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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-12-09
SHORTCUT ROAD
CONTRACT TO BE
LET ON Tuesday
State Has Already Taken over
the Stretch from Nelson
on to Chapel Hill
GRADING TO BEGIN SOON

The contract for the new state
highway from Chapel Hill across
the end of Durham county to
Nelson-the short cut to Ra-
leigh--is to be let next Tuesday,
December 13. This is according
to the official schedule of the
highway commission.
Grading work will begin soon
after the contract is signed and
will proceed through the win
ter 1t is to be expected, of
course, that bad weather will
cause interruptions within the
next two or three months, but
advantage will be taken of all
the fair spells that permit of
digging and filling and hauling.
If this winter turns out to be like
that of year ago, the contract
ors ought to get the job well on
toward completion by spring.
AS the road now lies, it is Is
miles from here to Nelson. But
the commissions survey pro-
vides for new alignments near
Chapel Hill and also in Durham
county, so that several hundred
yards will be saved. If as much
as half a mile is gained, then the
distance from Chapel Hill to Ra-
leigh will be 20 1-2 miles-or
8 1-2 miles less than the route
by way of Durham.
There il uncertainty about q
paved surface for the short cut.
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Training for His Fight
Ad Warren Gets Ready to Meet Lou
Carpenter in Durham Tuesday

Ad Warren, the University's
champion boxer, is training Wig
orously for his debut in the pro-
fessional ring: a ten-round bout
with Lou Carpenter in the Dur
ham City Auditorium next
Tuesday night. A tackle on the
Carolina football team, he kept
himself in excellent physical con-
dition during the fall; but foot
ball left him little opportunity
for boxing practice, and so now
ne has to make up for lost time.
Incidentally, the candidates
for the University boxing team,
under the direction of Crayton
Rowe, are getting some valuable
experience from their sparring
with the big fellow.
It is said that Warren is the
first University graduate, of un-
questioned potential ability as a
pugilist, to enter the profession
al ring.
He won the amateur heavy
weight title in Philadelphia in
1926. In the tournament last
March in Cincinnati, after hav-
ing knocked out Joe Hoffman, he
was declared out of the contest
under a rule that nobody who
had once won a title was eli
gible to compete in another
amateur tournament.
He has been in more than 40
fights, having appeared in Phila-
delphia. Boston, Baltimore Gin
cinnati and several Southern
cities cities He has has been been eatpeinted
three times but has never been
knocked off his feet.
A few days ago Warren signed
up with Jimmy Bronson of New
York. Bronson is an old-timer
with d reputation ais an astute
and successful manager.
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THE NEW FORD Is
YET TASTRANGER
TO CHAPEL HILL
But People Enjoy the Pretty Pic
lures at StrOwd's, and Many
Orders Are Booked
JOHN CREEL ELUCIDATEs

The new Ford car hasn't
reached Chapel Hill yet. This
village may be in Class A in the
matter of education, culture, and
various other praiseworthy in
tangibles, but in the contest for
priority as Ford show-place it
ranks along with other little
hamlets almost concealed among
the sticks.
This needn't worry Bruce
Strowd, however. He has been
booking orders just as rapidly as
if he had a whole bevy of Lizzie's
younger sisters on display. The
words on the placard, "Orders
will be filled strictly in the or
der received" have had their
magic effect, and more than fifty
citizens have stepped up and
signed on the dotted line. A
purchaser doesn't know when he
is going to get his car. 1t may
be two, three, four months, or
more. With like rush on all
over the United States, the Ford
factories will probably be a long
time catching up with the de-
mand.
Every hour of every day peo-
pie have been asking Mr.. Strowd
when he would have a new
model to show.
Il can't tell" he SAID yester-
day. ''It may be next week. It
may be the week after. 1t may
not be till New Years"
There is a .umor afloat that
a big shipment is on its way
from Detroit to the Ford sub
plant in Charlotte, which would
probably bring Chapel Hill a
quota of at least one specimen.
But it's only a rumor.
Despite the steady rain last
Friday, 2,400 persons crowded
into the showroom of the
Strowd Motor Co. They had
hoped to see a car, but they
seemed pretty well satisfied with
the pretty pictures and the
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To Tell of Excavations
Harland, ArchaeoIOgist, viii Give H.
lustrated Lecture Monday Night

J. Penrose Harland, professor
in the University, will give a lee
ture at 8 o'clock Monday eve
ming, at the Playmakers Theatre,
on the unearthing Of art treas
ures and buried cities. He will
show, for the first time in Amer
lea, a lantern slide picture of the
bronze statue of the Youth
from Marathon. This famous
statue was found by some fish
ermen and has been the object
of great interest among artists
and archaeologists all over the
world.
Mr.. Harland recently returned
from a stay of several months
in Europe, where he carried on
his excavations and studies un-
der a fellowship of the Guggen-
helm Foundation. In his talk
Monday evening he will tell how
cities have come to be buried one
on top of the other and how the
art objects in them are brought
to light. He will also tell of the
discovery of temples and statues
which were lost in the wilder
ness or perhaps buried under the
sea. He has many lantern
slides.
THIS IecCuTE is gwen uHueT Lne
auspices of the art department
Of the Community Club. Stu
dents in the University and
school children, as well as club
members, are invited.
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Russell's Visit

Lindsay Russell, of Whining
ton and New York, hit upon a
day of terrible weather for his
return to Chapel Hill after an
absence of about 35 years. 1t
was last Saturday, when the air
was chill and the rain was fall
ing slantwise before a strong
wind. He saw Chapel Hill at its
worst.
We went out to the stadium
where the high school boys of
Wilmington and Greensboro
were sloshing around in the mud
in a so-called football game;
and drove in Mr.. Russell's lux
urious sedan through the cam
pus; and stopped to inspect the
South building and the Play
maker Theatre. His cheerful
ness was proof against the mean
weather, and he seemed to enjoy
renewing acquaintance with the
University and the village.
He recalled a rather amusing
bit of history. my uncle was
dismissed from the University"
he said, Il think for general in
corrigibility. Some thirty or
forty years later he came back
here as governor of the state to
install a president of the insti-
tuition" The president to whom
the visitor alluded was Edwin
A. Alderman, and | remember
we'll the occasion. Governor
Russell and the members of the
legislature came up to- Chapel
Hill from Raleigh for the inau-
guration ceremonies. The trip
was an arduous one in those
days, and it happened that the
day was stormy and bitterly cold
- an even worse day than the
governors nephew struck last
week.
People who lament the lack of
a leisure class in America would
have nothing to complain of if
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-12-09
Jones's Portrayal of Drunkard Is
Powerful Sermon on Evils of Drink

Howard Mumford Jones,
member of the University fac
ulty and creator and director of
the Bulls Head Book Shop, will
appear as Joe Morgan the
Drunkard in the Carolina Play
makers production of Ten
Nights In a Bar-RoOm this (Fri-
day. and tomorrow evenings.
Mr.. Jones's portrayal of the
character, according to those
who have seen rehearsals, con-
stitutes a powerful sermon on
the evils of drink.
In the course of the FIVE acts
the drunkard is redeemed, and
after the fall of the final cur
tain Mr.. Jones recites the cpl
logue:
"As some poor stranger wreck
ed upon the coast
With fear and wonder views the
dangers past,
SO | with dreadful apprehen-
SiOnS stand
And thank the powers that
brought me safe to land;
A drunkard now no longer
that is DER,
Free, disenthralled, | stand a
man once more"
Mrs. Emily Slade and Miss
Tarasa Graham will play the
roles of the drunkard's wife and
daughter. Shepherd Strudwick
will appear as Mr. Romaine the
philanthropist, Moore Bryson as
Simon Slade the innkeeper, RI l..
Zealy as Willie Hammond Y the
squire's son, H. X. Russell as
Sample Switched the tippler, 7.
P. Harrison as Harvey Green
the gambler, A. T. Cutler as
Frank Slade the innkeeper's son,
Miss Mary Holland as the inn
keepers wife, and Miss Ruth
Rogers as Mehitable Cartright,
a sentimental girl.
Ten Nights IN d Bdr-Room,
with George E. ("Yankee")
Locke in the leading role, was
presented at the Chatham The
atre in New York August %,
1858; and the printed program
for the Playmakers' perform
ance is a reproduction,in shape,
phraseology, and Typography, of
the sheets used in those days of
the eighteen-ffties. At the top
is the line EXTRAORDINARY
ATTRACTION!", and the rest
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of the two-feet-long sheet a
bounds in superlatives, bold-face
type, and, exclamation points.
In the first act Little Mary
miss Graham) will sing the
famous song, Father, Dear
Father, Come Home with Me
Now" and M. H. Fam will
dance the popular Turkey in
the Straw" Between the sec
ond and third acts Morgan (Mr.
Jones) will recitE The Face on
the Bar-Room Floor"
Other specialties to be intro
duced during the evening are
quartette numbers by ]. P. Sour
lock, w. l.. Hunt, r. A. Hovis,
and S. S. Schorr; songs, dances,
and instrumental numbers by X.
w. Sears and w. Kessler; banjo
novelties by j. Wardlaw and his
carolina Banjo Boys; popular
songs by E. S. Day; and saw and
violin specialties by Misses Noel
Walker and Isabel Wenhold.
The scenery, footlights and
pictorial embellishments were
executed under the superintend-
ance of Samuel Selden by a corps
of artists including Miss Mary
Dirnberger, and Messrs. Adams,
Johnson, Ashburn, Coke, and
Constantine. Mr.. Selden has ap-
peared in the play with various
stock companies.
Nelson O. Kennedy will be the
pianist. James Turner, Jr., did
the illustrations for the pro-
gram.
In a brief comment accom-
panying the program, Director
Frederick II. Koch says: There
seems to be a revival of interest
in the Victorian era, and it has
occurred to us that the present
generation would be interested
in a revival of this classic play
of temperance propaganda,
which we all know by name but
which very few of us are old
enough to remember in its hey
day of success. Sam Selden says
that it is a tradition among stock
folks: IF you are broke and
want to eat a week longer, put
on Ten Nights IN a Bar-Room.'
The Playmakers are not broke
yet, but we think we have suf-
ficient reason for offering the
play seriously as typical of the
popular drama of the Victorian
era"
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Labor Chief Speaks Here

T. A. Winston, head of the
state federation of labor, was to
speak last night in Saunders hall
under the auspices OF the school
of commerce. The Weekly went
to press before the meeting, so
that no report is possible in this
issue. Something about it will
perhaps be printed next week.
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Chapel Hill Chaf

Drew Patterson showed me
the other day a sheet which he
had found when looking through
his mothers papers. 1t was a
supplement to a weekly news
paper in Salem, dated May 4,
1865, an0 was entitled Peoples
Press-Extra." 1t was printed
on one side. only, and was two
columns wide and about Is
inches deep. The paper is still
firm, and the ink unblurred. The
reading matter consists of the
orders of the Union and Confed-
crate generals declaring the
Civil War at an end. There
were the famous General Order
No. 8 of Lee's-the Farewell
Address Of April 10; the order
issued by J. E. Johnston from
his headquarters near Green's
boro April 27; Sherman's
Special Field Order No. 65 is
sued "in the field, near Raleigh"
April 27; and Grants order of
April 10 for passing the parole
of Confederate soldiers to their
homes. This little extra" gave
the Salem people their first of
fetal and authentic news of the
two surrenders, Lees and john
ston's.
Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire
and Rev. Sidney Bost were walk
ing along the street in Durham,
and Mr.. Bost remarked that he
was getting too old to hunt and
was going to sell his shotgun.
"I'll buy if from YOU" said the
Bishop, who is old enough to be
Mr.. Bost's father; I'm not too
old to hunt" And the transac
ton was put through. Recent
ly the Bishop acquired his first
real hunting coat, and within
the last week or so he has been
out with his gun and dogs.
around Scotland Neck.
Although he is around rs, the
Bishops vigor is impressive.
Not long ago when he and his
son, Joseph b., Jr., were going
off on a hunting trip, the negro
servant said to his sons wife:
Miss Ida, you better tell the
Bishop to take good keer O Mis-
ter Jo."
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Automatic Phones in Use Eight Days from Now

ordinary calls but what to do
when they want to call long dis
tance, to give the fire alarm, or
to summon the police. 1t is a
rather simple procedure and can
be caught on to in a few minutes.
Many citizens of Chapel Hill
have already become familiar
with automatic telephones
through the use of those in Dur
ham.
The directory is in process Of
being printed at the Orange
Printshop and a copy Of it will
be given to each subscriber by
Saturday of next week. There
is a special University list in the
book, separate from the general
list, and this and other duplica-
tions bring the number of names
to around 1000.
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of Richmond drove into Chapel
Hill yesterday afternoon on their
way to Southern Pines. They
will move on thence to Charles
ton, and perhaps DR.. Hall-who
mas been Iii and IS taking a rest
will spend a while in Augusta.
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Reading of Carol Postponed

Frederick H. Koch's reading
of Dickens "A Christmas Carol
has been postponed from Sum
day, December IL, to Friday,
December 16. The hour is $3.50.
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Thorpe MiIks . Goats NOW

One Of the bits Of news
bsought by visitors from eastern
North Carolina is that DIR. Adam
Thorpe Of Rocky Mount is now
milking two goats instead Of one
as heretofore.
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All kinds Of printing done prompt
N al the Grunge PrintshOp on Rose
irarV lane, Chapel HiU.
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Halls on Flight South

DIR. and Mrs. James K. Hall
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People who lament the lack of
a leisure class in America would
have nothing to complain of if
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-05-19
SAUK CENTRE HERALD

c.. K. Olson of Brooten was !:
business visitor in this city Tues.
day.
Paul Mayors, who is attending
the Sank Centre high school spent
Sunday with his parents at New
Munich.
M. A. Welck, manager of the
meat market at Grey Eagle, trans
acted business at the Sank Centre
hatchery Tuesday.
The Kindergarten class undel
the tutelage of Miss Mildred Bye
visited the Sank Centre Hatchery
Monday afternoon.
R. &C.. Gohagen of Albert Lea,
who is operating a summer resort
at Birch Lake, was business visit
or in this city Tuesday.
Miss Dorothy Little of Glen
wood has accepted a position at
the Main Street Cafe and assumed
her duties here Wednesday.
Miss Georgia DreXler, instruct
or in music at the local public
school was taken i'll last week with
an attack of scarlet fever Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. V. Nelson mo-
tored to Minneapolis Saturday
where they visited with relatives
and friends until Sunday evening.
Miss Ermaline Borgmann of
Minneapolis spent the week end
in this city visiting with her par
cts, Mr.. and Mrs. George R.
Borgmann.
Mrs. John Holler residing near
West Union went to Minneapolis
Tuesday where she will remain I'M
til Sunday in a hospital to receive
medical treatment.
Miss Alice Allen left this city
Wednesday morning enroute to
Oklahoma City, where she will
attend the summer term of the
Oklahoma Normal.
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Elsie Bcttw is spending a few
weeks with Mr. and Mrs. William
Hummer.
Elmer Kinl is employee at lie
home of Walter hummer.
Selma K;n.i was an ove- night
guest at the Il me of Ed Lletz,
Thursday evening.
William Q1aI,. called ut the
home of Charles Hummer Thurs
Jay aftern0c.:.
Mr.. and NJ; William QuaGe
alra family spent Sunday after
icon at the home of William Kind,
1T Az Melrnsa.
(. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shorbart of
Round Prairie, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Goose of Round Prairie, Mrs.
August Bucholz and son Charles,
and daughter Emma of Grey
Eagle, Bob Below, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rev. Grike and family, of Mel
rose, Mr. and Mrs. William Kun
mer, Elsie Betow and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Fritzler spent Sunday
at the home of William Betow.
Mr.. end Mrs. Walter Hummer
called at the home of Jack Marh-
iesen Sunday evening.
Edwin and Herman Quade spent
Sunday evening at the home Of
William Quade.
Arwin Kind spent Monday with
Lester Hummer.
Agnes Hummer spent Saturday
and Sunday at the home OF Jack
MatGniesen.
Mrs. Walter Hummer called on
Mrs. john Hummer Sunday morn
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CITY NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. Matt Thull of Glenwoo6
was a Sank Centre visitor Tues.
day.
Anton Walbeck of New Munich
was a Sank Centre business visitor
Tuesday.
Mrs. Albert Ruchert of West
Union was Sank Centre shoppe,
Tuesday. , taa H.,
Joe Authman of Spring Hill was
a Sank Centre business visitor
Tuesday,.
w. A. Carlson of Birch Lake
transacted business in Sank Cen
ire Tuesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Winter OF
Spring Hill were Sank Centre shop
pers Tuesday.
T. J. Killeen of St. Cloud was
business visitor in Sank Centre
Wednesday.
J. E. Clave of Minneapolis
transacted business in this city
monday anu tuesday.
George A. Southart of Grey
Eagle was a business caller / in
Sank Centre Saturday.
H. J. Garbischo of the Maple
Dale Hatchery visited at the Sank
Centre Hatchery Monday.
Mr., and Mrs. Ben VanBokern
of Freeport transacted business at
the hatchery in Sank Centre Tues
day.
Nels M. Evenson of The First
National Bank of Osakis, was a
business caller in Sank Centre
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John lilies OF
Elrosa spent Monday with the
lady's parents, Mrs. Anton Nathe
Of this city.
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Unity
Leonard Below is

Leonard Betow is on the sick
list.
Dorothy Mathiesen is spending
few days with Agnes Hummer.
Walter Hummer was a business
caller in Elrosa Friday morning.
Robert Betow spent Wednesday
afternoon at the home of William
Hummer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Quade
and daughters, Edna and Minnie
and son Richard called at the home
of Ed Lietz, Friday evening.
Gregor Dold spent Wednesday
e, ening with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Dold.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-05-19
Social Events

THE MEMBERS OF THE GRA-
datim Club, of this city will be
hostesses to the several clubs OF
the Stearns County Federation
next Saturday, May FL. An inter
esting program has been arranged
for the all day session which will
commence at ten o'clock in the
forenoon and will be held in the
Community Club rooms.
This meeting was postponed
from April 80 to May Fl owing to
condition of the road between
F'reeport and Albany and other
parts of the county. A large dele
cation from St. Cloud is expected
and the other clubs of the county
will be well represented.
Mrs. A. A. Claxton, of Broot-
en-, is president of the district or
ganization; Mrs. H. S. Halverson,
of this city, is vice president; and
Mrs. c. c. Dragoo, of st. Cloud,
is recording secretary. The pro-
gram includes:
Community singing.
Invocation-Rev. Cecil Sparks,
pastor Congregational church,
Saul: Centre.
Address of WelcomeMiss Maude
Davis, head of Normal training de-
partment, Sank Centre.
Response-Mrs. E. Everett
Clark, st. Cloud, Sixth district
president.
Music -, Vocal solo, Vione
Steege.
Business meeting.
Luncheon at ~ P. M.
Afternoon program in charge of
Mrs. Leonard Williams, St. Cloud,
chairman.
2 P. M. Community singing lead
by Miss Drexler and Mrs. Cooper
at the organ.
Mrs. J. A. Thabes of Brain
erd, Mimi, speaker.
Subject illustrated talk on Bird
Migration, slides will be shown.
Mrs. Thabes is chairman of con-
servation, Sixth district.
Duet-Mrs. George Eerggreen
and Mrs. VIM. Moore. --..''7T..,
Talk on Condition in China by
Mr.. R. M. Zuluf of Technical high
school, st. Cloud.
Vocal solo-Mrs. Geo. Berg
green. Sank Centre.
Talk-Miss Dolores Burke, Red
Cross Nurse, Stearns county.
Ladies quartette-Mrs. George
Rerggreen, Mrs. C. Kasow, Mrs.
J. w. Ward and Mrs. VIM.
Moore. The public are cordially in
vited to attend these meetings.
THE WOMAN'S HOME MIS-
sionary Society of the M. E.
church held their annual Mite Box
opening in the church parlors Fri
day afternoon, May IS. The So
ciety meeting jointly with the
Home Guards and Queen Esther
circle presented a very interesting
program.
Jubilee Song.
Reading "The Boy and the
Aims Wanda DeLong.
Song "Tell it Again." Home
Guards and Queen Esthers.
Reading-"The One Hundred
and One"-Florence Capke.
Dialogue-"Katy Did and Katy
Didn't"-Mrs. E. A. Gallea and
Mrs. T. B. Shorts. II
Paper" Missions Mrs. Davis.
Song - "The Mite Boxes'-
Home Guards and Queen Esthers.
Those attending the meeting
were asked to bring any discarded
clothing, etc., for the flood relief
benefit. Several boxes were pack
ed, totaling nearly 500 pounds, and
sent to Memphis, Tenn. !
MIR. AND MRS. GEORGE
r. Borgmann celebrated their sill
yer wedding anniversary Saturday
evening, May Is, when a number
of relatives from out of the city
surprised them. Mr.. and Mrs.
George M. Schaffer of Albany,
parents of Mrs. Borgmann; Mr..
and Mrs. Thos. Schaffer of Sank
Rapids; Mr.. and Mrs. Roman
Schaffer of Minneapolis, and Mr..
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Charles Elite" and family and
.srs. Charle, Warner spent sun
day afterno N a. the home of
G. arley Go 1?a ;te:.
The Dishel boys called at the
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nome Of William Quade Thursday
afternoon.
Raymond Goodpaster called at
the hcme of William Quade Mon
day evening.