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Vol. I No. 1
CHURCH READY FOR
BAPTIST MAY 15TH
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There Have Been Many Delays But
Work is tag on Smoothly Now,
Say the Contractors
CONVENIENT FOR THE STUDENTS
May 15 is now set as the day when
the Baptists of Chapel Hill will get into
their big new church on Columbia street.
At. member of the firm of Salmon, Shipp
& Poe, the contractors, tel]s a repre
sentative of the Weeklyithat it is prac
tically certain that there will be no
more postponements.
There have been many delays. The
building was to have been finished before
Christmas, but the railway strike came
along to prevent that. Carloads of stone
ordered for the walls stayed on sidings
between here and Kentucky for two
months, and' pleading and expostulation
could not move them. Bad weather has
held operations up since winter set in.
Rev. E. L. Baskin’s congregation kept
hoping that they could have their first
service Easter Sunday, but many weeks
ago they had to give that up. But it
pleases them to know that they will be
ir. by Commencement.
The plans for the building, which
were made by H. L. Cain, of Rich
Va., show a most remarkable provision
for subsidiary church purposes. Alto
gether there are 40 class-rooms. This
is an “institutional” church of the most
type, ft is meant not only for
religious assemblies, but to be a center
of the social life of Baptists in and
around Chapel Hill. And a welcome is
out to visitors, too.
In the basement is a senior assembly
hall, with 10 class rooms, a reading-room
and a library., On the main floor back
of the auditorium are a mothers’ cloak
—mom,—u_ ju-jidlfcraU-_rnain_.wlmra_habiesL
may be left safe, * beginners’ room, and
business offices of the church and the
Sunday school, and several class-rooms.
On the second floor are the junior as
sembly and the intermediate assembly
halls; one to the north and one to the
south. Each of these has eight class
rooms attached to it, four on the same
letal and four on the third floor reached
Hy a special stairway. The outer walls
of the new church are of limestone and
light pressed brick. Tn front are six
Steel columns 33 feet high, made to re
semble marble. A flight of reinforced
concrete steps leads up from the street.
University growth has added immense
ly to the problem of every Chapel Hill
church organization. The latest count
shows -lt>B Baptists in the student body.
The old building was .long ago inade
quate. Now there will be ample room
for bible classes and for various activ
ities incidental to church work proper.
The position of the new building near
the campus will make it a convenient
gathering place for the students.
University Heights Section
Is Having Building Boom
There is a building boom on in the
University Heights section on the south
side of town.. The new Neal home, a
bungalow, is on Patterson street next
to the home of Isaac H. Pritchard.
Chester 1). Snell has let the contract for
a bungalow on Vance street, directly to
the rear of the Latshaw property.
Howard W. Odum begins work on his
new home the fifteenth of April.
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Farmers of Orange County
Will Read of Harris’s Work
The Chapel Hill Weekly Witt Tell of What He Is Doing to Help
Solve Problems of Country Folk
Every fanning family in Orange
county knows R. P. Harris, who teachos
-agriculture in the Chapel Hill school.
( He goes all about the county in hia
► JpOrd car, demonstrating to the children
'•'Aa the schools, attending farmers f
meetings, and often helping to solve dif
ficulties on farms. He knows the peo
ple and he knows their needs.
This newspaper is going to have a
good deal to say about Mr. Harris’s
work. It will print articles about what
he is doing in the county, and some
times it will print articles over his own
signature.
It will keep the people of Orange ac
quainted with all he is doing. When
ever he learns some good hew way of
fertilizing, the noil, feeding cattle, or
getting a big return from chickens and
eggs, this paper will publish it.
If he tells the people of White Cross
something helpful, the people around
Blackwood or Cedar Grovd won’t have
to wait until he comes and tells them
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Application for Second Class
Mailing Prirolgo is Ponding
SILENT POLICEMAN ON GUARD
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Squats on Psvnmont at . Andrews
Conor—Must bo Kept on Left
Chapel Hill has added a third member
to its police force. The new officer is
deaf and dumb, and does not walk, talk,
or smoke. It is called the Silent Policeman
and is sometimes described by traffie ex
perts as a “mushroom” —being a squat,
cast-steel object about 0 inches high,
with red-lighted windows, that sits in
the middle of the street to regulate the
course of vehicles.
' This one is at the very center of the
junction of Franklin and Columbia
streets, the place commonly spoken of as
An jews corner. Every driver, whether
of an automobile or a horse-drawn ve
hicle, must keep the Silent Policeman
on bis left. If you get confused as to
which is right and left, and are in
doubt which side to aim for, go the way
you'd "rSt her not go and you ’re pretty
sure to be right. In short, this is like
all other traffic regulators, animate and
inanimate.
Gustave M. Braune,' engineering pro
fessor and member of the board of aider
men, told the Town Club about the new
installation at a meeting the other night,
and explained why it was where it was.
Mr. Braune went to New York not long
ago and some of the feastors were so
frivolous as to 'say —in an undertone,
however—that be of
the structures in the nriodle of Fifth
Avenue and then and there decided to
introduce modern traffic regulation in
Chapel Hill. But that is all wrong. The
city fathers were considering this im
provement long before he ever made the
trip to the big city.
Ts any citizen in*a hurry to" get from
the stores to the campus cuts the corner,
keeping the Silent Policeman on his
right, then the next time he comes down
town he had better look out; because
one of the real walking and talking po
licemen is apt to arrest him for diso
"beytiig flm new ineridirn —of
And ho will then be baled before Mayor
Roberson and made to pay a line.
The aldermen have put into effect
other traffic regulations. One is that
automobiles must not stand with their
long dimension parallel with the side
walk, but when parked must be at an
angle of from 75 to 90 degrees with the
curb. None may be parked within 20
feet of a street corner or within 15 feet
of a hydrant,
In the busy part of town, the auto
mobile driver who wants to turn around
must go on to the next corner and make
the turn there. And he must give the
proper sigiial with his hand and horn.
When one is approaching another ve
hicle coming in the opposite direction
he must dim his lights, and this applies
all over town. Operation with a cut
out, or with plugs out of the muffler,
is prohibited.
Cameron avenue, Franklin street, and
Rosemary street are declared right-of
way streets, and vehicles turning into
them or crossing them must bear the
burden of responsibility for careful
driving.
P
Boys Will Be Guests at
* April Town Club Meeting
The first meeting of the Town Club
in April will be in the form of a Big
Brothers ’ Banquet, like the one held last
year. Medals will be' - awarded to the
winners in the athletic badge contest.
the same thing; for they can read it
iH the Weekly. In the same way, the
people in the southern part of the coun
ty will read of the advice he gives the
■ people in the north.
Mr. Harris learned farming at the
A. & E. College, but he is a practical
farmer too. • He ran his own place, and
raised his own cotton and tobacco and
other things. He made money, and he
lost some when the slump came. His
experience has taught him a lot. Orange
county is getting the benefit of all he
has learned.
Another agricultural expert, T. A-
Whitener, who was raised on a north
Georgia farm and afterwards went to
' the University of Georgia, has recently
come to the Chapel Hill school. He is
going back and forth through the coun
-1 ty, and before long the farmers will
to know him just as they know
' Sir. Harris. The Weekly will report
i upon Mr. Whitener’s work, too. '
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1,1923
KENTUCKY CHICKEN
COME HERE BY MAIL
Were Shaped Wkea Hatched ud Takes ky
Schoolboys to he Raised
aid SoM
RICHMOND IS THE BEST PUCE
Probably few people in Chapel Hill
know that chickens are sent here by
parcel post from Kentucky, taken iin
hand and raised by high school boys,
and later sold at a goad profit.
The other day 200 chicks came in.
They left Kentucky before they were
24 hours old and made the trip here
in less than two days. R. P. Harris,
the teacher of the agriculture in the
school, who bad ordered them, took them
from the postoffice and distributed them
among Walker White, Eric Merritt,
Bruce Sparrow, Henry Tilley, Odell
Blackwood, and Zeb Weeks. These citi
zens put the little tourists in. brooders
and began the raising process that is
going to end up in the transfer of sev
eral good dollars from Richmoud, Vir
ginia, to Orange county, North Caro
lina. For it i 9 in Richmoud that, tho
frying-size chickens will probably be
sold.
The question at once comes to mind:
Why buy chicks in Kentucky ? Can’t
they be bought nearer home?
No, they can’t. Mr. Harris says the
best offer he got from a hatchery near
Charlotte was $23 a hundred, while he
got -these from Kentucky for sl3 a
hundred, all transportation charges paid.
‘ * They send me a letter when they
make the shipment,"” he told the Week
tv representative, “and I am ou the
lookout for them. Usually somebody
calls me by phone from the postoffice as
soon as the box arrives. It is very rare
that any appreciable number of the
chicks die on the way. You see, the
fiTst —two —ui —Hirer —rhiva—are- -net —the-
critical time with a young chicken. The
big risks come later.
“I remember that Albert Canaday,
one of the high school wanted to
raise some chickens last year and 1
ordered 100 one-day-old chicks for him.
The shippers threw in three for good
measure, and when the box came only
one out of the 103 was dead. He raised
’most all the others successfully and
cleared SSO over and above all ex
penses, on the transaction.”
Mr. Harris was asked why Orange
county raisers had to market their chick
ens as far off as Richmond. This seemed
as puzzling as buying ’em in Kentucky.
“Well, we’ve investigated the nearby
markets,” lie said* “and simply find
that we can’t sell to nearly as good ad
vantage in them. In Durham the buy
ers get their chickens hy the wagon
load, by contract, and they don’t want
to trouble with the few chickens a hoy
here wants to' "Sell. But the Richmond
dealers tell us to send ’em along by
express. They- are weighed, and the
check iif payment is sent, promptly.
“Last year we avrraged 05 cents a
pound-for the chickens sold in Richmond
hy some of the high school boys, and
the price per jphickon—this was net, after
all deductions—was $ 1-G9.
HILLSBORO MILLS KEEP ON
WITH CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM
Eno and Bellevue Are Putting Up
Dwelling* and Ara Adding to
Their Plant*
Hillsboro, Feb 28, —Both of the
town’s cotton manufacturing companies
are adding to their buildings.
"’fho Eno Mills are going to put up
'from —30 tir—lO duellings—fur their cm
plnyes, and a new storage warehouse as
well. They are also going to build an
addition to the factory.
The Bellevue Manufacturing Company
has already begun the construction of
15 dwellings, and it has recently built a
storage warehouse. It is planning a
new dye house and a new addition to its
main plant.
These companies, both of which make
ginghams and cheviots, report that the
demand for their products is fair but
nothing to get excited about. They
hope- it will he better, and they have
enough confidence in the future to go on
expanding. Altogether the feeling of
industrial Hillsboro is one of optimism.
THIS SECTION HUNGRY
For AUTOMOBILES
The leading automobile dealer of
Chapel Hill has sold 31 cars and
trucks since January 1. He sold
142 last year, more than in any
previous twelve mont'j. The years’*
total five years ago waa 50.
Country Club Has Good Start
Expected to Open by April Ist
House Has Broad Veranda and a Fine View. Golf Course
Will Follow. New Road Later will Make Access Easy
With the cellar finished aiid the walls
rising, the new home of the Chapel Hill
country club is expected to he open by
the first of April if there is a fair break
of weather,. The cold and the rain
hampered the workmen considerably in
February.-The elub grounds which were
a gift from W. C. Coker, abut on the
Raleigh road a little way beyond the
cemetery. The house stands on a rise
front which one gets a beautiful veiw
over hill and dale. A private road has
been cut through the woods from the
main highway.
The aspect of the Raleigh road these
’last few weeks might suggest the ques
tion : How are folks going to get to the
new building when it is finished? For
the sight of this so called thoroughfare
is 'calculated to daunt the most resolute
tiaveleh But the University has had a
new route surveyed, running from the
east end of Cameron Avenue through
Battle’s Park and cutting off the worst
■'f stretch, and.it is hoped that
JjqSt will be carried through soon. How
soon, nobody knot's yet. Part of it is
necessary in the University’s expansion
program. It is .said the club is to share
the cost of it, ~i
On the club roll there are now 94 mem
bers. They are working in harmony
and all goes as merry as a wedding bell.
But this complete harmony did not come
about until a rather spirited argument
had been settled.
This argument was over the division
of the available club funds between
building and golf course. The two op
posing parties may be described, for
convenience as the Pink Tea-ers and the
Golf Grouches.
The Pink Tea-ers were interested jiiost
■ty-rei-stK-iitl—a-ffti i-rsT--and-her.cc wne-tyd-t**-
see the house come ahead of the links.
The Golf Grouches wanted golf, and their
idea of a thoroughly adequate building
was ii place just big enough to store the
implements of the game, with possibly
a shower bath or two. They wanted to
CARRBORO SCHOOL CELEBRATION
Children Gave e Performance on
Washington's Birthday
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There was a big Washington’s birth
day celebration at the Carrhoro school
last Thursday night for the benefit of
the school library. The net receipts
were $39.30. A large crowd gathered in
the auditorium td see the children per
form. Ther|B were recitations, plays,
songs and drills. An orchestra from
Chapel llill was on hand.
Tho newly organized Parent-Teachers
Association of Carrhoro, with Mrs. H.
A. Blackwood as president, is laying out
an active program. The had weather lias
been unfavorable to activity, hut there
will ho more meetings from now on. Mr.
Ellington is secretary hud treasurer.
Lack of playing spaec holds hack ath
letics in the Carrhoro school. Teachers
and pupils are hoping that the grading
of tho ground will bp finished soon so
that a baseball team may ho organized.
The total enrollment of the school
since last September is 225. Ono of the
latest additions to equipment is a set
of physiology charts.
“Aunt Annette” Alston, a colored
woman said to he 102 years old and well
known. to all the people of Carrhoro,
died Inst week. She lived with her grand
daughter. Ben Hopkins, the colored
Baptist pracher, has been seriously ill.
SCHOOL FIELD DAY IN MAY
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As a climax to the experimental work
of physical education in the school, n
Field Day will be celebrated. This
event U set for the second week in May,
but preliminary contests will be. held the
third week in April. Members of ail
grades will take part. Although the
day is under the direct supervision of
the physical education forces, the Parent-
Teachers Association will sponsor the
occasiofi. There will he games, drills,
formal gymnastics, folk dances and ath
letic events. The grades will contest
one with the other accordingjfo equal
ized strength. Practice hag already
started.
YALE STAR WILL PLAY HERE
Frank Coxe of Asheville, formerly
pitcher on the Yale varsity, will go out
for the Carolina baseball team. He
studied law here last year. When he was
at Yale he won three out of four
he pitched agains Princeton and SjK
out pf the four he pitched Hot
vard. He held the New York Giants to
a 4-3 score.
see the money spent on getting a course
in shape. The Pink Tea-ers’ vision was
quite different from this, embracing an
expanse of smooth floor, a serviceable
furnace supplemented by a stone fire
place, and a spacious veranda.
The Pink Tea-ers wore much the more
competent party of the two. And more
numerous, which is the main point—
While they went ahead and made plans,
the Golf Grouches didu't even have’enter
prise enough to attend meetings. They
sat around and grumbled about how the
proper function of a country dub —
i. e., golf—-was being neglected. y
1 ‘ Why, the idea! How absurd*- —not
to have a nice house!" a militant Pink
Tea er would exclaim. “ What do they
think—that to go out there and
admire their form? Thank youT no!”
-Humph! ” a Golf Grouch could he
heard - to snort. “‘They just want to
sit around and drink tea and swap tattle!
What’s a country club for, anyway, if
not for golf. Lounge lizards!”
But the Golf Grouches didn't amount
to much. There weren’t enough of them.
The ladies were solidly lined up for the
house; some of the husbands were not
golf fiends, and others were docile. 80,
at a show down, it is likely that not more
than a dozen dyed-in the wool, last-ditch,
veal grouchy Golf Grouches could have
been mustered. They took it out in talk.
They never did have a look in, to tell
(he truth. The writer of this piece, be
ing one of them, feels that he may talk
freely of their indolence and general
futility. Anyway, tliero had to be n
house ami the one now rising is certain
ly not extravagantly built. It lias one
big gathering room, two or three ante
rooms, and a broad veranda. The ln
jtejnor walls Hre lefL,\yith_». rough finish.
for the present.
There is some money available for the
golfers but they haven’t begun to use it
yet. Probably the coming of warm
weather will see clearing and stone-pick
ing underway.
PARENTS Will HEAR MR. CHASE
At Meeting March 13 He Will Talk
on Continuity of Education
President Chase will’ address the
Parent-Teachers Association at its next
meeting, at eight, o’clock Tuesday even
ing, March 13, in the school .auditorium.
His,topic will he “The Continuity of
Education from the Cradle to the
Grave.” He will speak of the inti
mate relations existing between the
Chapel Hill school and the University.
When the Chapel llill branch of the
association was launched a year ago all
the meetings were held at night. But in
tho last few mouths the (dan of meeting
in grade groups has been tried out, and
it is proving so successful that it will
he coutinucd. There is a chairman for
the parents of the children in each'
grade, and she and the teacher of each
grade conduct the meeting.
The grade chairmen and the teachers
are as follows: Ist grade, Mrs. Parker
Daggett and Miss Glass; 2nd grade,
-Mrs. W. P. Jordan and Miss Pleasant;
3rd grade, Mrs. Isaac Manning and Miss
Mary Culpepper; sth.grade, Mrs. H. M.
Wagstaff and Miss Kate Culpepper; 6th
grade, Mrs. John Hocutt and Miss Moss;
7th grade, Mrs. T. E. Best and Miss
Bowen. The high school parents are
gathered into one group, with Mrs. A.
C. Mclntosh us chairman and Miss Green
as representative of tho teachers. Miss,
Shell, was teaches in the fodrth grade,
lias been ill, and no chairman fpr that
group has yet been appointed. Mrs. J.
F. Royster is president of the associa
tion in Chajici Hill.
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HERNDON NOW SURE
TO BE POSTMASTER
He Has Been Rec—ended by Rtydbinn
State Chairman and Wiß PrebaUy
Get Place
LONG RESIDENT OF CHAPE HILL
It is now certain that DeWitt Hen
don is going to be Chapel Hill’s new
postmaster. As the Weekly appears
the people of the town may have read
already, in a Washington despatch, of
the Senate’s favorable action upon his
nomination. If not already out, the news
may be expected any day.
There has been much wondering at the
delay of the Senate in confirming the
nomination, and a little while ago there
were rumors of opposition. But what
ever opposition there was has been with
drawn.
Some time ago the local Republican
committee voted to recommend another
citizen, but when the civil service exami
nation came off it was found that he
was not among the first three—and under
the law one of the first three must be
appointed.
F. A. Bowman stood first, DeWitt
Herndon second, and M. W. Uzzell third.
Mr. Bowman is a comparative stranger
here. Nobody has said anything against
him, but in every community there is
always naturally a popular preference
for a resident of long standing. Politi
cal chairmen make it a custom to give
heed to this preference unless there is
some compelling reason not to.
Mr. Herndon, who is now an em
ploye of the Bunk of Chapel Hill, is a
son of the late S. L. Herndon,
Chapel Hill is overwhelmingly Demo
cratic. But, since the national admini
stration is Republican, of course the
postmaster goes to a member of that
-party. —
a plum, aud from tho day the present
incumbent, Robert L. Strowd, announced
his resignation there has been much
speculation as to who would get the
place.
By reason of tho University’s being
here, tho Chapel Hill postoffice is far
more important than are postoffices in
other municipalities of tho same size.
Tho presence of 2,000 students and tho
issuanco hero of several periodicals of
considerable circulation make tho volume
of business such that tho availablo force
is sometimes put to it to keep up with
the incoming and outgoing mail.
Accordingly, real ability is required of
the postmaster. Mr. Herndon, if he does
go in, ’has a big job cut out for him,
aud there are many who think he is not
to he envied. Mr. Strowd, who was not
in good health when he took office and
whoso repeated ideas to Washington for
better facilities have not met much en
couragement. is known to bo looking for
ward with pleasure to his retirement.
For a long time now his physician has
been urging rest upon him.
COMMUNITY CLUB NOTES
At the monthly business meeting of
she Community Club on Friday inter
est centered about the plans for the an
nual meeting of ttm clubs in District
No. <> of tho State Federation, to be
held in Chapel Hill March 19. District
No. (> includes, in addition to the local
organization, five Raleigh dubs, the
Woman’s Clubs of Apex and Smithfield,
and certain literary clubs of Clayton,
Durham, and Roxboro.
The opportunity for neighboring club
women thus to meet for one day a year
and to exchange experiences has proved
always delightful' and increasingly help
(TUI. ,
In’’anticipation of the meeting, Mrs.
Leavitt has appointed certain commit
tees to care for tho details-of tho enter
tainment. Mrs. Dey was asked to func
tion as chairman of tho hospitality com
mittee, Mrs. Clyde Andrews, us chair
man of the automuhilo transportation
committee, and Mrs. Carter as chairman
of the refreshment committeo.
Announcements from these chairmen
ami the program of the meeting in full
will he given at u later date, for the
benefit of those women in Chapel Hill
who, vjfetlier members of the Community
Club tir not, would be interested in at
tending the sessions.
The literature department will- meet
next Monday evening at 8:00 oclock
at the Parish House. Mrs. Braune will
have charge of the program which will
consist of the reading of Hildegarde
Flanner’s “Mansions” and Lady Gre
gory’s “Workhouse Ward.”
The health depatment’s March meet
ing will ho held at the home of Mrs.
Dey, Friday, March 2, at four o’clock.
Work on the will he continued
and the reports of the Tuberculosis and
Nurses’ home committees are expected.