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The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 6

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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6
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li Page Six THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Friday August 19 1927 Boltwood a Suicide Visitors See Stadium 1 Chemist Whe Spent Winter Hera Kills Himself in Hsine Are You Getting Ahead? mutter how much you earn always be worth exactly what you save Boltwood who spent the winter in- Chapel Hill two or three years ago corfimitted suicide at Hancqck Point Maine last Sunday night A celebrated chemist Mr Boltwood gave valuable advice about the design of the laboratory Venable Hall for which plans were drawn when he was here- He made many warm friends in the village The New York Times gives the following report of his death: Start a savings account here now' A interest comjiourided quarterly (Contmudi from page mu) are to be of stucco to accord in appearance with the concrete stands The roof is to be made of red tiles Back of each stand there are four lavatory buildings two for men and two for women These are partly below the ground level and will be surrounded with shrubbery The inner corridor around the upper edge of the east stand was completed nearly a month ago and the one around the west stand will soon be dime Floored and walled with concrete it constitutes a part of the structure Outside of it is to be a second corridor 15 feet wide with a gravel surface and this will be bordered by a hedge The whole stadium area will I encircled by a wire fence running through the woods Some sort of creeping vine will probably lie grown over the wire in the valley at the north end of the field massive concrete pillars are being constructed and in the spaces between gates of an ornamental character will Is? installed Batik sf Chapel Hill Oldest and Strongest Bank in Orange County Work and Play are the Same to Your Feet Ctthh NO matter what you are doing if you use your feet I then your feet are working And you always have need for the Arch Preserver Shoe the one shoe that pro- vides a normal walking base This famous shoe stops foot abuse and strain it supports and holds in shape the foot Zt allows the foot to relax to rest even while you are walking Besides you have the prettiest of styles Hancock Point Me Aug 15 Professor Bertram Bolt-wood discoverer of ionium radio activity who has occupied the chair of radio chemistry at Yale University for seventeen years shot himself to death with a rifle late last night or early this morning at the cottage of Professor William Hammond of Mount Holyoke College' where he has been a guest for a month and a half Professor Holt wood's body was found by a servant sent to arouse him for breakfast A bullet in the head and an army rifle beside the bed told the story Despondency over ill health is assigned as the cause Dr Knowlton medical examiner gave an official verdict of suicide Karly in the summer Professor Boltwood suffered a nervous collapse and for some time was a patient at Dr sani-torium He came to Hancock Delicious and Refreshing 9 In Bottles DURHAM COCA COLA BOTTLING CO We Carry a Complete Line of High-Grade Hosiery to Match All Shoes More of Miss Roberson Now Perry Horton Co Miss Nellie Roberson wait to Chimney Rock last week She stayed there four days and gained seven jiounds DURHAM Free Inspection of Fords 1 Before tli' cud of this week any Kurd owner may have free inHjx-ction of his ear at our garage and will receive a report on what repairs if any' are needed Strowd Motor Co FORD PRODUCTS SINCE 1914 tmnKmnuimimiiinniwmuw lllllllllllliillllllllllilllllllillllll Point on July 1 He told the Hammond family that he felt much better than usual jg Professor Boltwood who was 1 57 years old last month was born in Amherst Mass He was graduated from Sheffield Scien- tific School of Yale in 1890 In 111 1897 he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy He studied for several years at Leipzig and Munich He first joined the Yale faculty in 1891 and after returning from abroad became assistant professor of physics in 1906 and in 1910 professor of radio chemistry From 1918 to 1924 he was also acting professor of chemistry Professor Boltwood has translated several German scientific works and has been a contributor of many scientific journals He was unmarried ORABCEWfi? HoV THEtHAreub LLOEEfCJJ 'Z 1 VTV? 1 i' 1 -it A ft Week-End Specials Printing of All Kinds White House Coffee pound tin 41c Quaker Macaroni Spaghetti or Noodles 3 pkgs 25c Muffets (all-year-round cereal) 2 pkgs25c Minute Tapiocas 2 pkgs 25c at Hawaiian Pineapple Broken Slices No 2 can Columbia River Shad Tall Can Pompeian Olive Oil 1-2 pt tin An Ordinance Authorizing $10000 Street Improvement Bonds BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL? SECTION 1 That the Town of Chapel Hill does issue ita bond pursuant to the Municipal Finance Act to an amount not in exces of 10000 for -the purpose of constructing or reconstructing or aurfacing ita atreeta therein including grading and including the contemporancoua ron-atruetion or reconatruetion of curbs gutter draina and sidewalk at k-aat one-fourth of the coat of auch local improvements excluaive of the coats of paving at street intersections is to be specially assessed SECTION 2 That a tax sufficient to pay the principal and the interest of said bonds shall be annually levied and collected SECTION 8 That i statement of the debt of the Town has been Aled with the Clerk and is now open to public inspection SECTION 4 That this ordinance shall take effect upon its final passage and shall not be submitted to the voters The foregoing ordinance was passed on the 8th day of August 1927 and was first published on the 19th day of August 1927 Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said ordinance must be commenced within thirty days after ita lint publication This the 19th day of August 1927 ANNIE JOHNSON Clerk to Board of Aldermen The Orange Printshop Rosemary Lane Telephone 220 McCauley Shields r- 9 STANDARD GROCERIES AT LOWER PRICES The Carding Haymakers presented the Scuff let own Outlaws and In Kitchen last evening and the program will be repeated this (Friday) evening it--.

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