Vol. 11- No. 43.
ASSOCIATION WILL
AID IN FINANCING
ORANGEFARMERS
Organized under Leadership of
Don Matheson; \\ ill Have Its
Headquarters in Hillsboro
NO CONFLICT WITH HANKS
The Orange County Produc
tion Credit Association, with
headquarters in Hillsboro, has
been organized under the leader
ship of County Farm Agent Don
Matheson. Its function will la
te aid the farmers of Orange to
finance the production of crops
and livestock.
Production credit associations
art organized and conducted un
tier the terms of the Farm Cred
it Aet of 1933. They are the
branches of tin- Production Cred
it Corporation in each Federal
Reserve District. The one here
in Orange is to have a capital
~f s6f>,ooo.
This new scheme takes the
place of the old seed loan.
Farm agents of Orange, Ala
mance Durham, Chatham, Per
son, and Caswell—met in Mr.
Matheson’js office in Hillsboro
last Friday to discuss the es
tablishment of associations. The
money advanced by the Govern
ment in seed loans, in these six
counties, amounted last year to
about $300,000, and this affords
a measure of the probable de
mand for financial aid.
Worthy farmers of the coun
ty who can show sufficient col
lateral in livestock or crop mort
gages may obtain loans from the
association in Hillsboro. Every
borrower has to subscribe to the
stock of the association 5
per cent of the amount of the
loan made to him, and the- sub
scription may he paid from the
proceeds of the loan.
The money for the loan is ad
vanced bv the Federal Intermedi
ate Credit Bank in Columbia, S.
(' Since tlie association must
depend upon rediscounting farm
ers’ notes with the hank, the
notes must, meet the hank’s
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Pickin’ Pansies
(his Pastime Made Possible b> i.ong
S|>t-ii of Harm Weather
“Everybody’s pickin’ pansies
but me,” said Mrs. Summerlin
a bit plaintively the other day
as she peered down at the turf
by her front wall and found no
blooms there. But by this time
probably she too has her spots
of color in the yard, for the
warm sunshine, defying the
calendar, lias been bringing
flowers into blossom all over the
village.
Nature, well knowing that
Miss -Josie Pritchard is a high
light in the Garden Club and is
tu-it-to he neglected, has been
particularly lavish with her.
She has phlox, both the woods
and the Drummond varieties,
and white and purple alyssum,
and the gay red-and-yellow gail
lardias.
One of the proudest posses
sors of pansies is Mrs. It, J.
Mebane. They are blooming pro
fusely by the doorstep of the
south porch.
A white narcissus at the for
mer Macßae home, opposite the
Episcopal church, charms the
passers-by.
Violets bloom in the Mangum
yard, and no doubt in many
cithers.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
The Weekly Will Skip Two Issues
According to custom, the ( 'hup; l Hill H > < k’nj will suspend
publication for two weeks in the holiday season. It will
not be published on.either December 29th or January sth.
The next issue will appear on January' I2*h.
Episcopalians Troubled by Wasps
Wasps still infest the Episco
pal church.
Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence and
the vestrymen have tried their
best to get rid of these obnox
ious little beasts, but so far in
vain, it seems that the wasps
have their nests in hiding {dac
es far up under the roof of the
tall Gothic edifice, and nobody
has been able to get at and de
stroy these nests.
‘‘A pair of wasps were on the
floor around my feet all the’
time,” a woman member of the
congregation told the editor of
this paper when she came out of
the church last Sunday morning,
‘‘and I was paying so much at
tention to them, wondering if
the next minute they were going
to crawl up my legs, that I
couldn’t put my thoughts on the
sermon.”
Advice upon how to solve the
problem lias been sought from
scientists in the University;
from I*. L. Burch, the head of
the building service department,
who is supposed to possess the
capabilities of an expert insecti
cide along with all his other
Adeq 11 ate Enrollment
A hundred and fifty of the
members of tin* University facul
ty and office staff, the number
required for the operation of
the plan of the Hospital < are
Association, had signed up Mon
day morning, and Dwight Sny
der, secretary of the association,
said he expected many more
applications to be filed before tin
end of the year,
l
The plan is now in full effect
because when an applicant for
membership in the association
jiaid his registration fee of $1
he became, thereby, entitled to
insurance from December 15.
The regular term begins Janu
ary 1.
The monthly fee, which is de
ducted from the member's sal
ary at the University business
office and sent direct to the as
sociation, ranges from $1 a
month for a single man or wo
man to $3 a month for a man
with a wife and five or more
children. This is for the ser
vice* that ' includes a private
room ; fur the semi-private room,
the range is from 85 cents to
$2.65.
The service embraces room
and meals, use of operating and
delivery room, nursing care,
routine laboratory work, surgi
cal dressings, anesthetics, x-ray,
and ordinary drugs and medi
cines. It does not cover doctors’
t ees.
Library Privileges Exchanged
Arrangements have been j
made whereby the students at j
either the University of North j
Carolina or Duke University mayj
borrow books from the library 1
of the other institution.
Henderson to Speak
Archibald Hend.erson will ad
dress the Mathematics Society
at Harvard in the last week in
December. j
CHAPEL HILL. N. C\. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1933
accomplishments; and from
numerous pew-holders who have
been annoyed by the buzzing,
the crawling, and the menacing
swoops of the wasps.
One Episcopalian, in a some
what irritated mood after she
had come out of church one Sun
day, remarked to a friend: “It
looked for a w hile as if we might
1 it* rill of those wasps, hut the)
were swarming again today.
I’ve been thinking that when
Lent comes maybe they might
be counted as one of our pen
ances, in place of some other.”
Somebody has expressed curi
osity as to why wasps inhabit
the Episcopal and not the other
ichurches in the village. Maybe
there is something about the
Gothic type of building, with
its shadowy recesses, that is
more congenial to them than the
simpler Colonial interiors. May
be they find here a greater se
curity in quartering and bring
ing up their families. Another
possible explanation of their loy
alty to the Episcopal church is
the proximity of the Arboretum,
which is the source of a con
stant and abundant food supply.
A Candle-Light Service
There will be a Christmas
Candle Light Service at 5
o’clock Sunday at the Methodist
Church. Members of the Bap
tist and Presbyterian churches’
choirs will take part m the sing
ing. The program is under t in
direction of Mrs. Irene Fussier
and Rev. 11 S llouk The publit
is cordially invited.
Rev. Albea Godbold, having
returned from Mi SS} S S ippi where
he was called on account of the
death of his father, will preach
at the morning services.
Sunday .school will open at
9:15 A M. with a special Christ
mas program in the primary de
partment to which adults are
invited
A Surprise lor Mrs. Graham
Alice Neal, the cook at the
President’s House, called several
of Mrs. Frank Graham’s friends
on the telephone Wednesday and
told them to come around at 5
o’clock yesterday; and to keep
it quiet, for this was to he a sur
prise party. It s Miss Marian s
birthday,” said Alice. “People
went on a lot about Mr. Frank's
birthday, hut nobody seems to
lie sayin’ any tiling about hers.
So 1 just decided to hake her a
cake and have some of her
friends ire’’
CHRISTMAS GIFT
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Orders for Christmas
Gift subscriptions may be
! telephoned to No. 3781 at
; any time today (Friday)
until 5 P.M. and tomorrow
(Saturday) until 12 noon.
Payment may lie made
later. New subscriptions
are offered at $1 for the
year. Renewals of gift
subscriptions are at the
regular price, $1.50. A
gift card, bearing the name
of the giver, is sent to the
recipient.
Chapel Hill Chaff
The trapping of fur-bearing
animals has never been calked
about as an occupation that
flourishes in these parts, and
so 1 was considerably surprised
one day this week to hear of
two Negroes, near Chapel Hill,
who had cleared a considerable
sum last year from the .-'ale of
skins of muskrats, minks, squir
rels, rabbits, and coons.
j
These brothers named Mitch
ell, are bachelors now in middle
age. The farm which they in
herited and on which they have
passed their lives is about four
miles out on the old Raleigh
road just beyond the place of
W. C. Coker’s (long ago the
property of Emerson, father of
the late hromo seltzer king)
that is sometimes called “the
goat farm.”
Tin* Mitchells came into the*
village to call on Mr. Coker
Tuesdav They said they had a
chance! to buy two calves which
they wanted to raise into a
team of oxen. The calves were
about to tie slaughtered for veal,
but if the brothers could get ten
dollars . . . They were happy
when they left the Coker office.
The brothers, one of whom is
half a cripple, have the quiet
and friendly manners, rather
diffident, observed in so many
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Cotirt House Project
Improvements tn and Near Building
under Direction of 11. t». Carter
Improvements in and around
the court house, all embraced in
the description, "court house
project,” are being made under
tin* direction of H I) ( after,
who is the Hillsboro assistant
of the C.W.A.’s county adminis
trator, George H Lawrence.
The demolition of the old jail
is nearly finished, and some of
the flagstones from its walls are
being laid upon the paths in Hu*
court house yard, lhe county’s
garage building nearby is living
remodeled, and a shed to pro
tect school busses is under con
st met ion.
1 he court, house itself is to lie
painted inside and out. This is
something that has been sorely
needed a long time.
Some highway work by C.W.
A forces is in progress in Hills
boro. The shoulders of state,
highway No. 19 within the town
limits are under repair, and
about three miles of streets are
being leveled and graveled.
Clorious Weather in the Village
As to weather this has been
a glorious fall in Chapel Hill.
December’s record entitles it to
he included in the tall season.
’There have been a few chill
and gloomy days, but very few;
hardly half a dozen, i should
say, since September. Days of
bright sunshine have followed
one another in a steady pro
cession. A nip in the air a good
part of the last five or six
weeks, but often, around the
middle of the day, a genuine
semi-tropical halm.
People grumbled about the
drought in the early part of the
season; and well they might,
for it was bad. Recently rains
have come to remove this cause
of complaint.
1 am accustomed to measure
the merit of the weather by its
effect upon tennis. I play tennis
twice a week with three profes
sors, upon a regular schedule,
Citizens Enter a Protest
Against Proposed Layout
Christmas Tree Tonight
Community Celebration Begins with
Procession of Carolers
The Community Christmas
Tree celebration will be held this
(Friday) evening—pot. as was
announced last week, tomorrow.
The change 'was made in order
that Mrs. Lawson and the other
officers of the King’s Daughters
might have ample time to pre
pare for the distribution before
Christmas Day, among the des
titute people in and around
Chapel Hill, of the gifts that
are brought to the tree.
Children who are to march
in the parade of carolers are
asked to report at the Presby
terian church promptly at 5:15.
The women singers who are to
lead the parade will assemble at
the Episcopal church at 5 o’clock
to put on their vestments.
The singers will begin their
march from the Presbyterian
church, up the street to the
brilliantly illuminated tree in
front of the Methodist church,
at 5:30. A boy hearing a light
ed star will lead; then will come
the vested women’s choir; and
after them will come the child
ren. All the women and child
ren will carry lighted candles
and will sing carols as they go.
Even child is asked to bring
some gift for the poor.
The Party at the Inn
V ('(immunity Gathering on ( hrotmas
Night; Music, Dancing. Games
There will he a party at the
Carolina Inn on Christmas night.
In the last few years Christ
mas parties at the Inn have
been given by Mrs. Martin, but
this one is to he a community
affair. It will begin about half
{iast seven o’clock, and around
trine or ten coffee and sandwich
es and icecream and cake will
be served.
As people come in at the door
they will chip in 25 cents apiece.
This gathering is for young
and old. Carols will he sung.
Games will In- played. There will
lie music, and dancing in the ball
room. And probably the entire
company will march into the
supper room, as it did last year,
by candle light.
A committee of women are
making the arrangements.
and only on two or three days
has the weather interfered with
our sport; and then it was wet
ness, not cold.
Visitors in the village who
were never here before-—the
Pahlows, the Forgraves, the
(’rays, and others—have been
chanting paeans of praise of
Chapel Hill sunshine. Let them
store up their satisfaction, as a
hoard against the weeks to
come, for they may need to
draw upon it. Perhaps I should
n’t be a crape-hanger in this
Merry Yuietide, but I must in
form these visitors that Chapel
Hill is capable, when in a
grouchy mood, of serving up as
nasty winter weather as was
ever known anywhere. But let
me close with a cheerful note:
hardly ever do we have a long
unbroken stretch of sombre and
shivery days; we are more than
apt to have, every January and
February, a lot of sunshine.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Cop?
They Consider It Cnfair That
Their Streets Are Left Out
of Hard-Surfacing Scheme
MAY BE RE-EXAMINATION
Some of the citizen • whose
homes are on Glenburme road,
Tenney circle, and the eastern
most blocks of Rosemary lane
and North street, appeared be
fore the board of aldermen at the
meeting last week to protest
against the proposed plan of the
street improvements to be made
with money from the Civil
Works Adn t trat n if and
w hen the money is obtained.
The fault that these citizens
found with the plan was that,
while if. provided for the hard
surfacing of most of the dirt
streets in the village, it ignored
Rosemary lane and North street
from Glenburme to Boundary,
the block of Glenburme running
down from the Koch place to W
C. Coker’s corner, and I’enney
circle.
Another objection that has
been advanced against the plan
is that it does not provide for
hard-surfacing Pickard lane
from Franklin street to Rose
mary lane.
So far the project has not
been officially approved by
C.W.A. headquarters in Raleigh.
The layout prepared by the al
dermen’s committee is tentative,
and there is ample time for it
to he re-examined.
An application to the C.W.A.
for aid in a project of this sort
states the total number of
square yards to be surfaced, the
amount of labor required in
terms of man-hours, and the
amount of material required, and
presents an estimate of the total
cost. ’The C.W.A. does not de
mand to pass upon all the de
tails of the improvement; it
leaves these to the community.
’Thus, if this project is approved,
the Chapel Hill town govern
ment may decide for itself what
streets shall he hard-surfaced.
ISahy ’Possum Captured
Infant Murderer Taken by Manning
in the Venable Hen-House
Loud squawking from the
hen-house caused Mi ss Louise
Venable, one evening this week,
tfi go out and see what the
trouble was. She counted five
hens; that was the correct num
ber. She looked all about and
could find no reason for the.
noise. The stone which had
been placed against the door on
the outside was still there, in
dicating that nobody had tried
to enter.
The next evening the squawk
ing broke out again, but it was
much louder this time. Miss
Louise was not at home. Mrs.
Venable sent for her nephew
across the street, John Man
ning. When he arrived upon the
scene one of the hens was on the
floor with a hole in its throat,
dying. Crouching in a corner
w'as a baby ’possum, so small
that one could hardly believe
that already it had set out upon
a career of murder. Yet there
was the evidence. John grab
bed the ’possum and took it
into the house and gave it to the
servant.
Mrs. F. P. Venable and Miss
Louise Venable will spend
Christmas in Raleigh with Mrs.
Louis Sutton.