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

f- i The- 1 Hi YoLS Ne 22 LOUIS GRATES Editar CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY JULY 29f 1927 )I50 a Year ia Adraacc 5c a Copy Harrington Homebound Iinotyper Has Started Back fa His Ford from Far Weat Page Killed by Car Raa Down while Crwaiag Street front of the Canpap BOARD REVOKES JOT IN LINDSAY TAX VALUATION The Village Will Have Automatic Telephones Equipment Has Already Been Ordered and Will Probably Be Installed before Christmas Plans Include Provision for an Efficient Police and Fire Alarm System t' Chapel Hill Chaff Mrs Mosher had a few of her friends in for a morning party one day this week in' honor of Mrs Thompson Mrs sister The conversation turned to birthplaces and it developed that of the women present one was born in Montana two in Scotland one in Germany one in Vermont two in Colorado and one in North Carolina A cosmopolitan community eh what! The person who occasionally serves me as stenographer does not hesitate to stop the flow of talk to question my accuracy or the quality of my literary style Which interruptions I accept often with gratitude and always with humility When I was dictating the piece about the barbecue artist and came to the phrase' was the best barbecue I ever she said "The last you have eaten is always the best you ever This has in it a germ of truth but I still hold to my declaration that no barbecue that ever before passed athwart my palate was quite the equal of that which was served at the Pythians party last week I was shocked to read in the Raleigh Times a headline to the effect that my friend Clem Wright of Greensboro a frequent and welcome visitor in Chapel Hill was in trouble with the law The headline ran: Insist on Clem Wright Trial in I discovered however upon reading further that he had been confused with Clem Wrenn the banker charged with forgery and embezzlement in connection with the recent financial scandal in Wilkes coun-Jw This error was natural nough Whenever the name Clem is heard in North Carolina everybody immediately thinks of Clem Wright- As for myself before I read the despatches about the Wilkes affair the only Clems 1 had ever heard of were Clem Wright Clem Shaver and the Clem who 'figured in the pages of novel Simple Septimus There have been several Popes named Clement but I doubt if one of these was ever called Clem Daniel Page carpenter foreman for Thompson Bros was killed by an automobile on the main street of the village in front of the University campus just before 7 Monday morning He had parked his own car on the campus side and had started across the street toward the post-office Mansess cabinet maker in the building division was coming from the east in a Ford Mr Mansess thinking Mr Page would continue forward across the street swerved to the left to go behind him But Mr Page stepped back and was struck by the car Taken to the infirmary he died in a few minutes Arrested on the charge of manslaughter Mr Mansess was brought before Harris justice of the peace Monday afternoon He was released under bail and will appear for trial at the next term of the court in Hillsboro The victim of the accident was a brother of Julius A Page superintendent for the Thompson company He is survived by his wife and daughter his parents and several brothers and sisters The body was taken to Wilmington where the Pages live for the funeral and interment Fire at Hillsboro Dluatroua Bias at County Help from Other Towaa Seat A fire broke out in a building in the business section of Hillsboro shortly after twelve Taesday night At the alarm hundreds of citizens of the town came running to give aid They formed a bucket brigade and fought the blaze manfully When it looked as if the fire might spread telephone calls brought to the scene detachments from the fire departments of both Mebane and Durham As it turned out the damage was confined to one building It was the property of Everett of Durham and was occupied by a meat market The loss was estimated at $5000 Complicated Travels George Logan left Sundsy with his two oldest daughters for Pittsburgh After spending a week with hfs family he will leave the children and return to Chapel Hill Sunday' Mrs Logan will then go up with the two youngest daughters for It visit Assessors Successfully Defend Their Original Figure at nearing in Hillsboro NET ASSESSMENT IS $15300 The cut in tax assessment from $17000 to $12000 was rescinded by the county commissioners in Hillsboro Monday This means that Mr Lindsay will take the uni form 10 per cent cut granted to all Chapel Hill taxpayers: and so his(property on Cameron avenue goes down on the books at $15300 The commissioners voted two weeks ago to take $5000 oitT the assessment when Mr Lindsay £ppeared before them one day after the regular hearing at which the tax assessors were present and protested that $17000 was much too high This week the assessors were on hand to defend their figure and they did this so effectively that the board without argument cancelled the reduction Mr Lindsay came to the meet ing with two lawyers Mr Brawley of Durham and one other and with Mr Hughes of Durham At the outset Carroll one of the two Chapel Hill assessors (the other being John Fowler) demanded that Mr Lindsay if he were to give any testimony be put under oath This step however was not taken Mr Lindsay deciding not to go ou as aN witness Laying maps of the Cameron avenue neighborhood before the commissioners Messrs Carroll and Fowler proceeded to demonstrate that their figure on the Lindsay property was not too high The main points in Mr Carroll's statement were as fol-' lows Mr Linday two weeks ago told the board he was receiving $60 a month rental for the property whereas he was actually receiving $90 ($65 for the big house and $25 for the small one) The Williams place on the corner across Patterson street was assessed at $7500 which made the Lindsay property' on the same frontage basis worth fully $17000 The assessment of Miss Sally place across Cameron avenue justi-fied on a comparative basis the valuation for Mr And so with comparisons of other property nearby the Bruce Strowd the Eubanks place etc Another fact laid before the board was that three or four years ago Mr Lindsay entered suit against the University for damages of $25000 to his property by reason of the building of the railroad along its rear Since then he has add off for ICentik usd en pagt fix) Mrs Thompson's Death Elmer Harrington the linotype operator of the Orange Printshop has started back home from the Far West His fellow printer Cyrus Baze-more has received from him a postcard dated £as Vegas New XJexico July 21 bearing the' message: going fine Headpd back by way of Kansas City and St Louis Hope to see you in about two weeks1 This schedule if adhered to will bring Mr Harrington into Chapel Hill next week He set out from here in June with another linotype operator! George Ehrhart Their ancient Ford touring car which cost them $100 (purchase price $25 plus improvements $75) had such a dilapidated appearance that some of their friends feared it would fail them before they got out of North Carolina But it carried them safely across the country and is still going bravely as it begins the return trip Messrs Harrington and Ehr hart replenished their funds from time to time by stopping oh the way and operating linotypes for newspapers whose reg ular men were taking vacations Cole Coming Here Will Opra an Office in the MacRae Building Nest Monday Cole Inc will open a fire insurance and real estate office here next Monday August The head of the company is Cole and associated with him in the management of it are his sons Stewart Cole and Corbett Cole They have taken the ground floor of the MacRae building across from the post-office on the corner of Franklin and Henderson streets Mr Cole was born in the country seven miles from Chajiel Hill lie moved here in 1881 when he was 12 years old to attend school Among his teachers during the three years he lived in Chapel Hill were Icke Craig and Horace Williams After graduating at the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie in he settled in Durham After 25 years in the tobacco business he launched into Insurance and real estate His Durham headquarters are on Parrish street near the post-office Foreign Students to Come The University of North Carolina is one of the institutions chosen for the graduate work of British students coining to America under fellowships of the Commonwealth Fund started on a dred miles arrived in Penland got work for one week in Asheville earned sixteen dollars and brought fifteen of it for her children tell you this bit of intimate history that you may seethe kind pf struggle mothers are making for their children who are with The Chapel Hill Weekly (109 Rosemary land) will receive clothing given for the children of this school-costs sweaters suits shoes stockings underwear and will attend to the shipment It is not necessary for the clothing to'bs in perfect repair walk of one hun-After a time she Later she A Barbecue Artist After the impressive ceremonies with which the new officers of the Chapel Hill lodge of the Knights of Pythias were installed on Thursday evening of last week the company hastened to attack the barbecue This was the best barbecue I ever and my admiration for- its creator mounted with each succeeding mouthful The man who made it was Gooch and I walked over to him where he sat on a log to offer congratulations And then questioned him about his career as a barbecuist He has been practicing the art for-25 years Out on his place on the north edge of the village he has a specially constructed brick fire-pit with iron rods running across the top to support the pig Live hickory coals are kept aglow in this enclosure and the cooking continues for the better part of a day Mr Gooch gets all his pigs from a Chatham county farm where they are fed on corn only None except a corn-fed animal says this master artist can be converted into perfect barbecue In the course of the preparation the pig loses just about half its weight what with the evaporation and elimination of bones and other inedible parts When the coals have done their work then comes the- and here the genius of the prince of outdoor cooks bursts into its finest flower Mr Gooch makes at his home all the barbecue consumed at the Gooch restaurant and occasionally does a special order like this one for the Pythians and their guests Whenever I am tasting any of his product and when I gloat upon it in retrospect I think of Mr' Gooch as one of our most valuable citizens Planting the Field Ground at Stadium Harrowed and Gram la Naw Being Bowed Harrowing was in progress at the Kenan Stadium during Monday and Tuesday of this week Two fons of vigoro an extra-efficient fertilizer were spread over the ground Wednesday and already the sowing of grass is under way Only the central part of the arena is now being planted but the space around the ends and sides will soon be readyfor the same treatment Grass will probably be sprouting over the whole area between the concrete stands before the middle of August Half the seats in the west stand have been poured and the finished light grpy part Is 'creeping steadily northward over the black cinders which form' the base for the concrete mixture The news that the stadium nears completion having spread abroad- University alumni and other visitors are renting every day to see It some of them from great distances One feature that attracts much attention is the Governor1 Box at the top of the renter of the computed east standv Directly across from this' at the corresponding position or the west stand will be the Press Box i 0 Chapel Hill is to have an automatic telephone system It will probably be in operation before Christmas The switchboard and other equip- ment have already been ordered The pressure upon the present old-fashioned switchboard has' steadily increased within the last year or two with the I result that is has been impossi- ble to maintain a high quality of service When the new installation is completed there will be no trouble about getting connections promptly Of course the change will bring some increase in the rates This always accompanies the installation of an automatic system because of the greater cost of the plant It is thought the increase in Chapel Hill will not be considerable A new building for the cen- tral office is under construction on Rosemary lane opposite the rear of the Presbyterian church The Chapel Hill telephone company was acquired two years ago by the University and since then the telephone service has been one branch of the activities of the Consolidated Service Plants i Anybody who has used a tele-phone in Durham within the last year or so knows how the automatic device works With each instrument there is a little dial and simply by turning this the subscriber gets into connection with Whomever he wants to call One of the conditions laid dopn by the aldermen and agreed to by the Consolidated Service Hants is that a thoroughly efficent police alarm and fire alarm arrangement shall be maintained at po cost to the towiu The mechanism is to be so adjusted that the person who wants to turn in a fire alarm may not only set off the siren at fire headquarters but may also ring the telephones at the homes of several of the firemen And the police may be called from any telephone instrument in the village The regular switchboard operator will be unnecessary when the automatic system is installed but 'there will be a service man on duty to took out for repairs airi attend to other duties of ah emergency character' It Is likely that additional wires will be run from here to Durham and that all tong dis-tance calls will be handled by the Durham central Potter as Blind Man Wins Russell Potter who has gone to France with Mrs Potter lor year of study won prize for the best costume in the fourth of July party on the steamship He was disguised blind beggar carrying around fUP Mrs Potter acted ths part of the boy who led him The prize was a fine Dutch pipe -very appropriate to Mr dearest' habit Miss Sally Pleasants is expected back from the mountains early next week- X' CLOTHING NEEDED BY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL CHILDREN Large Class Expected Application from S7S Fmhmen Hart Already Been Received The University is expecting the largest freshman class 'on record Registrar Thomas Wilson Jr has already received 676 applications for admission and more are pouring in every day As many had been filed day before yesterday July 27 as had come in by the 18th of August 1926 The total number of students enrolled last year was 2527 It Is thought that the enrollment for 1927-1928 will be not far from 3000 Mr Wilson and his assistants are busy examining the applications In' every case the credits have to be carefully scrutinized Some applicants whose records do not meet the University requirements have to be turned down Some who are nearly but not quite up to the standard are allowed to enter with conditions Miaa 86th Birthday Mias Eliza Mallett was 86 years old on the 21st i Many of her friends called upon her to offer their felidtetiona The women in Chapel Hill who sent clothing recently to the Appalachian School at Penland in the mountains of western North Carolina have received Iettters telling how gratefully the clothing was received? As an illustration of the urgent need for help a teacher in the school writes to a friend here: mother who hunted ail winter for work and got so far away that she tried to walk back to see her three children jvho are with ns here in the school was not successful and so has had no money with which to clothe her children She walk-ed serenty-five miles and -then Mrs Robert Thompson formerly Miss Anne Busbee of Raleigh died in New York day Her daagktcrr Mrs Doug- aid MacMillan wad summoned from Chapel Hill to her bedside i arrived in time to be with her during her hut hoarsT The funeral was held ip Raleigh Tuesday afternoon 'Mrs Thompson was often In 415 Chapel HU in her girlhood days and on through her life and her 'death is mourned by many de- voted riendshere.