Vol. r. No. 32
COMMUNITY CLUB
GETS GOOD START
Coming Year’s Program Is Ontfined
at Well-Attended Meeting In
* School Auditorium
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MRS. PATTEN DELIVERS WECOME
The Community Club got off
to a fine start at its first meet-
Jng_of the s«ason- irr "SCtrooT
auditorium last Friday after
noon. Nearly a hundred women
were there, among them many
newcomers in the village. Mrs.
Walter Patten, president of
the culb, made an address of
welcome to the new members.
Most of the time was given
over to the chairman of the va
rious departmenis and commit
tees, who outlined busy pro
grams for the coming nine
months.
Mrs. G. H. Paulsen, in charge
of music, told of the plan for a
musicale on the third Friday of
every month. Music got under
way ahead of other activities
with a meeting at Mrs. P. H.
Winston’s last wqek. Four or
five score music lovers, men
and women, gathered there to
hear Miss Addie Grace Water
man sing and Eirch Zimmerman
pTay on the violin. Mrs. Win
ston was the accompanist for
both of these soloists.
Other chairman who spoke
were: Mrs. J. A. Warren (edu
cation); Mrs. H. D. Carter
(health); Mrs. Snell (home ec
onomics) ; Mrs. Frances Brad
shaw (social service); Mrs. M.
Durham (curb market); and
Mrs. Denny (junior music club)
Mrs. Carter said that, thus
far, the county commissioners
had not made any provision for
having a county-wide tuberculin
test administered to cattle, in
the interest of pure milk, but
she hoped they would come
around to it. There will be a
health committee meeting at
Mrs. Carter’s home tomorrow
(Friday) at five o’clock. Mrs.
Bradshaw named Miss Agnes
McNaughton of Samarcand as
one of the lecturers who would
talk to the social service group.
Mrs. Durham said the market
had been a success and pro
mised to be a still greater one.
Mrs. G. K. G. Henry, speaking
for Miss Smedes, said that the
literary department would have
fourteen meetings during the
year, the first one being sched
uled for November 5. Short
plays, which proved so success
ful last year, will be the main
feature.
Mrs. S. E. Leavitt explained
a plan to invest in building and
loan stock. The club is looking
forward to having a house of its
own some day, and the gradual
purchase of building and loan
shares seems to be the best way
to achieve that purpose.
Carolina 22, Wake Forest 0
The University beat Wake
Forest at football, 22 to 0, on
Emerson Field Saturday after
noon. Sparrow and Bonner
were the most spectacular gain
ers, and the last thing Sparrow
did before being put out of the
game with a broken leg was to
make a 25-yard run around the
end. His punting, too, was a
feature "of the game. Carolina
pulled off some fancy forward
passes.
Carrboro Men on Hunt
A group of Carrboro men started
Monday morning on a fox hunting
trip to the country south of Golds
boro. v
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS CRAVES
. Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
Parson Moss wore spats and
lived in the . ultra-fashionable
Mayfair district while he was in
London. He does not confess to
having worn a monocle but may
be this is because he doesn’t
want to give his friends here too
much of a shock all at once.
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Wllen I was at Mrs. Charles
Johnston’s, /& few miles north
of Chapel
Miss Mary Johnston showetTme"
a letter, printed and sent out in
September, 1862, by “E. Mitch
ell, Bursar of the University,
to the parents of students. The
purpose of the communication
was to warn parents against
sending the young men jnore
spending money than was
needed. He said that board,
room rent, washing, fuel, and
all fees paid to the college cost
$179.83 for thd year; S7O more
would cover “candles, Society
expenses, pocket money, and
other et ceteras,” so that a total
of $250 would be ample. The
worst extravagances of students
he said, were committed “not in
the Village of ChApel Hill, but
in the City of Raleigh, and es
pecially at the shops of the Mer
chant Tailors there.,”
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“Many of the students select
their apparel with excellent
judgment and good taste,” says
the Bursar later in the letter,
“but here and there one whose
appearance, when he first came
amongst us, indicated that his
parents were plain, worthy, un
pretending people, turns out to
be a Dandy of the first water.”
No doubt a faculty mentor
might write the same thing
truthfully today, but the garb
of the women students so far
outshines that of the men that
the latter’s clothes seem sombre
in comparison. Last Sunday
morning, from a vantage point
the middle of the town, I
saw many of these young wo
men parade by and was much
impressed by the variety and
colors of their attire.
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with fine-spun hair of
the hue of flax, slender and
graceful, wore a tan gown, a
lavendar hat, bronze slippers,
and pearl ear-pendants. But
the feature of her costume that
gave it true distinction was a
long light-bluq cane which she
carried in her right hand. She
had somehow the look of a shep
herdess on a fete day. Hardly
fifty yards behind her, also
bound for church, came a tall
figure all in black—not a spot
of color anywhere about her,
from the top of her black plume
to the toe of her black slippers.
In keeping her stately tread, her
eyes straight to the front, the
pallor of her cheeks. No cos
tumer for the stage could have
worked out a sharper contrast
than these two churchgoers pre
sented. Before I left my watch
ing post I saw many other cred
itable examples of the dress
maker’s art. I have, said be
fore, but there is no harm in
saying again, that the presence
of women students in Chapel
Hill is a blessing if for no other
reason than that their clothing
gives color and gayety to the
scene. (
Miss Mary Ellington Dead
Miss Mary Ellington, daughter of
R. G- Ellington, died this week at the
home of her brother, Edgar Elling
ton, In Carrboro, after a three weeks’
illness with typhoid. She had come
here from the Pittsboro section to
stte|yi-the high school. The funeral
was neld at the Emmies Baptist
church, of which Miss Ellington was
s member.
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4,1923
Deacons Issue a Statement;
Newspaper Stands By Article
Pastor Speaks of Bringing a Libel Suit, and Church Body Sends
Letter of Protest to Editor; Women Say Pool Visits
Were Only Cause of Expulsion
Following the publication last
week of the fact that three wo
men who had scone in the
boro swimming pool at the same
time with men had been turned
out of the Carrboro Baptist
J. B.
Davis said that he intencted~to
sue the Chapel Hill Weekly for
libel. He sent a letter to the
editor stating his intention and
also announced it in interviews
with correspondents of State
papers.
Then the Board of Deacons
of the church sent this com
munication to the editor:
Dear Sir:
You are hereby courteously
requested to print in yoUr next
issue the following, which has
been unanimously passed by
the Carrboro Baptist Church,
upon recommendation of the
Board of Deacons:
Whereas The Chapel Hill
Weekly published certain un
true statements in the last is
sue both concerning the Church
and our Pastor, Rev. J. B. Da
vis.
And whereas one of our mem
bers, Mr. W. M. Moser, called
upon the editor, Mr. Louis
Graves, on Tuesday last and
informed said Mr. Graves that
said statements untrue:
And whereas, in view of the,
said warning and the inevitable
serious consequence of the pub
licity of such untrue statements
calculated to injure, the good
name of both the Church and
the pastor were published and
given as wide publication as 1
possible:
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Therefore, we express thru,
your columns our very deep and !
humiliating regret for the hu
miliation which you have wil
fully and purposely brought
upon us: .
And, to say that as a church
we are mutual in the battle a
gainst sin; and we hereby as
sure our pastor, Rev. J. B. Da
vis, publicly, that he has our ut -
most confidence, support and |
love; and that we are with him
The Carrboro Baptist Church
M. W. SPARROW, Chairman of,
Board of Deacons
Tale of Seven Hungry Waitresses
The one melancholy incident con
nected with the recent Pi Beta Phi
festivities was the famine that seven
volunteer waitresses underwent when )
they served a bountiful feast to the j
members of the mystic order. It.
was none of the Pi Phis doing, this [
famine. As they ate course after l
course of delicious meat and salad !
and dessert, and as they laughed j
and sang their songs, they were all
unconscious of the pangs of hunger
that raged within the young women i
who tripped lightly hack and forth
between dining room and kitchen.
According to a custom common in
Chapel Hill, a women's organization [
undertook to lay the spread at so
much a plate and thereby earn a few
dollars for charitable enterprises.
And, as is usual at these dinners, a
number of young women were asked, [
and agreed, to play the part of wait- 1
reuses for the benefit of the good I
cause.
“Be there at six-thirty,” the young i
matron who was manager of the af
fair directed, and so they were. Now
six-thirty is the regular supper hour
in Chapel Hill, and the volunteers
reported not only with the intention
of giving zealous service but also
with the expectation of getting, in
cidentally, something to eat for them
selves.
For an hour or so, as the feast
of the J* i Phis proceeded, the wait
resses suspected nothing of the awful
From Mr. Davis’s statements
to the News and Observer and
from conversations that the edi
tor has had with several of the
deacons, it appears that the
main objection they make to
the Weekly’s article is that it
-said_the_women had been turn
ed out of~the~chuTch for going
in the swimming pool with men,
whereas, according to the pas
tor and the deacons, this was
not the only charge to them,
the other charges being non-at
tendance and non-support of
the church.
The three women, Mrs. B. B.
Lloyd, Mrs. Ralph Merritt, and
Miss Grace Womble still insist
that they were turned out be
cause of their visits to the pool
and not for any other reason.
In the News and Observer Mr.
Oavis is quoted (and this statement
of his has been confirmed to the
\\ eekly by the staff correspondent
who got the interview for that pa
per) as saying:
i “We could have taken action about
I the pool alone, but we were too
[smart for that.”
Mrs. Joseph Sparrow, proprietor of
the pool, who was a regular attend
ant at the church and taught in the
Sunday school, left the church last
year because of criticisms directed at
her by the pastor. , There was no
question of non-support in her case,
yet when she asked for her “letter”
! I that is, the credentials which a per
j.son in good standing receives upon
severing connection with a church)
it was refused to her, dhe says. This
is taken to indicate that in the o
pinion of the pastor and the deacons,
connection with the swimming pool,
in itself, was reason enough for ac
tion against a church member.
I .
Editor's Note: The Weekly is will
's to publish the statement from
i the Hoard of Deacons, as their view
|of the matter, but holds to it that
in all important particulars the art
icle published last week was correct.
If it i.V true that there were on file
technical charges of non-attendance
and non-support, against the three
women, this does . not alter the fact
that their having been in the poo'
with men was considered sufficient
cause for action against them.
With regard to the statement from
the deacons, quoted above, they are
| mistaken in saying that the editor
“wilfully and purposely” brought hu
miliation upon them. Os course the
1 editor has no ill-feeling whatever
against the church, the pastor, the
(Continued on page 3)
disappointment that lay ahead. There
Were visible no plates prepared for
the serving force, but what of that?
| Os course they would have to wait
until the guests were through.
It is said that Miss Anne Graham
I was the first to divine the truth. Im
; mediately she began to seize rolls
; and other Available bits of food and
[to munch upon them'in the intervals
of serving. And she whispered sus
i picions and advice to two or three
of her companions.
At last the dire truth dawned
upon all of them but it was too
, late. Just enough food had been
prepared for the Pi Phis, and there
was none left over. One of the wait
resses detected over on a side table
some promising fragments of chick-
I en, hut just as she was about to ex
plore them, Miss Graham warned her.
i “Look out, Nell! Those bones are
i the scrapin’a off the plates!” Which
; they were, true enough.
The seven, empty and faint, gave
it up as a bad job. They helped to
clear up the debris. And late in the
evening they crept wearily out of
; the building and wearily wended
I their way to their several homes.
“The Pi Phis had a song they
sang,” relates one of thw famished
seven, “about a goat that ate old
(in cans and shingle nails. Well,
when I left there I felt that I could
eat anything that goat could.”
Miss Laura’s ’Possum |
She Found It up a Tree; Boys Did:
the Rest.
Miss Laura Ward, who lives
with Mrs. A. S. Barbee, heard a I
wild squawking of chickens the
other night. The fowls’ tone of
voice was familiar to her. from
an experience last year, and at !
once she exclaimed “ ‘Possum!” |
Snatching a lamp, she hur-1
ried out into the back yard and
looked up into the- tree where
Mrs. Barbee’s flock roosts.
Shining down at her were the
eyes of a ’possum. She called
young Mumford Thomas on the
telephone and presently he was
on the scene with George Mc-
Gehee and two other friends.
Thomas skinned up the tree, j
The ’possun\ leapt to another
tree,- but Thomas went after:
him there too.A violent shak
ing of the limbs dislodged the
’possum and when he hit the
ground the boys pounced on
him. Miss Laura made no 1
claim to the prize, so they took |
it off, smacking their lips and 1
shouting in triumph. j
New B. & L. Stock Issue!
Sale Begins Saturday: Books Stay |
Open Tow Weeks '
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A new issue of stock in the j
Orange County Building and
Loan Association will be on i
sale Saturday, October 6, and
the books will remain open for
subscriptions two weeks. Sub- 1
scriptions may be entered atj
either bank.
Since the association was or- \
ganized, about three years ago, j
it has loaned money for the e
rection of 23 homes and for the I
i
purchase of two lots. Today j
its annual income, from inter-!
est on loans and from install-!
merits on stock, is $43,000; af
ter this new issue the income I
will probably exceed $50,000.
Assuming an average cost of
homes of about SB,OOO, and a
loan of about $5,000 on each j
tome, this means that the as- 1
sociation is prepared to assist 1
in thq building of ten homes a
year.
The total of all installments
paid in, up to October 1, and of
interest paid to the same date,
was $82,420.
The purchaser of stock pays
an initial fee of 25 cents for
each share, and thereafter 25
oe,nta per week per share. If
he carries an account in either
bank, the dues may be charged
to his account every month. It
is a tax-free investment yield
ing 6 per cent. By the time
the subscriber has paid in about
SB4 on a share he can cash in
for SIOO.
Household Products at Fair
Household products are to In* an
important feature among the exhib
its at the Harvest Festival Fair, at
Eakewood Park, Durham, next week.
The officiul in charge has enlisted the
co-operation of women in Durhum
and the surrounding country, and
they are planning to make a big dis
play of home canning and preserving,
quilts, embroideries, and various
kinds of home handiwork. The man
agers of the fair are elated at having
engaged the Sheesby carnival organ
ization to put its big show on for
the week of the fair.
Happy Runaway Pair
Bunny Gilmore and Miss
Ruby Rigjfsbee of Carrboro ran
away and got married in Chat
ham county last Friday night.
The bridegroom has been work
ing in Mill No. 7 and the; bride in
Mill No. 4, of the Durham Hos
iery Mills.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy
THE PI'BETA PHIS
HAVE A BIG TIME
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I Three Days of Ceremonies a ti
Social Festivities: Jaay Dista
gnished Members Come
h ■
NEW CHAPTER O IS INSTALLED
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Three days of ceremonies and
social festivities, in connection
with the installation of the new
chapter of the Pi Beta Phi so
rority, came to an end Satur
day night with a reception, giv
en by the patronesses to the
members, at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Venable.
[' Miss Amy Onken, Grand
[President of the national body,
[ came to Chapel Hill to take com
"aland of the installation cere
[ monies, and with her were Miss
Sophie Woodman of New York
and Miss Pauline Turnbull and
| Mrs. Arthur Brinkley of Rich
jmdnd. North Carolinia mem
bers who attended > were Miss
'Rose Nowell ox Colerain, Mrs.
|A. C. Wishart, of Ldmberton,
| Mrs. J. T. Weaver of High Point
.Miss Marion Wilder of Grand
Forks and Mrs. R .L. Young and
Miss Augusta Laxton of Char
lotte.
The ceremonies began Thurs
day with the pledging of the
new members. Friday morning
the almunae of the local club
which now becomes a chapter of
Pi Rhi were initiated, and in the
afternoon the student members.
Then came the ritual of install
ation. All this took place at
the home of Mrs. Wallace E.'
Caldwell. Mrs. H. F. Comer en
tertained the visiting delegates
at luncheon, and at night there
was a banquet in the social
rooms of the Presbyterian
church. Saturday morning the
new chapter held its first formal
meeting.
Counting both alumnae and
students, fifteen new members
were initiated. They are Mrs.
him there too. A violent shak
| Dougald MacMillan, and Misses
Adeline Denham, Kathryn Boyd
Dorothy Greenlaw, Ellen Lay,
Frances Venable, and Jane Toy,
|of Chape,l Hill; Carilea Sanders
of Greenville, Ga., Line Pru
den of Edenton, Mildred Moss
of Greenville, Ga., Lina Pru-
Henderson, Katherine Batts of
Tarhorp, Nina Cooper, of Ox
ford, and Annie Duncan of
Beaufort.
Therq were five delegates
from Randolph-Macon and two
from Hollins.
There is no other chapter of
Pi Beta Phi in North Carolina,
‘but 20 chapters are represented
by members living in the State.
Altogether, there are 68 chap
ters and 100 alumnae clubs. A
mong the nationally known mem
hers are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs.
Henry Wallace and Mrs. Paul
Reinsch.
Mrs. A. S. Lawrence, Mrs. W.
E. Caldwell, and Mrs. H. F. Co
mer were members before they
came here to live.
Gun Club Has Good Shoot
Clarence L. Wills turned up with
the highest score at the season's
first meeting of the Chapel Hill Goa
Club in a field north of town last
Thursday. He broke 70 out of 100
clay pigeons he shot at. M. B. Ut
ley made the same percentage scorn,
but shot at only 50 pigeons.- Tha\
club will meet every Thursday after
noon until November 15. Visitors
are welcome.
Nancy Battle’s Cofee House. Kost
to the Methodist church in the old
Barbee place. Open till 11 P. M.
Waffles a specialty.—Adv. >