North Carolina Newspapers

Vol. 1. No. 30 DATES OUm FOR LOCAL FAIRS • . > •- Sunnyside Had Its Event As Sched uled, But Others Have • f Been Postponed CHILDREN WILL EXHIBIT HERE The dates of several of the local fairs in Orange county have been changed. Sunnyside, out west of Chaptl Hill, held the first meeting just as scheduled, and the Damascus engagement, for tomorrow (Friday) remains the same. But the fair at White Cross is postponed until Thurs day, September 27, and the one at Orange Grove until Friday the £Bth.- Merritt’s is down for Tuesday the 25th and Mitchell Hill (Oaks) for next Tuesday the 26th. The postponements are made because the farmers are ex tremely busy now cutting hay, pulling fodder, saving pea-vines, and cutting and curing tobacco- At the Chapel Hill fair, to be held Monday, September 24, at the school, the exhibitors will be children; principally, of course, those who afe in the ag ricultural classes. R .P. Harris, who is conduct ing the fairs, finds that the farmers roundabout this section ■ sieem to b© most interested in poultry. Many -of them have ac quired pure-bred flocks in the last year or two and are anxious to show What these have accom plished in the way of prodoction. The chief judges at the fairs will probably be H. N. Kelly, as sistant agriculture teacher at the school, ,apd,Mias Miriam Frost, the home economics teacher- The agriculture classes in the Chapel Hill school have started off with great earthusiasm. One section is studying crops and soils, the use of lime the topic under examination just now. Another section is being taught about the “year-round garden.” This group is madci up of 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students. They are told what to plant at various seasons; for example, the present month of September is a good time to sow pnions, beets, kale, rape, tur nips, carrots, spinach, and to transplant celery, cauliflower, lettuce, and cabbage. Bethel Church Gets Land Thu congregation of ifothel church, about six miles northwest of Chapel H 11, have acquired the :-trp of land between their property and the main ro id from Chapel Ifili to • s tpahav/. This comes about through an exchange with E. A. Drown, the •Ifualw -re ami fur. atpre mer .-hunt. 'lon land in front was obtained 'by too church n return for Mine that v’.as g vc i up to ;ho side and ih t.ho re ir. An ealnsn< , e fit feet wide o * to be built Jrom the h ghway iit-raight -o the church. ,-As it. s jmvv, the building has bech Lavish 1 - to people coming I'uiD the west, but thwill not he (i in me future l . T u > ’u: h'. tract contdns it or 10 i-ivi :i 0 through trie nlr;rrh f < nng of ti n bnu d.iry lines, betonas very '.in u-, u -square. CHAPEL HILL . PARENTS If you have children ;fi’ at school, remember that they want to know 4 what is going on at home, -’ubstrihe to the Weekly • f'r titem at the special f.hodl-ycar rate of sl. rbis covers the . nine (nonths until they corae home ne%i -Turn*. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES AAIm. Ckapel*Hill Chaff ~ "When Lou Rountree drove into town the other day after many years’ absence, and I was show ing him about the place, we went out along the new Cameron ave nue extension- I bade him stop the car in order that I might show him the Forest Theatre in Rattle’s Park. We walked through the woods a few yards, and there, lo and behold! were | Frederick H. Koch and two of his prospective Playmakers re hearsing a scene—l think from ‘The Taming of the Shrew.” I i was proud that I could show my guest the famous troupe, or part of it, in action. The actors did not know they had spectators, and the spectators enjoyed it all the more for that. Mr. Koch | was laying down the law to the other two, about intonation, ges ture, and so on, and we couid see their performance improve markedly under his instruction. * * * l It appears that a number of : Chapel Hill youths of a genera tion ago have settled in Durham- The other day I saw there Wai ter Pritchard and Will Partin and two of the Mason brothers. And two or three of the Kirk lands are over there, too. One |of .the happy consequences of {the new road is that these na ! tives of our town find it qasy to dome back often to their old home . * * * A letter that came to Mrs. R. L. Gray recently from a; friend in New York told of the success there of Miss Elizabeth Bqsker ville, daughter of the'! late Charles Baskerville. Miss Bas keryille, who lives in New Vork with her mother and brother, is editor of the magazine, Wom an’s Wear-, The Baskefvilles used to live in the house now oc cupied by the Kennettes. Mr. Baskerville was famous as a foot ball player in his undergraduate days, became professor of chem ! stry, and left North Carolina about the year 1900 to the faculty of the College of the City of New York. * * * I ’here is something luxurious and princely about owning an island, and giving a house party on it I suggests a flavor, it seems to me, that few entertainments possess. !But “Tank” Hunter will be ask ing why Vernon Howell, owning n island named Durant’s, can be so disloyal as to ride in a Stude bakor. * * * - The only thing I don’t like about the development of the Tenney farm as a residential area is that it will triean the de struction of the fig bushes from which 1 used to feed so happily |on my way to ami from the creek. In the last year i have \: cn fortunate enough- to buy -o me of'these tigs- My recol v-ct <.n is that Mrs. Tenney did 'Kit got any revenue at all for j i hose I*. H. Winston and 1 and i others aie in the old days. ■f The Community Club’s first j .usicale of the season will take dace at Mrs. P H. Winston’s | ext Wednesday »f cuing, u gin j ing at 8 o’tkJek. Muss Addle (.race Waterman will sing and Erich Zimmerman will play on Lie violin, botir'ws.lh iU, h. Win fcc’n as accompanist, fjv-ery- Lody in town vvf;o likes music is cordially invitep, and all arc i ked to be prompt. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1923 CARRBORO PUPILS ARE BANNED HERE Receiving Protest From Mill Town, Chapel Hill School Will Not j Admit Them ' - 16 ENROLLED. MUST WITHDRAW Hereafter Carrboro children Swill not be allowed to' enter the I lementary grades of the Chapel Kill school without the express permission of the QarrborA S-'hool board- This decision was made by the K hapel Hill school board Satur day as a result of a formal pro test from the Carrboro board gainst the younger children of i hut town coming here to school. j Teen boy 4 and girls from ! Carrboro enrolled here arid I tudied through the first week, but now they will have to be transferred back home again. The Carrboro people think it ! s damaging 1 to the interests of their school to have the atten dance cut down by the enroll j ent of their children in another j lace. The proposed additional school tax, in the Carrbor dis trict, was defeated in an elec | ion a week ago, and it is thought j hat one reason the voters did j ot approve, the tax was that S many did not want to send any (more of their money on a school ,t lere when they could send their, children to Chapel Hill. The : Inembers of the Gatfrhoro bjard 1 re thought to believe that tjhey ■ ould get more support for, 1 dditional special school taic if Jie children had to go to; fhe< pwn’s own school. ’’* j The situation with‘hegart! to - he admission of outside ch.i!- i ren to the Chapel Hill school .is rather queer , ope- They .'may ome , from anywhere inj the ■ ownship except from the Carr jl >ro school district. Thenjforg,! (i‘ Carrboro parents who do not 1 ke this new ruling ‘decide io ■riove just outside of the corpor ate limits, they may then: send their children ,to Chape) ' Hill. [Whether any of them will take I uoh a step as that, however*- is oubtful. Moving is a trouble -8 me business. * * * School Cafeteria Wins , i i With Better Facilities, It Is Doing More Business. The cafeteria of the < 'hapel I! II school, having added a dining room ■ to its space and spent S3OO for char, and tables, is doing exceed:; dy v - V, It took in sllO last we- k, ,«x;rv c. il inches only. Since the .-tvensre - ponditure per per on is a v.t „ cents, th s means that abo-.t 'Lo \were served. Tile profit that is li ; :r t-i’,! is expected to pay for the t , ,i tore upon chairs and tab! bes it tiic* year is oat. Not o iy the chii tfren and teachers, but all per.-si v.-ho so de-ire, are free to patronhc he cafeteria. There *ro sever.l outsiders who come to lunch th •: r gularly. f Miss Schell is in charg< By u> • ■ the afterrioo .« tor buying ; nd < *h | utiev connected w th the cafeteria, she manages to carry on the V<>; yuv ■ : y- ; ,-f irig. She b s a force of capabb helpers, including a number of girf who have taken the domestic science course. ■i—r.jifUM m IIIMUI Lost,’ a da's. White setter, brown i spots, half of one ear missing. Col lar with letters D. J. . Write ' c'trq the Weekly.—Ad,v. Mountaineer May Play , Guy Weal la Oat for Chapel Hill _ School Team. A newcomer, with great broad shoulders and thews like steel, ’.has come out as a candidate for the Chapel t Hill school football team, and it is hoped that he is going to be a power in the line- He is named Guy West. r He comes from the mountains cf Western North Carolina and i t tended last year the school at Banner Elk. He is 6 feet tall, weighs 175 pounds, and appears to have no fat anywhere about 1 m. | The school’s first game will be 1 ayed against the Durham high i hool Saturday afternoon on Kmerson F’ield. It is not known yet whether West will have l earned enough of the game by that time to take part in the struggle. ,He has not played i otball before. j Many ot the boys who played i hst year are out for the team again. In the baekfteld there I re: Gradon Pendergraft, Wal ;! er White, Sidney Melver, Hu- ; ' l rt Farrell, and Bennie Lloyd. and in the line Frank Maddry ■!(captain), Brady „ McLennon, ’ I rank Mann, Henry Tilley, and I } arvin Dawson- Last year’s j übstitutes who are candidates • ! ,re Bill Sugg and Eric Sparrow :bn the backfield and, in the line, 1 3ob Melver, Clarence Sturdi- JL int, Thurman Partin, Willie f , evry, Robert Pendergraft. Mike l ftQooch, ant WilliaiA Uzzell. : -l John and Auburn. ! ’R.rigJit, who were not playing 1 I 'at year, are trying for line po j'itions. * McDahiel, formerly of j FgyetteVilffe " high schoc»l,‘ ' s ems to promise wbil'' as a •guards and son of the new •professor of. is taking a ■, fling it tsfckkv .(Robert- Stone, am' Padlsen, Geo-rge Hoefer, Dirk Battle kre the-other .Aspirants. J’ . 11* C. G- Garrett, the newpence . t acher in the- schobk is coach ing the team. He played class j votball at Trinity several year's ago when there was no varsity a,otball there, apd distinguished -himself in other forms of ath-, jj tics. He comes here from Hamlet. • i ■ Bill Fetzer, the University oach, is keenly interested in the (’hapel Hill school team, and he has already made it known that he is going to snatch ome time from his regular (uties to give the boys some ointers. Grady Pritchard, reshman coach, is going to help them too. r i heir games will be player on i < . Emerson field when it, is not being used by the varsity or otlrcr University teams. During' Jie season the CTiapei Hill team ; xpt ts to meet Henderson, San ord, Oxford, and the State col ege freshmen. . Training School Opens Monday The Orange Cowr.iy Training Fghnol for c oloird child'eti v iii i open .id .y mornir:g at c;tiar er i . r. ni and fhi-re v ill be f-irmal t " -no o - in tl’.o th-atre chap'l. The m lie is cordially invited. Ir *he Rock Hill Bajjtjst church, S”.n day (f.'er.i'g at 8 o’tloik, to. rc » , " i t- L -- ! .-•rf.sai! . v - Stkd. nis are ask u to report. Monday to the rooms they were ■ jn last'yrar. They should bring r.-c-u-v for r arc has ing books.- Foo;;t-a»ge adr*. This; style or:ly; • 40 cent;-) a linu; minimum for-one adv., $1.20. No books kept— Orly. Cbapci .Hill Weekly.—Adv. Gun Club Makes Ready WUI Hold Fir.t Mooting Next Thursday Afternoon . Over on the north edge of tawn, the Chapel Hill Gun Club yill hold next Thursday at half past two o’clock their first meet |ng of the 1923 season. They \ ill go armed to the teeth, with [ hotguns, and will slaughter—if their aim is as good as it has j een in the past—scores of clay pigeons. Thereafter the club will gather for the sport every 'hursday afternoon until Nov -1 mber 15. Then the quail hunting season begins and the ri.arksmen will spread over the country alter quail. Shooting ft the clay-pigeons will have i lade them better able to bring down the real birds- M. E. Hogan is president of the dub, and Clarence L. Wills secretary and treasurer. Mem b2xs are Robert Neville, Theo. Best, L. D. Lloyd, 0- E. Lloyd, P* R. Perry, M. W Durham, W. S- Hogan, Carl Durham, E. A. Brown, Z-' F.- Council, Brodie ..Thompson, E. M. Knox, Charlie Pickard, R. C. Andrews, R. E. I ureh, and E C. Wilkie If proceedings go as expected and if the weather favors through the fall, there will be about ten thousand shots lireu at clay-pigeons by members of the club in the course of the nine, meetings, j■. • ; • ' • ■ . I > ersonal Property Less ■ - '• it •* Decreate Offset* Half the' Gain/ in j Rea)-Estate Values. i I i Squire (“Jug”) Whitaker, towu shp • having checked and -Te-chedked h’is figures, flhth that the tobal a*e.Hsed valuation of personal property in Chapel Hi® township nas fallen 5R95.986 aince last year, from 1,733,855 tc, $1,187,369, - , i.m utca.t rt.M- in personal property, offsetting the $1,634,253 increase In' the Vdlliatiorl of rh.tl eatate.i br.'ijhq thi intrtase ;n tiie total,, soy both clas tes of property, to $438,267. . . • * I The- big personal property drop is , explained in pa.rl by the sac-t that some *6f the Durham Hxlsiwy M-fls plant that was cai-tj-rcd under v he “personal” htwiMng in 1922 Was put dows this year as raaalty. fiiuV it ap pwirs, too, that people have been con verting taxable property into the kin<| that doesn’t have to be declared. Mr. Whitaker’s compleU- records show that there are 629 wh te c;ti zens in the townnhip subject to the poll tax, against 623 in 1922, a de. crease of 6. Since everybody be tween' 21- and 50 year:* old hat, to pay the poll tax, it would seem that more people emerged from the-taxable age by reaching 50 than entered it by reaching 21. But the colored peo ple subject to the tax increased in number from 246 to 265. The dog population increased from 297 to 398. Now that the tabulation of taxc is over, Mr. Whitaker turns his nt J -ntion to the cotton census. He has to gather and turn in to the g iv eriune.vt in Washington tie- stat s .ta:s of all .cotton ginned and m.-.nii ficturod in Orange county, v.cni 'ny we(fk. Wurr:ns (’ome 1» l ive Here Tlit; two Missc-.s Wav. eri, who ♦< • h in Bali’., c.artit- to the Sam i' f School li'sud (Tiapel liiii yn much that they have uprout > <! their whole; I’.'tmily in Allen dale, S o nth Carolina, an fi In ought them bniT to liv♦ • / Their r.iothtr, Mrs. Goorgi.% Warren, with ono other daugh ter, three suns, and a niece, have taken both first- and fo-rnwl- Hoor apartments in ojie of Miss A1 ic;? Jones’s houses pn Noßh .street, and the garage to bo t. i T’A’o of the boys will attend the. University, and ope son and the niece will go to the Chapel Hilt school. The family came by automobile from Allendale and made the trip in 12 hours. , ' SLSO « Year in Advance. Sc. a Copy STUDENTS POUR IN, LIVEN UP VILLAGE i I . • Summer Quietude Disappears; Streets Crowded; University Activities Under Way SLEEPING QUARTERS SCARCE i Almost overnight, the sleepy , unimer calm of Chapel Hill has iveji place to feverish stir #nd ji istle. The University is open ng this week, and about two housand students have poured in. j They throng the campus walks nd the main street. They push in and out of the post office and "he stores and restaurants, ’he} exchange happy and noisy reelings- Lugging suit cases, tfiqy seek their rooms and pro ceed to get settled. They gather in groups and talk about fcot all and fraternities and college olitics and then, perhaps, about their studies. With the Pick y ick open, at night they clamor admission to the movies. > Among the crowd in front of he post-office one sees the unfa miliar faces of some older men. , These are new members of the acuity. Like the freshmen they are trying to get their : carings. If one of them looks happy it probably means that he has been lucky enough to find a good place in which to live; ; ontrawise, if a disillusioned ex -1 ressiqn bpspreads the features f a just-arrived professor, very | ikely he is one of those who had I to take, the Teavins’ after the pick of the homes were preempt • d- , these are bad times in l .}hgpel,,Hill for rill who seek ' omes. ~|. Merchants, restaurant-keep «ii t , rs and other business folk of ’! he village are more than de lighted to see the place jammed again. It rrieans more trade, f ince the Summer School closed : buyers have been few and far etween- A continuous twelve months term would ba greeted , with loud cheers by the com- jnercial community. Up on the campus carpenters, masons and plumbers work not only through the <1 ;y, but far into the night as well, trying to get the dormitories ready. Rul ings of the State insurance de partment, that some of the structures must be made safer gainst fire, have necessitated ' he doing away vvilh a number f rooms to make space for fire iroof stairways and "smoke |oriidors.” And the r-unstruc i< n of Ihe south two-thirds of lie Old East puts 21 roans out f commission till Christmas- All this, together with tho in crease jn the number of stu .dents, makes it necessary to put l/v-o 'ir three students in a room. - Mr. and Mis. Towles Arrive Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Towles i rived iri Chapel Hill Friday. They were guests of the Book- I rs a few days, hut are moving nto the house recently occupied ly tho Lcaineds, at the corner ; f Franklin and Boundary - treets- To old-timers it is known as the Hendon place. Mr. Towles, who went abroad a mar ago to pursue studies in Parts, was married this last summer to Mademoiselle Cecile Long, a Frenchwoman.