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Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

lbl tilhH ppl ItlVl 10 ViSjHHl Markets
to be consumed in the fresh state.
DecidUous Fruits Involved.
Under California conditions, where
many of the largest markets are
relatively great distances away,
nearly all dociduous fruits may be
preceded. Nevertheless. the most
urgent necessity for preceding
would be in the case Of the very
quickly pcrishablc fruits. such as
strawberry, raspberry and the fig.
APricots. cherries, peaches, Fiums
and summer and carly fall pears, in
about 'the order named would like
wise be benefited by preceding be
fore shipment, thos" listed first be-
ing helped the most.
Necessity OF Preceding.
With the quickly pershable fruits
it is Of the utmost importance that
the heat be taken out of the fruit
promptly after being picked, if it
is to be transported any distance 10
market and arrive in prime condi.
tion. Thc object, therefore, is to
remove the excess heat absorbed in
the field, or accommodating in the
mass OF Ifalt ny radiation from their
own tissue. The temperature of the
product should be quickly reduced
to q point. whore rapid ripcning and
deterioration of the fruit. and the
growth of rot organism is checked
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Iood;ng Fn, oz.o,n,,,a ,,I,an 1000, "a,
frnit :: landcS ;n|a "n%i w., II.
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car mn, Lo fron, IA ~ o. 5a,o
higher in tcmpcraturo tbon thn mo-
! teriaI On the floor or noa, tho ;ca
bunkory. DURING This por;od tho
high Temperatures Of tLc frrit and
tho moisture ana ooscs in rho ro,, RIO,
suit in conditions which proptotc
decay and rapid deterioration
Additional hau.n4ano.
''- '-'A'''i 1A''V"4iV"se''
ntubGhrauch some years ago sum
/ 'mafiZed the Following advantages
OF preceding: GAP the marketing
era or the prqduct Is extended; (b)
preceded fruit may be loaded more
Closely ana heavily, thereby incrcas-
ing the carrying "anacity OF the
cars; (c) less zee viii be consumed
en- route; ~ IT renders unnecossa.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

To make sneeess of farming
you We got to learn it from the
ground up.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07
A125 S. p. MEN
IA GET BONUS PAY

s About 1o5 men in Calexico and
IndiO are rejoicing over the receipt
of "lOyalty' bonuses from the
Southern Pacific system, as {, mark
of appreciation for refusing to go
nut on strike last year.
= The amount of the checks vary,
according to the length of service
,.and position held, but G. w. Runge,
'district freight and passenger agent,
declared that the smallest of them
amounted to $500.
The checks are being mailed out
to 1000 men and it is said the total
amount will reach the half million
mark. An individual letter of
thanks from William Sproule, presi-
dent Of the company, accompanies
each check.
NOWADAYS it S poor policy to swap
warns while crossing the street.
Many n one.horse town has been
put on the map by team work.
Hospitality is one product of the
country for which there is small
ATTY market.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

Mrs. Charles Bennett Smith Of
Buffalo, y. Y, is the first woman
to be appointed executive head Of
q New York state department. She
is president Of the Civil Service
Gov sion,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

Nowadays it S poor policy to swap
warns while crossing the street.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

"Down on the farm is one place
where il s healthy to be "down and
out. -
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

City relatives usually have good
staying qualities.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

A poultry writer says, "Morc and
more the old hen is being found use
full. - But not more useful.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07

Out in Iowa, chicken thieves are
operating III autos. No doubt they
are using "coups.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-07
Expert Tells Benefits OF Fresh
Fruits of Preceding, Storage

for transportation To distant market
to be consumed in the fresh state.
DecidLous Fruits Involved.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
Will Hold Tax Hearings
County Commissioners to Pass on
Aldermen's Revision

The county commissioners
will hold a public hearing in
Chapel Hill, within a few days,
to consider the revised tax as
sessments recommended by the
board of aldermen and the
county and township assessors.
The aldermen have been sitting
up nights, in frequent meetings
recently, in the attempt to put
the listings upon a basis Of fair
ness to all taxpayers. First they
try to estimate the market value
of each holding, then put the as
sessment at 60 per cent of that
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
BESSIE ROPER MEMORIAL

The Chapel Hill chapter of the
American Red Cross has pre-
sented a sterling silver break
fast service to the Infirmary as
a memorial to Miss Bessie c..
Roper, who died from influenza
contracted while nursing men,
bers of the S. A. T. c., in 1918.
Miss Roper was one Of two nur-
ses sent to Chapel Hill by Isaac
Emerson, bromo-seltzer mag
nate, to tend his aunt, Mrs. Nc
Dade, during her last illness.
On finding her duties very light,
Miss Roper asked to be released
from her contract in order that
she might help the Infirmary
staff. The records of the Infir-
mary show that every patient
she nursed got well. The Uni
Versity trustees have voted to
place in the Infirmary a bronze
tablet to her momory.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
COUNTRY CLUB FESTIVITIES

The Country Club has inaugu-
rated it's Saturday night picnic
supper plan, and the members
are attending in full force. Each
group brings its own supper,
but those with fried chicken in
their baskets never have any
trouble finding neighbors who
wish to pool their resources, so
it is a real experiment in So
cialism. No housewife is able
to hide her light under a. basket,
or bury her talents in a napkin !;
all gather around the brick oven
and eat with their fingers as
simply as the Neilithic Man.
Then the card players and the
dancers adjourn to the club
house, while ambitious wood
choppers are at liberty to show
their prowess on the forest, and
those of a sentimental disposi-
tion may sit and quote poetry
by the light of the moon.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
COMMISSIONERS DO
WELL BY SCHOOLS
Approve Budget Of $92,lOO Asked
for by the County Board Of
Education
COUNTY CHILDREN STAY HERE

On motion of J. D: Webb OF
Chapel Hill, the board of county
commissioners, at their meeting
in Hillsboro Monday, approved
the school budget asked for by
the county board of education
So2,100.
This means that the school
ing of Orange county children
can be carried on creditably this
wear. 1t means-and this is OF
great Importance - that the
Chapel Hill school will still be
able to accommodate the country
boys and girls who now COM
pose SO per cent of it's enroll
ment. 1t was feared, when
there was talk recently Of cutt-
ing the budget below what was
asked by the board of educa-
ton, that the Chapel Hill school
would be compelled to exclude
all except the town children.
That would have been a serious
blow to the whole school system.
Last years county school bud
get was $4,000, but, in order
that the minimum of education
required by the State Consti-
tuition might be provided, it was
necessary to borrow about $15,-
900. Under the new law such
borrowing is forbidden; the
school authorities will have to
live within the $92,100 granted
by the county commissioners.
The county commissioners
and the county board of educa-
tion sat together in sessions
lasting over several days, try
ing to iron out their differences
over the budget. The budget
schedules were examined in de-
tail, and in the end the county
commissioners decided that the
interest of the children of
Orange demanded the granting
of the entire amount.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
Gay Fourth on Campus
First a Procession, then Exercises in
Memorial Hall

Marching, music and speech
making made up a gay Fourth
of July for the Summer School
yesterday. With ]. 0. Harmon
acting as marshal, the process
sion formed in front of the
Alumni building at half past
nine O'clock; the column moved
on to Memorial Hall for the ex-
ercises.
AS an outcome Of the popular
election for the leading actors
in the ceremony, Miss Esther
Newberry performed as Colum-
bia, G. L. Sawyer as Uncle Sam,
and Miss Evalina Beckwith as
Carolina. Up toward the front
of the procession were President
Chase, Summer School Director
Walker, M, c, S. Noble, Mayor
Robertson, the aldermen, the
clergymen of the town, and :he
faculty. After them streamed
the students, arranged in coll
lege and state groups. Mr..
Noble was the master of cere-
monies in Memorial Hall.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
GIRLS OF ORANGE i.
... IN new VENTURE
They Are G,in5i> Earn Some Pin
Money by Canning and
Preserving.
TO HAVE STANDARD PACKAGE

A number of young women IN
the country around Chapel Hill
are making ready'to earn some
pin-money this summer by can
ming and preserving fruits and
vegetables that formerly have
been goirg to waste. They are
going to organize and arrange a
standard package and label, in
order to give their products a
good market.
Here are some Of those who
are interested in the movement ::
Antioch section; Misses
Martha Lloyd, Irene Strowd,
Blanche Strowd.
White Cross section: Misses
Beulah Durham, Myrtle Ray,
Jeanette Whitfield, Nora Sykes.
Merritt's section: Misses
Maggie Sparrow, Nellie Merritt,
Nina Pendergraft, Berneta
Bright.
Frosty: Misses Mary Strowd,
Mary Mann.
! Smiths Level: Misses Crab
tire and Annie Daniel.
Miss Louise Blackwood OF
Blackwood and Miss Annie Ho-
gan of Calavander.
These young women and 9th
ers are receiving the aid of R
P. Harris the Chapel Hill
schools agriculture teacher, il
getting the work started. He
says there is no doubt about
their being able to sell all the
fruit and vegetables they can
put up. Just using the things
that have been thrown to the
hogs and chickens in the past,
every one of the girls ought to
be able to earn SIS to 500 in q
summer. Of course, going into
the work seriously and putting
consistent effort into it, they
can DO much better than that.
People in Chapel Hill and Hills
boro will be only to glad to buy
things canned and preserved in
the nearby country, ad it is
thought that buyers of preser-
YES will willingly return the
jars.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
Luther In Trouble
Negro Carpenter Had Misfortune
and Urgently Needs Aid

Luther Hargrave the negro
carpenter so well known to the
citizens of Chapel Hill, had a
severe financial blow when his
barn burned up recently. Some
of his friends among the white
people are helping him out by
contributions. Luther has four
teen children.
S. w. Andrews, who lives near
Luther and has learned to have
"a high regard for the mans
honesty and industry is partic
ularly anxious to help him out.
Il want to call the attention
of your readers" he writes to
the Weekly, "to the pathetic
plight of Luther Hargrave, as a
result of the recent burning of
his barn. He has had many
children and had a hard time to
make both ends meet. He has
brought uphhis children we'll
and they are highly thought of
by all the people of Chapel Hill
who know them.
"A few of US, faculty mem
-bers AAd others, have contribut-
ed toaiis help, and I believe that
Others will do so if they realize
how unfortunate he has been.
The loss of a good horse and a
cow and of a hearse-for Luther
eked out his living with under
taking-amounted to about
$1,000. Surely there are many
people who are willing to help
this worthy colored citizen"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
WHEELER TRAvELocUE NO.

Los Angeles, June 20:
Dear Friend Graves:
| am sending you a daily
paper of this city which city
could easily include a million
people if it extended its limits.
Our stop at the Grand Canyon
was greatly enjoyed. It is the
strangest scenic wonder in the
world. It is a place which is
not earthly. l was much inter
ested to note the great exten-
sions Of irrigation in southeast
eFn Colorado. Hope you are All
well at home. Sincerely,
Alvin 8. Wheeler.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
OLD EAST MAY HAVE TO co

OLD EAST MAY HAVE TO co
The Old East, the first build
ing erected by any state univer-
sity in America, may have to
come down. In tearing out the
interior to remodel it for the
uses of a modern dormitory, the
construction forces found the
outer walls out of plumb sever
al inches. The brick are soft
and the plaster crumbly. For
the sake of safety, the workmen
have had to be ordered out, and
the public is kept away by rail
ngs and signs. A special meet
ing of the trustees building
committee has been called for
next Monday, to consider what
shall be done. If the building
can possibly be saved, it will be.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
PTOMAINES IN ACTIVE SESSION

Ptomaines were present in
force at a party on Rosemary
street the other night. With the
gay abandon for which they are
famous, decked out in the full
panoply Of war, they romped up
and down the interiors of the
guests, feasting joyfully upon
the choicest tissues and greet
ing the pain Of their victims
with cruel taunts. Their raid
was pOignantIy remembered for
three or four days.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05

Mr.. and Mrs. A. c, Mcintosh
are planning to motor to Blow
ing Rock to attend a meeting of
the Bar Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Smithey
are spending the summer in
Mrs. F. C. Smiths house. Mr..
Smithey is now studying for
his M. A. degre and will be an
instructor in mathematics in
the University nsgfall.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
CHAPEL HILL MAY
Be PEACH SECTION
James Sparrow Planning an Orch
ard and VIII Use the Most
Modern: Methods
our SANDY SOIL SUITS FRUIT

OOtilC VI IAlO NONAASAy ~ ILL.,
South and West of Chapel Hill
may develop, in few years, in
to a fine peach-growing section.
James Sparrow, who lives out
on the road to Mt. Carmel, in
tends to plant several acres m
peach trees and to cultivate and
market the fruit according to
the modern methods that have
been so successful around Pine
hurt. He and RIP. Harris went
down this week to inspect sue
cessful orchard near Raleigh,
where the soil and atmospheric
conditions are similar to those
at the Sparrow farm.
The farmer near Raleigh
started his orchard in 1915 with
about 4 acres. Now he has 30
acres in trees and is making
from $4,000 to $4,000 year
out of his crop. There appears
to be no good reason why the
same thing can't be done in this
section. In Chapel Hill and in
Bingham townships there is a
great deal of the kind of sandy
soil that is well suited to peach
growing-just as well-suited to
it, experts say. as land where
splendid orchards are now
fourishing.
1t is remembered that in the
"sand-hill country" around Pine
hurst the men were made fun OF
who said that peaches would
grow there. That was twenty
five years or so ago, and you
could buy land at 25 cents an
acre. Today some Of that same
land is bringing $500 an acre,
and many grower is shipping
carloads of peaches every sea-
son and getting good prices for
them:
Maybe the same sort of fun
will be made of persons who
start in to grow peaches around
Chapel Hill-and maybe they
will have the same sort of sue
cess.
If planting and cultivating
are properly done, peach trees
should begin to bear within 8
years after being set out, and
should be yielding a full crop in
five years. Often there is a
waste Of many years because the
right methods are not followed
Mr.. Sparrow and Mrs. Harris, in
visiting the Wake county mans
orchard this week, questioned
him closely about his experience
so that they could have the
benefit Of it in getting the Spar
row trees started.
The Wake grower has several
varieties of peach, ranging from
early to late. They are ripening
all the time, beginning in June
and ending in late September.
He finds a good market for
them, mostly in Raleigh and
Durham.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
Bohins Have a Home
Get Charter from National Sorority
Pi Beta Phi

The Beta Alpha Phi, the wo-
men students club better
known as the Bofins, the first
organization of it's kind to be es-
tablished at the University, has
just received it's charter as a
chapter of the natioal sorority,
Pi Beta Phi, and it has obtain
ed the small building in the rear
of the Alexander place. next to
Professor Cobb's, as a chapter
house. .
Jubilation greeted the tele-
gram which came last Thursday
night, announcing that the Bof-
fins had become a part of one Of
the leading sororities in the
United States. The installation
of the new chapter will be held
early in the fall. i.
The building in which the
members will hereafter hold
their meetings is known to old
Chapel Hillians as Miss Lula
Hendon's schoolhouse. 1t is a
picturesque little vine-covered
cottage which used to be reach
ed by the scholars by jumping
through a hole in a high board
fence which separated Miss
rLula's front and back yards.
Now it boastssof more digni-
fed approach, and members Of
the sorority say that it contains
an excellent attic for limitations.
This, one of the first school
houses of Chapel Hill,, is where
many of the patronesses of Fl
Beta Phi learned to read. With
in those walls co-education flour
ished in the early nineties, and
the so-called weaker sex domi-
mated generally in the three RS
as well as in Miss hula's well,
knowp May Day festivals; <Al-
ready the old schoolhotse is
haunted with many sentimental
memories, so the Pi Beta Phi's
will but add new significance to
an old landmark. The active
members of the sorority are
Miss Frances Venable, Miss
Jane Toy, Miss Adeline Denham,
Miss Katherine Bats, Miss Eliz-
abeth Branson, Miss Dorothy
Greenlaw, Miss Mildred Morse,
Miss Mary Yellott, Miss Carri-
lea Sanders, Miss Catherine
Boyd, and Miss Annie Duncan.
Mrs. Dougald Macmillan (for-
merly Miss Laura Thompson)
Miss Ellen Lay, Miss Aline
Hughes, Miss Nina Cooper and
Miss Lima Pruden are the alum
nae members. The following
residents Of Chapel Cha Hill Hi the
patronesses of the organization
Mrs. c. w. Balm, Mrs. J. M.
Booker, Mrs. Francis Bradshaw,
Mrs. f. c. Branson, Mrs. J. B.
Bullitt, Mrs. w. f. Caldwell,
Mrs. d. D. Carroll, Mrs. H. F.
Conner, Mrs. W. M. Dey, Mrs.
Louis Graves, Mrs. Edwin
Greenlaw, Mrs. G, X. G.. Henry,
Mrs. C. A. Hibbard, Mrs. f. G.
Hoefer, Mrs. F. II. Koch, Mrs.
Alfred S. Lawrence, Mrs. C. S.
Mangum, Mrs. A. G. Mcintosh,
Mrs. A. H. Patterson, Mrs. DO
seph II. Pratt, Miss Nellie Rob
erson, Mrs. J. F. Royster, Mrs.
W. D. Toy, Mrs. f. P. Venable,
Mrs. T. j. Wilson, Mrs. P. II.
Winston, Mrs. C.. r. Woollen.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05

A picture of the new brick
building that Cameron McRae is
to put up on the corner opposite
the post Office has been on dis
play in Jack sparrow's window
Franklin Street.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
HOUSE FOR COMMUNITY CLUB

HOUSE FOR COMMUNITY CLUB
The community club may
have home of it's own some
day--a place that will be a sort
Of civic center. At the last
meeting it was voted to invest
the clubs surplus in building
and loan stock. Nothing definite
was put on the minutes about
any intention to build, but It
was freely talked Of by the
Members. O
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-07-05
Chapel Hill Chaf

Dig CWO-HdI1Q1ou saw, CuGClIlS
through the trunk of cedar
tree that had to be got out of
the way of a house. They are
self-help students in the Uni
versity. Less than a year ago
they were making their way
across Asia Minor, to reach a
seaport. At one place they were
kept in prison several days by
the Bolsheviki. They had
many exciting adventures. AS
l looked at them toiling away
on the cedar, l wondered what
they considered the relative
merits of life in Chapel Hill and
life in Persia. l am going to
ask them before long and will
report the verdict.
= **
One of the great silent revo-
lutions in the last quarter of a
century has been the displace-
ment of nightshirts by paJamas.
Merchants, reporting upon the
demand from the public, tell me
the nightshirt is threatening to
become extinct like those an
cient beasts, the mastodon, the
pterodactyl, and the icthyosau-
rus. wv. C. Coker will proba-
.bly meet me on the street and
tell me | spelled all three OF
these names wrong.) A group
of us were talking the other ev-
ening about nocturnal attire,
and the only persons who could
be definitely put down as still
loyal to the nightshirt were DR..
William MacNider and my
friend in New York, Alf Hay
wood. Somebody said Collier
Cobb also remained a devotee of
the hallowed garment, but
can't testify as to that
When you go past a house in
process of erection, such as DR..
Greenlaw's or Mr.. Registers,
you find several automobiles
drawn up along the curb. They
belong to the men working on
the house-carpenters, masOns,
plumbers, plasterers. 1t is a
fine thing that these men can
afford to have cars, and | hope
it is a condition that has come
to stay. When the wages of
Workingmen took a sudden up
ward jump a few years ago,
some folk held up their hands
in horror. 1t was all out Of
proportion, they said. Well it
does not shock me in the least
that carpenters and masons
around Chapel Hill are getting
from five to eight dollars a day.
If they do their jobs well they
deserve it. If | were able to
do such work, which | am not, |
am sure | would think it worth
that much. 1t is just as i'm
portant and difficult as a good
deal of so-called white collar"
work that is more highly re-
garded.
My Cousin Eliza Mallett, at
the age of g., frequently gets
up out of bed in the middle of
the night and goes downstairs
to get something to eat. She
takes whatever is at hand
pickles being one of her favor
ite articles-and it doesn't hurt
her. | call this hardihood. |
am only half that old and do
not believe / could stand it.
,T;
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
RETREAT TAILINGS
AND REALIZE GOOD
SUMS FOR METALS
Labor Situation Improves
in Guanajuato Min
ing Camps.

GuanajuatO, Mexico, Feb. 17.-The
old talings along the Guanajuato river
are being worked over by the Mexican
Reduction Company. There are long
stretches Of these tailifgs which were
left over in the treatment of ores
from the mines of this district. They
contain good values in gold and silver
and will be re-treated at the rate of
about 100 tons per day.
The Tajo de Dolores mills. belong.
ing to the Cubo Mining and Milling
Company, have been temporarily closed
down. In the meantime more active
development work will be carried on
in the Cebolletas, Villalpando and Ca
pulin mines in order to block out ore
bodies for future production. New
tramways and bridges are being con-
structed TO connect the different mines
With the mill.
1.-The labor situation has improved
in most of the camps Of the state of
GuanajuatO but mine operators are
somewhat fearful of the outcome OF
the state commission which is to ar.
range the law for a division of nrof.
its among the miners. This commits.
sion is acting under one Of the clauses
Of Article 123 of the federal constitu.
ton enacted in 1917.
There are both federal and state
Inspectors of mines and labor cOndi,
tons who visit the mines. smcltors and
mills and render their reports. So
far these committees have been rea.
renable and caused no trouble for
either the owners or laborers, but the
operators are always more or les,
nervous when these Investigators come
Rround