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

I Tfine Oiapel ft a Year in Advance 5c a Copy CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25 1927 The Weekly iNow Four Years Old VoL 4 Now 50 ANDREWS SELLS GROCERIES ARM TO CHAIN STORE Self Service Establishment To Have Corner Space After March 15 LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff There is always much talk in the village about our great number of organizations and the incessant calls to attend meetings of one kind or another When I was with Robert House at the American Legion supper he told me he had three other ap- WEEK DRYGOODS DEPT REMAPS I pany ha de-l to to Archibald rtment to the Sytem HendOTOn to AthuiU a chain-atore concern Bj0rVinaii Mr Houae haa not which operate been cka Hul enough method similar to that of the1 Giggly Wiggly The newcomers make no change of location They simply take over the corner store where the old firm has handled its groceries for many years Tuesday March 15 is to become hard-boiled ii his response to calls From my casual observation I believe he is our champion meetingattender at present More than a quarter of a cen- a- the day scheduled for their I tury ago when Major Cain was opening la boarder at the MacNiders' the The work of installing the negro servant there was Jonse counters and other equipment I Johnson Cousin Sophie Mac-necessary for self-service is al- Nider used to count heavily upon ready under way the weather forecasts of Jonse Andrews-Henninger will con- who set great store by the tinue to sell drygoods notions groundhog tradition in giving and shoes in the other half of counsel about when to plant the the present the garden As a sporting proposi-same space that is now devoted tion the Major bet against Jonse to that branch of the business every year He says that a rec The advent of the System ord of 15 years showed that brings to Cliapel Hill the third Jonse was right 7 times and cash-and-carry grjjfcery store wrong 8 The Maior decided The A came in about three that the negro' gmdea by his years ago and was soon followed superstitions scored about as by Observers of mer- high a percentage as though he cantile conditions iii the village had been a scientist have seen for eome that A profemor th UniVeraity it waa difficult for old ela bachelor had an afternoon tea $150 100 Legionnaires This Pott Haa Big lacrfiw in Membership Previous Record 52 The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion now has 100 members Until this year the membership had never gone beyond 52 The increase is due to a campaign that was carried on under direction of Commander Harmon He divided the personnel of the post into two teams which competed in the signing-up of the World War veterans One team was headed by Charles Martindale the other )y Paul Roberson The announcement of the result of the canvass was received with cheers at the Legion supper in he Episcopal parish house last Friday evening This was a merry gathering The women of the Auxiliary with Mrs Featherston in charge served a delicious meal it pleased the ex-soldiers so much that out of gratitude they voted that the next meeting would lie a party at which the woiqen would tie the guests of honor Mr Harmon was the fluent and breezy toastmaster At preset the chief of the University mating place Swain Hall he told ill the course of his remarks now )ie had made his start as a purveyor of food At Greenville South Carolina in 1918 he volunteered to serve as a waiter at banquet to a group of high ifficers and political bigwigs and their wives who were visit-ng Uie camp On his first trip around the table he dumiied a pie in the lap of a wife and on his second he emptied a ilate of soup down major neck Hobbs Oil to Atlanta A Cnnfrri nrr Com milter Will Conaidrr of Junior CoHrs A Hobbs left for Atlanta last night to attend a meeting ot the executive committee of the Southern Intercollegiate Conference this evening and tomorrow morning The chief matter that is to he discussed is the question of whether or not graduates of junior colleges may play on varsity teams in their first year al a Conference institution As it is now they come under the general rule that prohibits any stu dent from playing until his sec ond year The graduate of a junior college who enters the University of North Carolina is qualified to become a member of the junior class Under the one-year rule therefore he has only one year to particifate in intercollegiate athletics liefore graduation Several of the junior colleges have voiced objections to this Mars Hill North Carolina is one place where the students want to lie relieved from the oeration ofjhe rule Holmes to Read Urban Holmes will read Cyrano de Bergerac Sunday evening athalf past 8 in the Phiymakers Theatre This is one of the Play-maker readings agid ip free to all Community Club Meeting The Community Club will meet in the Episcopal parish house at half past three this (Friday) afternoon The program is sponsored by -the literature department PREPARATION FOR SHOWS AT NIGHT IN NEW STADIUM Electric Wiring for "Flood Lighting" la Included in the Design PHONE LINES UNDER TURF Before the playing field of the new Kenan Stadium receives its final surface of top soil for the planting of grass an elaborate underground wiring system is to be installed Some of the conduits that run under the turf will contain wires for the "flood necessary to night spectacles This is in anticipation of the time when the great enclosure may be used for pageants or other entertainments Visitors to New York who have seen perform- ances in the Lewisohn Stadium at the City College will appre--ciate the opportunity that such a place "offers for the development of outdoor drama on a big scale No definite plans for such spectacles have yet been made but the designers of the stadium are providing for future contingencies It is relatively simple to lay the conduits now it would be difficult and expensive to ear up the field to' lay them later on Few of the people who stand on the hillsides in the woods south of the campus and look at the steam shovel and the tractors in operation suspect the complex character of the task of completing the playing field1 As soon as the ground is graded tile drain pipes will be laid on top of the clay These will slope from the center toward the sides where they will empty into larger drains running parallel to the stands Around and above them will lie spread a layer of sand several inches thick On top of the sand will be placed the top soil in which the grass is to le planted There will be constant rolling as the work proceeds The electrical installation includes wires for telephones telegraph instruments and lighting Some of the telephone wires will connect the press box at the top of one of the concrete stands with the benches and with field tehvhones along the sidelines Alwood-Nash the architects and Charles Woollen the graduate manager of athletics aided by the experience of other institutions where stadia have been erected are planning splendid facilities for the press Either a roof or a canvas covering capable of being quickly spread will afford protection for the writers There will be a section table's of a height convenient for typewriters and arrangements for the transmission of reports by radio Within the last week the signers have lieen devoting particular attention to the layout of paths and roads adjacent to the stadium One of their dominant ideas is to preserve the beauty of the woods Tt is unlikely therefore that wide roads will lie cut through to the stands Cars will be parked at somq distance and the crowds will approach the gates bn foot 2 Jack Merritt the celebrated Carolina football player of three seasons ago haa a daughter She was bon last Saturday plement the equipment tlfat had been shifted from the Strowd building A few months ago a second linotype machine was installed University students have had enlarge part in the printshop operations Cyrus Bazemore set up the first job in 1923 and he is still here Since his grad uationlast June he has been the boss "floor man" He was one of the editors of the Tar Heel knd as the printer who prepares It for the press he still maintains an intimate connection with that publication Robert Moore of Statesville came in as a part time worker in his freshman year and now he is running one of the linotypes Students who now serve the shop are Girard Boudreau of Massachusetts who is in the engineering school Callahan and A 31 Davis Thejchief linotype oiierutor is Elmer Harrington who came to the printshop from Sanford in the spring of 1924 and has been here ever since Not only -does he operate a machine but he knows how to cajole one Iwck into good behavior when it has lapsed into wicked habits A newcomer in the shop is Rowland Pittman Seiss Taylor conies in occasionally to help out The printing department of the Weekly is conducted under the name of the Ontuye Vrintxhop The Plant Kxchange Clih Knablra Gardenera tn Make Mutually Profitable Swap With spring near at hand the Community Club has again inaugurated its Plant Exchange Mrs I) Toy is in charge as she has been for many years All who have plants to spare and all who want plants are asked to communicate with her One gardener has a surplus shrubs or bulbs or vines and is short of other varieties Mrs A may have just what Mrs lacks and may need tha which Mrs has in excess Un less there is some medium communication they never learn 'how they can benefit from each gardens The Plant Exchange brings them together This has been one of the mos successful activities of the Corn munity Club and has leen an important factor in tha beautification of the village "The Big Parade" The presentation of Ijawrenct motion picture play Big drew a large crowd to the Pickwick yesterday afternoon and again las night There were many visi tors from Durham and nearby communities Library Catalogue Expands The University library has added 72 drawers to its index catalogue bringing the total to 212 The library now iYria about 212000 cards in its i representing 70000 With this number the Chapel Hill Weekly ends its fourth year It was established March 1 1923 and next issue will be Number 1 of Volume 5 The first seven or eight issues of the paper were printed in Durham In May of 1923 a linp-ype machine presses and other equipment were installed in he basement of the Strowd wilding beneath Sutton drugstore anti the printing was done there for a year and four months! These quarters proved to be unsuitable In the first place they were cramped And then whenever there utas a hard rain the water poured in The flood of August 1924 covered the basement floor with water more than a foot deep Before this I had bought a lot on Rosemary lane back of the hardware a lot that used to be the rear part of Miss Belle Hutchins' property In September a one-story brick building was completed here and the plant was transferred in time to be in operation at the ojicning of the college term It happened that at this time a Burlington printing company possessed of much modern equipment went out of business and from there a new job press stones a casting box types and other useful material were brought in to sup Mr Big Tent HHrreHHful KvangeliHt Arrange Accommodate Big Crowds to Ilev Hughes the evangelist who lives in Chapel Hill has bought him a- tent big enough to scat 2000 people It requires the support of 4 poles Thus far Mr Hughes has conducted his meetings by himself but his success in drawing crowds within the last year or so and his acquisition of this capacious tent leads some of his friends to think that he may come to have singers and other that is an organization like that of Rev Billy Bun-day He got the tent in Kentucky and he will probably make his first use of it in or near Richmond Virginia in May He returned a few days ago from a series of meetings whieh he held in Woodland Virginia Here he won 67 converts and 290 reconsecrations Legislative Committee Meeting The legislative committee of the Community Club will have a meeting at Mrs Howe's home at half past three Monday afternoon All the members are urged to attend since the executive sub-committee has mapped out a tentative program that calls for serious consideration The Shop in Durham is going to devote a window exclusively to Paul books as soon as Mr Green new volume of plays Is released loir delivery-and-credit firms to stand against the competition of the corporations functioning under a more modern marketing plan One of the advantages which these latter enjoy is the ability to purchase in great quantities and therefore at lower prices another is the escape from charge accounts and the 9onsequent inevitable losses due to bad "We have been considering for I putting an oil "binder" bn the a year or said An-1 gravel streets of Chapel Hill' drews yesterday "the advisabil- Experiments by the state ity of giving up our groceries Uighway commission have department and concentrating shown that dirt surfaces can be upon drygoods notions and greatly improved at a moderate shoes It looks as if the day of cost by the application of re-the combined grocery and dry- cently perfected oil mixtures goods store is passing at least The substance is spread on and in towns of the size of Chapel then some sand is mixed with Hill and we feel sure we can do it This operation is repeated better by centering our attention several times until the coating upon the one kind of business resembles an asphalt pavement We are going to sell as much as it is against both "Water ant we can of our grocery stock be- dust that the oil serves as protween now and the 15th and tection In rainy weather i' then turn over what's left to the I prevents the washing away new store" I the surface and in periods Mr Andrews began his busi- drought its hardness and solidity ness career in Chapel Hill 38 keep the dust from being raised years ago in 1889 when he be- There is considerable doub came a clerk in the store of the I as to whether Chapel Hill is Alliance where the I financially able to undertake this A Eubanks store now stands improvement The present en-He was with Tom Lloyd' wholterprise is merely a preliminary bought out the Alliance place gtudy and then with Lloyd Co After three years in Newton he I Nine Disappointed Women came back here to run his own! Frank Graham invited nine place from 1902 to 1904 Elect-1 women to attend "The Big Pa-ed sheriff in 1904 he sold out to nde" with him But before the Brockwell and was in the I day came he went off to office for six years In lotte for a tonsils operation And i911 he established his present I go they had to get to the show usiness He took his son Rob- kg best thejj could ert Clyde Andrews into partner-1 t-- ship with him Later they were Wilson Jr'Leaves joined by Henniuger and Wilson Jr registrar of the name of the concern was I the University left yesterday changed from the Andrews Cash Ifor New York to sail for Europe Store to the Andrews-Henninger Saturday He will join his son Company 3rd at Oxford University Bernard in Statesville The women of the Methodist Bernard delivered the church will hold a cake and address before the University candy sale in the Peoples Bank alumni of Statesville at their BuUdin at 10 tfcloek tomorrow I (Saturday) cwnlnjr i r- -v vNy -y riv A f-V.