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Vol. 1. No. 39 LOOK FOR GOOD POULTRY WINTER Chicken Breeders Order One- Day-Old Chicks, High-Bred Roosters, and Incubators WILLS MAKES READY / - It looks as if this were going to be a fine winter for poultry in and around Chapel Hill. The people hereabouts ' are learning that, if they get high bred fowls and feed and care for them well, profits are sure to come. An order for 500 one-day-old chicks for Dwight Ray of Carr boro is about to be placed, eith er in Kentucky or Missouri. They will arrive in December, will be fed high for eight weeks, and will then be sold for eating. Mr. Ray, who is a former high school student, will keep the flock in the back yard of Ernest Hearn in Carrboro. He is being assisted in the project by R. P. Harris. They are to keep an accurate record of food consumed, losses from death, expenses of marketing, and prices obtained, so that will know at the end just what the net profits are. H. C. Wills, the hardware merchant, has bought a 600-egg incubator. Out at his new place at the west end of McCauley street he has now ample space, all wired in, for his activities in poultry. He has a new brooder house and an incubator room. Mr. Wills has applied many of his own original ideas in per fecting his buildings and equip-* ment. Mrs. N. G. L. Patterson in town, and Mrs. Jesse Neville and Mrs. S. M. Oldham in the country, are buying some Barred Rock ro^ rv s from fV, n farm in Mebane. They already have flocks of hens of that breed. Monday Mr. Harris stop ped in of Eubanks’ drug store with two roosters in his Ford car—one high-bred and one low-bred one. “That common one there,” he said, “will sell for around $1.50 as food, and the other costs only about 50 cents more. Yet, as breeder, there *is all the difference in the world between them. It is foolish waste not to buy the high-bred fowls when you are to keep them with a flock.” Weaver Buys Carr Herd Dairyman Gets 12 Holstein Cows and One Bull C. H. Weaver, who conducts the big dairy farm two or three miles northwest of town, has bought from General Julian S. Carr the fine herd of Holstein cattle—twelve cows, and one bull—that ho ye been at the Gen eral’s Occoneechee Farm for many years Occoneee'-op js beine sold at auction today. When he decided to part wb’ it, the owner gave a few of the cows away to friends. T* » dairyman "ot all that were for sale. Mr. Weaver is a great believer in *hr> future of Orange county as a dairying land. Alreday he supplies to the University most of the milk consumed at the students’ eat ing hall, and he is steadily in creasing his output. His barns and equipment are of the most modern design. There was a dance at the Country Club last night. ’ The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Here was I, last week, in a piece about people’s manner of walking, v alluding to J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton’s “rhythmic swing.” Now he has got him a four-door sedan and I will al j most never be seeing that swing i again. I * * * In the statement of the town i of Chapel Hill’s revenues for the year 1922-1923, I notice that the levy on dogs brought! in $35. The statutory tax on each dog in the confines of the town is sl. Now, I have more than 35 personal acquaintances j among the canine population. You have to make your way through a press of dogs when ever you fare forth from your dwelling. (Postscrippt: I have a sinking feeling that I myself may have been among the de linquents on the dog tax; but our dog is no more, having been killed by an automobile, so the tax-gatherer can’t get me now.) * * * The road now under construc tion around the Battle (Book er) place is going to be one of ; the most useful thoroughfares in the village. It will make a | junction with the main street between Dr. Lawson’s and Mr. Kennette’s. (For the benefit of old-timers, I will explain that this means between the Basker ville house and the house built by F. K. Ball and afterward oc cupied by Judge Macßae). The new road will sweep around southwest and come into the Cameron avenue extension, thus > giving easy access to the cam pus from the east end and from Durham. j When a lot of real “dirt farm-1 ers” gathered at the school the other night to eat supper and to talk about Jersey cattle, they ran into the fiinal dress rehearsal of the Carolina Play makers. The make-up room happened to be close to the sup per room, with the door open, and li. L. Pickens sat at a ta ne and turned himself from a' Judent literary man into the' farmer of Miss Setzer’s play,” j The Black Rooster.” As he put on his false mustaches and ! daubed paint on his cheeks, the real farmers stood in the door and gazed at him with amaze ment. I don’t know whether not they knew what sort of part he was to play. At this half way stage of m&ke-up he might have been taken for a Wild Western desperado. / * * * If I were this Bob Pickens’ father and had seen him in ac tion with the Playmakers last week I believe I would try to make an actor of him, for he did exceedingly well. But I hear the elder Mr. Pickens is a Metho dist minister, and so I doubt if he will look with favor on the stage as a profession for his son. Chess Club Meeting I ! The Che«s and Checker Club of Chapel Hill will meet in the, 'director >om of the People’s: Bank tomorrow (Friday) night j at half past seven o’clock. In 'erest ir he organization has' : continued to grow, and the meet ings are well attended. All who want to play the two games are eligible to i fin. I i ' ' -• 1 Dan Gaston of Sanford and ; Mrs. Lomio Gardner, both of whom are employed in Gooch’s case, were tharried Saturday in j Durham. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1923 Jersey Owners Meet at Feast And Organize a Breeders’ . Club Gather at Chapel Hill School and Talk of Advantages of Blooded Cattle. Alex Mclver Gives Record of 4 Cows Owners of Jersey cattle, from . all over the southern half of Or jange county, came together at a supper in the school building the other night. A picture of a Jersey cow was posted at the head of the table, and through out the evening all did honor to the breed. It was an enthusiastic gather ing. They decided to form the Orange County Jersey Breeders’ Club, and elected Harmon Mc lver president and F. W. Winn, Jr., secretly. The organiza tion is going to spread the doc trine of blooded cattle—try to make the farmers of Orange realize their great opportunity for profits lies in livestock. Miss Helen Schell, who has the school cafeteria in charge, served a most delicious meal made up of chicken, sweet pota toes, coffee, salad, sweet pickles and a few other things. It was so good that Robert L. Strowd, when his turn came to talk, said that if the farmers did half as well at raising Jerseys as Miss Schell did “at feeding the Jersey raisers then Orange county would be the greatest dairy dis trict in the United States . Speaking of Mr. Strowd, he performed for the assembled company a service of a sort no one had looked for. The elec tric lights went out several times, and Mr. Strowd’s cigar ette was the only illumination, i R. P. Harris, who arranged i Shull Writes Howell i ; Football Star of ’9B Suggests Reunion Next Week Next Thursday will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of Car olina’s first football victory over Virginia. On Thanksgiving ,Day of 1898, in Richmond, Ver non Howell, now dean of the pharmacy school, ran a zigzag J course down the length of the field for a touchdown, and the final score was 6 to 2. (Six years before, in 1892, Carolina won from Virginia 26 to 0, in a post-season exhibition game in Atlanta, but had already been beaten by its rival in the regu lar match the same season, so that the Atlanta victory, strict ly speaking, “didn’t count.”) Mr. Howell received yesterday a letter from Mike “Shull—now a grave and reverend judge in Pennsylvania, who was a mem ber of that champion ’9B team, proposing a reunion at next week’s Carolina-Virginia game. “Do you remember,” asks Mike, “when Mink Cunningham and Tony Alderman hugged each other in the lobby of the Jef ferson hotel in Richmond? And when Ike Phifer shinned up the balcony in the same lobby? And do you remember that Billy Noble led the procession of joy lous Tar Heels through and j around the hotel? Do you re member the reception at Chapel | Hill on our return there? “Has it occurred to. you that the pleasure of getting the old ang together might be worth the effort at a ’9B team reunion in Chapel Hill this Thanksgiv-; jing Day?” After asking which, the Judge goes on to say that he is ar ranging the reunion and wants j Mr. Howell to be sure to be on ihand. Mr. Howell answers yes. j the meeting, had hung on the w r alls a lot of posters, in red ink, telling about Jerseys and their prowess in producing rich milk. One of these displays w T as a list of the Jersey owners in southern Orange, with the num ber of cow’s, bulls, and calves owned by each. There are 37 owners, and they have 34 cows, 15 bulls, and 11 calves. The total value of them is put at $6,085. “Don’t Starve a Good Cow” was one of the red-ink headlines, followed by the sort of daily menu That a farmer should pro vide for his herd. 1 Nearby this was the sign: “Dairying—the Most Profitable andd Highly De veloped System of Farming.’’ The reasons for the Jersey owners’ organizing were listed as follows: “first, to make a care ful study of our problems; sec ond, to make Orange county farmers 100 per cent Jersey owners; third, efficiency in ad vertising and marketing.” Here are the farmers who at tended the supper: Harmon Mclver, Alex Mclver, F. W. Winn, and F. W. Winn, Jr., all of Oaks; Thomas Perry and Alfred Perry, Damascus; Mat thew Roach and F. F. Strow’d. Teer; H. C. Hogan, Jack Hogan, ancUW. G. Neville, of the Cal vander section; Jeter C. Lloyd and Thomas A. Atwater, Anti och; M. C. Blackwood, of Black (Continued on Page 3) Miss Wilson’s Wedding Will Take Place Saturday Evening at 6 O’clock Miss Eleanora Stansbury Wil son, daughter of Henry Van Peters Wilson, Kenan professor of zoology in the University, and of the late Edith Stickney Wilson, will be married in the Episcopal church at six o’clock Saturday evening to Dr. Howell Peacock of Columbus, Georgia. Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence will perform the ceremony. Mrs. Thorndike Saville, sister of the bride, will be matron-of-honor, Miss Julia Pechin Ingle maid-of honor, and Albert Peacock, brother of the groom, best man. Miss Wilson is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr school in Balti more. Dr. Peacock was gradu ated from the University of Georgia and from Jefferson Medical College, afterwards serving for two years as interne in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia. Colored Boys Win Now They Will Tackle the Hender- Hon Normal School The Orange County Training School beat the Palmer Me morial Institute at football Sat urday, 12 to 0. The game was played in Sedalia. Luther Har grave made the first touchdown for the Chapel Hill eleven, and Sim Deßerry the second. Frank j Merritt captained the team. Tomorrow (Friday) the Hen derson Normal School is coming here to play the training school ion Calkftrell Field, out on Church I street. University football ex perts, it is announced by the school principal,. B. L. Bozeman, ; will act as officials. There being no Carolina varsity match this | week, the event will no doubt CHRISTMAS GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS This is a special offer, open only to subscribers to the Weekly, and is good from now until Christmas Day. A one-year subscrip tion to the Weekly, as a gift, may be taken for sl. You may take as many as you choose. Send us names and addresses. If anybody whom you name is already on our list, your money will be returned. We will write the letter to each per son, telling of the gift, or you may write it; just say which you prefer. i Fill out and mail the coupon on the last page. Strowd Behind Scenes Visits Miss I.ay and Sees Many Other Pretty Actresses Robert L. Strowd, Chapel Hill’s capitalist, banker, land owner, and all-around leading citizen—not long ago postmas ter put now free to rove around to Arkansas, New York and other interesting spots—was seen hovering about the stage entrance of a New York theatre the other day. A few minutes later the door opened to him and he was admitted back of the scenes. No, Mr. Strowd was not tak ing Miss Tootsie Twinkletoes jout to a dinner of lobster and 1 other Broadway delicacies, If !' . ;any censorious persons arises and wants to throw him out of the church, that person will be going off half-cocked and will be sorry he spoke. Mr. Strowd was simply paying a call upon Miss Nancy Lay, sister of Mrs. Paul Green and Miss Lucy Lay who live in one of his houses at the east end of town. She is appearing in the musical com edy, “Poppy.” “It was my first experience behind the scenes of a theatre,” says Mr. Strowd, and I can tell you it was worth the trip. I got in just as all those pretty girls were trooping out. It was about five o’clock in the afternoon, af ter the matinee. That night I saw them in the play, and I’m proud to tell you that Miss Nancy was easily the prettiest of the lot.” At the play Mr. Strowd sat in a box with Fred Morrison, the school principal, who is taking graduate work this year in Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Mr. Morrison re ported that he was having a fine time in the big citv but, none the less, was painfully homesick at times. Mr. Strowd stayed at thfe Pennsylvania Hotel. “Big enough,” he describes it,” to take in all the people of Chapel Hill, give them all a private bath each, and then have royms and baths enough left over for us folks down in Cone 1 ' 4 y " vid a part of the population of Carr boro.” / attract a large crowd of both white and colored folks. “This will decide the State champion.-hip of .n>d high schools and normal schools,’ says Principal Borona ’since Chapel Hill and Henderson are the unquestioned leaders in the two classes of institutions.” $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy TWO YEARS TO BUILD CHURCH Episcopal Rector Says This Is Liberal Estimate of Time Re quired to Complete Job —— IT MAY BE DONE SOONER As people pass along East Franklin street and see the con struction of the new Episcopal church definitely under way, : they are asking how long it will i take to complete the work. Two years is the period esti mated by Rev. Alfred S. Law rence for the entire job. This is a liberal estimate, allowing for the delays that are inevitable in | any such project. The contrac tor, J. L. Crouse of Greensboro, ; expects to finish his work yi about a year, but there will re main the furnishing, the setting ;in of memorial windows, and many finishing touches that can hardly be foreseen. It would not surprise Mr. Law rence, he says, if it were all done in 18 or 20 months, but in predicting he prefers to give a margin. The total cost of church and parish house will be about $130,- 000, the church requiring $93,- 000 apd the parish house s37,oo(b\\V. A. Erwin of Dur ham is donating the main buil ding as a memorial to his grand father, William R. Holt, who was graduated from the Univer sity 106 years ago this year. I Twenty-five thousand dollars is still to be raised to complete the fund needed for the parish ! house. I For the benefit of the former I citizens of Chapel Hill who have not kept informed of the plans, it is again stated that the pres ent church will remain as it is. i Strengthening of the tower is found to be necessary, but this will be done without any change in its exterior—somewhat in the same manner, probably, as the Old East building on the cam pus is now being preserved in its original form. Landscaping is already in i progress. Scores of wagon i loads of dirt have been hauled | in, and tHe low ground to the west of the church, which was formerly a part of Mrs. Barbee’s pasture, is being filled in and leveled. Grass will be planted here, and a path will be led straight through from the street to the campus, with a branch curving around the rear of the parish house. C. A. Herrin, the superintend ent for the contractor, has moved to Chapel Hill with his j family and is occupying one of the Borman houses in the west end of the town. This Is Clean-up Week i This is clean-up week. The municipal rubbish - collecting wagon operated east of Colum bia street yesterday. Today i (Thursday) it will gather its loads in the west end of town. Friday sod Saturday are. the days for making a second round, to get 41 rubbish that was missed r 4 he first. AH citizens are urged s o clean their premises thorough i j j Spec' at Baptist Church W. J. Matherly will talk at the Ba ! 'church at the regu lar S morning seryice, which ins at 11 o’clock, and Harry 1 Comer will talk at night at 7:45.
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