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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
EdenS Hosts
Before Dance

Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Eden will be
hosts at dinner next Tuesday even.
ing at their home at The Highlands,
preceding the dance Mr. and Mrs.
James ID. Hoge win give at their
home. "Sunnycrest."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
ADDITIONAL CLUBS

LADIES or GOLDEN NORTH
Ladies Of tho Golden North will
give a card party Friday evening.
July H. az s o'clock. AZ iszsls
First ave All Alnskana visiting IN
the city are especially invited.
CLUB PICNIC
The Seattle Woman's club Will
hold its annual picnic on the spa.
cious grounds OF Mrs. ". 4.
shinkls's home. 7lOs s5th ave. 8
", Monday. July 20. al 1890
o'clock Guests win take cars No.
2 or on First ave. 10 551h ave.
bus line Mrs, IT, W Rullfson Is
chairman Of arrangements WEST
1908.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
Entertains for
Bride-Elpct

For the pleasure OF Miss Sylvia
Ennis. whose engagement to Mr..
Donald Hall was recently an
nounced, Miss Ruth Town enter
tanned with nah Jongg party at
her home Wednesday evening. a
shower was an added compliment.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
BUSINESS WOMEN TO
HAVE OIRrING

on Sunday. July goth. members
OF the Seattle Business and Pro.
fessional Women's club will take a
boat trip 20 Manchester Miss Edna
+, Nichol. chairman OF tho recrea.
ton committee. rs In charge Of tho
arrangements.
The party Will leave AK az 10
o'clock In the morning. and mem.
berB can return at 3. or Z in the
afternoon. After lunch there will
be swimming and hiking. Those
planning 20 join the party should
make reservations with the execu.
tive secretary. Miss Buchanan. not
later than July 23rd.
The club VIII have n picnic ut
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
Hosts at Small Dinner

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Goodwin
win entertain with a small dinner
Monday evening, July 20, at the
Seattle Tennis club.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
Says Children Not
More Criminal Now

OAKLAND. Cal. July i7.-Ths
popular idea tsat juvenile crime Is
increasing steadily in America has
been floutsd By Or. George ".
Kirchwsy. former Sing Sing warden
and head Of the criminology depart
ment OF 'hs New York School Of
Social Research.
In an address here Kirchwey de-
ciared that there 81 no statistical
evidence that children are commit
ting more crimes than IN former
years and am convinced that the
assumption Is incorrect"
The crimlnOlogist, who IL lecturing
In the summer session at the Uni
yeraity Of California. attributed the
notion Of Increasing juvenile delin-
quency 70 IAN American penchant
for dramatlzatlon."
Mount Baker park Tuesday even.
ing. July p. at gao o'clock. Mem.
bera viii bring lunch. Coffee win
be served by The committee.
ANNUAL PICNIC AT
SILVER LAKE
The annual picnic OF Olympic
Camp. r. n. A. will be held at
Silver Lake Sunday. July 10. Au.
tomobiies win leave the II. W. A.
hail at o3O a. m.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Seattle Review. No. 8. W. y. A.
OF the Maccabees. will hold It's an
nual memorial services Thursday
evening, July %. at o'clock. in A.
o. U. w. haU , Ninth Ave.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17

remove Saturday to creosote. across
the Sound, for the remainder OF the
summer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
IN Charge at Thrift Shop
Clubs
CLUBS FOR SATURDAY

PICNIC AT
WOODLAND PARK
Former residents OF Amador coun.
ty, California, viii picnic at Lower
Woodland park. Saturday afternoon
and evening, July IS. For particu.
lars. call Mrs. William Verran, Sun
set2s0s, or Mrs. Henry Morgan.
MAin.ss42.
IONA CHAPTER PICNIC
Ionia chapter is giving basket
picnic Saturday, July IS, at Mrs.
Ann Hollis home, ss15 4sth ave. 8.
Take Rainier car get Off Mt Glover.
Take Rainier car, get off at Clover.
BASKET LUNCH
Former residents Of Fergus Falls
will picnic at Woodland park, satur.
day, July IS. Tho club will furnish
coffee. cream, sugar and cups.
DoRTC CHAPTER TO PICNIC
Doric Chapter No. 60. o. ~. g.,
will give its annual picnic ut Roose-
welt Park, Saturday, July 10. Basket
dinner at 0 o'clock. Members OF the
chapter and their families invited.
ANNUAL PICNIC
The seattle chapter Of the Cbiea.
20. Milwaukee & 81. Paul Railway
Womcn's club Will hold It's annual
picnic in conjunction with the Ia,
coma chapter Saturday, July IS, at
Rodondo Beach. The party will
meet nt the Union station, Mt 1916
o'clock. BlNes and autos win leave
promptly ave- o'clock Mrs o. q.
Mercer, chairman Of the social com.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17

MYSTIC JEWEL CARD PARTY
Mystic Jewel. No. 49, Degree
staff viii have a whist party at
the home OF Mrs Emma Abbott.
li2s nth ave, Saturday evening.
July IL. Take Madrona car and
get off a, 18th ave. Members and
friends invited.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
BASKET PICNIC

mi,tse. is in charge OF the arrange.
ments.
BASKET PICNIC
Seattle chapter No. sS. o. +. s.,
VIII have a basket picnic at Lincoln
park. on the Sound. Saturday. July
is. afternoon and evening. Bring
well'fllled basket: also individual cup.
plate and silver Coffee. cream.
sugar and baked beans VIII DO FUR.
nished by the chapter. Dinner viii
be served al $40 o'clock.
Take Fauntleroy car on First ave.
and set off at park entrance. For
further Information call Nellie Gray.
cApltl.142s.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-17
Marriaae Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. George Karn an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Ruth, to Mr.. Harold Wilson. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Wilson, on
Wednesday afternoon. at the resi-.
dence OF the Rev William A. Major.
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mIltsc. s IN charg, % the arranEs.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
New Bus Station
C. H. ID. Line Opens a Place in Public
Service Building

The G. H. D. Line, which oper-
ates motor busses between here
and Durham, has opened it's new
station in the Public Service
building-the former Strowd
garage-next door to the tele-
graph office.
1t is both a waiting room and
a restaurant. In front and a
long the east wall are score of
seats for waiting passengers
along the south wall is the new
and shining establishment of the
Bus Lunch, conducted by j. E.
Gooch.
On the outside of the station,
by the door, w. P. Jordan, man.
ager of the bus line, has posted
the complete schedule. He has
his table and chair just inside
the front window.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Larger Attendance Likely

1t is impossible to tell, in ad-
vance of actual registration, ex-
actly how the number of Uni
versity students this year will
compare with the number in the
fall of 1924; but the indications
are that there will be an in
crease of about $50. Registrar
Wilson has received and accept
ed more freshmen's certificates
than had been accepted at this
time last September, and there
has been an increase in the num-
Der of applications from stu
dents in other colleges who'want
to take advanced work here.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
TAX VALUATIONS
ARE $2,955,555
Increase of $253,555 Since Last
Year Tax Rate for 1925
Fixed at $1.35
BOND ISSUES AUTHORIZED

At their meeting. this week
the aldermen received a report
from Town Manager Knox show
ing that the total assessed valu-
alton of real estate within the
town limits was $2,955,555.
The total for 1924 was
$2,702,OO0. Thus the years in
crease is $253,555.
The tax rate for this year
was fixed at $1.35, an increase of
= IL cents over last year. The
rate is made up as follows: town
operation, so cents, town bonds,
Is cents, school operation . SO
cents, school bonds 20 cents.
Ordinances consolidating many
bond issues into few, to COW
er all purposes for which bonds
are issued, were adopted by the
aldermen. The action was tax
en- upon the advice of j. L. More
head, the Durham attorney, who
has specialized in municipal
finance law and is recognized as
an expert in this field.
In the last few weeks Mr..
Morehead has made a study of
Chapel Hills financial situation,
and he finds that the amount of
bonded Indebtedness, in pro-
portion to tax valuations, Is
small as compared with the in
debtedness of other municipal
tiles in the state. The state
law allows a town to incur a
debt of as mueh as 8 per cent. of
Its total assessed valuations. In
cluding the bonds now about to
be issued for paving and other
purposes, Chapel Hill has an in
debtedness of about 3 1-2 per
cent. Thus it appears that the
town has a wide margin of
safety"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Manning Chases Car
Sees a Man Run Over Negro Boy !;
Learns License Number

An automobile, bowling along
eastward at high speed four
miles west of Hillsboro on the
State highway Saturday eve
ming, ran down a small negro boy
and knocked him unconscious.
The boy was out on the dirt
part of the road beside the pave
ment.
The traveller, instead of stop
ping to give aid to the boy,
sped on.
1t happened that in the car
just behind was James Manning,
Jr., of Raleigh. Mr.. Manning
saw the boy fall to the ground.
Seeing that a woman was at
tending to the youngster, he de-
cided to postpone his service to
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Chapel Hill Chaf

It is not from a meeting of
social scientists that l would
expect to see a man return with
a damaged leg, since the mem
bers of such a gathering are
concerned with conciliating and
improving their fellow men, not
with manning them. So I was
astonished when met H. w.
Odum, just back from the Dart
mouth conference, limping pain
fully into the Smoke Shop a day
or so ago. He explained that the
psychologists, historians, sociol-
ogists, and political economists,
had engaged in a baseball game,
that he had knocked a three
base hit, and that, upon reaching
third base, he had twisted his
ankle and fallen. He was the
pitcher for his side.
We had weeks upon weeks of
hot weather. 1t turned a bit
cooler toward the end of August,
and then, last week, another hot
wave came. Gerald Johnson was
ready for it. He came in from
Norfolk Sunday with a brand
new straw hat.
Frank Graham has got back
from Europe and will be here in
a few days. Wherefore Chapel
Hill will seem more itself. One
of the questions which has been
put to the Weekly often these
last two years is: what is
Frank Grahams address
am glad that a foreign land no
longer enters into the reply.
Il Il
When | was in Hillsboro Mon
day | saw a place on the court
house lawn where the grass was
killed. A Hillsboro citizen told
me that the whitening of this
area, of perhaps four or five
square yards, was due to the
pouring out of the contents of
captured still. l suppose it
must have taught the officers
of the law a lesson, because this
was the only such blot upon the
avn. Now they go a little fur
ther away from the building and
pour captured liquor into the
cutters along the street.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Paul Green's Books

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Green came
back Friday from a weeks va
cation in New York. In the six
days they were there they saw
six plays, two movies Zone of
which was Charlie Chaplin in
his new production, "The Gold
RushO, and two vaudeville per-
formances. And Mr.. Green got
about considerably among pub
fishers and managers.
The Mcbride company, pub
fishers, made a contract with
him to bring out a volume of
his short negro plays and secur-
ed an option on other plays and
stories upon which he is now at
work. The Provfncetown Play
ers will produce a fAGength
gro play which he completed
recently. His book of one-act
plays which Henry Holt is pub
fishing will be issued within
the next week or so
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Auction October 18th
StrOwd Farm Sale Will Include Novel
Bonus" Feature

Another section of the Strowd
farm, and part of the ridge
north of the Chapel Hill-Durham
highway, will be sold at auction
Tuesday, October 13. The own
er, the Chapel Hill Insurance and
Realty Company, has engaged J.
Franklin Barfield of the Durham
Auction Company to conduct the
sale.
A novel feature of the sale
will be the issuance to purchas-
ers, as a bonus, of shares in
land and development company
that is to take over at least 1000
acres adjoining the property Of
-fered at auction.
The land that will go under
the hammer October 13 COM
prises about 200 acres.
A new road is being built
through the StroWd farm, to the
South of the section sold last
April, running east from a juno
ton with the paved Chapel Hill
Durham highway. Before the
date of the auction there will be
an 8-inch trunk sewer leading
down from the property to the
towns new sewer line that pass
es under the highway near the
one-mile bridge.
Probably 200 building lots
will be offered at the sale. The
map shows the tract divided in
to units Is feet wide and from
$50 to 200 feet deep, but each
purchase of building lot must
include not less than three Of
these units. "
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11

these two and go after the man
in the car ahead.
The chase went on for four
miles. Mr.. Manning came near
enough to learn the number of
the New York license of the cul-
prit. Near Hillsboro the car
got away from him.
A. H. Graham. whom Mr..
Manning told of the affair, wrote
at once to the secretary of
state of New York, giving the
license number and asking the
name of the owner of the car.
When last heard from the negro
boy had regained consciousness
and was improving. If he turns
out to have been seriously in
jured, Mr.. Graham intends to
send an officer to New York to
get the driver and bring him
back to North Carolina for trial.
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Mr.. COnnOr's Stag Party

In honor of w. w. Pierson,
who is just back from Europe,
and of E. w. Knight, who sails
for Europe next week, R. D. W.
Connor had a number of their
friends in for an informal gath
ering Wednesday evening. Mrs,
Connor, assisted by Mrs. Bran
son, Mrs. Woollen, Miss Nellie
Robertson, and Miss Alice Noble,
served refreshments on the ter
race.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
President Chase Returns

President Chase, back from
his trip to Europe, arrived in
Chapel Hill Wednesday, He was
gone seven weeks, and spent
most of his holiday in London
and Paris. In Paris he ran a.
cross the Persons, Miss. Betsy
Balm, and other Chapel Hiliians.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11

Some unexpected outlays, for
tires and other necessities, re-
duced my supply of ready
money; so, when reached
Washington, l called in on an
| old friend, whom l had not seen
for many years, and asked him
if he would escort me around to
a bank and vouch for my integri-
ty so that l might get check
cashed. He drew a roll of bills
from his pocket and said: eve
don't need to go to a bank. Pm
all prepared for you, right here.
This is one of my regular occu-
pations, to give relief to busted
North Carolinians in Washing
ton" Naturally, l will not set
down the benefactor's name-it
is not the sort of advertisement
any man would welcome.
l have spent good part of
my life in big cities, but they
have always been, for me,
places primarily to work in and
not to look at. On various visits
to Washington, years ago, I was
absorbed in this or that job, and
my chief concern about build
ings and parks and monuments
was that they seemed constant
ly to be blocking the path to the
place l was bound for. It was a
novel and diverting experience,
last week, to invade the national
capital as a sight-seer.
The White House and the
Capitol, the Monument, the
Smithsonian, the Corcoran, the
Lincoln Memorial, these all | en-
joyed, but nothing else so much
as the parks and driveways-
the trees and the lawns and the
shrubbery. Everywhere you
turn you see something green
and growing. Of course Wash
ington is done on grand scale,
and has the wealth of the nation
to support it; but if other cities
and towns, even to the extent of
their resources, would seek to
cherish their trees in like
fashion, this America would be
a far more slightly land.
1t was refreshing to find that
the police, and the government
watchmen, custodians, guards,
and functionaires of one kind or
another, were always trying to
make it easier for you to do what
you wanted to do instead of di-
recting you to move hither and
yon according to a lot of rules.
l have been in other places
where one gets the impression
that the authorities are possess
ed of a mania for inventing and
enforcing Don'ts.
While | was there the Wash
ingtOn Post published an edi-
torial reviewing the city's rec
ord of automobile accidents for
the last twelve months. Most of
the victims were pedestrians,
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
NEW JAIL TO BE
:. FINISHED JAN. l
Faces Courthouse and Is Design
ed to Harmonic with Old
er Building
COST is AROUND $e5,OOO

1t is expected that Orange
county's new Jail, upon which
work has already begun, will be
completed about January 1st.
This building will embody the
most modern ideas in Jail con-
struction. 1t is to stand just to
the east of the courthouse and
across the street. On the ex-
terror it is of Colonial design,
with brick walls and a columned
porch, harmonizing with the
courthouse.
The total cost, including the
land and the furniture and equip
ment, will be around $65,O0O.
To raise this amount the county
will issue bonds, probably in
November. The term of the
bonds is not yet decided but it
is likely to be not less than 80
years.
This spreading of the cost
over a long period will cut down
the annual burden upon the tax
payers. 1t is thought that an
addition of 5 cents to the tax
rate will take care of the inter-
est and amortization of the
bonds.
The main building contract
was let to w. H. and T. H. Law
renee, and the contract for the
cells and other jail equipment
to the Pauley Jail Works. John
L. Foister of Chapel Hill installs
the plumbing, and T. A. Miles
the heating plant.
The plans of the architects,
Milburn, Heister and Co., show
the entrance from the broad
porch in front to reception
hall. On the left of this is the
living room. Back of these two
rooms are the jailer's office and
the kitchen. Above, at the front
of the building, completing the
accommodations for the jailer
and his family, are the bed
rooms.
A brick wall, stretching from
the top to the bottom of the
building, separates the family
quarters from the Jail section
on both floors. On the upper
floor the wall is not broken at all.
On the ground floor it is broken
by one steel door leading from
the jailer's office to a corridor,
and across this corridor is a
steel barrier beyond which are
the cells.
On each floor the cell section
is outfitted with ample baths
and sanitary facilities, and
Continued on page toar)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Will Improve Road
Commissioners Vote to Work Stretch
Leading toward Raleigh

The Orange county commits
sioners, at their meeting in
Hillsboro Monday, voted unani-
mously, upon the motion of ].
D. Webb, to put road gang at
work, within the next week or
so, upon the Orange County part
of the old Raleigh road leading
out of Chapel Hill by the ceme-
terry.
Blake's hill, a little way be-
yond the cemetery, is the worst
part of the two-mile stretch to
be improved. 1t is rocky and
rough, and, in wet weather, mud
dy. The county road authorities
are going to widen it, smooth it
down, and drain it properly; and
at certain places they may de-
eide to straighten out the curves.
They are fortunate in having a
supply of gravel near at hand
for surfacing.
In Durham County the task
is to build a deeper fill across the
lowgrounds near Needham
Lloyd's place. This is not re-
garded as a difficult or very ex-
pensive operation.
When the work is done the
traveller from Chapel Hill will go
out along the New Hope Valley
road as far as Evergreen Farm,
about 6 miles from the Chapel
Hill post-office. There he will
turn to the right, and for 7
miles to Nelson, which is on the
paved Durhamx Raleigh highway,
he will pass over a new road that
Durham county has recently
built in order to give access to
the farm life school at loves
Grove.
At the meeting in Hillsboro
Monday the commissioners were
addressed both by Mayor Rob
erson of Chapel Hill and J. L.
Morehead of Durham. Mr..
Morehead, who is a University
alumnus and is we'll known here,
told the commissioners that he
thought the opening of this
route would be great benefit to
both Durham and Orange coun-
ties and to both the towns of
Chapel Hill and Durham.
When Mr.. Webb spoke of the
aid that farmers had given in
road building in various parts
of Orange, Mr.. Robertson said
that he and other persons own
ing nearby land would contribute
$500 toward the improvement.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
Il VMzager an Tour

and in all but a few cases the
outcome of the trial in court
showed that the fault lay not
with the automobile driver but
with the person who got in his
way. l have never made any
pretensions to being a traffic
expert, but here l offer this
suggestion: Why not make
pedestrians wear tail lights?
My nearest approach to an
accident in Washington came
when a man afoot suddenly
crossed the street in front of
me, at a place where, for some
reason, the pavement was in
shadow. l couldn't see him un-
til | was almost upon him, and
then l jammed on my brakes.
A neat little light hanging to
his coat-tail would have given
him what the war experts call
high visibility" and would
have materially reduced the
perils of his life.
Speaking of inventions: when
you go to Monticello, the home
of Thomas Jefferson three miles
or so out from Charlottesville,
you find yourself as much inter-
ested in the great mans inven-
tions as in the beauty of the
house and the grounds.
In each bedroom is an alcove,
and here, in the old days, used
to be bed which was hoisted up
against the ceiling in the morn
ing and let down again at bed
time. The alcove is away from
the windows and between it and
the rest of the room are cur
tains. This idea does not com.
mend itself in these fresh air
worshipping days.
In the dining room is a huge
mantelpiece. At one end of it
is dumbwaiter connecting with
the cellar. This was for bring
ing the full bottles of wine up.
At the other end is another
dumbWaiter, the twin of the
first. This was for sending the
empty bottles down. These
dumbwaiters, which are too
small for anything but bottles
standing upright, are now as
out-of- date as the accommoda-
tions for sleepers. Thomas JEFF
ferson, seer and sage though he
was, could not foresee that his
airless alcoves would yield to
the triumph of hygiene and his
bottle transporting device to the
triumph of morals according-to-
Volstead.
A negro, whom one would
guess to be about seventy years
old, guided us through the fa-
nous home. He had all the
calm and dignity and good man.
ners which tradition associates
with the perfect house-servant
of the ante-bellum era. He
Continued on page troy
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Mrs. J. S. Ray of Carrboro has
gone to IGreenville, South Caro-
lima to undergo treatment for
her illness.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-11
HOwes in Park Place Home

Mr.. and Mrs. George Howe are
to live in the home, in Park
Place, that was occupied last
year by the Bakers.