The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 1

I line Ml VcL 4 No 48 LOUIS GRAVES Editor CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 1927 $150 a Year in Advance 5cw a Copy To PlanField June 1 INTRUDERS SMASH THEIR WAY INTO GIMGHOUL CASTLE BERNARD HUNKS THAT DOGS BEAT CATSAS PLAGUE Taxes in the Village 0 Here is given a list of the leading taxpayers in Chapel Hill It includes the luune of every individual and corporation paying into the municipal treasury as much as $200 for the year 1926 In every case the figures represent only about half the total levy upon the taxpayer since he must pay to the county approximately Canines Have Wrought Havoc in Greek Chicken Yard 'f Chapel Hill CKaff The annual report of the President of the University of North Carolina contains many odd passages One section of it is given up to financial statements of various the existence of many of these I venture to say is known to hardly anybody outside the office For example I find on page 181 a table relating to the of 1891 Special Fund donated for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of Wilkes This fund is apparently a minus quantity since it is set down as consisting of a deficit of $435 A neighbor of mine A Patterson is a member class and I asked him a day or so ago if he ashamed to have his class represented in the Report by a deficit it be better not to be mentioned at all? He said he had never heard of the fund but intended to make inquiries about it (Incidentally I hope that for next issue somebody will correct the form of the celebrated negro name His name was Wilson and the abreviated form was WilBe not Wilkes) Two other funds which are described as less than nothing are the Daughters of the Confederacy Scholarship a deficit of $60 and the of 1907 Special a deficit of $1269 This latter the Report says donated by the class of 1907 for the installation of an timing system for class 1 am not well enough versed in book-keeping to understand just what a table like this means Perhaps the University hqd to supplement gift with its own money in order to complete the installation? Then there is the Fellowship Fund which on June 30 1925 amounted to (Continued on page four REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS i The following list shows all the parcels of real estate in Chapel Hill assessed at as much as $3000 The street on which the property faces is put down wherever it is thought that the name of the owner is not sufficient identification Corporations Brockwell (Stores Bank of Chapel Hill II Ins A Realty Co: University Cafeteria Fields House (Vance) Owl Sandwich etc Gooch Foister etc Daniel home (Franklin) Bakery New Berman Store II Hardware Henderson St (TeL Ex etc) 9000 Peoples Bank 13000 Univ Ice A Coal Co (Franklin) 6000 Individuals $18000 Franklin) 13500 Brockwell (Pickwick Theatre) 5000 Brockwell (Home Hen- derson) 5000 Brooks 8000 Brooks 6000 Brown 6000 Burch 4400 Braune 8500 Bryan Mrs Green' 8900 Bullitt Dr 7000 tain Wm (Rosepiary) 6000 Carroll 1) (Gimghoul) 4000 Cate (Franklin) 3135 Cheek (Pittsboro) 4400 Clark (Columbia A North) 5500 Cobb Collier (Franklin) 8100 Cobb Collier (Cobb Terrace) 21000 Coker (North St) 19600 Coker 10000 Connor 8250 Council Mrs (Cameron) 5000 Council (Rosemary) 3000 Crawford Ava (Rosemary 3000 Dey 6100 Dobbins (tymeron Ave) 6300 Dobbins (Cameron Ave) 3500 Durham (Cameron Ave) 6000 Durham (Franklin) 7000 Durham (Franklin) 5000 Durham Miss Annie Bell (Vance) 7380 (CoatinMed on page two) Fortress Has at Piney Prospect Been Roughly Treated ALSO THE COUNTRY CLUB The Gimghouls made their new building out at Piney Pros- pect in the form of a mediaeval fortress but they did not make it strong enough to keep out marauders They find that it is being forcibly entered repeatedly and now they are planning to put bars on the windows and stronger locks on the doors One sort of trespass which they least anticipated was the scaling of the walls This feat has been accomplished again and again by some adventurous person who was set upon enjoying the view from the turret Last summer A Hobbs who lived nearby and served as guarSian during the absence of Messrs Patterson and Hicker-son had to lay out $30 to replace panes of glass that had been broken out of the terrace doors Even the panes in the artistic leaded windows of the great hall have been shattered to enable an hand to get through to the latch One of the most recent instances of vandalism was the breaking of the glass in the door at the top of the stairs leading to the tower Somebody scaled the walls broke in this door descended the steps opened the downstairs door from the inside and departed leaving the place wide open Curiosity not thievery has evidently been the motive be-1 hind these forced entrances Hippol Castle as the house is called has a wide renown and i has become a resort for sightseers The fact that it is the privale property of a club seems to give it no protection Groups of strollers go there with the idea of seeing the famous view from the top it appears that they regard it as an infringement uion their rights to be locked out and so they simply break in Signs of warning Continued on page four) Mrs Death tang-Time Resident of Chapel Hill losses Away Thii Week Mrs II II Patterson who had lived in Chapel Hill for 47 years died Monday night at the home of her daughter Mrs Latta The funeral was held in the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon During the life of her husband who was a well-known merchant of Chapel Hill Mrs Patterson dwelled on Cameron avenue but in recent years she made her home with Mrs Latta Her kindly and gentle nature -won the affection of her neighbors and her death is deeply mourned The survivors of the family are the daughter Mrs Latta the son James Patterson of Durham and the three grandchildren John Latta Miss Louise Latta and Frederick Atwood (J Lear house Grin Will Grow Many Months 1ef ore Virginia Football Gime The playing field of the new Kenan stadium will be planted in grass about the first of June The steam shovel which was put into operation a few weeks ago has been supplemented by tractors and trucks and the grading has gone ahead with impressive speed The force is working now on a double shift from early in the morning until 'around midnight The chief effort now is directed toward completing the central part of the area the playing field The reason for this is that there must be a good turf ready for the Virginia-Canuina football game Thanksgiving day From early June for five months there will be a constant cutting and watering and rolling of this central section while the concrete stands on the sides are under construction' 0 The excavating and grading make an interesting spectacle People go down to the stadium site to look at this operation as ata8how There are spectators by night as well as by day Pythian Chief Coming Chapel Hill Lodge to Entertain Distinguished Gueet Chapel Hill Lodge No 97 Knights of Pythias will have as a guest their Grand Keeper of Records and Seal George Lovell of Charlotte next Thursday night February 17 The lodge is looking forward to his visit with much pleasure Members from Siler City and Pittsboro have been invited to participate in this meeting and a large delegation is expected from each of these towns Mr Lovell will give an in structive talk on the secret work of the order This meeting is the beginning of a series of monthly meetings that Chapel Hill Knights are planning for the year Mrs Woodhouse Here Mrs Chase Going Woodhouse of Washington who was at the Social Service Conference in Raleigh this week will be the guest of the American Association of University Women at the home of Mrs A Wheeler 605 East Franklin 'street this (Friday) afternoon at half past four Mrs Wheeler and Miss Pruitt will be the hostesses Astray by One Generation In announcing the presence of Mrs Laurence Clarke at the Carolina Inn this newspaper said she was the daughter of the late Samuel Phillips The notice should have said granddaughter The editor was apprized of this tnistake by a letter from Douglaston Long Island where Mrs Clarke lives Mr Lilly Will Speak will be the subject of the address of Clay Lilly at the Methodist church Sunday night Mr Lilly is the pastor of the Reynold Presbyterian church in Winston-Salem Chaperones Postpone Dance The Chaperdhes will have their St dance Saturday evening February 19 instead of on Tuesday evening as first announced William MDey will lead the German has devised many original figures KINDLY WORDS FOR PUSS My dear Louis: Anent your eat fugue: It has wakened with- pain some slumbering chords erstwhile suppressed in my emotional being Since it strikes the note of propaganda I wonder if you would publish a similar polyphonic composed according to similar contrapuntal rules? (I apologise to AreMe- Henderson or perhaps contribution to your is responsible for the jargon) This is a dog versus cat piece I love a fine dog especially if iny own dog But I love dog community dog Even am I heartily in sympathy with the legislation the town has on its books as to loose dogs though I am not going to cuss Mr Feathers tone because he is not chasing the million and one dogs at all hours of the night through every section of the town on their marauding expeditions or breaking up their grand opera concerts How could he? For this is a dog-infested town-- He must rely on the law-abiding (God save the mark) citizens who own dogs and hold the sanctity of the law and the godd of the commiuiity to their heart But there are no town laws against roaming cats Louis and I surmise that if there were they would receive about the same loyal support as the law-abiding citisens give to the dog laws Perhaps that parenthe- sis above is a little ambiguous get the light on it In our immediate community there are at least five dogs which enjoy absolute or periodica! immunity from law enforcement in spite of the paradox that their era are ultra law-abiding citisens of Chapel Hill' Selah Now Louis you know I am not sensational I mean to blow the saxaphone only mention hesitatingly an episode or more of life in our small town Is the number do you remember? seven or five of the patients from Hill who have suffered the Pasteur treatment for the bite of a dog with the rabies? I forget I talked with two sufferers one a victim estopped from much needed labor for six months the other a father of two bitten children The thing that blistered itself in my memory from the realization of expense in dollars the time lost and thp physical pain described was the haunting fear eating at the heart of each it Sometimes it does not I suppose that just as you remark-(Continued on page two) February Blossoms Village Has Warm Weather Flowers Bloom Students Play Ball In many a year before this Chapel Hill has had warm days in February but old inhabitants cannot recall so long a period of spring weather so early in the month as this one of 1927 All over the village the flowers' were blooming last week Rows of daffodils shone in the sunlight in Miss Nellie yard Winter jasmine glittered around the law building and Mrs home and formed a brilliant border for the delight of all who passed Mrs Fred The red blossoms of the japonica decorated scores' of lawns Violets and hyacinths appeared weeks ahead of schedule The aspect of the skyline underwent a sudden change as the trees broke into bud The willows were earliest of all to display the tender green of spring The people of the village reveled in springtime life Furnaces and overcoats were forgotten The tennis courts were alive with players and the students launched the baseball son Higby Takes Home Chester Higby professor of history in the University was driving down the main street from the postoffice the other day Of course there were many students standing along the road ad there always are signaling their desire to be taken aboard eastbound cars Two of them signaled Mr Higby He stopped obligingly opened the door and took them in When he reached Boundary street he turned to the left swung again into Rosemary and so on into his garage The students not having anticipated this sort of journey were nonplussed They climbed out of the car and one of them 'said in rather injured accents we thought you were going to Mr Higby replied his tone denoting surprise: did you want to go to Durham? I thought you were just asking me for a He went into his house The students went back to Franklin street to find an auto-mobilist of a less whimsical bent Smith Richardson Here Monday Smith Richardson of Greensboro president of the Vick Chemical Company will speak in Gerrard Hall at 8 Monday evening under the auspices of the Dialectic Senate His topic will be taxation in North Carolina Hart-Graham Meeting Former Baseball Mates Spring a Surprise on Each Other Rev John Hart the Episcopal clergyman chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania and Frank Graham professor of history in the University have a mutual friend in (Philadelphia Mrs John Frazier For a long time she had been wanting them to know one another and so she was pleased when she learned that Mr Hart was to go to Chapel Hill in connection with the Crusade Mr Hart thought it likely he would find in Mr Graham a solemn Scholar of advanced age Mr Graham expected to see a venerable dignitary of the church The professor had been prepared 'for the coming by a letter from Mrs Frazier They and each uttered a shout of gtee They had -been on the same baseball team out at Estes Park Colorado in 1913 and had been buddies Neither suspected that the man he Wds to meet had been the playmate of fourteen years ago Mr Hart is an enthusiastic athlete He brought his baseball' clothes to Chapel Hill and in the intervals of his religious wbrk be went: out and played with the students Capt Allen Dairyman Veteran la Official of Great Milk-Iruducta Concern Captain and Mrs Stuart Allen came by last week and were guests of Miss Nellie Roberson for a day or so This veteran of of the Princess Pat regiment who trained the student soldiers here during the World War makes but infrequent visits to Chapel Hill and his many friends gave him an enthusiastic welcome Captain Allen is now an official of the Southern Dairies the second largest manufacturer of ice cream and other milk products He has become an expert in dairying and at a gathering at Miss Saturday night he fairly bewildered his hearers by his account of the monumental business of the corporation At present he is visiting the South-Wnv plants throughout the South One of the bits of news he gave Saturday was that his concern had recently bought the Carolina Creamery in Asheville from Curtis Bynum alumnus of the University and brother of Mrs Archibald Henderson His home is in Washington and he and Mrs Allen will be back there probably within a orao School Basketball' The Chapel Hill basketball team will play Burlington here in the higlrschpol Tin Can tonight (Friday) at 7:30 Thia game wfil be followed immedi-ately by a game between the Chapel Hill and Haw River.