VoL 4. No. 24.
A REGULAR-SIZE
-'FOOTBALL FIELD
t FOR THE SCHOOL
I* Laid out on the Ground That
Used to be Garden Os
the Harris Place
*iOOD FOR GROWING TURF
School Superintendent L. R.
Sides has laid out a standard
size football held on the play
ground space back of the school
building. The goal posts will be
put up and the lines marked off
by the time the fall session be
gins next month.
The gridiron will cover what
used to be the garden and cow-;
meadow of the family of Dr. j
Thomas Harris—lafid that was
bought, as an extension to the
r school property, a year or so
ago. Years of cultivation had
made it rich, and a splendid turf
can be grown upon it. Some of
the area, in fact, is already turf;
the rest will be seeded after this
next football season and should
be in good shape a year hence.
Wallace Patterson’s (the for
mer Harris) house is only a few
yards from where the south goal
will stand. His property was re
cently sold to three fraternities
—the Kappa Sigma, the Zeta
Psi, and the Kappa Alpha. The
Zeta Psis, who got the central
portion, will build on the site of
the present house, facing Cam
eron avenue across a court. The
other two fraternities will have
their homes on the two sides of
this court.
Hitherto the high school foot
ball team has had to depend up
on the University’s field for their
matches. Os course the school
could use Emerson field only
when it was not wanted by the
University squad, and there
v/ere many conflicts. Now both
practice and matches can be
held on the school’s own grounds.
Clay Hogan Killed
Well-Known and Popular Farmer
(iored to Death by a Hull
People in Chapel Hill and sur
rounding country heard with
deep sorrow Sunday of the death
of Clay Hogan on his farm four
miles northwest of the village.
He was gored to death by his
bull.
Rising early Sunday morning,
lie went to the garden to gather
vegetables. Then he took an
armful of corn shucks out to the
His family never saw
him alive again. His body was
found with the enraged animal
standing over it. There were
signs of a terrible struggle.
Mr. Hogan was an exceedingly
popular man. Famed for his hos
pitality. he was always enter
taining his friends. He built on
his place a swimming pool, and
it was visited on hot afternoons
by the young people front miles
around.
He was horn in 1862 and at 29
was married to Miss Florence
Eubanks. They had seven chil
dren: E. Glenn Hogan of Flor
ida, Mrs. C. M. Cates of Hills
boro, Miss Lucille Hogan, Jack
Hogan, Henry Hogan, Hubert
Hogan, and Mrs. D. T. Carr.
His brother is A. B. Hogan, and
his two sisters are Mrs. W. B.
Thompson and Mrs. W. T. Ho
gan.
The funeral was held Tuesday
morning at Orange Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Collier Cobb, Jr.,
are moving into the cottage on
Cobb Terrace recently vacated
by the Rowleys.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
A certain young and good
looking (though safely married)
professor has in his summer
class a woman rather given to
colorful language. He made a
distinctly favorable impression
upon her, and her enthusiasm
Was reflected, the other day, in
an outburst that startled a group
of her fellow pupils. The end of
the period had come and a few
women were gatheftd about the
teaching desk. Somehow' an es- !
say that the professor had writ
ten came into conversation, and
she said that he ought to do more
w'riting. Upon his reply that he
did not have time, she exclaim
ed: “Oh, but you should not
crush the lily-bud of talent!”
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In the period of convalescence,
following his recent operation,
Dr. Charles Mangum has been
walking about the village and
the campus with a cane. “I’ve
joined the Cane Club, along with
MacNider, Branson, and Wag
staff,” he said to me when we
met in the drugstore Tuesday,
“hut I’m going to resign in a
few' days. The fact that I forgot
the stick when I left home yes
terday w r as a sure sign to me
that I was getting w'ell fast.” A
year or so ago, describing the
gaits of our citizens, I voted Dr.
Mangum the crown for having
the sprightliest walk of them
all. After he came hack from
Watts Hospital he moved along
the street very slowly and se
dately, not a bit like his own
self, but with every day now
you see him approaching his
norm. The old-time springy
! step is almost here again.
* * *
He and I happened to drop into
Town Manager Knox’s office
| just after Vernon Howell had
been suggesting that the town
make a hid on the People’s Bank
clock and maintain it as a public
utility. We were joking the
Manager about it. I said that
the town might take over the
j clock, obliterate the words, Peo
ples Bank, and substitute: Town
Hall—E. M. Knox, Manager. Dr.
Mangum offered the amend
ment: Town Clock—E. M. Knox*
Cuckoo.
Poison Oak Gets Usandizagans
The Rondalla Usandizaga, the
Spanish instrumental quartet
which was to play here tonight,
can’t come because its members
are suffering from poison oak—
or, as they called it up North,
poison ivy. A telegram brought,
this news to N. W. Walker, di
rector of the Summer School,
just as he was about to have the
placards and the programs
printed. The first message said
simply that the Spaniards would
not he able to come with Miss
Simpson, the soprano, whereup
in Mr. Walker wired that, in that
| case, the engagement had bet
-1 ter be cancelled. Then a sec
ond message told of the deadly
consequences of a picnic party
I which the Spaniards had attend
ed. So there won’t be any con
cert.
A Union Meeting
The young people of the vari
ous churches will hold the third
of their union devotional ser
vices Sunday evening at 7 o’clock
in the Sunday School assembly
room of the Baptist church.
A male quartet will give two of
the songs on the program.
Josephus Daniels Sunday
Josephus Daniels, former Sec
retary of the Navy will speak at
the union services in the Baptist
church Sunday.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926
Asian Scenes in Battle’s Park
A bit of Asia will be translat
ed to Battle’s Park when the
Carolina Playmakers give their
annual summer entertainment
on the evening of Tuesday, Aug
ust 24.
Percy Mac Kaye’s extravagan
za, “A Thousand Years Ago,” is
a comedy based on an old tale
of the Arabian Nights. In the
words of Clayton Hamilton, in
his introduction' to the play,
“this story is hung before the
eye as a fantastic bit of oriental
tapestry, and in the foreground
he has exhibited in silhouette
the sharper colors of the pranc
ing figures of his group of Ital
ian comedians.”
These five vagabond players,
led by Capocomico, are Mr. Mac-
Kaye’s reproduction of the old
“maskers.” The dialogue is in
verse suggestive of the voluble
and capricious spirit of fantasy.
Summer School Program
AUGUST 13 TO AUGUST 21
FRIDAY
It is the regret of the Summer School Management that the
Alma Simpson Concert scheduled for Friday Evening, Aug
ust 13, has had to he cancelled on account of an unusual
accident to the Spanish Dondalla Usandizaga. The Sum
mer School would have substituted some other number in
the program of attractions if the cancellation of the Alma
Simpson engagement had come early enough for a sub
stitution to be made.
Holders of season tickets on presentation of their tickets to Mr.
A. K. King at room No. 1 Peabody Building on Monday
and Tuesday, August 23rd and 24th, may get a refund of
25 cents.
SATURDAY
Saturday, August 14th, holiday.
Candidates for the Master’s degree must have their theses in by
today.
Usual social activities under the auspices of the “Y.”
SUNDAY
Union Services in Baptist Church conducted by Hon. Josephus
Daniels.
THURSDAY
Summer School Playmakers program scheduled for Thursday,
August 19th, has been postponed to Tuesday, August 24tii.
FRIDAY
Written examinations in Education for the Master’s degree will
be set at 9:00 on Friday morning, August 20th in the
Education Library, Peabody Building.
SATURDAY
Regular classes in all departments.
Usual social activities under the auspices of the “Y.”
Col. Abernethy’s Gifts
Remarkable Display of Articles That
Came on 50th Birthday
Colonel Eric Abernethy got
30 boxes of cigars among the
gifts that came to him upon his
50th birthday—and 12 cartons
of cigarettes, and 3 dozen pairs
of socks, and 4 dozen handker
chiefs, and a dozen ties, and a
country-cured ham, and a hunch
of frying-size chickens, and sev
eral bushels of peaches.
But these tell only a small
part of the story. When I
dropped into his home a day or
so ago, I was amazed by the dis
play that met my eye. There
were pocket knives, fountain
pens, paper cutters, cuff links,
toilet sets, dressing gowns, ther
mos bottles, books, and many
other things I can’t recall. They
covered two tables, and over
flowed upon desks, book-cases,
and chairs.
One article I noticed was a
handsome leather belt, and 1
wondered if, after the Colonel
had disposed of the ham. chick
ens and other eatables, the belt
would be long enough to stretch
around his middle.
Another gift was a gold-lined
cocktail shaker with gold-lined
cups to match. Under the pres
ent Volstead regime, of course
the Colonel will treasure this on
ly as an antique.
Miss Peltier 86
Miss Cornelia Peltier was 86
years old last Saturday.
As a whole the spectacle is de
signed to appeal more emphat
ically to the eye than to the ear.
The summer class in play pro
duction, under Director P. L.
Elmore, has been busy for weeks
fabricating the gorgeous colored
scenery and working out the
varied lighting combinations.
Never before in Chapel Hill has
there been undertaken such an
elaborate scenic display.
Urban, T. Holmes, who played
the imaginary invalid in Moli
ere’s play last spring, has thrown
himself into the role of Capoco
mico with his characteristic en
thusiasm, and the few privileged
insiders who have been observ
ing rehearsals say that he is a
gain showing himself the rare
comedian. Frank J. Haronian
will he Sctframouche, and Miss
Enita Nicks will he Turandot,
the Princess of Peking.
Honors Crowd Eubanks
President of Pharmaceutical Body and
Member of Board of Aldermen
Clyde Eubanks of Chapel Hill
was elected president of the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical
Association at the meeting of
the executive committee in Dur
ham this week.
He succeeds Norman W.
Lynch, formerly of Charlotte,
now of McCall, South Carolina,
who resigned because of his re
tirement from the drug business.
Mr. Eubanks was to become pres
ident anyway, at the beginning
of the next regular term, hav
ing been chosen for the office
at the annual convention of the
association in June.
At the meeting of the aider
men yesterday Mr. Eubanks was
elected to the hoard to succeed
Carl Durham, who resigned be
eause of having moved his home
outside the town limits.
At l)r. Lewis’s Funeral
Among those who went to
Raleigh last Sunday for the fun
eral of Dr. R. H. Lewis wer6
President and Mrs. Chase, J. G.
deßoulhac Hamilton, Robert B.
House, M. C. S. Noble, Mrs. J.
M. Booker, and Dr. William de
B. MacNider.
J ' *
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lear and
their son Merritt will leave in
a few days for a camping expe
dition in Virginia.
Marvin Wilson Married
Wed to Mss tfl»r*aret York of Ra- j
leigh on the 2t>th of July
A few days ago the report got
out that somebody had seen, in
the office of the Register of
Deeds in Hillsboro, a record of,
the marriage of Marvin Wilson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson. I
The report was greeted at first
with considerable ddubting. j
But, sure enough, the record is j
there.
: Mr. Wilson was married toj
! Miss Margaret York in Hillsboro
I Monday, July 26, by the Presby
i terian minister, Rev H. S.
i Bradshaw. The witnesses were
jj. T. Gresham, Jr., of Warsaw,
, E. F. Yarborough of Louisburg.
| and A. C. Justice of Chapel Hill,
i The groom’s age is given as 21
and the bride’s as 19.
Mr. Wilson is in the Univer
sity law school and will take the
bar examination for his license
this month. Mrs.<*Wilson, who
comes from Raleigh, is a student
in the Summer School.
Off After Fish
•j
j Jack Andrews and Others Will Leave
for Swannsboro Sunday
; Jack Andrews, Clarence Wills,
Carl Durham, Marvin Utley, D.
D. Carroll, and Zeb Council will
i leave Sunday morning for
Swannsboro, on the North Caro
lina coast. They will travel in
. the Andrews and the Council
cars.
Object of the journey: fish.
! Last year the gang led by Mr.
Andrews captured about 1.000
| pounds of mackerel. A good
share of the haul was brought
> back to Chapel Hill and distri
buted around among the anglers’
friends.
. [ “We hope the mackerel will be
! as w illing as they were a year
i ago,” said Mr. Andrews yester
' | day. “If they are. we are going
to give Chapel Hill another
■■ feast.”
The fishermen plan to come
back Wednesday. They will
bring with them Jack Andrews,
i Jr., who has been in Wilmington
I with his aunt, Mrs. E. I*. Block.
II
Walter Murphy Comes By
Walter Murphy of Salisbury,
i better known to ail University
men as Pete Murphy, was here
Monday with two nephews who
are to enter the University this
fall. One of them is to he a
freshman, the other is to do
graduate work. Mr. Murphy
was around the drugstore for a
. while, chatting with Mr. Noble
and other friends.
Mrs. Johnston Hurt by Fail
Mrs. Charles W Johnston is
lying helpless in Watts Hospital,
Durham, with a fractured hip
hone. The injury was the result
of a fall last week. The doctors
say that her condition is improv
ing, and in a letter to a friend in
Chapel Hill Mrs. Johnston says
that the pain is much less severe
thap it was.
Corn Worm Bit I)r. MacNider
Dr. William de B. MacNider
was bitten in the face by a corn
worm a few days ago. The dam
aged face has been repaired and
1 the doctor’s face is now again al
most normal.
Roaring Gap Party Scatters
*
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Weaver
have left Roaring Gap for Ashe
ville. Mrs. Woollen and Mrs.
Wilson will return to Chapel Hill
early next week.
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THE NEW SCHOOL
OF RELIGION GETS
A BIBLE TEACHER
Mims Thornburgh Workman of
Little Rock, Arkansas,
Chosen for Place
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE
Rev. Mims Thornburgh Work
man of Little Rock, Arkansas,
has accepted the position of
teacher of the Bible in the new
School of Religion here. He
will arrive in the village about
ten days hence and will take the
Neal house on Ransom street.
The School of Religion, to
which a certificate of incorpora
tion was recently issued by the
Secretary of State in Raleigh,
was organized byrthe clergymen
of Chapel Hill and Y. M. C. A.
Secretary H. F. Comer. The
names signed to the articles of
incorporation are Eugene Olive,
H. F C.omer, Walter Patten, Al
fred S. Lawrence, Britton J.
Howard, and W. D. Moss. -v
The object of the enterprise
is “the teaching of the Bible and
religion to young people, pri
marily students at the Univer
sity of North Carolina.” Work
of a similar kind has been done
by individual churches in other
colleges and university towns,
but the School of Religion here
is said to be the only one that
is carried on by several churches
in cooperation.
One section of the By-laws,
just off the press, provides that,
in addition to the representa
tives of the Chapel Hill churches
and the Y. M. C. A., the mem
bership of the corporation may
include “one person each to be
appointed or elected by each of
the denominational groups in the
state of North Carolina that
chooses to have representation
in th£ corporation.”
Mr. Workman will give courses
of standard college length—
three hours and five hours a
week. The School of Religion
has uo connection with the Uni
versity, hut, after there has been
time for careful observation of
the character of the instruction,
a proposal may be made that
j University credit, toward a de
gree, be given to students who
complete the courses.
As time passes the curriculum
| of the School of Religion will be
iexpanded.
To come here Mr. Workman
| leaves the pastorate of the Pu
laski Heights Methodist church
in Little Rock.
Swimming Meet Aug. 18
Many Experts Are Entered for ( ant
petition with Durham
For the swimming and diving
match between Chapel Hill and
Durham, at the Sparrow pool
next Wednesday, about 20 con
testants have entered for Chap
el Hill, and word comes that
Durham will probably send over
about 30.
Among those who have enter
ed here are Misses Elizabeth
Henderson, Barbara Henderson,
Marilynn Giles, Lucille Hogan,
Carolyn Winston, and Bitsy Dag
gett, and Hubert Hogan, Regi
nald Schmitt, George Winston,
and Sam Paulsen.
Mrs. Sparrow has set the hour
for the start at four o’clock, and
she expects the contest to last
about two hours. There will be
three judges; and .prizes, in ad
dition to ribbons, will be award
ed, The admission price for
spectators is 25 cents.