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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Commissioners Saw Damage

The county commissioners
Ralph Ward, ]. D. Webb, and
Arthur Wilson-met yesterday
wednesday, to go around and
see the damage done to roads
and bridges by Sundays flood.
Mr.. Webb said that they had al
ready learned enough to know
that the county never had suf-
fered so much from a storm be-
fore. Financially, the problem
for the commissioners is a seri-
Gus one. Of course the bridges
have to be rebuilt, and this will
increase by several thousand
dollars the county's budget for
the year.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
To Graduate Students:

All students expecting qradu-
ate credit for work done in the
second summer session must
have their courses recorded on
the records of the Graduate Of
fice,~if they have not already
registered there. The office is
open every morning from 8 to
II O'Clock for this purpose. Stu
dents expecting to obtain the
Masters degree at the com
mencement of 1925 should call
at the Graduate Office at once
to find out whether their rec
ords are satisfactory.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Bells Climbed Peak
Travelled $500 Miles: Went in
Sight of Canada.

Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Bell
came back last week from their
automobile trip to New Eng
land. They Travelled $500 miles
in all. Canada, where they saw
new arrivals from over the bord-
er smacking their lips happily.
The lowest they went was about
four feet beneath sea level while
bathing and the highest was
6,293 feet at the summit Of
Mount Washington in New
Hampshire
Mr.. Bell, though by profess
sion a chemist, knows some
thing about the statistics Of
attitudes, and he was able to
inform the other sight-seers
around Mount Washington that
Mount Mitchell in North Caro-
lima was 418 feet, 8 l-2 inches
higher.
The Bells longest stop was
at Swampscott, Massachusetts,.
They spent most of their time
on the go. One day they visited
the Daggetts. Mr.. Bell is teach
ing in the Summer School.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Inn Open in October
Mr.. Gattman Expects It to be
Ready in Two Months.

1t appears that the guess
made last week as to the time Of
the opening of the new Carolina
Inn was about two months off.
]. n. Gattman, the manager,
says ne expects to open it to the
public between the first and the
tenth Of October.
eve have been rushing the
materials in," Mr.. Gattman
said yesterday, "and there's no.
thing to keep us from going
straight on to the completion of
the Inn"
He has been here this sum-
mer giving personal supervision
to the work on the interior and
arranging for the furniture and
equipment. John Sprunt Hill
comes over from Durham for
frequent conferences with him.
Last week they decided upon
the color and decoration scheme
for the Cafeteria that is to be
conducted in the former Graves
house. This house was moved
back from it's old site and is a.
bout twenty-five yards from
the rear of the Inn. 1t has been
entirely remodeled.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
A Fishing Quartet
Chapel Hillians Have Been Active
on Carolina Coast

Four of Chapel Hills young
business men-Clyde ("Jack }
Andrews, Carl Durham, Clar-
ence Wills and Marvin Utley-
started early Sunday morning
in a fishing expedition to Swans
boro, down on the coast near
the mouth of White Oak river.
They will probably get back
today.
The quartet Travelled in Mr..
Andrews Dodge sedan. They ex-
pected to make the trip each
way in seven hours, the dis
tance being about 100 miles.
Trout, bluefish, and drum
are, the three species we ex-
pcct to be our chief Victims"
said Mr.. Andrews just before
he departed. "But we are not
going to confine ourselves to
three, or even six. Any sort of
fish that comes in the vicinity
Of our boat will be in peril of
his life"
SWannsboro is a resort much
favored by few of Chapel
Hills most famous anglers.
Major William Cain has fished
there frequently with success.
His reports of the place reached
the ears of this weeks trippers
and had a good deal to do with
their choosing it. Then, too,
George Lawrence, who was down
there recently, brought back en-
couraging tales af the abund-
ance of fish.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Wilkie Quits p. O.
Leaves His Job There September
First; Will Run Own Business

E. c. Wilkie, assistant post
master, has resigned and will
leave the post-office Septem-
ber |. He is going to devote his
whole time to his newly estab-
lished business the ice-cream,
fruit, peanut and candy stand
next to Gates jewelry store. He
took this over several weeks ago
and has operated it with the
help Of his wife and by staying
there during hours when he was
not on postal duty.
w. b. Sorrell has been plan
ming to put up a building on
the lot, and construction may
begin at almost any time. Mr.
Wilkie has an option on part Of
the ground-floor space, and so
he is sure of a good location for
an definite time to come.
Beginning this week or next
week, he is going to serve barbe-
cue Fridays and Saturdays.
Mr.. Wilkie has been in the
postal service Is years, having
been stationed in Raleigh and
Chapel Hill except for a year
during the war when he was at
Camp Greene. -.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
SUMNER SCHOOL PROGRAN
Saturday, August Q

saturday, August Q
In Gerard Hall at 7 p. M.
an entertainment, "The Old
Maids Convention"
In the Gymnasium at 8 p. NJ.
the usual Saturday dance.
Sunday, August 10
w. T. BOst, Raleigh cores
pondent of the Greensboro News
will speak at the morning SER
vices in the Methodist church.
w. j. Matherly, of the faculty
of the University's school of
commerce, will speak at the
Vespcr services in Gerard Hall
at seven o'clock.
Monday, August II
In Gerard Hall at $3.50 p. NJ,
lecture by j. Y. Joyner on
How to Improve Economic
Conditions in North Carolina"
Wednesday August 13.
In Gerard Hall at $50 p. M.
an Illustrated lecture by Collier
Cobb.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Road Through Campus
University Will Lay Pavement along
Its Main Artery

Charles T. Woollen, business
manager of the University, has
had plans made for a pavement
on Cameron avenue through
the campus. The hard surface
will stretch from the west gate,
at the end of the pavement
which the State highway COM
mission laid three years ago
along Columbia street. to the
east gate at the old Raleigh
road; and it may go on north
ward along that road to a juno
tion with the main street of the
town at the corner near the
Presidents House. a> 2.
tomobiles has become more Sc
tomobles has become more Sc
we're, the need of a pavement on
the main artery through the
University has become more and
more apparent. Of course, as
with all desirable improvements,
it has been a question of money.
The institution had so many
things to do with the funds vo-
ted by the legislature that it
was uncertain whether any part
of them could be devoted to this
road. But now it appears that
the cost can be met out Of the
allotment for general improve
ments around the campus.
Road-building has been an
important part of the work done
by the University since the ex.
pansion program was put under
way IN 1871. A road has been
built south of the campus, paral-
leling Cameron avenue; one
from the east campus gate out
through the edge of Battles
park to a junction with the old
Raleigh road; one around the
former Battle place to the Park
place settlement, soon to be
completed to the main street be-
tween the Kennett> and Lawson
homes; and one is projected back
.of the cemetery to a junction
with the old Raleigh road just
where the country club road be-
gins.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
S115,OOO VOTED
TO THE SCHOOLS
Commissioners and Board of
Education Reach a Salts
factory Ageement
THE STATE HELPS OUT

The Orange county board of
education and the county COM
missioners have come to an
agreement on the school budget
for the coming year. 1t will be
approximately $115,000. This
is about $4,000 less than was
originally asked for, but is an
increase of $4,000 over last
voor,o ononun+ rI.-
1t was at a joint meeting of
the two boards last Thursday
that the compromise was reach
ed. Frank T. Edmondson, fin
,ancial adviser of the State de-
partment of education, sat with
them and heped them work out
a satisfactory solution. The
county is to supply 1000,
and the remaining $4,000 will
be grant from the StAte's
equalization fund. This fund
was created by law to help out
counties whose resources were
not equal to their pressing edu-
cational needs.
The budget as finally agreed
upon is efficient to provide
for all teachers that have been
engaged by Chapel Hill, Hills
boro, and other communities. 1t
was in items of supplies and
maintenance that cuts were
made from the $4,000 asked
for by the board of education
in June.
There is no cut in the amount
requested for trucks needed TO
carry the children to the con-
solidated schools; the trucks
will be bought as planned.
This compromise reached by
The two boards removes the
chance of a contest in the courts
"a contest that seemed to be
threatened when the commits
sioners, at a meeting last month,
rescinded their earlier approval
OF the school budget.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Mailmen's Hard Trips
Meet Many Difficulties in Making
Deliveries after Flood

The mail carriers on the
rural free delivery routes out
of Chapel Hill had a hard time
of it Monday because of the
havoc wrought by Sundays
flood,
edgar Merritt, who travels
Route l.. went as far as where
the Flat bridge on the old Pitts
boro road had been washed away
Some of the people who live be-
yond the creek, knowing he
would not be able to get across,
mad come down to meet him.
Gene Davis, a farmer, crawled
over the stream along the
trunk of fallen tree, and got
the mail for a number of his
trends as far as the Daniels
place seven miles away.
Then Mr.. Merritt came back
to Chapel Hill and went on out
the State highway to the Pure
toys bridge crossing, There a
friend of his named Blake got
some of the mail and delivered
1t as far out as Riggsbee. r. H.
Cheek, the carriers brother-in-
law, took his own mail and that
OF Edgar's father, who lives up
the hill south of the creek.
Garland Kirkland, the Route
a carrier, left his automobile at
the Purefoy's mill crossing,
crossed the gaps at the ends
of the concrete bridge by the
help of planks, and CARED mail
on foot for several miles.
Maxwell King, on Route 2,
found two bridges washed away
and was able to cover only part
Of his route.
Robert Neville, on Route 3,
who had so much trouble as a
result of the floods a few weeks
ago, Jared better than the Others
this time. Some of the smaller
bridges that washed away Sun
day had been replaced by the
farmers by the time he reached
the Monday, and the new
bridge over Morgan's creek,
started recently by the county
commissioners to replace one
destroyed by the earlier floods,
withstood this latest onslaught.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Miss Boyd TO Wed Sept. 2

Miss Katharine Boyd will be
married September 2 at Black
Mountain, at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Simmons, to Edward
T. Browne, a member of the
University faculty in the de-
partment of mathematics. They
will occupy rooms in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Warren
during the next college year.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Shower for Miss Webb

Miss Lillian Burch gave a
miscellaneous shower, last
Thursday night, for Miss Annie
Lee Webb, who is to be married
late this month to Otis B. Moore
of Beaufort. About 40 of Miss
Webb's friends were present.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
N. W. Walker in New York

When the paper went to press
N. w. Walker, director of the
Summer School, was about to
leave for New York on a busi-
ness trip.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
Chapel Hill Chaf

Archie Patterson-whose real
name, Glenn, by which I used
to know him when we played
on the ball-team together seems
to have been forgotten-was
talking to me the other day
about marketing candy. MEM
bers of the faculty and other
grown men, and the women, buy
the small boxes-it's the stu
dents that buy the big boxes.
A student is ashamed to send
his girl less than a fourier five
pound box"
This recalls to me the demand
for hacks at commencement and
other dances some twenty-five
years ago when / was in the
University. A youth who would
mt carry his partner to a dance
in a hack, even if it was a bright
moonlight night and the dis
tance wasn't over a hundred
yards, couldn't really belong to
the smart set. My mothers
home, where many of the girls
used to stay, was stones
throw from the ballroom, but
Dave Kelly and 10 Barbee and
the other jehus of that era, did
a rushing business over this
brief stretch. Fifty cents a haul
for two people was the charge,
just as for a mile.
What has become of those
funny OLD vehicles? At least one
of them ought to be hunted up
and preserved in a museum.
Somebody was telling me not
long ago that a negro who lives
out near the old Kings Mill
still had one. | am going to walk
out before long and see if it's
true.
When | was at Versailles four
or five years ago a gaudily uni
formed custodian showed me the
gilded coach in which Louis and
Marie Antoinette rode through
the streets Of Paris and in the
forest around their summer
home. It didn't look any queerer
or more ancient than Dave
Kelly's hack would look if it ap-
peared on the campus today.
At the MacNiders', one night
this week, there was brought
forth from a cabinet and dis
played to me a dagger in it's
sheath. Dr. MacNider told me
it was taken from a student by
his grandmother, my Cousin De-
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07
SUNDAY'SFLOOD
DID BIG DAMAGE
ClOudburst Set Streams on Ram
page; Roads and Bridges
Washed Away
OLD MILL CARRIED OFF

Such a rainstorm as Chapel
Hill had never seen before-that
is, not within the memory Of the
oldest inhabitant-broke upon
the village and the country
roundabout early Sunday morn
ing. 1t descended not in drops bur
in sheets.
The swollen streams destroyed
bridges and embankments great
chasm were washed in the
streetS and sidewalks; cellars
were flooded; water forced its
way through roofs and poured
down chimneys. There was hard
ly a home that did not have an
exciting flood story to tell.
The pumps of the University
water supply system, which is
also the towns, were put out
of commission through the flood
ing of the pump-house on Nor
gan's creek west of town. The
nearly 100000 gallons of water
in storage met the demand for
48 hours, but Tuesday morning
the supply was exhausted and
the community was without
water for several hours. Sup
erintendent Bennett and his
force, by working night and day
and by sending to Durham for a
new motor, got the pumps into
operation again.
AT seven o'clock John Will
liams, the farmer tenant Of
John T. Fowler down by the old
Purefoy mill, a mile south Of
the village, looked out of his
door at the creek and found it
no higher than normal. Hardly
an hour later raging flood was
rushing down the valley. He
saw the mill lifted from its
foundations and dashed against
the iron bridge a few yards
downstream. The bridge was
knocked loose as though it had
been a toothpick in a chiId's
Sandpile. And both mill and
bridge went on their way with
the flood.
The State highway bridge of
concrete, a little way upstream
to the west, held firm, but the
embankment approaches a. both
ends of it were washed away,
leaving the bridge itself an
island. At one time the floor of
it was under water, and the
creek was up the road toward
town a hundred and fifty feet
or more.
When news of the creeks
rampage reached Chapel Hill,
people rushed for their garages,
and within a few minutes scores
Of automobiles were speeding
down the hill as to some great
spectacle. The sightseeing ex-
peditions went on through the
morning, and many a good
churchgoer decided that the
emergency justified him in skip
ping the services.
Before noon reports of the
damage done by the storm had
come in from the surrounding
country. Everybody had much
the same tale to tell--more
water than had eyer been seen
before. New Hope creek bridge
and the lesser bridges on the
State highway to Hillsboro were
washed away; and the so-called
FLAT" bridge on the old Pitts
boro road southwest of town:
and any number of smaller
bridges.
Toward the east the damage
was not so great as in other di-
rections. On the Chapel Hill Dur
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-08-07

Miss Estelle Lawson is visit
ing friends in Salisbury.
Evening star., 1924-06-09

These are hardwood extension
screens, size 1885 inches. Made of
well seasoned lumber, natural var
nished finish, with filing of fine black
wire cloth.
Other sizes, 69c to $lI0
Evening star., 1924-06-09
SMITH ADVOCATES
j DRY LAW REVISION
Urges That States Have Right to
Legalize Sale of Light
Wines and Beer.
:, SALOON GONE, HE DECLARES
Scores Klan-Wants Congress to
Fix Scientific Liquor Standard.
By thc Associated Press.

By rho Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June "A revision of
the Volstead act to allow states so
disposed to legalize the sale of light
wines and beers is urged by Gov AL
fred E Smith in the first public state
ment on the subject issued since he
became a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for President
Gov. Smith. in replying yesterday to
an inquiry regarding his stand on
prohibition. also said he believed the
ku Klux Khan to be contrary to the
very principles upon which this coun-
try was founded"
Based on Science.
He said he favored having Con-
gresS fix a maximum of alcoholic
content based upon science and
sound reasoning" allowing each
state to establish for itself whatever
alcoholic content it chose so long as
it did not overstep the limit set in
the national law.
The amount of light wines and
beer to be sold in states that chose to
lega1ize the traffic. as well as the
manner and media of their sale,
should be left to the states them
selves, said the governor.
Whatever alcoholic strength is
made legal in the future. the saloon
has gone for good, the governor be-
lieves.
He urged Strengthening of the
federal laws with regard to inter-
state commerce and the importation
of strong liquors. He said that most
was smuggled from foreign coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
0RLEAN WILL HEAD
AMERICANIZATION PAPER
Bulletin Will Reach Schools All
Over Countrq as Well as New
corners in This City.

Abra ham Orlean. former vice presi-
dent of the Americanization School
Association. has been elected editor
of the Americanization Bulletin. The
first issue of the paper since this cleo
tion has just been released.
Added to the regular features of
the bulletin are departments such as
literature, by Miss Mabel Perry of the
Public Library; popular science, Max
Kassov: history. Miss Cora McCarty,
and departments over which the bu-
reau of naturalization and the bureau
of immigration are in charge, and
others which are equally interesting.
These various departments will be
continued next month and hereafter
in each issue, it is announced.
The next issue is to contain all the
regulations relative to the new immi-
grafton law. This bulletin reaches
many Americanization schools all over
the country, and exchanges have been
established with many of them. The
paper also reaches hundreds of the
newcomers in this city, as we'll as
the native born.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
LEWIS |. SMITH KILLS
SELF WITH REVOLVER
Engraving Bureau Employe Found
by Wife With Bullet Wound
in Head.

Lewis L. Smith, fifty-one, an en-
ploye of the bureau of engraving and
printing, shot and Killed himself in
his apartment, at 1000 H street, today.
The shot was heard by Mrs. c. e.
Mansfield, wife of Detective Mans
field, who also lives at the same
address. Thinking it an explosion on
the street. she took no notice OF It
Mrs. Alice Smith, the dead mans
wife, later found her husband with
a bullet wound in his head and a
.32-caliber revolver by his side.
Smith had underwent a mastoid
operation in February and since that
time had been home suffering from
a nervous breakdown. He is a native
of Purcellville, Va, where ne has
three brothers. He has a number OF
relatives in the District. He had no
children.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
WAVES KILL EIGHT
NARROWED ON ROCKS
Swamp Motor Boat and Dash Oc-
cupantS to Death-Five
| Are Saved.

SANTA ANA, Calf, June Six
men and two boys. members Of a
fishing party. were pounded to death
on the rocks of Newport Bay jetty,
near hear, yesterday when the launch
in which they were heading out to
sea was swamped and capsized. Five
others were saved
All except one of the six men lost
were well known business men of
Santa Ana The two boys were sons
OF a Santa Ana merchant and died
with their father
for a days fishing when a heavy
wave flooded the boat and killed the
engine. As the boat drifted broad
side onto the swells il overturned her
close to the jetty, against the rocks
on which eight of the party of thir-
teen met their death.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
STUDEBAKER
Just Drive 1t; That's All
Girls Keep Your Skin
Clear and Fresh

No matter how wei you dress,
how attractive your personal
ity, or how talented YOU may
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Thousands now realize that the
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Before you know it You have q
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other good druggists. Ve-Lak
Co, Atlanta, Georgia.-Adver-
tisement.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
Had Ridden 100000 Miles.

NEW YORK, June 9.-F'ew men
have ridden on trains as much as
Fred Garrison. New York Central
railroad conductor, for the past sew
enteen years who started out yester-
day to spend a months vacation rid
ing. Garrison has ridden 10000 miles
as a business. He is off now to add
10000 more to his record-this time
as a diversion.
Garrison, who has been conductor
on the Hudson division Of the New
York Central most of the time. Will
visit Seattle. San Francisco and points
between.
Evening star., 1924-06-09

-Apartment-style Indiana brand
Refrigerator, 75-pound ice ca
pacity; porcelain lined. Regu-
larry S43.98.
". Kann's-Third Floor.
Evening star., 1924-06-09

-AlI-steel White Enamel Re-
frigerators, Gurney make; have
nickel hardware. Regularly
S4o.oS.
Evening star., 1924-06-09
In an Extraordinary Tuesday Sale at
$6.95
Actual $40 to $15 Values

that's
sale that here But it's surprising
examples Youthful styles TERED skirt
bouan effects Sports styles in slim straight
probably have before little
and Wonens Our advice they'll soon be
gone Additional has provided