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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Davie Woods
Battles History Inspires Robertson
with Idea for the Name

w. S. Robertson has decided
to give the name of Davie Woods
to the tract of land, just outside
the eastern limits of Chapel Hill,
which he is about to offer for
sale to home-builders.
This is in honor of William
R. Davie, the founder of the
University. Mr.. Robertson has
recently been reading in Kemp
P. Battles History of the Uni
versity the account of how Da-
vie and his associates roamed
through these woods when they
were looking for a site for the
institution hundred and thirty
five years ago, and it is this mar
rative that gives him the in
spiration for the name.
The public sale is set for Tues
day, October 13, but purchases
may be made privately in ad-
vance of that. A number of
University alumni have express
ed interest in the idea of acquir-
ing plots in the tract and are
planning to look the ground over
when they come to attend the
big celebration on University
Day, October IL.
Besides the land offered for
sale,. there are about 1000 acres
which are to be held aside for
future development, and the
buyers of plots receive, as a
bonus, shares in a company that
is to develop this reserved area.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
COMMUNITY CLUB
MAKES ITS PLANS
First Meeting Is Set for Next
Friday at $3.50 at the Meth
OdiSt Church
ALL WOMEN URGED TO JOIN

The Community Club will hold
it's first meeting of the season at
the Methodist church next Fri
day, September Is, at half past
three o'clock.
Mrs. H. F. Conner, president,
and her fellow officers and the
departmental chairmen are al
ready busy with their plans for
an active program.
eve are particularly anxious"
said Mrs. Conner yesterday, "to
bring ALL the women of Chap
ell Hill into the club, and to get
them ALL to taking a part in
the affairs of the community.
Our success depends largely up
on the extent to which we make
the organization what it's name
says it is-a genuine commun-
ity club"
One of the projects of the civ
les department will be an at
tempt to clean up the main
street of the town and, with the
cooperation of the municipal
government, to keep it clean.
The welfare department, un-
der Mrs. Wettach, has as it's
program a study of the vari-
GUS institutions of North Caro-
lima, and in January the chair
man will present to the club a
resume of this study.
Mrs. Weaver is in charge of
the music. She will conduct a
study class, and will have the
cooperation of the University's
music department.
The health of school children
will be the particular concern of
the health department, under
Mrs. Moody Durham. Mrs.
Beckett is coming to address
this group in October.
Mrs. E. w. Knight is the
chairman of the home econo-
mics department and Miss NAL
lett of the literary department.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Judge Fled Skunk
Mother Skunk Turned on r. w. Win
stOn, and He Departed

Judge Robert w. Winston re-
turned to Chapel Hill this week
from his summer in the North.
He had intellectual commun-
ion with notable men from all
over the earth, but none of his
discussions of politics, econom-
les, and philosophy was so lively
as the adventure he had when
out walking near Lake Sunapee,
New Hampshire.
AS he strobe at a brisk pace
along a woods road, about half a
mile from the resort, he found
himself within a foot or two of
something alive that had come
out of the brush beside the road.
1t looked to be an animal about
three feet long and three feet
broad.
The judge, puzzled, poked his
cane in it's side. At that mo-
ment he discovered that it was
not one animal but seven: a
mother skunk and six little baby
skunks. The mother was Of
Tended by the strangers inter-
ference, and straightway turned
her back and prepared to make
war in the only way skunks have
of making war.
Judge Winston, grabbing his
cane half way up, turned and
fled back toward the hotel at top
speed. His promptness of move
ment saved him from injury.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
"The City of the Dead Awakes'';
University Opening Breaks Calm

A moving picture of the
change that took place in Chapel
Hill between last week and this
week might well have some such
title as "City of the Dead A
wakes"
Eight or ten days ago the vii
lage was wrapped in calm. In
the sweltering heat a few people
dragged themselves along the
sidewalks, and in the stores the
merchants half-dozed away the
hours.
Then all of a sudden-it came
about almost as if by magic
the street was thronged. To
get from the post-office to the
bank you had to thread your
way in and out among hundreds
of students and teachers. To
make the transformation more
striking, a big storm came early
in the week and brought de-
lightful GOODNESS.
There is a zip in the air. It
is the liveliest period of the
year in Chapel Hill. AS you
walk through the campus and
along the streets you get the i'm
preston. that everybody is
charged with enthusiasm.
Football, of course, is one of
the leading subjects of talk a.
mong the students. They stand
about in groups, talking of the
former varsity men who are
back and of promising possibili-
ties.
Jealous fraternity men look
appraisingly at freshmen and
make plans for harvest of ini-
tiates.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Football Begins
Coaches Bill and Bob Fetzer Have
about so Men Practicing

With the Wake Forest game
scheduled for one week from to-
morrow-Saturday, September
26, in Chapel Hill-Coaches Bill
and Bob Fetzer have about 60
men in training. Grady Pritch-
ard and Robbins ("Runt") Lowe
are assistant coaches. Pritchard
and Lowe will take the fresh
team in charge within a few
days, but they will also continue
to help with the varsity.
Of last years varsity team
these line men are back: Nc
lver, Hawfeld, Robinson, Ep-
stein, and Braswell. The 1924
backs who have returned are
Sparrow, Devin, Dill, Under
wood, Bonner, Fordham, and
Hackney. Of the 1924 substi-
tutes candidates who were 1924
substitutes are McMurray, Whis-
nant, Warren, Josephs, Curlee,
and Lockhart.
Now seeking places on the
varsity, from last years fresh
man team, the following backs:
lzor, Ferrell, Wilkins, and Ten
ney, and with them Shuford
from the 1923 freshman team.
Candidates for the line, from
last years freshmen are: More
head, Newcomb, Block, Davis,
and Cheatham.
Apparently the team this year
will be of about the same weight
as last year, perhaps a little
heavier.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18

Miss Ruth Hatch of Salem,
Massachusetts, will take Miss
Katherine Bats place as secre-
tary to F. H. Koch. Miss Hatch
is graduate of the Curry school
of Boston. She has taught in
the children's department of
Curry, and at the Workshop in
Asheville, N. C. She is living
with her aunt, Mrs. Proctor, in
one of Miss Alice Jones apart
ments on North street.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Miss Toys Marriage

Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Toy have
sent out invitations. to the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss
Jane Toy, to Charles Coolidge,
in the Episcopal church, Chapel
Hill, Wednesday, October 7, at
six O'Clock in the evening. Mr..
Coolidge is a lawyer in Laramie,
Wyoming. He was a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford, and he and
Miss Toy became acquainted
when she went abroad q year
or so ago,
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Steiner, Tennis Champion

j. F. Steiner, professor in the
University, came back to Chap
el Hill a few days ago with a
handsome gold watch fob that
ne had won in a tennis tourna-
'ment. He and his partner won
the doubles in the summer
school tournament at the Uni
versity of Chicago. One Of
their opponents, in the final
match, was the University of
Chicago champion-which indi-
Gates that Mr.. Steiner was go
ing strong.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
"Lightnin'" " in Durham

The screen version of Light
min ., which broke the worlds
record for a long continuous
run, will be seen at the Paris
Theatre in Durham next Mon
day and Tuesday. Otis Harlan
plays the part of Zeb, the pic
turesque good-for-nothing. Jay
Hunt plays the role which was
taken in the original production
by Frank Bacon.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Chapel Hill Chaf

There are few tasks more irk-
some, to my way of thinking,
than unpacking ones furniture
and household goods and in
stalling them in a new home.
One citizen of Chapel Hill, how
ever, has found a way of allevi-
ating the punishment. He does
it to music. Three or four days
ago I happened to pass the cot
tage on the edge. of the Book
er estate, and through the doors
and windows l saw Mr.. and Mrs.
E. L. Mackie arranging their
tables, chairs, and bookcases.
AS the operation proceeded the
phonograph was. kept going at
full blast. When Mr.. Mackie
showed piece of furniture a.
cross the floor he showed it not
jerkily and irritably, but with
rhythmic and evidently happy
movements.
Frank Graham came in from
Europe with four suit cases and
three trunks loaded with books,
pamphlets, and clippings. He
took them first to Charlotte, and
now they are in Chapel Hill.
His task now for the next few
months is to digest them.
People who go from Chapel
Hill to the far places of the
earth often discover that the
name of the village is known
through the fame of the scholars
who inhabit it. Frank Graham
visited a friend at Roskoff on
the coast of Brittany, where are
situated the great geological lab
oratories of France. introduced
to a group of French scientists
he found himself taken to their
bosoms, as it were, because they
learned he was a fellow-towns-
man of H. V. P. Wilson's. They
had not seen Mr.. Wilson in the
flesh, l believe, but they knew
him through his published
works.
You hear Judge Winston tell
of having spent three months in
New England and not having
once been uncomfortably hot.
Looking back upon a fiendish
summer, here, and still swelter-
ing in mid-September, you Won
der whether the Judge is really
the benevolent gentleman he
looks, or rather a devil in human
Continued on page four
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Bynum Tenney's Son

One of the. candidates for the
Carolina football team this
year, a member of last falls
freshman team, is a son of the
Bynum Tenney who was a we'll
known figure in Chapel Hill
twenty-five years ago. Bynum
used to be a baseball player of
considerable renown in the viii
lage.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
In the Welfare School

Two of the new members of
the faculty of the University's
school of. public welfare are
Frank w. Hoffer and Roy M.
Brown. Mr.. Hoffer has bought
the house on Pittsboro street Oc-
cupied last year by Gerald w.
Johnson, and Mr.. Brown has
built a home in the Forest Hills
section.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
MethOdists' Rummage Sale

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church will hold a
rummage sale on Saturday of
next week, September 20, in
front of the old blacksmith shop
at the corner of Rosemary lane
and Columbia street, opposite
fire headquarters.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Mrs. ROyster Is Better

/ Friends of Mrs. James F.
Royster, who was i'll for several
are pleased to see her
up and about again. She has
returned from her vacation look
ing we'll and strong.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Mr.. Henderson a Grandfather

A daughter was born yester-
day morning in Salisbury to Mrs.
Claudius Clinton Ramsay. Mrs.
Ramsay was Miss Curtis Hen
derson, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Archibald Henderson. The
girl is to be named Mary Cur
tbs.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Mr.. and Mrs. Peacock

Erie Ewart Peacock, professor
in the school of commerce, was
married this summer to Miss
Vera Ward. They are now in
their new home in the Gimghoul
section.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Claude Currie Returning

Claude Cprri,e who has been
touring in the Canadian North
west, will be here almost any
day now. He will again serve as
President Chase's secretary in
the intervals of his studies in
the law school.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Church Windows Are In

The windows which were
made in England for the new
Episcopal church have been in
stalled and are eliciting much
admiration.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Bell and Coolidge Back or
Their Jobs

James M. Bell of Chapel Hill
and Calvin Coolidge, of Wash
ington, who spent the summer
vacation in Swampscott, Massa-
Chusetts, are back at work again.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-09-18
Abn Clancy Next Wednesday

Lon Clancy is coming to the
Pickwick next Wednesday in
"The Unholy Three" His last
appearance here was in "The
Hunchback of NOtre Dame" !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
Furniture For Gifts

Maple and Gum Secretaries.
Mahogany and Gum Secretaries.
Occasional Chair in cut velour .....
Cogswell Chair in cut velour.
High-back Armchair Rocker in wool ia
High-back Wing Rocker in mohair.
Adjustable-back Chair in tapestry :.
Arm Rocker in mohair, cane back an
Armchair in mohair, cane back and tap
Comeback Chair, spring seat.
CnilGrsns Rockers
Evening star., 1925-02-22

The whole affair was immortalized
later by the poet Pope in the lines:
THE Spaniards own they did a witty
thing,
Who cropt our ears and sent them
to the king"
OFF went the Spanish Guarda Costa,
taking jenkins quadrants, sextants,
tallow and British goods worth 112
British pounds sterling-apparen
everything but the sugar and the ear
of Jenkins. Jenkins picked up his
ear and put it in his pocket. OF that
there is plenty of evidence in the
events that followed
After much roundabout sailing
without quadrants or sextants, the
Rebecca got back to London, where
Immediately there was great growl-
ing along the water front and in the
coffee houses. The English news
papers from June 23 to June 81 are
full of it, Then on Thursday, June
%, 1871, Capt. Jenkins and employ ers
betook themselves to Hampton Court
and formally reported the matter to
the government, with the ear, all
wrapped in cotton, as Exhibit A.
But the government did not want to
fight the Spaniards just then, there
being something about a treaty that
Jenkins did not appreciate. So the
delegation was put off with words OF
sympathy and a promise to do some
thing some time.
The English people are slow even
about getting angry. But they know
their rights, and in the end they
usually have asserted them. The ear
of Jenkins was visible evidence of
the sort of Spanish arrogance that
kept up more or less during the next
seven years. Finally, in the Spring
of 1888, the English people could hold
in no longer. They grew furious. A
superheated debate over the "das-
tardly acts" of the Spaniards broke
out in Parliament.
During this long stewing period
Jenkins had been travelling up and
down the high seas, doubtless drink
ing the usual amount of rum and
eating the usual quantity of sea junk
but always preserving his severed
ear-in cotton. 1t must have been
thoroughly dried by then. History
does not tell whether he used any
preservative to cure it. Anyhow, he
turned up in London at the critical
moment, ear and all, and was prompt
ly summoned toappear before a COM
mittee of the House of Commons and
swear to everything that happened
seven years before at the entrance to
the summons he testified on April
Fools day, 1913, presumably produc-
ing Exhibit A, in cotton.
Although Sir Robert Walpole. min
lister of King George II, still did not
want war with Spain, he yielded to
popular clamor as was his habit
There was some delay, more excite
ment, a few actions by privateers, and
finally in 1888 the war got going as
a real war should.
x X x
Nov there was at that time in the
English Navy an admiral who
loved to wear an old grogram boat
coat, or, some say, breeches-and who
was in consequence affectionately
nicknamed by his sailormen, "Old
Grog." He became famous also for
another thing, which, although it did
not destroy his popularity with his
| crews, certainly put it to a severe
test. He was the first man ever to
introduce upon an English man-of-
Evening star., 1925-02-22
Rambler Studies History of Farm
Where First President Was Born
of the lyandN so We

THIS Sunday coming on Febru-
ary %, the Rambler thought
he might write a piece on
Il Wakefield, the farm on which
Evening star., 1925-02-22

- ROC and the ear of jenkins!
Curious, cryptic phrase.
U Strange that in such appar-
j. emily silly and meaningless
words there should be
Evening star., 1925-02-22

an international crisis. But when it
| did finally emerge into the open it
shook two continents; it badly bruised
! two great nations: it brought sad
bereavement to many a home in CO.
lonfal Maryland and Virginia, and 1t
threatened to change the whole
course of history.
Some ear, Strange that the person
| who gave his name to Mount Ver-
non should now be entirely forgotten
by all but historical gentlemen, while
his name lives on through the ages
chiefly because of the unmannerly
separation of jenkins ear from Jen-
kins' head in those far-off, rollicking
semi mi-buccaneering days Little did
| the irate. sword swinging Spanish sea
| captain know what he was doing for
| a nation yet unborn nor even ex-
| pected.
Londoners read In their newspa-
pers during the early summer of 1871
that Capt. Robert Jenkins, master of
the good ship Rebecca, had just re-
| turned to port after the most start
| ling adventures in the West Indies.
All the details of the voyage were re-
lated 1t seems that the Rebecca
left London in the previous Winter
and took on cargo of sugar at Ja-
| maica. Leaving that island on April
! 5, Capt. Jenkins ran into two weeks
| of Indifferent winds, and on April 20
| was found lettering around the en-
| trance to the Gulf of Mexico. between
| Florida and Cuba and not very far
| from the Spanish city of Havana
| found there, if you please, by a ves-
sci of the Spanish Coast Guard.
Now, the Spaniards had long con-
| sidered the tropic and the semi-tropic
| seas their own, or nearly so. Eng
land did not recognize the claim, but
| still she was trying not to be nasty
| about it-at least not yet. But Jen-
| kins' nearness to Havana looked sus-
| picious to the Spanish captain. He
| overhauled and boarded the inoffen-
sive Rebecca.
"Scoundrell" shouted he to the sur
| prised Capt. Jenkins. What do you
mean by running contraband goods in
| our seas? Know you not that Eng
| lishmen are not allowed to trade with
! Spanish ports hereabouts?"
II carry only sugar from Jamaica" :"
retorted Jenkins, trying to hold his
English temper.
BAH said the Spaniard. with a
great Spanish oath. I'll search your
ship and soon find your cargo of
hides and logwood and your Golfers
| filed with Spanish pieces of eight"
| And he did search, very roughly.
which made him angrier than ever.
| So he strung Capt. Jenkins up to the
| yardarm of his own ship, with a rope
| around his neck, and jiggled him up
| and down three times. If the rope
| had not been tarry and refused to
| slip, the moose would surely have
| closed and made an end of Jenkins,
| ear and all. He even tied the Re
| becca's cabin boy to Jenkins feet to
make him heavier.
His Britannia Majesty King George
| II shall hear of this" spluttered Jen-
| kins between hoistings, using an
| English oath fully as terrible as
| the Spaniard's.
x *
THEREUPON the Spanish officer of
the coast guard slashed furi-
| ously at jenkins ear, yanked it COM
| pletely off and threw ii in Jenkins
| very red face.
| Carry that to your king and tell
him of it," said he.
Evening star., 1925-02-22

When the chimney was pulled down
the Custis marker was broken, and
the pieces were thrown into clump
of bushes. / suppose those pieces have
sunk in the ground.
The Rambler has pleasant memories
of Cap'n Barker. George Guest was
purser of the Wakefield then, and
Greason (Billy, l believe it was) pre-
sided in little room full of conviv-
iality and glassware, which let us call
the gentlemen's refreshment room.
Over the door was a word of three
letters, the first of which was "B, -
the third r. and the middle letter
was the first of the alphabet. j Will
not write the word, because II might
offend some readers. Use your i'm
agination.
The Rambler would have gone this
Winter to get you new pictures and
a new story about Uncle Lal, now SO
years old; Agnes Writ Washington.
whose age is no concern of my read
ers; Paul Kester, and all the othe
good and kind old friends in Wash
ington-Land, but when the Rambler
got the notion to write Washing
ton birthday story for Washington's s
birthday IT was in that spell of
weather when the streets were ice
and slush and the country roads were
we'll you know what they were. |
would have gone on the ramble any
how, but this is how il happened:
Rain and sleet everywhere: the
outlook fierce. MY dear" l said,
soothingly, II have an important en-
gagement today
And she answered. sort of firm
like, who, and where?"
Dear, / am going to Oak Grove,
then down on Church Point, over to
the monument on Popes Creek, and !
can get back to the county road
somewhere near Potomac Mills"
Sounds as though it might be In
the country?'
Yes, dear, somewhat"
Put this steamer-rug around your
knees, light your pipe and drink this
hot toddy. Don't you know that II
eminent specialists, each one in need
of a new automobile, are sitting at
their phones hoping for a hurry call
to this house? Haven't we sent you
to sanitariums and hospitals so ex-
pensive and exclusive that the doctors
would make you take off your night
shirt and put on a dress suit and
white tie before the nurse would give
you tea and toast?"
But, my dear, there are my faith
full readers
Evening star., 1925-02-22

kthe Washingtons and Wakefield,
'England. The supposition is that
he read The Vicar of Wake
field" or some story in which Wake
field, the Yorkshire city; Edward Gill
bert Wakefield, English statesman,
or Gilbert Wakefield, English clergy
man, figured. If anybody knows why
William Augustine Washington call
ed the Pope's Creek farm Wakefield
instead of Broad Acres, Between-t the
Creeks, River View or Beauvoir, that
body has not mentioned it to the
Rambler, and he is not going to
guess his head off about the matter.
y r =
MO fragment of the house in which
~ Washington was born marks its
site. No drawing of the house is
known to have been made and most
likely none ever was made. Pic
lures of the house have been pub
lished, but these were drawn from
verbal descriptions of the house and
from examples of plain wooden Vir
ginia farmhouses of the period of
1892 and earlier and later. The
description from which most of the
pictures" of Washington's birth
house have been drawn is that writ
ten by Washington Irving about
1852
Washington Irving knew George
Washington Parke Custis of Airing
ton, and probably got the house
description from him, who perhaps
had 1t from some one who saw the
house before it was burned. The
date of it's burning has not been
preserved.
Here is Washington Irving's des-
cription of the house: George, the
subject of this sketch, was born the
22nd of February 11 February old
style). 1892, in the homestead on
Bridges Creek. This house COM
manded a view over many miles of
the Potomac and the opposite shore
of Maryland. 1t had probably been
purchased with the property and was
one of the primitive farmhouses of
Virginia. The roof was steep and
sloped down in low projecting
caves. 1t had four rooms on the
ground floor and others in the attic,
and an immense chimney at each
end. Not a vestige of it remains.
Two or three fig trees, with shrubs
and vines, lnger about the place,
and here and there a flower grown
wild serves to mark where garden
has been. Such at least was the case
a few years since, but these may
have likewise passed away. A stone
marks the site of the house, and an
inscription denotes its being the