Hill Weekly Apelieedoa tor Ssmt Class Mailing Privilege is Peaging HOWELL NEARLY ROBBED Missed Catastrophe by Being Late to His Train. V- E. V. Howell just missed be ing caught in the same Pullman car robbery that cost Parker Daggett’s guest, the Providence bariker, all the money he had in his purse. Mr. Howell went to New :York for the Easter holidays, i Unhappily the holidays came to : an end, and so he had to come back to take up his duties among the students and pills | and mysterious fluids of the ; school of pharmacy. But he lingered op that last evening, in the home of some friends in northern Manhattan, and did ; not take the downtown subway • express as soon as he should | have—not by three minutes. | -“.Sorry, just pulled out,” was i the unfeeling response of the ; gateman when Mr. Howell, breathless, dashed up to the, iron fence in the Pennsylvania station and inquired if the mid • night Seaboard train had left. The car upon which he had 1 reserved a berth was the very j one in which the robbery was : to occur in the next few hours. The Chapel Hillian, much peev ed, not knowing how lucky he was to have been late, jumped on a B. & O. train for Washing ton and got there at just about the same time as the ill-fated Pullman car on the Seaboard. In the Washington station he came upon the group of angry and protesting victms of the Pullman car thiefy and he join ed them for the rest of the journey to Raleigh. Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., a lawyer of that city, had been prudent enough to conceal under'the mattress his waistcoat, containing his money, but the thief had tak en all the buttons from his shirt. A woman told of losing two necklaces. None of the rob bed ones expressed any deep af fection for the Pullman com pany. Mr. Howell listened to their storis with sympathy. But, as for himself and his delay in leaving the jolly company in New York, he reflected that here was a time when procrasti nation, instead of playing the thief itself, kept a thief from cleaning out a pharmacy dean. But themhe had pust spent the holidays in New York, and may be there wasn’t much to steal anyway. tit “BIG BROTHERS’ BANQUET” Men of Town Will Have Boy* A* Guests Tuesday. The “Big Brothers’ Banquet,” to which the men of the town take the boys as their guests, will take place on the school grounds between 6 and 7:30 o’- i clod* next—Tucauay. The —wirsir- was a great success last year. Fred W. Morrison ahd Harold j D. Meyer are in charge of the arangemeßts. They are particu larly anxious that replies to the call for the feast be sent in not later than tomorrow. They Telling each citizen the name of ! the boy whom it x is-suggested he bring. [ Nominally this banquet is giv. j en under the auspices of the j Town Club, buts it is really a : project of the entire citizenship. The Town Club is not a club in! | the ordinary sense; that is, it | does not have a restricted mem- ' j bership. Every Chapel Hill man : as old as twenty-one is eligible | and is urged to attend all meet | ings. 1 . , , ,V , J. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923 MOVE TO BETTED ROADS OF COUNTY State Highways Are Good, Bat County's Are Rough Always and Impassable in Winter COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED I * .. .. / ‘ ;*' ' " . „ ( People in Chapel Hill town ship, both those in the town it self and those in the county roundabout; are going to try to get better county roads for this part, of Orange. There was a meeting of the citizens in the directors’ room of the People’s Bank the other night, and out; of it came the appointment of a citizens’ committee to appear before the county commission ers, inquire into the road finan ces and management, and see if something can bedbne to put • the roads in decent shape. The State highways are good, but the roads* for which the 1 ’county is responsible have well justified the adjective frequent ly applied to them Gotten. ' Their condition is cutting off from Chapel Hill county folk who want to come here to do business and who are being com- 1 pelled to go to Durham and other towns instead. This last winter the farmers in the Black wood neighborhood, for exam ple, and those out on the Ra leigh road, were unable to come to town, for weeks at a time, ; because they could —nut get through the mud. As'fc whole the people of the county have paid little atten tion to the construction and up- • keep of the roads. Probably; not one voter out of twenty knows htw v much money is available for The roads or how it is spent. The commission-' er3 put out a gang of Workmen under a road supervisor, first here and then there, but when the bad weather of winter comes the same old mud and ruts are in evidence. There is no gen eral effective scheme of con struction and upkeep. The purpose of the present movement is not to “roast” the county commissioners or any body else, it is first to get some light on the subject, and then try to put the whole force of the Chapel Hill section, far mers and townspeople together, behind some practical plan' of improvement. Above all it is to help put an end to piecemeal repair work the patching up of scattered little stretches of road and to substitute for it a system whereby the roads in general may be regularly main-j tained. Members of the citizens’ com mittee organized at the meeting nre other night art*; —r From south of Chapel Hill: W. F. Cole, Walter Womble, and j James A. Sparrow. From out on the Raleigh road, J. Duke. From west of Chapel Hill: | LiauUiuyd _ j From the Orange Church sec tion: J. R. Whitfield. From the Blackwbod section:! M. C. Blackwood. From Chapel Hill itself: R. P. Harris* W. C. Coker,<f. F. Hick erson, S. Andrews, R. P. Andrews, W. S. Roberson, Louis G/aves and M. E. Hogan, r * , Leslie Weil of Goldsboro was here Sunday* to see his son Abram, a student in the Unviersity, and to hear Mr. Feidekon’s address. THE BLUE LAWS WHIT TOWN But Not Very Violently, for One May Still Bay at Cer j , tain Hoars on Sunday. I SPARROW FORCED ISSUE j • . 1 The Blue Laws have struck Chapel Hill. The lid was clamp ed down last Sunday. Citizens who went into Gooch’s or the White House or Jack Sparrow’s and asked for drinks or cigar-! ! ettes got a flat turn-down — [ that is, unless they made the j request within certain specifi- 1 ed hours. ' As a matter of fact, the anti-Sunday-selling ordinance passed by the aldermen is not j a terribly severe one. Between 9 and 10:45 o’clock in the morn ing and between 4 and 5 o’- clock in the afternoon, one may 1 buy a coca cola or a smoke just j as he did a month ago. And at no time during Sunday does the; prohibition apply to restaurants or to the sale of drugs, ice, milk newspapers and garage sup-, plies. Behind the enactment of the new law there is a story of a scrap, friendly enoug yet spirit ed, between the toWn authorities ! and Jack Sparrow. Mr. Spar row started up his Carolina Smoke Shop in the new Strowd building two or three months ago for the saie of tobacco, soft drinks and newspapers, later installing a shoeshining throne as fin euxiliary. And he kept open for business on Sunday. } There were complaints. Ac cording to City Manager Knox, these complaints did not come from an outraged citizenry, but from the police force, Chief Lonfi and Assistant Chief Wil liams. So a warrant was sworn out against the proprietor of the offending store. “Well, why shouldn’t 1 keep open if all these other stores sell tobacco and drnks just as they please?” asked Mr. Sparrow. The officers of the law’ were not impressed by this query and they said they would go on with the prosecution. “Oh, well,” said Mr. Sparrow this time, “I’ll just pay the five dollar fine every Sunday and keep open anyway.” W. S. Roberson, mayor and attorney-at-law, was appealed to for counsel. He dived into the statutes and emerged with this . decision: “He can’t get out by paying five dollars for the day. Each coca cola sold is a separate of i tense, so he’il have to pay the fine for each one. i Now, the price of a coca cola being ecu is, one utrf~ hundreth of the penalty, therei i was obviously no profit in sight from Sunday business. So Mr. I Sparrow had to fall back on his ’ original contention, namely, j ! that there was no sense in pick- 1 ing him -xmt-far-a-*pec4ai-vk^tim when other merchants were go jing ahead with their Sunday sales. The town Solons—mayor and aldermen —took the matter un der consideration. Meanwhile, serving of the warrant sworn out against Mr. Sparrow was Jield up. A study of the situa -4100 was made by Messrs. Odum, Braune, Cheek, Andrews, and Moody Durham, who, with the mayor, make up the board of (CoBtUMMd OB BOlt pBf«) LouißcaAva. $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. aCo SAMUEL PICKARD IS DEAD Tko End C*B* Uaoipoclodiy Early Wodaotday Mcrsisf. Samuel M. Pickard, proprie tor of the Model Market, was found dead in bed at seven o’clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning. He had been unwell for several weeks, but not ser iously enough to be kept at home. Only an hour or so be fore the end came his wife beard him stirring around in their i room. He is said to have hadi an attack of acute indigestion.; Mr. Pickard was a little more than 00 years old. He leaves at I wife, one son, and three daugh ters. One of his daughters is : Mrs. Bud Perry. . i The funeral services will be held at the Christian church at 4 o’clock this (Thursday) as : ternoon, and will be immediate ly followed by the burial. QUEEN TIY HAS ARRIVED f Caldwell BuU Pup is Named for Vamp of Old Egypt * e s * Queen Tiy—you pronounce it; Tee—arrived in town last Wednesday and has made her i bebut in Chapel Hill society. ! She is an English bull pup and is named for the grandmother in-law of Tut-ankh-amen, the Pharaoh w’ho won fame recent ly by being exhumed in mummy form at Luxor, Egypt. Bobby and Teddy Caldwell are the owners of the newcomer. I ; Their father is Wallace E. Cald well, University professor and Egyptologist. Naturally the Caldwell home has been absorb ed in the af fair, and when the boys put it up to their father to pick a name he thought of the lady of a few thousand years B. C. who was so charming that, despite her humble birth, a prince courted and married her. The original Queen Tiy was spirited and rebellious, and so is this one of Anno Domini 1923. She is becoming a popular figure in both the canine and the ju venile human society of East Franklin street. SETON LLOYD UP FOR MAYOR Seton Lloyd has been nomi nated for mayor of Carrboro. For aldermen Charles Ray, Ira Ray, T. N. Mann, and Enoz Oakley have been named. Other nominations for aldermen'"are expected to be made later. MISS KNOX PLAYS TOMORROW Miss Emily Rose Knox, violin ist, will play in Memorial Hall tomorrow (Friday) evening. Miss Knox is q distinguished musician of Raleigh and has de lighted Chapel Hill audiences several time.** hpfnre Sho pears this time under the aus pices of the Wigue and Masque. —| * The Trinity baseball team j beat Carolina 4 to 2 yesterday j ■ (Wednesday) afternoon on Em erson field. The visitors hit Bryson freely, driving him from the box in the second in j ning. i : - —^ LOOK ON THE LAST PAGE Therp you will find a coupon. If you want to subscribe to this paper fill in your name and ad dress, and mail to the Chapel Hill Weekly. h - - ij WOMAN PERHAPS I TO BE ALOERMAII r ’ ___________ .. *• v - There is a Rumor That One SbJ Run Rat It Is Only a p Rumor. SM __________ ■ ><. MRS. HENRY SPOKEN Ofl I ■ | There is some talk that afl woman may be nominated foil the board of aldermen at Chapel! Hill’s forthcoming election May! 8. Here, as elsewhere, women I have been taking an increasing-! ly important part in public as-1 fairs and in the liberal wing of the citizenship the question, arises: why not have at least one alderman out of five a wo man? , Who, if anybody, will it be? The matter is nothing more than a rumor thus far, but one person who has been spoken of as a likely candidate is Mrs. C. K. G. Henry. She is active in i both the Community Club and the Parent Teachers’ Associa tion and takes a keen interest in civic affairs. Mrs. Henry is said to have no amibition to be on the board, and indeed may not even know that her name has been mentioned. Some of the persons who have been fa miliar with her activities, how ever, have pointed to her as a fit governmental representative of her sex if there is to be one at all. As election day approaches, with W. S. Roberson and Ca Wiegand having announced themselves as candidates for maoyr, there is beginning to be {some curiosity as to who will run for aldermen. Under the law, neither a petition nor a formal nomination at a con vention is required as a pre liminary to a candidacy. All a citizen has to do is to let the people know that he wants to run, and that makes him a candidate. TWO IN RACE FOR MAYOR Wiegand Announces Candidacy, and Roberson Will Run Agaiu. Carl Wiegand, who settled down in Chapel Hill as a lawyer a few month? ago, has an nounced thai he will run for Mayor in the election in May. A day or two after it became known that he was a candi date, W. S. Roberson, the pres ent Mayor, announced that he would stand for re-election. So it looks as if there will be a race.. Just what form it will take will develop later. It is not customary in Chapel Hill fdr the political parties to figure in municipal campaignsT amr thete is no hint that they will figure in this one. Indeed, it is not customary for there to he any campaign at all. Mr. Wiegand, who hails from Columbus, Ohio, graduated fronT Cornell ~iri 1917. He was for a whije in the University music department. He has been lecturing under the auspices of -the University’s extension di vision. • V j W. S. Roberson, in point of length of residence, ia one of the oldest inhabitants of Chapel Hill, having been here in 1875 when the University reopened. He is a lawyer and the president of the Chapel Hill , Insurance l and Realty Company,' and has been mayor for several years.
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