Yol. 1. No. 42 FARMERS WENT AFTER GUERNSEYS i. _ Group of Men of St. Mary’s Section Made Trip to Farms near Salisbury PURCHASES TO BE MADE A group of farmers who live around St. Mary’s, in the north ern part of the county, went to Salisbury a few days ago on the hunt for fine Guernsey cattle. They took with them R. P. Har ris, the agriculture teacher in the Chapel Hill school, to help them make their Selections. Up in the section of north Orange where these men live the Guernsey is the favorite cow, and in adding to their herds they naturally want to stick to the same breed. It is for this reason that they went to Ro wan county, around Salisbury, for that county is rich in Guern seys. First the travellers vis ited the big farm of ihe Beall brothers, then T. D. Brown’s place. Altogether they visited about 10 dairy farms. One cow was purchased, and four others are under option and will prob ably be taken. The five will cost 5975. “We were much impressed by the success that Rowan county farmers had made with live; stock,” says one of the men who made the trip. “We found fine; stock farms in the county around Salisbury. They have an annual sale of blooded cat tle in the county, and buyers I come to it from distant stater.: fn some neighborhoods there is 1 cooperative ownership and mar- j keting. We found that the farmers in that sec lion were a well-informed, wide-awake lot of people, determined to make the most of their soil and cli mate. There are many things that we folks here in Orange can learn from them. The main thing is to devote more of our —attention and resources to live stock and not to depend to so great an extent on crops.” T. J. 3d., Rhodes Scholar Thomas J. Wilson, 3d, member of the French faculty in the University and son of the Regis trar, has been chosen, from among many candidates, to be North Carolina’s next Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. He made a distinguished class room record in the University winning membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and was a good tennis player. The late Cecil Rhodes named proficiency in sport as one of the qualifications of the Rhodes scholars, so T. J’s tennis probably had as much to do with his getting the prize as did his scholarship record. Os course personality and character are also taken into consideration by the committee which makes the awards. Mr. Neville’s Modern Dairy W. G. Neville, who lives out beyond Calvander, has erected a modern milking-house and a house for sterilizing his bottles and cooling his milk. Both these structures have concrete floors and all the up-to-date equip ment required by a dairyman. Mr. Neville has about half a dozen cows. He does all hiR own milking and brings his product in to Carrboro to his customers every morning. On the same trip he takes his son to the school in Chapel Hill. He is go ing to increase his herd Btead ily. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Ckapel Hill Chaff When I was walking in front of Foister’s store a day or so ago, I was startled to see a Santa Claus in full costume leaning out of the second-story window smoking a cigarette. He was in the Foister Toyland and was evidently taking a little time off from his duties. There was something incongruous about a cigarette in Santa’s mouth. A pipe would have seemed natural enough. * * * Towns within a radius of 50 or 75 miles from Chapel Hill were used as sleeping stations by the people who attended the football game on Thanksgiving Day. I had one friend who came all the way from New York to spend a few days here, and who went to Greensboro to sleep Thursday night and came back here early next morning. One alumnus who stayed overnight in a nearby village was asked how the hotel conditions were. “Fine,” he said, “We had plenty of hot and cold running cock roaches.” * * * Mr. Dickson, writing recently lin the Greensboro News, said that Chapel Hill had revealed | itself as the town with more parking space for its size than ; any other in the world. This is good observation. There seem ed to be no trouble whatever— thanks partly, of course, to the student traffic directors—about finding a place for cars. The 1 class athletic field, the space in 'the new dormitory quadrangle, the grove in front of the Battle place, and other allotted areas, i together with the streets, took care of all the cars with ease. j * * * The football heroes of past 1 days always seem to me to he I embarrassed when they are trotted out, on important occa -j sions—tobe—displayed t othe crowd and to have their pictures taken. They are hauled this way and that by a photographer who wants to get them into good position. Not one person out of 50 in the grandstand knows who they are; in fact, most of the ! .spectators were probably not born when these men performed at Chapel Hill on the gridiron. Squealing young flappers stare at them and call them “cute.” They look relieved when they are allowed to resume their seats. AID NEEDED FOR WOMAN IN DISTRESS A woman who lives in Orange County, the mother of four young children, was left a des titute widow not long ago. Soon after her husband’s death she found to be in the early stages of tuberculosis. Her sister and her sis ter’s husband, who have four children of their own, have taken her and . her children into their i 1 small home, thus bring i ing their family to 11. > The man earns less than i * twenty dollars a week, and it is plain that he cannot bear the burden, i The case has been thor- i i oughly investigated by George Lawrence, now I; acting as public welfare i! officer of the county, * 1 and there is no question but that the facts are as here stated. The wo* j man being outside of CHAPEL HILL, N. C. f THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13,1923 YOUNG ALLPORT PURSUED TRAIN Liked the Looks of Charlotte Special and Took Out After It. A NEGRO MAN FOUND HIM Edward Allport, four years old, likes trains. He states his fondness for engines and cars openly and often. For a year or two, from his home on Pitis boro street, he has been entranc ed once or twice a day by the sight of a locomotive pulling a freight car along the railroad track to the University campus. This was only freight traffic. But Saturday came the Char lotte high school special, with its new spick-and-span passen ger coaches, and parked itself almost at Edward’s door. Here was joy beyond words. The Charlotte people piled out of the train and were off Ito Emerson field to see their , football team play Sanford. But Edward was not the least in terested in them. He stood and ! stared at the train. Now and ! then he started towards it and had to be restrained by one of I his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Allport had to] go to Durham in the afternoon,] and they left Edward in the 1 : care of Martha, the colored j maid. Martha looked after him ■ well—except for aboui two or i three minutes when her atten tion was distracted by some ! household duties. These two or I three minutes came at the iime , when the Charkn.'.e train was l ; just ab > it to pull our for home ,j after the game Edward, un :, watched, made a bee line for i the last coach. The train drew away. He followed, up the track toward Carrboro. I I VVhen Martha’s thoughts ■ turned to him again he was gone . —lost. She looked about the house and yard, under the ta i hies, in the closets, everywhere. , As the search proceeded with . out results she grew panicky. 1 I Finally she ran over to the next 1 f door neighbor, Mrs. Harris, and j > told her of the boy’s disappear > ance. the neighborhood was I | aroused. There was frantic tel-; . ephoning and sending of mes-; » sages. Immediately it vs as sus-j ’ pected that the boy had got ; aboard the train. Mrs. Harris i (Continued on Page 4) Chapel Hill, \vhere the.'v are other needy cases, the local anti-tuberculo sis fund is not available for her. A number of citizens have made con tributions to help her out, but considerably more money is needed to give her treatment and to provide for her chil dren while she is being cured. The Chapel Hill Weekly is undertaking to raise a special fund for her, and starts it o i A bazaar, for the benefit of churchwomen’s charities, was held in the Presbyterian church social rooms Tuesday afternoon and evening. All sorts of things were on sale—ivories, curios from the East, embroideries, table-linen, breads, cakes, and candies. Buyers were numer ous and eager, with the- result that a considerable sum was | realized for the charities. 1 j- New Concrete Sidewalk A new Concrete sidewalk has been built in front of the block of Kluttz store buildings and in front of Jack Sparrow’s pladb. $l3O a Year hi Advance. Be. a Copy CLUB MEMBERS DIG UP STUMPS I And Are Rewarded Afterward by Tea, Cakes, Sandwiches, and a Little Dancing r : MISS BERNARD’S OVATION Enthusiastic members of the Country Club turned out Sat | urday afternoon to work on the ; grounds. Stump-grubbing was ! the main part of their perfor jmance, and this was supple mented by the raking of leaves and the removal of rocks from the space where the tennis court is to be. Alvin S. YVheeler and James M. Bell were ringleaders in the sport. Othqrs who took part were George Howe, James H. Bullitt, Paul John Weaver, Crilz George and E. L. Mackii. After an hour or two o r more or less triumphant struggle with objects which nature had left strewn around in unsuitable spots, the weary puffing males were rewarded by tea and sand wiches and cakes served in the clubhouse by some of the wo men members. Mrs. Bain and Mrs. Stuhlman had prepared 1 the feast and acted as hosteee , es. Others in the party Were Mrs. Connor, Mrs. Dey, Mrs. Cobb, Mrs. Bullitt, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Matherly, Mrs. Kent Brown, Mrs. Weaver, Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Learned, Miss Learned, and Mrs. M. L. Braun. Before the forest-vanquishers tame indoors, the women played . bridge. And dancing followed the tea-drinking. The appearance of YV. 8. Ber nard with his young daughter, Mary Stanley, now just about two years old, precipitated a rush to the door to welcome the ! young visitor. She took the demonstration calmly, looked from one admirer to another, ' 1 and then made several remarks some of which were understood and others xjf.which, being in Greek, were obligingly trans lated by her father. These Saturday afternoon gatherings of. club members art to continue through the win ter. The attendance will prn (Continued on Page 4) Mr. Fountain Buys Lot R. T. Fountain of Rocky Mount has bought the old Par tin place at the corner of old Hillsboro road and north street. I The Partin house will be recon structed, and it is said a new I house will be built beside it for Mr. Fountain’s mother-in law, t Mrs. Rankin. J. A. Clark Gets a Farm W. S. Roberson has sold to J. A. Clark, who works in the cotton mill in Carrboro, a farm of 38 acres on the Hillsboro road this side of Calvander. Mr. Clark will live on his new pro perty and will come in each day in an automobile to his work in Carrboro. George Lawrence Engaged Announcement has been made of the engagement so George Lawrence, brother of Rev. Al fred S. Lawrence, to Miss Addie Grace Waterman, sister of Mrs. Claudius Murchison. The first news of the engagement came a few days ago when Mrs. Law son gave a party in honor of the event.