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VoL 3. No. 35. MAYBEAVOTE ON A TOWNSHIP SCHOOL SYSTEM Chapel Hill and Carrboro Plan ning to Apply for Special Election TAX EQUALITY IS THE AIM _________ • At their meeting in Hillsboro rMonday the county commission ers may be asked to call an elec tion on a consolidated township achool systrtn for Chapel Hill. As it is now, Chapel Hill and 'Carrboro constitute separate school districts. More than half the pupils in the Chapel Hill school come from homes in the country outside the district— homes that are not taxed for the school. 1 The purpose of the new plan is to create better educational facilities than now exist and spread the cost over the whole township. In the Chapel Hill district the school tax is now 72.5 cents on the SIOO property valuation, and in Carrboro about 60 cents. If the township is made a single district, and if the county will a gree to erect the proposed new high school, it is calculated that a school tax of 67 cents would be adequate. The Chapel Hill ahd Carrboro school boards have been in con ference about the township plan, and they expect to have another meeting within a day or so, to decide upon just what proposi tion they will ask the county commissioners to lay before the voters at a special election. Miss Warren to Sing Durham Soprano Will Appear in Con cert Here Sunday \ Miss Rosa Warren of Durham will sing at the University music department’s concert in Memo rial Hall Sunday afternoon at four o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. T. Smith McCorkle will play a Beethoven sonata. Miss Warren, who is connect ed with the welfare department of the Erwin Cotton Mills, has won considerable fame as a so prano soloist. Many Chapel Hill people have heard her in Dur ham, but she has not sung here since she illustrated Dr. Frank Brown’s lecture four or five years ago. The public is cordially invited to the concert. Miss Mary Thornton Quits Sapphire Miss Mary Thornton started out riding on Sapphire, one of the recently imported Bell sad dlers, Sunday afternoon. They proceeded eastward on Rosemary street, quietly enough until they reached the corner by the T. J. Wilson home. Then Miss Thornton’s feet somehow came out of the stirrups. The stir rups jiggled again and again against the horse’s fianks, and Sapphire took this to mean that speed was wanted.' The ride be came a runaway,... At the Mcln tosh corner the rider went to the ground. Her face was fidd ly cut, and Critz George, Frank Graham, Miss Anne Graham and several children who ran to her were at first frightened by the liberal flow of blood. But wound turned out not to be serious, and Sunday evening the victim of the accident was hold ing a levee in her home in the little cottage in the Kluttz yard. He Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Mrs Kluttz was telling me a bout the bridge party she and Miss Love gave Saturday night for Mrs. Kluttz’ niece-in-law, Mrs. William Creech. Mrs. Creech is a bride. She and her husband drove up from Golds boro Saturday afternoon and back again Sunday. The bridge party was for women only. Mrs. Kluttz told me nothing of any entertainment provided for the bridegroom. This seems to me harsh treatment—to have a couple ride 170 miles and then, as it were, leave half the delega tion out in the cold. When a bridal couple is summoned such a distance and the bride be comes the guest of honor at a bridge, surely a poker party, or some other form of masculine amusement, ought to be pro vided for the groom. This is none of my business, as doubt less the hostesses will tell me when they see me next, but sex loyalty moves me to make a protest. - r * * * The checker club used to meet in the rear of the Chapel Hill Hardware store. Then, when the space was taken over by a shoe-repair shop, the club was ousted. Later the shoe-repair man moved, but the checker players did not return. Now I am led to believe that Clarence Wills is turning over the north end of his place to a capitalists’ club. Frequently I see Robert L. Strowd, H. A. Whitfield, and others of the town’s moneyed men toasting their toes at the stove. * * * The Winslows, on * Carter Court, had a kitten to which the family was much attached. But the other day it paid a visit to the Shapiro household, Where little Albert had a case of scarlet fever. So, when it came home, it was shooed away. It tried the J. S. Bennett home next door, and the Bennetts also refused to receive it. The outlook for the kitten was dark, but just then a visitor from Durham came along, took it up in his automobile, and carried it away. Mrs. Bickett to Speak Will Address Community Club at Meeting This Afternoon Mrs. Thomas W. Bickett, widow of the late Governor Bickett, will address the Com munity Club at its meeting at half past three o’clock this (Friday) afternoon in the Sun day school rooms of the Presby terian church. Everybody, whether a member of the club or not, is invited. Mrs. Bickett comes to Chap el Hill under the auspices of the club’s health department, of which Mrs. Moody Durham is chairman. Her topic will be some phase of the work of the state department of public wel fare. ( At half past twelve o’clock to day, in the school auditorium, she will talk to the girls of the high school and to all of the girls’ parents who wish to come. " ( Bank Force Has a Supper President Noble, Vice-Presi dent Strowd, and Cashier Hogan ’sprung a surprise on the em ployees of the Bank of Chapel Hill Friday evening by summon ing them to a feast. It was served by Gooch in the directors’ room on the second floor of the bank. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ George M. Cohan Comedy Will. PROM -TWO FELLOWS AND A GIRL" The Carolina Playmakers are bringing to Chapel Hill a play by George M. Cohan. It is “Two Fellows and a Girl,” and it will be presented in Memorial Hall next Wednesday evening, November 4, at half past eight o’clock. The prices for seats are 50 cents and a dol lar; season subscribers to Play maker performances get a 10 per cent reduction. Tickets are on sale at Sutton and Alder man’s. Sanding: Golf Greens Club Committee, Headed by George, Is Improving the Surfaces Critz George, head of the Country Club’s committee which has jurisdiction over the golf course, is preparing to spread sand on the four greens now in use. The greens are already graded, and the sanding will make them smooth. The four holes now being: played are Nos. 1,2, 3 and 6.; No. 6 is so located that these four mfeke a convenient circuit on the part of the links nearest the house. It has not yet been possible to get the stones cleared off the first fairway, and so the players drive off from down near the el bow. Eventually this hole will be 440 yards long, but now it is 225. The lengths of the other three are: No. 2,200; No. 3, 275; No. 6, 400. The slender financial resources of the club prevent the rapid completion of the course. The committee goes ahead and uses what money it can get, and then waits and hopes for more. A fifth hole, a short one, is expect ed to be ready for play early in the spring. Dr. MacNider Went Dr. William de B. MacNider left here at half past six o’clock last Thursday morning; went to Washington, N. C., by bus in five laps; was met there by Dave Tayloe and driven 90-odd miles to Elizabeth City, arriving there at 6:45; talked to an assemblage of physicians about high blood, pressure; got on a Norfolk and Southern sleeping car at about 10 o’clock; woke up in Raleigh in time for breakfast; and was in Chapel Hill for his early teach-; ing spasm Friday morning. Scouts’ Dollar Campaign The Boy Scouts will begin next week the Dollar Campaign to meet the cost of the troop’s program during the coming year. ►AY, OCTOBER 30, 1925 I Cohan’s plays are noted for fun and brisk action, and he is said to have done his best in this cqmedy. ! “Two Fellows and a Girl” ran' for five months at the Vander-I blit Theatre' in New York, and j then had five months .in Chica- 1 go. The announcement which tHe producer sends ahead says ! the play is “studded with dra matic punches” and is a “mirror of youth.” The troupe is com- j jpqsed of New York actors. — I Poteat Here Tomorrow Wake Forest President to Speak at Baptist Students’ Conference William Louis Poteat, presi dent of Wake Forest College, will speak in the Baptist church ■ at half past eight o’clock tomor- ■ row (Saturday) evening. His! topic is “Maintaining the Sur-: render through our College j Days.” His talk is one of the in-1 jcidents of the North Carolina j Baptist Students’ Conference, in J session here today, tomorrow, and Sunday. Rev. George W. Truett of Dal las, Texas, famed as one of the leading preachers of the coun try, will talk at 8:20 o’clock this (Friday) evening on “Abandon ing a Career for a Mission.” Another one of the speakers is F. H. Leavell of Memphis, Tennessee, the students’ secre tary of the Southern Baptist Convention. His talk comes at half past nine o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Among those who will attend the three-day conference are Dr. J. E. Hicks, pastor of the First Baptist church of Baltimore; Dr. Harry Clark, extension divi sion Lecturer with Furman Uni versity; Rev. Chas. Maddry, Raleigh; Dr. L. M. Freeman, Meredith College; Rev. Eph. Whisehunt, Lincolnton; Ed. S. Preston, Marion; and Mrs. C. A. Williams, Greensboro. Will Read Father’s Sermon The Reverend Mr. Betts of Durham, who has been invited ito preach at Orange church November 15, will read the ser mon which his father delivered in the same church many years ago. This was the first sermon preached by the elder Mr. Betts. Pete Wilson Loses Appendix i Pete Wilson, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson/un derwent an operation for ap pendicitis in Watts Hospital last week. He came through it splendidly and will soon be a bout again. RALEIGH SHORT CUT I IS OPEN | It is now only 30 miles j from Chapel Hill to Ra- { leigh, thanks to recent j j work by the Orange and j j Durham county road forces, j j The short route is: ! { Leave Chapel Hill by the 1 1 ) old Raleigh road; about 3 ! i miles from Chapel Hill [ j turn to the left and follow 1 | the New Hope Valley road I to Evergreen farm, about 6 ! miles from Chapel Hill. 1 There turn to the right and I go 7 miles through Lowe’s j Grove to Nelson. Nelson is 17 miles from Raleigh on the Durham-Raleigh paved j road. Charley Gooch Is Back Simply Went on Vacation. But His 'Going Led to Wild Rumors __________ Charles E. Gooch, who went to Florida two or three weeks ago, is back home again. Trav-'! eling by automobile, he left Miama Thursday morning and rolled into Chapel Hill at mid night Saturday. The case manager was con siderably surprised to hear of the ntany stories, about his trip, ; that had spread about town. “I just went away for a little vacation,” he said, “and didn’t plan to stay. When I got home I I heard that I had gone to Flor ; ida to become a real estate dealer—to establish a restau rant—to do this, that, or the other thing. Why, I’d hardly be surprised now to learn that I fled North Carolina to escape a jail sentence!” While he was in Miami he j lived with John Abernethy, with I whom he motored there from Chapel Hill. He reports that Mr. Abernethy is doing excep tionally well as a member of the selling force of a big real estate corporation. Floyd Gooch and Jo Brown, who started out for Florida Sun-! day before last, are also back | in Chapel Hill. They got as far as Columbia,' South Carolina, and there a relative of Brown’s gave them some sober counsel. They accepted it, faced north, and came home. Phil Council, who went from here with them, is with a relative in Ilartsville, South Carolina. He is going to work there—for a while, any way. Robert Frost Tonight New Kngland Poet to Give Lecture and Reading in Gerrard Hall ! Robert Frost, the celebrated i New England poet,, will give a lecture and reading in Gerrard Hall this evening (Friday) at ! half past eight o’clock. There is 1 no admission charge, anti the! public is invited. The dominant characteristics! of Mr. Frost’s verse are simplic-J ity and sincerity. “North ofj Boston,” published several years, ago, made him well-known, and 1 since that appeared his fame hasj increased. J He worked on a New Hamp shire farm when he was a boy. He taught English at the Pink erton Academy several years, and then taught psychology at the New Hampshire State Nor mal. From 1912 to 1915 he was ip England. Returning, he be came a professor at Amherst, and in 1921 went to the Univer sity of Michigan. * $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy A PRETTY CHORUS WILL BE FEATURE | OF “ROSE TIME’’ Eight Girls in Resplendent Rai ment Will Appear in Extravaganza | . AT THE SCHOOL TONIGHT It is reported that the femi nine section of the chorus of “Rose Time,” the musical ex travaganza to be given in the school auditorium tonight (Fri day), is going to be one of the most pleasing sights that Chap el Hill has seen for a long time. It is composed of Misses Kath erine Walker, Emily Markham, Alice Long, Dorothy Fetzer, Carolyn Winston, Vivian Bynum, Carolyn Oswald, and Ernestine Reynolds. They will appear in gorgeous raiment. The young men in the chorus are Cameron Payne. Stanley Hall. Charles Crawford, T. C. Reynolds, Jimmie Turner, 1 Thomas King. Andy Anderson, and Curtis Berry. Miss Edna Yost, the profes sional directress who is superin tending the production, has been busy for more than a week rehearsing the company. She speaks highly of the Chapel Hill acting talent and predicts that “Rose Time” will be an even greater success than was last year’s comedy, “The Flapper ! Grandmother.” The cast is as follows: Characters Players Pa Perkins Kenneth Dacy Ma Perkins Elizabeth Strowd Rose Perkins Edna Yost Jerry Brown James Phillips J. Dillingham Jones Pendleton Harrison Babe Burnette Julia Irwin Mile. Danville Sara Hunter Props O’Reilly Guy Schmitt Percy Peabody Fred Key Squint Smith Felix Ashley French Maid Lyda Eubanks Mrs. G. H. Paulsen is the ac companist, Charley Woollen the 1 electrician, and Samuel Paulsen ! the stage manager. Red Cross Roll Call CanvasH Will He Made on Armistice Day, November 11 The annual Red Cross Roll Call will be made on Armistice Day, November 11—one week from next Wednesday. Mrs. G. II.” Paulsen, chairman of the Chapel Hill chapter of the Red Cross has mobilized a group of women who will can vass the town for members, each j canvasser covering a small ter | ritory adjacent to her home. The amount collected last year was $452,90. The committee hopes to get S6OO (his year, j Os the 1924 collection, $229.90 j was retained for the local ehap -1 ter and $223 went to the nation al organization. The Chapel j Hill Red Cross contributed to the monthly salary of $37.50 for | the negro nurse, and sent one patient to the Oteen sanitarium, j There is. a constant need of t funds for relief work, and all j citizens are urged to aid. The Club’s Hallowe’en Party The Country Club’s Hallowe’en celebration, which is for mem bers only, will begin at eight o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) evening. All who attend are asked to appear in costume. There is to be a vaudeville en tertainment followed by general dancing.
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