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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-09
Mortified News News

twelfth birthday on Monday after
noon at her home on Oakcrest av
Games We're enjoyed by those
present, after which refreshments
were served in the dining room
which was decorated in pink and
yellow for the occasion.
Those present We're: Dorothy
Roat, Mary Wilkinson, Edythe
Martin, Anna Sutton, Antoinette
Majane, Grace Dansberry, Marie
Carlson, Florence Carlson, Earle
Wilson, Egbert English, William
Casio, Horace Sutton, Earle Lee,
Mae Barclay, Mrs. Harry Carlson,
and Mrs Jane Barclay.
Complete Decorations
The iron arches at the entrance
of Tudor Terrace are completed,
and when lighted at night present
a very unique appearance.
Wrought iron street signs have
been placed on the Haddon Hall
property, greatly improving the
street corners.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allardice
and daughter Betty, who having
spent several months at Rockford,
H., are now located in the Adj
ans house on TiltOn road.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Heffernan,
of Shore I'd, had as their guests
over the holidays, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Greer and son Billy, Of
New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs O. L. Lawson, of
Shore I'd, recently entertained
Mrs. Mary Preston and daughters,
the Misses Polly and Peggy Pres
ton, of Philadelphia; also their
daughter, Miss Martha Lawson,
who attends the Philadelphia Nor
NAL school.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Meredith,
of Mt. Vernon ave, accompanied
their niece, Miss Nellie Meredith,
to Philadelphia.
Miss Emma Graham, of North
field av., entertained a house party
over the holidays. The guests
were: Miss Sarah Sturgess, of
Morristown; Miss Edna Braden-
burg, Miss lola Thurston, and
Miss Blanche Rundquist, all of
Oakland, Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Isaac, of
Mortified ave-, entertained over
Easter Mr.. and Mrs. Russell P.
Lodge and Miss Bertha McCon-
nell, of Camden.
Mrs. Helen Bolhem, of New
York City, was a guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin Sutton, of Oak
and Zion rds.
Miss Gertrude Guion and her
brother, Lawrence, visited their
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Edward
GuiOn.
Howard A. Stout, of Shore I'd,
has joined his family in Florida
for several weeks. Mrs. Stout and
children have been spending sew
eral months at Palm Beach. Miss
Mary A. Stout returned home
from the south recently.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-09
Pointed Paragraphs

Happiness doesn't consist in
having what you want, but in not
having what you don't want.
The old principles remain in
tact. All that is required is a
new crop to die for them now and
then.
The brain isn't the most trust
worthy organ. The stomach is
the first to discover that the boot
leeger is a liar.
dix sausage with the bread
which is being prepared for filling
the turkey.
The man who poses as lion In
society is usually bear at home
Silver must be the kind OF
money that talks, as silence is
said to be golden.
Our respect for old age depends
greatly on whether it is applied tC
men and women or to boarding
house poultry-Chicago News.
A girl often wonders If a GER
tain young man wonders if she
is thinking of him.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Glee Clubs Trip
Singers Are OFF on a Tour in
Western North Carolina

Thirty students composing the
University Glee Club will leave
today (Friday) on tour during
which they will give five con-
certs. T. Smith McCorkle will
be the violin soloist.
The first appearance will be at
Randolph-Macon Institute in
Danville, Virginia, tonight. To-
morrow evening there will be a
concert in Salisbury; Sunday
evening in the First Baptist
church of Charlotte; Monday
evening in Waynesville; and
Tuesday evening in Asheville.
The sacred concert in Char
lotte Sunday evening will be
broadcasted from station WBT,
on a wave length of 275. The
church services begin at 8 o'clock
and the singing will begin prob
ably around $3.50.
Wednesday the club will be
back here for classroom work.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
School Honor Roll
Names of Students Who Have Ex-
celled in Scholarship

The high school honor roll
just issued contains the follow
ing names:
Grade 8: Catherine Clark,
Virginia Lee Harrison, Virginia
Ledbetter, Fred Patterson, Eliza
Taylor, and Tom Walker.
Grade 8: Fred Koch, Isaac
Manning, and Christine Pender-
graph. -r
Grade 10: James Barrett,
George Henry, Ben Lane, and
Mary Adams.
Grade IL: LYDIA Eubanks, Lo-
la Harvard, Esther Metzenthin,
Katherine Morgan, and Rosa
Raney.
The honor roll for the fourth
and fifth grades is as follows:
Grade A: Lucille Bennett,
Madeline Brown, Billie Daggett,
Tom Mosher, John Pavlakis,
William Tankersley, Gilbert
Wagstaff, Audrey Williams.
Grade s: George Corbiss,
Shelton White, Billy Foister,
Robert Foister, Paul Mosher,
Constance Patten, Juanita Toll
bert, Katherine Pendergraft,
Virginia Burch, Thelma Poy-
-thress, Billy Weaver.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Attention, Veterans!
COnfederates Are Notified of Meeting
by Commander VIM. Cain

The Confederate veterans of
Camp Ashe are requested to
meet at Chapel Hill, on Satur-
day, May 8, in the rear room Of
the quarters formerly occupied
by the Peoples Bank, at 1920
A. NJ, for the transaction of
business. The Camp will attend
the decoration of graves at the
cemetery, and, at noon, will as
semble at Gerard Hall to have
the annual address.
1t gives me pleasure to an
nounce that the speaker will be
Judge Robert Winston, whose
name is so familiar to you. The
public is cordially invited and it
is hoped that many will attend.
After the exercises, the Polk
chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, with their proven
bial sympathy for and interest
in the veterans, will serve them
dinner in the Episcopal Parish
House. | trust that there will be
a good attendance at all the ex-
ercises.
WILLIAM CAIN,
Commander, Camp Ashe.
J. M. CHEEK,
Assistant.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Reported Dead, Is Alive
False Record on Tablet in Memorial
Hall Will Be Corrected

T. S. Webb, of the class of
1862, is recorded on a tablet in
Memorial Hall as among the
Confederate dead. But he is
very much alive. At the age of
sc he is the senior partner of
the law firm of Webb, Baker, and
Egerton of Knoxville, Tennes-
see.
For 40 years the name of Mr..
Webb has remained on the men,
orial tablet of marble. On his
visits to the Hill he would often
see the record, but he didn't OBJ
ject. Four years ago, however,
his daughter-who has since
died-came with him to Chapel
Hill, and she asked that the tab
let be removed. Through some
oversight it was not done; but
now Charles T. Woollen, business
manager of the University, has
engaged a marble worker to
come over from Durham and at
tend to the job.
In a letter to his relative, A.
H. Patterson, Mr.. Webb incloses
the copy of a letter to d. l..
Grant, secretary of the Alumni
Association, explaining the false
death record.
In 1862, in front of Corinth,
Mississippi, General Grant was
about to turn the Confederate
flank, cut the Mobile and Ohio
railway, and thereby prevent
General Beauregard from carry
ing away his immense stock of
supplies.
The young officer was or
dered Brigadier General Don
elson to carry an important
message to the 9Th Tennessee
regiment. He had to pass
through lane separating two
small fields, and there he found
himself in a crossfire of bullets.
One struck his saddle. He
spurred his horse on to where
the Tennessee regiment had
been stationed. But it had been
driven back, and he found him
Continual on Psge foar)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Chapel Hill Chaf

Entering the hallway of the
New West building one day last
week, l saw on the floor just
beside the entrance of Paul John
WeaveE's office a great long box
whose shape left little doubt of
the character of the contents.
And, sure enough, a closer look
revealed the trademark of a
coffin company. Now, what
would a coffin be doing here? l
asked myself. The thought pop
ped into my head that perhaps
Mr.. Weaver might have got it
to set up in view of the Glee
Club, during the rehearsal of
dirges, to induce the proper note
of melancholy in the singers
tones.
y ~
However, l wasn't quite salts
fled with this guess, so | made
inquiry of Mrs. Graham, Mr.
Weaver's secretary. She told
me the coffin was the property
of some fraternity, being one of
the accessories of the initiation
ritual. She said that it's near
ness made her feel creepy when
sometimes she had to stay at
work in the evening with no.
body else in the building, and |
sympathized with her in her
wish that the owners get it out
of the way forthwith.
Sir Toby, the Mangums' bull
terrier, is in the dog hospital in
Durham, having been taken
there a week or so ago to have
his ears treated. Mrs. Mangum
and Miss Alma Holland went
over Saturday to visit him and
to take him the article of food
to which he is most passionately
devoted: peanut brittle.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Circumvent the CurculiO!

The curculio, or peach worm,
causes heavy damage to peach
orchards. To kill off this pest
c. H. Brannon, extension ento-
mologist at State College, recon-
mends a spray made of one
pound of arsenate of lead to SO
gallons of water, plus limewater
from 3 pounds of stone lime, or a
dust made of 5 per cent. of lead
arsenate and 95 per cent. of
stone lime.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Sdville in South
America

Far-away lands are never
made so vivid to me by descrip-
tions in print-or even by such
splendid photographs as appear
in the National Geographic Mag
azine-as they are by a few
minutes talk with friend back
from his travels. For one thing,
what he tells you is so much
fresher. In the interval be-
tween the writing of an article
and it's coming off the press a
volcanic eruption may have de-
molished part of the country
under review, or the government
may have been upset, or great
new engineering or commercial
ventures may have changed the
whole aspect of the national life.
But your friend, when you meet
him only a day or so after he
has debarked from his steamer,
serves you, as it were. with a
meal hot off the griddle.
Thorndike Saville is just back
from Venezuela, where, for the
International Health board and
the Venezuelan government, he
is going to design water supply
and sewer systems for the lead
ing cities. This first visit was
in the nature of a reconnaissance
he stayed in the country only
about week. Together with
Mrs. Saville and the baby he will
sail from New York July 3, on
a United Fruit Company boat, to
begin a stay of a full year. On
the way they will stop over for
a few days in the Panama Canal
Zone.
Venezuela is in the grip of the
oil fever now. Already it is
Continued on page fon<l.
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charge to 81.

charge to 81.
There are now about $50 pu-
pills from outside this district
for whom tuition is being paid
to the Chapel Hill school. This
means a revenue of $3.50 a month
to the school; but, even So, the
school is worse off than it was
last year because of the with
drawal of county appropriations
formerly made on account OF the
admission of outside children.
How the people Of Carrboro
stand upon the township con-
solidation plan is in doubt.
There is said to be considerable
sentiment there for the reten-
Monf of the present arrange
ment; the advocates of the con-
solidation, however, think it
would be to the decided advan-
tage of Carrboro, and they be-
lieve a majority of the citizens
there, having examined the pro-
posal thoroughly, will come g.
round to that view.
AS it is now, Carrboro is pay
ing a special Ascent school tax
to carry the bonds issued for the
building, and Is cents more for
maintenance. Under the town.
ship uniform tax plan, the levy
in Carrboro for schools would
not be any more than now and
would probably be less. The
school there is open eight
months now; as part of the
township system it would be
open nine months. And no
doubt it would have a junior
high school course added.
1t is not at present the idea
to attempt Immediately the
consolidation of the one-teach-
er schools with the Chapel Hill
and Carrboro schools. Later on
when the roads were improved
and when the school facilities in
the two towns were expanded
that might be done.
If in the special election the
vote is against the township dis
trict, the Chapel Hill school
board will then consider an al
tentative plan, which will prob
ably be the extension of the
limits of the present district to
take in homes which are really
a part of the Chapel Hill village
community.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
CUTOFF LOWEST
BY ROAD THROUGH
DUKEUNIVERSITY
This Route Will Be a Great
Convenience to Travellers
to and from Here
MANY MILES TO BE SAVED

A concrete highway to be
built through the campus of the
new Duke University-connect-
ing at one end with the Chapel
Hill-Durham highway and at the
other with the Central highway
between Durham and Hillsboro
will serve as a cutoff between
Chapel Hill and the west.
This is one of many roads for
which surveys are now in prog
ress under the direction of the
trustees of the Duke Founda-
tion. Some of them have actu-
ally been staked out, and it is
thought that construction may
begin before the first of July.
1t is probable that the connec-
ton between the two state high
ways will not be the first of the
new Duke roads, for those lead
ing to the reservation from the
city of Durham are apt to have
priority on the building sche-
dule. For these are necessary
for the transportation of ma
terials both for building opera
tions and for the prosecution of
the road program!
For travellers between Chapel
Hill and the western part of the
state this cutoff will be a great
cOnvenience-certainly until
the highway from here to Hills
boro is paved. This latter route
is serviceable enough in good
weather, but when rain has
been falling, as we'll as when the
dust is plentiful, motorists like
to avoid it.
The wooded tract where the
new Duke University is to be
built lies to the southwest of
Durham on both sides of what
people have long known as the
Riggsbee road-the route that, a
few years ago, was used con-
siderably for travel between here
and Durham. This road will be
crossed by the cutoff, which will
come into the Chapel Hill-Dur-
ham highway about four miles
from Durham and into the Cen
tral highway at perhaps about
the same distance from the city.
The motorist from Chapel
Hill to Hillsboro and beyond,
following the short cut, will not
only save four or five miles, as
compared with the trip through
Durham, but will be freed from
the delays caused by the crowd
ed traffic in the city streets.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
May Ask Election ON Question
OF Township School District

The school board of Chapel
Hill will probably apply to the
county authorities for a special
election to determine whether or
not Chapel Hill township shall
be created a school district. The
board, which had a meeting last
Thursday night, is to meet a
gain to decide definitely upon
the question of making the ap-
Eplication.
Those who favor the plan hope
they may get to an election this
summer or fall.
If the voters should approve
the scheme all the schools in the
township-Chapel Hill, Carr
boro, and seven one-teacher
schoOls-would be consolidated
into single system and there
would be a uniform township
school tax. The Indebtedness
of each school now in the terri
tory would be assumed by the
new township district.
A year ago it was thought that
there would be lively opposition
among the country people in the
township; but within the last
two months many of them have
been forced to pay tuition for
the attendance of their children
at the Chapel Hill school, and
the possibility of escaping this
charge through a uniform tax
rate may have produced a re-
verSal of opinion.
There are a great many cltl-
zens outside the limits of the
present Chapel Hill district who
would pay much less under the
uniform tax plan than they have
to pay in tuition for the three
months over and aboVe-.the sta
tutory six-months term.
For instance, there is one
widow who is now paying $25
a month tuition for her five chill
dren-a total of $75 for the
three months from March l to
June /.
In most cases the tuition of
only one child costs a family
more than that family's tax
would be under the proposed
consolidated plan. A child who
lives beyond walking distance
has to pay, also, So month bus
fare, bringing the monthly
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
COnnOr and Battle Coming

George w. Connor, associate
justice of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina, and Kemp D.
Battle, practicing attorney in
Rocky Mount, will each give a
course of lectures in the Univer-
sity's law school this summer.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Community Club Meets

The Community Club meets
this afternoon (Friday) at $3.50
in the Episcopal Parish House.
There will be a ratification of
the election of new officers. All
members are urged to attend.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Hibbard in Baton Rouge

Addison Hibbard, member of
the faculty in the English de-
partment and acting dean of the
college of liberal arts, is repre-
senting the University of North
Carolina this week at a celebra-
tion of the University of Louis
lana in Baton Rouge. He stops
over in New Orleans for a day
or so. ...
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Henderson in Virginia

Archibald Henderson left Sun
day for the University Of Vir-
ginia as exchange lecturer. He
delivered three talks on "Rela-
tivity" Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday evenings.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
TO
GOTO NEW YORK
FOR CONVENTION
North Cardinals Drug Men Will
Visit Metropolis On
+ Chartered Boat
GOV. SMITH THEIR GUEST


"Well, why not make a sea
trip to New York" suggested
Grover Beard to Clyde Eubanks
one afternoon as they sat in the
back of the drugstore discussing
plans for the next convention of
the North Carolina Pharmaceu-
tical Association.
| This startled the conservative
vice-president of the association,
but as the secretary-treasurer
proceeded he warmed up to the
idea.
And so the drug men of
North Carolina about 500 of
them, are going to charter a
Norfolk-New York boat of the
Old Dominion company for their
1926 meeting. They will sail
late in the afternoon of Monday,
June 21, arrive in New York at
noon on the 22nd, stay in the
city two days, and land back
at Norfolk on the morning Of
the 25th.
AS a result of the interest dis
played in the project by George
Gordon Battle, native North
Carolinian now resident in New
York, Governor AL Smith has
accepted an invitation to address
the visitors at their banquet in
one of the big hotels. Other
guests will be Mayor John J.
Walker and Judge Olvany, the
Tammany Hall chieftain. Mr..
Battle will be POSTMASTER.
Four business sessions will be
held on the sea, two on the way
north and two on the way back.
The time in the metropolis will
be devoted almost entirely to
fun; possibly a little business,
in the form of visits to drug
manufacturing establishments,
will be mixed in.
Clyde Eubanks is in for the
novel experience of being elected,
while on the high seas, to the
presidency of the association.
He is now vice-president, and it
is the rule for the vice-president
to move up to the presidency.
But it is also the rule that in
order to attain this eminence he
must be present at the election
meeting; hence, if the fear of
sea-sickness deters Mr.. Eubanks
from going-as there are hints
that it will-he will have to give
up the honor. Mr.. Beard, Mr..
Bowman, and others of his
friends are seeking every day to
strengthen his resolution. They
are emphasizing the brevity of
the time spent on the ocean and
the unlikelihood of a storm in
the middle of June.
Mr.. Beard went to New York
to make arrangements for the
convention. Mr.. Battle enter
tanned him at luncheon at the
Bankers Club, introduced him
to Mayor Walker, and, upon
their parting, offered to make
a trip to Albany to convey the
invitation to Governor Smith.
The pharmacists will gather in
Greensboro on the morning of
the 21st to take a special train
for Norfolk; and on their way
back from Norfolk on the 25th
they will stop over at Tarboro at
midday for a barbecue. All the
travel arrangements are being
made by the Edgerton Touring
Company of Greensboro.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Poole Accepts Invitation

D. S. Poole, member of the
House of Representatives from
Hoke county, will speak on evo-
luton in Memorial Hall, May 18.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
WILLIAM CAIN.
Mrs. PrOuty's Reception

Mrs. Prouty gave a reception
Tuesday afternoon in honor of
Mrs. George, Mrs. Meyer, and
Miss Little.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30
Eastern Carolina Cows Fare Bet
ter than Flappers

"The average farm family in
eastern Carolina" says S. j. Kir-
by, state extension pasture
specialist, Spends more for hay
than it does for clothes for the
family"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-04-30

Harold D. Meyer delivered an
address before the leaders and
workers of the Community
Chest of Durham last week.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-06-09

WEDNESDAY-THURSDA JUNE 0-1O
SEVEN SINNERS" Marie Provost and
Give Brooks in q crook story, full Of
action and comical situations. Episode,
"Bar-C Mystery and Comedy. Price, Is
cents.
FRmAY-sATURDAY, JUNE 11.12
LAZY BONES" rural drama with
Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Zasu Pitts
playing the leading roles. This is Q
highly interesting picture and will inter-
est everyone. News and Comedy. Price,
rs cents.
MONDAY-TUESRAY, JUNE 14.15
'ROMOLA," with Lillian Gish, Dorothy
Gish and Ronald Colman. This is
truly great picture, taken from George
Eliots story of the same name. It is an
education in itself and should be seen by
everyone. Spotlight and News. Prices,
35 and is cents.
NOTICE.
Only one show, starting at 7.3O. and
owing to our contract with the producers
of "Romola," we are forced to charge
IS cents for adults and Is cents for chill
dren.
Matinee Monday at 2 o'clock.
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MARRIED.

sH-ABBOTT-At Orono, May 20. by
Rev. Leroy Hassen, Miss Angie M.
Ash to Leslie Irwin Abbott, both OF
COUSINS CARTER - At Sedgwick,
May 20, by Ralph E. Dority, esq,
Miss Gladys E. Cousins to Earl H.
Carter, both of Sedgwick.
COVEY-BRACY-At Ellsworth. June
4. by Rev. A. T.. Bradstreet, Miss
Leone Maxine Covey to George
Homer Bracy, both of Lamotne.
-PHILBROOK-At Swans Is
land, May 20, by Rev. H. A. Burn,
ham. Rae H. Colt of Swans Island
to Lyford Philbrook of Vinalhaven:
SEAVEY JARVIS - At Southwest
Harbor. June 8, by Rev. Oscar L.
olsen, Miss Mildred E. Seavey Of Ad-
olson to Kenneth E. Jarvis OF Isles
ford.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-06-09

the body mechanism is in good run
ming order.
"The results of health examina-
tions are to lengthen and enrich the
life Of the person examined"
-Tobey.
What Should be Our Aim?
To set our own house Of health in
order and keep 1t 80.
A yearly fee to q physician to ex-
anime you thoroughly is becoming q
popular habit. It often means early
discovery Of symptoms of heart and
kidney diseases, cancer, ETC., which
may be cured II taken in the early
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BORN.

ANDERSON-At Sullivan, June 8, to
Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, a
daughter. Dorothy Ethel)
DAVIS-At Sullivan, June 8, to Mr..
and Mrs. Curtis Davis, SON. Brad
bury Eugene.)
CARPENTER-At Sullivan, June 8. to
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Carpenter, son.
civilian Edwin.)
CARLSON-At Swans Island, May 9,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Carlson, son.
STURGIS-At Portland, June Z, to Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Sturgis.
daughter. -
WITHEE-At Swans Island, May IL,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Wfthee,
daughter. (Beulah Gertrude.)