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Vol. 1. No. 9 CLUB’S OPENING j IS NOT FAR OFF Building Is Practically Finished, and Members Already Talk of House-Warming. (iOLF HOLES BY AUTUMN The new Country Club ■ house is nearly completed The actual building, the plumb ing, and the painting are finish ed. The contract for wiring the place has been let, and work on this is expected to begin at •ohce. Plowing and seeding are in progress. The roadway, 24 feet wide, leading from the club house to the Raleigh road, con necting with the extension of 'Cameron, avenue, is done. The club will have its own 1 golf course and tennis courts. It is expeetd that five of the pro posed nine holes will be ready for use by early fall. Golf privileges are to be extended to students upon the payment of certain fees. A house warming is planned ""as the opening social event. Just when this will be, and what the exact nature of it is, has not yet. been determined. Mrs. Con nor and Dr. Bullitt are in charge, hence a .jolly entertain ment is iooked for. The weekly entertainments, •dances and bridge meetings, will be continued. V/esley Harris Dead Passed Away Saturday after , a Month's Illness. Wesley. Harris, son'of Mrs. Lizzie < irr Harris and a native of Chapel Hill, died in Durham Saturday after a month’s illness. The funeral was '.■held in Chapel Hill Monday after- 1 noon. Rev. Waller Patten conduct ed the services, with Dr. A. D. Wil ox, of Durham assisting him. The honorary pall-bearers were: Dr. E. A. Abernethy, S. W. Andrew.. R. 1.. Strowd, M. A. Briggs,' C. M. ( irr, A. Ji. Carr, 1. S. Eubanks, i' M. Gorrmtn, W. it. Guthrie, W. C Carr, Newton Mann, C. L. Eu banks. John Horutt, W. 11. Pritch ard. and J. E. Dixon. The active pall-bearers were A. C. Pickard. Mi!tori Hogan. W. M. Speed. N. E. I ok cite, Edwin Tenney, and R. C. Andrews. There were beautiful (lowers, tributes from the many friends of Mr. Harris. Chapel Hill did not see so much of him in the later years of his life, because when he became an official of ihe Durham Hosiery Mills his work 1 ept him awhy. Rut he was always remembered with affection. He used to c».me back on visits and was warm ly greeted by the citize is of the town 11.l 1 . linger has been .nominated for Mayor of Carrboro, and A. L. Errrcfl, I.onnie Durham, M. W. Sparrow and J W. Sparrow have I eon nominated for aldermen. COLORED FOLKS SANG WELL Vith line weather as an aid, hrr -colored -foHc~nf the New Hope Baptist Association had a splendid musical convention Saturday and Sunday at Bar bee’s chapel out on the Raleigh road. Anthony N. Johnson, president of the convention, was master of ceremonies. Thomas Booth, one of the lead- 1 ing colored citizens of Chapel ’ Hill, led one of the choirs. The afßlndance was at more than. 1,000. The associa tion’s territory includes all of 1 Orange county and parts of Chatham, Alamance, Durham, and Wake. The Chapel Hill Weekly ApaliMlioa lor Second Clau Mailin'* Privilege ia Pending j Chapel Hill Chaff 1 Mrs. Stacy went about with a particularly happy smile all i the next day after the trustees’ executive committee met and voted SIOO,OOO for a women’s building. By analogy Collier Cobb ought to have looked down-hearted, but he had the same beaming countenance as eve r. The geology' building proposal got stepped on this time, but it will triumph some day—so why despair? Mr. Cobb says that when he came here thirty years ago President Winston told him a geology buikjJTW was scheduled, and the department is still waiting. V* * * \ Joe Pratt, when he went by my house on the way to school a day or two ago, held happily by the tail a live foung snake. This made me shiver. By an ef fort, though, 1 remembered that I once used tef enjoy this. The handling of snakes is one more pastime that loses its charm as one advances in years. The tvyelve-year old son of a friend of ours hadn’t been behav ing exactly as he should have behaved, and he was senten ced to do outdoor work, .around the garden, instead of attend ing the Carolina-Trinity base ball game. He knew his mother was very anxious for some a zalea roots and he offered to get them for her out of the woods, an other site Accepted with cte~ light. He was gone for an hour or two. When he came back with the roots it developed that he had got them from the fringe of woods just alongside Emer son Field. At present there is no fende between the woods and the baseball diamond. * * * One of the most considerate acts i have ever known is that of Sturgis E* Leavitt in pro viding a home for the birds be fore he liniidTeSxhis own home. The front entrance of his house been erected, and in the angle of the cornice some Eng lish sparrows have built I hem selves a luxurious nest. Mean- While the carpenters go on with their work. The Leavitts ex ited to be in before June, but even at that the sparrows will probably have reared a vigor ous family before the owners take possession. * * * 1 do not know of any pleas anter odor—no, not even of the flowers that bloom in the spring —than that, which meets you you walk into tin* bakery. Though you have just eaten a full meal, yet does it .make you hungry. Mr. Neal says that if iio could just, spread these o dors around town as an an nouncement, ms mrume wouim be made'. * * - When the Playmakers went to Hillsboro and presented Miss Jane Toy’s play of Civil War times, the. scene of which is Win —hi ffriWhrrrm Hrmitfit*- 1 Frederick 11. Kogh made an elo quent talk about Miss .Toy’s af fection for. the town. She loved it, he said. Paul C. Collins, the banker, nudged the person in the next seal, and whispered: I’ll bet the only time she ever comes over here is to get Dr. Spurgeon to do dentist work for her, and who loves a session with a dentist?” 1 have not asked Miss Toy jf the banker’s suspicion is true. ■ j * * * There is nothing in the world (Continued on Page three) CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1923 COMMITTEE ASK A ROAD HEARING Letter Sent to County Commis sioners by Group of Chapel Hill Township Citizens FARMERS IN BAD PLIGHT Chapel Hill township is asking that the county roads in this part cf Orange be impro\ ed. The citizens’ committee appoint ed by Mayor Roberson held a meeting in the People’s Bank two or three days ago and cie ; cided to send a letter to tin county commissoners, asking them to gn\nt a hearing in Chapel Hill and to inspect the roads hereabouts. An answer has been re ceived, granting the hearing and setting 2 P. M. Monday, April 30, as the time. The place is the directors’ room of the People’s Bank. This citizens’ committee is made up as follows: \\. F. Cole, Walter Wornble, James A. Sparrow, Addisbn Duke, Paul Lloyd, W. C. Coker, T. F. Dickerson, S. W. Andrews. R. P. Andrews, Louis Gt'aves, J. R. Whitfield, M. C. Black wood, It. P. Harris, W. S. Rob erson, M, E. Hogan. In the letter asking for a ■hearing, addressed to R. 11. Ward, chairman of the board of county commissioners, these in -Chapel Hill township were mentioned as being jn special need of improvement. Jones Ferry road. •• 1 Orange church road. Old Raleigh road. New Ridge road. Alt. Carmel road. “The committee realize, of course,” says the letter to Mr. Ward, “that the funds tit the disposal of the commissioners' are less than we should like to be able In .spend on m.-ids: at the same time, we believe that Chapel' Hill township, paying as it does such a large share of the taxes of the county, ought to he getting more benefits in the way of road repairs and maintenance. We ask the op portunity to discuss this mat !• r with you at a hearing and will arrange to be present at the time designated by you." UNIVERSITY BASEBALL SCORED Tlh> University and the Guilford College baseball team played 15 innings Tuesday and the gar.e end ed in a tie. It had to be called on .eeount of the darkness. The Uni verity heat State College 2 to 1 last week, the feature of thi rou te L being a lTome run by the Caro m “C.ivov" Mo •>'..> Tin* fir-t C .rolina-Virgini i game' of the so oon will he played in Greensboro Saturday. Mil Katherine Wijliams of New York will be with Mis.. Nun Ifur ris for time. mtmmwma. ~i rrr rm —i i 11 nunm—iw How RnHdino Fund Will Be Used, ' 7 t The executive committee of the University’s board of D'u.A »a, ci th(ir meeting in Chapel Hill last week, decided upon , th- Dii.nvijig apportionment of the building fund of $14550,000 ■ 'ob.;ci to t n; institution by the last legislature. The decision was * made a fie;’ loeoinmendations had teen received from the com- , mitt'-e on buddings. • Chemistry building SIOO,OOO Men’s dormitories (d) :?75,000 Women'.? building 100,000 Library addition . ........ 25,000 Infirmary addition 20,000 Physical trai-ning buildfrtg 40,000 Gymtjasiutrt repairs 3,000 .Biology basement floor .. 12,000 Remodelling old buildings 125,000 Permanent water supply . .$120,000 BLUE LAWS ARE i SOFTENED DOWN Aldermen Amend the Previous Measure, Lengthening Open Hours Sunday Afternoon __________ « CLOSURE DURING CHURCH At a special meeting the al dermen have amended the or dinance relating to the sale of 1 drugs, newspapers, soft drinks, and tobacco on Sunday. This is how it stands now: Drug stores and .pew-stands may remain open for business <n Sunday until 11 o’clock in the morning, and from 2 to 6 o’clock in the afternoon. If a news-stand has soft drinks and tobacco on sale, these commod ities have the same status as • newspapers. Restaurants- and cases may sell drinks and tobacco before 11 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, and from 2 to 6 o’clock m the afternoon. Thus the ordinance provides that business shall not be car- j ried on in Chapel Hill during church hours. There has been a great buzz of talk about Blue Laws in town in the last week or ten days. Many citizens thought 1 that the rules enacted a fort night ago discriminated bq- LWeen shops selling the same articles. It was complained that if anybody wanted a soda water or a coca cola on Sunday j afternoon he could buy it front Merchant A but was forbidden o buy exactly the same thing from Merchant B across the street. One of the most keenly rel i. bed incidents in connection with this whole affair is the experience of \V. S.. Roberson, mayor of the town, on the day when the new lav first went into effect. We walked into Gooch's several minutes be fore ■ 9 o’clock, sauntered up to •; the counter and said to Sanford, the stout, bkek-haired assis tant io Gooch: 4 \ ‘A coca cola, please.’ Sanford, having been in- 1 struced about the new law, look ed His Honor sternly in the eye and replied: i “1 can’t serve coca cola at 1 thi . hour. It’s against the law.” j For a moment @ the mayor looked astonished. Then, n embeicd what lie and I 'a men had done the preeedTtig week. 1 “Oh. well,” he said sadly, ' , . I Let me have a piece of apple 1 IV • t V t T 1 o’ TV'm — —i oil ee. nui IMT —j he sat down and Look his own ,ut divine. Rev. YV. I). Moss delivered a ,se: - iiimi Sunday at the Eir.it Presbyterian 1 uvh of Durham. R' -ids and grading ' 60,000 ! Sewers, heating, lighting,, extensions 115,000 • Exercise and recreation grounds . ' 50,000 i Storage and repair shops . 10,000 'Extra finish, lavn building. 7,700 P e rrivanent departmental J-_» equipment ........... 75,000 , jgurniture and fixtures ... 45,000;. LOUIS GRAVES Editor A Kyser-Booker Raid Two Young Ladies of East Franklin Street Gather Many Tulip| Miss Virginia Kyser and Miss : Nell Battle Booker, whose com bined ages amount to about ten years, made a raid on E. V. Howell’s tulip garden the other day. They liked the pretty blooms so well that they gath ered the whole crop. Then, craving more worlds to con quer, they moved on to Mrs. Charles Mangum’s garden just beyond the fence and achieved nearly as clean a sweep there. - Miss Kyser and her parents, relatives of Mr. Howell’s, are now living with him. The ru mor about the neighborhood is that Mr. Howell, taking his stand in loco parentis, himself administered corporal punish ment to the young lady, -using a peach-tree switch for the purpose. And report also has it that Miss Booker received the same attention when her parents heard of the tulip-gath ering expedition. Boys Are Banqueted Men of Ttpvn Will Give Them an Outdoor Supper. The Rig Brothers’’ Banquet, the supper given Tuesday night by the men of the town to the boys, was a thorough success. Some two hun dred persons, old and young, sat at the tables on the school grounds, ate good food, listened to the school br ehestra play under the direction of l). L. Sheldon, and heard a few short speeches. William Merritt spoke for the etc irtcntary school and Andrew Mcln tosh for the high school. G. 11. I’aulsen responded on behalf of the fathers, and President Chase talked a few minutes about—Chapel Hill the school, and what the men should try to do to make the town an ideal place for boys to grow up in. Harold 1). Meyer and Fred Morri son managed the affair, and were re warded at the end by hearing their names hung on to the end of a roll ing school yell. This same honor fell to Mr. Paulsen too. Harry Comer announced the win tor.. of the athletic badges given by the Town Club. DINNER TO THE VETERANS The .animal dinner given by the Daughter■ of the Confederacy la the ( onfe.lt rate veterans, of Ahe camp, of winch Major William i :i i is cimmand'i. will take place Hnt urday, May 12. ,S. : M. Gittis, of Hillsboro, will speak in Gerrard Hall, at half pa-t twelve o’clock, just before the din ner. Mrs. W. S. Bernard \i presi dent of the local chapter of the Daughters. MRS. W. P LLOYD DEAD Mrs. \V. P. Lloyd died Tues day -night at her home two miles west of Carrboro. The funeral was held yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon at Bethel church. Mrs, Lloyd i survived Ly her husband and y three sons, Herbert Lloyd. J)i. B. B. Lloyd, .anil Ralph Lloyd. DEATH OF MRS. CANADY Mrs. Weacott Canady died at her home in Carrboro Tuesday night. The funeral will be held at. Bethel church at one o’clock this (Thursday) afternoon. A TKOUHL E-SAVER ON BACK PAGE I IA T here you will find a j ; coupon. If you want to : subscribe to this paper fill in your name and ad dress, and mail to the Chapel HUI Weekly. L. J $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy DYNAMITE ATTACK I ON BARtE HOME! i And Blasts Make Trustee and I Faculty Members Take 1 Cover in Barn. I BRAUNE BOOKER CLASH I The Battle place was subject- 1 ed to a furous bombardment the I other day when the force en- I : gaged in building the Cameron I avenue extension set off sever- I al dynamite blasts in rapid sue- I cession. I A stone the size of a man’s fist 1 dropped through the ceiling of I a student’s bedroom. For tun- I • ately the student wasn’t there. I The roots of a tree, held to . gether by many pounds of dirt, I dropped with a terrifying thud just beside one of Mrs. Battle’s | boarders as he was entering the front gate. And—the climax aproaches! —a committees com posed of one I University trustee and several 1 members of the faculty was I caught in the middle of the bombardment and had to tfike cover in the old Battle barn. John Sprnnt Hill of Durham, with W. C. Coker, John M. Booker, A. S. Wheeler, W. C. Coker, and Gustave M. Braune, were engaged in a peaceful sur vey of a new road along the park side of the Battle (now the Booker) property when the blasts went off. Things began to fall—and the cqpimittee began -to hasten. They made for the • *** barn. In the rush Mr. Braune got tangled up in Mr. Booker’s legs and fell sprawling. But he recovered hitC footing quick ly and by doubling a speed that was already impressive, reach ed the barn as soon as the oth ers. Now, this barn was not built to be artillery-proof. It had nothing on it but a thin shing le roof. So, naturally, the com mitteemen did not feel comfort able as the stones and other .mi:.ales showered about. A bull y section cf a tree fell a . short distance away, but it hap . m uni that nothing but loose dirt fell on the roof. When the noise died down the committee em/rged and continued on their way eastward, feeling more and more composed as their mis sion took them ever further away from where the dynamit ing was in progress. At that time, of course, Mr. Bookin’ did not know of what had happened to the -Battle .house, itself. When he learned from Mrs. Battle that the dyna ■ ' ('■ lx| <• f f» *« , , L■. X I X1»« 4 ,-x»» xl ■"-tTTT- J. I I. . < ..(.M-piTYILMM 1 (d that far, he went post haste to the Atwood office in the Alumni building and entered a protest, petitioning that the men setting off the explosives use smaller charges. T.ho fiont yard of t ho famous old homo was badly dented by the shower of stones and roots and clods of dirt. , Gilmer Teague's house in Carr imro burned to the ground Satur- - day night.' Passers-by discovered the Ju e and had to break in to rouse the occupants, Vho had not waked and might have lo\£ their lives if this / warning had not cotne from the out -idt;. By the time the fire company could arrive from UhapeT~Hiß the flames were beyond control. Mr. Kendall of New York, consult ing architect for the University, ' speijt Saturday and Sunday on tha Hill.
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