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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
BERNARD
THAT DOGS BEAT
CATS AS PLAGUE
CANNES Have Wrought Havoc
in Greek Professors
Chicken Yard
KINDLY WORDS FOR PUss
NV dear Louis:

My dear Louis:
Anent your cat fugue: It has wax
ened with pain some slumbering
chords erstwhile suppressed in my
emotional being. Since it strikes the
note of propaganda wonder if you
would publish a similar polyphonic
composed according to similar con-
trapuntal rules? Il apologize to
Archie Henderson, or perhaps Weav-
er's contribution to your piece is res
ponsible for the jargon.) This is
a dog versus cat piece.
love fine dog, especially if it's
my own dog. But / don't love dog,
community dog. Even am l heartily
in sympathy with the legislation the
town has on its books as to loose
dogs, though am not going to cuss
Mr.. Featherstone because he is not
chasing the million and one dogs at
all hours Of the night through every
section Of the town on their maraud-
ing expeditions, or breaking up their
grand opera concerts. How could he?
For this is a dog-infested town. He
must rely on the law-abiding (God
save the mark) citizens who own dogs
and hold the sanctity of the law and
the good of the community to their
heart.
But there are no town laws against
roaming cats, Louis, and l surmise
that, if there were, they would re-
ceive about the same loyal support
as the law-abiding citizens give to
the dog laws. Perhaps that parenthe-
sis above is little ambiguous. Let's
get'the light on it. In our immediate
community there are at least five dogs
which enjoy absolute, or periodical,
immunity from law enforcement, in
spite of the paradox that their own
ers are ultra law-abiding citizens of
Chapel Hill. Selah.
Now, Louis, you know l am not
sensational. l don't mean to blow the
saxaphone, only mention hesitatingly
an episode or more of life in our small
town. Is the number, do you remem-
ber?, seven or five of the patients
from Chapel Hill who have suffered
the Pasteur treatment for the bite
of dog with the rabies? l forget.
/ talked with two sufferers, one a
victim estopped from much needed
labor for six months, the other
father of two bitten children. The
thing that blistered itself in my men,
Ory, apart from the realization of
expense in dollars, the time lost, and
the physical pain described, was the
haunting fear eating at the heart of
each. "Will it save?" Sometimes it
does not.
suppose that, just as you remark
Continued on page two)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Astray by One Generation

In announcing the presence of
Mrs. Laurence w. Clarke at the
Carolina Inn this newspaper
said she was the daughter Of
the late Samuel Phillips. The
notice should have said grand
daughter. The editor was ap-
priced of this mistake by a let
ter from Douglaston, Long
Island where Mrs. Clarke lives.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Mrs. WOOdhOuse Here

Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse
of Washington, who was at the
Social Service Conference in
Raleigh this week, will be the
guest of the American Associa-
ton of University Women at the
home of Mrs. A. s. Wheeler, COS
East Franklin street, this (Fri-
day. afternoon at half past four
o'clock. Mrs. Wheeler and Miss
Pruitt will be the hostesses.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
ChaperOnes Postpone Dance

The Chaperones will have
their st. Valentines dance Sat
urday evening, February 10, in
stead of on Tuesday evening as
first announced. William M. Dey
will lead the German. He has
devised many original figures.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Chapel Hill Chaf

The annual report of the Pres
ident of the University of North
Carolina contains many odd
passages. One section of it is
given up to financial statements
of, various special funds; the
existence of many of these, I
venture to say, is known to hard
ly anybody outside the business
managers Office.
For example, l find on page
181'a table relating to the "Class
of 1891 Special Fund, donated
for the purpose of erecting a
monument to the memory of
Wilkes Caldwell" This fund is
apparently a minus quantity,
since it is set down as consist
ing of a deficit of $4.35. A
neighbor of mine, A. H. Patter-
son, is a member of this class,
and l asked him a day or so
ago if he wasn't ashamed to have
his class represented in the Pres
ident's Report by a deficit.
Wouldn't it be better not to be
mentioned at all? He said he
had never heard of the fund but
intended to make inquiries about
it. incidentally, l hope that
for next years issue somebody
will correct the form of the Gel
ebrated negro janitor's name.
His name was Wilson; and the
abbreviated form was Wise, not
Wilkes).
Two other funds which are
described as less than nothing
are the United Daughters of
the Confederacy Scholarship
Fund.-" a deficit of $50, and the
"Class of 1907 Special Fund.-" a
deficit of $1,269. This latter,
the Report says, "was donated
by the class of 1907 for the in
stallation of an electric timing
system for class buildings" l
am not well enough versed in
bookkeeping to understand just
what a table like this means.
Perhaps the University had to
supplement 1907's gift with it's
own money in order to complete
the installation?
Then there is the Common
wealth Fellowship Fund.-, which
on June 80, 1925, amounted to
Continued on page four)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Taxes in the Village

Here is given list of the leading taxpayers in Chapel Hill
1t includes the of individual and corporation paying
into the municipal treasury much 5000 for the year 1926
In the figures only about half the total levy
the taxpayer since he must the county approximately
the amount that he pays the town. whose
tax is 5000 total town and county, of around $4O0
The following levy by the town the sngs of both real
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
School Basketball

The Chapel Hill girls basket
ball team will play Burlington
here in the high school Tin Can
tonight friday at 1880. This
game will be followed -immedi-
ately by a game between the
Chapel Hill and Haw River boys.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Smith Richardson Here Monday

Smith Richardson of Green's
boro, President of the. Wick
Chemical I; company, will speak in
Gerard HaE7at 8 o'clock Monday
evening under the auspices of
the Dialectic Senate. His topic
will be taxation in North Caro-
lima.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11
Mr.. Lilly Will Speak

Spiritual Experiences" will be
the subject of the address of D.
Clay Lilly at the Methodist
church Sunday night. Mr.. Lilly
is the pastor of the Reynold
Presbyterian church in Winston
Salem.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-02-11


The following list shows all the parcels of real estate in
Chapel Hill assessed much $SOOO The street which
the property faces put down wherever thought that the
name of the owner is not sufficient Identification.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
ONTANA'S
FIRST WOOLIES

-HE first band of sheep In eastern
' ' Montana arrived there In the fall OF
1876 after having been trailed over
land from California. from where
they were started in the spring of 1875,
by a man named burgess. The sheen
reached Virginia City, Mont. in the fall
OF 1875 and were kept in the region I'M
TIL the following year when they were
trailed down the Yellowstone valley, to
to George N. Miles. president Of the first
National bank of that place.
Mr.. Miles himself arrived In Miles City
August l, 1875, with his uncle, General
Nelson A. Miles of the United States ar
my, then commanding the 9Th cavalry
He has lived there ever since.
In the spring of 1877 Mr.. Miles bought
the burgess band of sheep and embarked
In the sheep business. at which he pros
pered despite inroads of coyotes and
wolves and Indians, too, who were giver
TO shooting arrows among his flocks. His
1877 wool clip was shipped by boat dowr
the Yelowstone n Missouri rivers tc
Yankton. and from there to Boston, by
rail.
The residents Of Miles City, which was
1 n 1875 only a military post, had had nc
word that q band of sheep was on the
way into the country. and when the ami
mails first appeared on the bluffs over
looking the city IN the north side Of the
yellowstone river. thought they we're 6
herd OF antelope.
The winter OF 1876-77 was a hard one
there WAS no hay available, and it was
necessary to use snow plows on the range
TO uncover The grass, the sheep ther
grazing down the aisles thus mad
through the snow, a practice followed
until recent years.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
TEST GRAIN FOR MOISTURE
BEFORE USING COM B DIM &

'high. To secure a fair sample from the
field 1t is best to walk through the field
diagonally from corner to corner select
Ing representative heads from long and
short straw and from ripened and I'M
ripened portions at frequent intervals.
The heads should be carefully threshed
out and cleaned. The grain should be
thoroughly mixed in a blanket or canva
and a pint sen to either the Montana
grain inspection laboratory at Bozeman,
the staue grain laboratory at Great Falls
or the Bliss laboratory at Bainville. Some
grain elevators also are equipped TO make
moisture tests.
The practice of submitting grain sam
pies to laboratories for moisture tests is
increasing rapidly because of the wide
spread use of combine harvesters in the
state. A small threshing outfit for thresh-
ing out samples already has been in
vented to aid in this work. The machine
is the invention of w. O. Whitcomb,
superintendent of the Montana grain in
spection laboratory at Bozeman and is
supplied to farmers at the cost price of
$40. In some sections a number Of farm
ers have purchased the miniture thresh-
ers together SO that the cost to the in
dividual farmer Is but a small item.
In cases where fields ripen unevenly
some farmers use the combine harvester
successfully by cutting only those por-
lions which are thoroughly ripe. leaving
the other portions to ripen and dry out
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
(From Montana State Collese)

AVE grain tested for moisture be-
fore cutting with q combine-har-
vester. Wet wheat may cause seri-
ious losses. This is the advice and
the warning given by crop specialists as
Montana's wheat harvest gets underway.
At meetings of county extension agents
and crop specialists at Bainville and
Lewistown recently it wa recognized that
the wet grain problem is likely to be
serious in many parts of the state this
year. The cold wet spring. accompanied
by interruptions and delays in planting,
followed by unusual growing conditions
has caused many fields to ripen uneveniy
and in some fields moisture content is
high even though grain is thoroughly
ripe. When such conditions exist every
precaution must be used to avoid loss
where the combine-harvester is used.
The only safe plan. specialists say, is
to secure a fair and accurat sample OF
grain from the field before 1t is cut, send
it to a grain laboratory for testing. and
II 1t runs more han Ia per cent mois-
ture either let the grain tand until 1t
dries out properly or else cut with a
header or binder. Grain that is stacked
or shocked has q chance to dry out be-
fore threshing. Grain that Is cut and
threshed In one operation is hauled d.
rectly to the elevator or loaded in cars
and losses from hating or discounts are
inevitable when the moisture content is
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12

Although forests under the super
vision of MissOula Offices are free gem
orally from fires, 20 additional emer-
gency patrOlmen have been placed in
the field, making a total of 80.
Supervisor w. M. Nagel is on the west
fork on a general supervision trip that
will keep him away from his Office for
the next week.
The Missoula forest offices report all
quiet in their section. but the same dan
ger exists there as in the other districts
while the present dry weather continues
and humidity remains low. Every pre-
caution is being taken by all offices. anc
although fires In any quantity and in all
parts OF the forests may be expected, II
is the hope Of officials to detect them
Immediately and prevent spreading.
Posting OF the entire area within the
national forest boundaries OF the Mis-.
soula and Lolo forests SO as to require
permits for building camp fires and for.
bid smoking anywhere except at camp.
is announced by Supervisors Nagel anc
Simpson.
Ali people going into the regions with,
In the boundaries Of these two forests
must obtain permits to build campfre'
from the rangers or from the fores'
headquarters, which are maintained q
Missoula for both units.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
BIG OPPORTUNITY
FOR FARM BOYS
MONTANA TRAINED YOUTHS MORE
VALUABLE THAN SETTLERS FROM
EAST SAYS RAILROAD MAN
II State Can Rear Its Own Agriculturists
Trained In Methods Applicable Here,
Progress VIII Me More Rapid, He
Asserts

The Montana boy who has learned
agriculture and wants to farm Is or
dinarily a greater asset to the state
than two or three men from Iowa or
Illinois who must adapt themselves to
farming conditions here before they
can begin to succeed. his was the
assertion of Evan u. Hall Of Miles City,
agricultural agent for the Milwaukee
railroad, In an address at the confer
ence of Smith-Hughes agricultural
agents at Great Falls.
Mr.. Hall said he did not wish to be
understood as opposing immigration n
Montana, but he stated his position as
being that I'VE need better trained farm
ers rather than more farmers" The boy
who studies agriculture under Montana
conditions is far better prepared to sue
coed as a farmer in this state than is
the outsider who mus learn this from
experience, Mr.. Hall pointed out.
Because of the asset the Montana boy
with agricultural education is to the
state, the work of the Smith-Hughes In
structors Is of great value to Montana.
according to the Milwaukee agent, and
the Smith-Hughes men are welding an
influence in the state which will have
wide effect and will lift agriculture to q
higher plane.
Mr.. Hall decried what the farm boy is
often told about there being no oppor-
tunity on the farm. On the other hand
the farm offers great opportunity to the
person who is equipped by training anc
otherwise to farm properly, he said. The
big opportunity for the agriculturally
trained boy in Montana is to go into 6
business that offers the biggest chances
to reduce operating and production costs
and thereby increase profits. In MIR. Halls
opinion.
The Milwaukee has no agricultural
program of its own except to get behind
the programs of the Smith-Hughes work.
ers, the extension service and the agri-
cultural colleges. according to Mr.. Hall
He pointed out that these agencies have
formulated programs that are effective
and based on experience and economic
study. consequently, the Milwaukee feel
1t can do most for agriculture by aug
menting these programs where possible
and being Of assistance wherever there
is an opportunity.
1t is not the present with which the
Milwaukee, or any Of the other railroads
concerns itself, Mr.. Hall said. for the
Milwaukee knows that the results Of bet
ter farming will be ultimately reflected
In increased tonnage. Five years from
now, 10 years from now, the harvest nov
being sowed will be ~ready-the harvest O
greater prosperity On the land with al
that means to business generally, the
speaker pointed out.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
Montana Wool Crop
Inn 1927 Totals 21.-
O44,OOO Pounds

Montana's 1927 wool clip is estimated
at 2l,044, 900 pounds, as compared with
23,320,000 pounds, revised estimates for
1926, and 20,967, 900 final estimate for
the 1925 clip, according to the annual
July estimate of the United States divi-
sion Of crop estimates, cooperating
with the state department Of agricul-
ture.
The average weight per fleece for the
1927 clip was SO pounds, as compared
with 8.8 pounds in 1926, and 81 pounds
in 1925. The lower fleece weight in 1927,
as compared with those of the preceding
two years, was due to wet weather from
March to shearing time, which washed
out more than a usual amount of grease
and dirt. This, however, has improved
the quality Of the 1927 wool in COMPARE
son with the preceding two years. accord
ing to sheepmen.
While Montana's wool clip is slightly
smaller than last year the total clip for
the United States is slightly larger, &C.
cording to federal estimates, which place
the 1927 clip at 272, 453 900 pounds as
against the 1926 clip of $50, e76, 900
pounds. This increase came through
more sheep shorn in 1927 than in 1925.
which more than Offset a slightly lower
average weight per fleece In 1927.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
Wild HAY Abundant
i'm Boundary Areas
Harvesting Starts

All previous records In yields Of wild
hay have been broken in the border
country around Sweetgrass. Many
farmers are waiting for spear grass to
ripen SO the spears will fall before put
ting up hay. The spears cause sores on
the mouths Of stock. After the spears
have fallen 1t Is f1ne hay and fattening
feed. The Bohemian experiment station
classes this spear, or needle grass, as q
weed In that part Of Montana, but 1t Is
mixed with blue joint hay in the north
and is found to be good. HayinE and
harvest are going to clash this year, for
winter wheat and winter rye harvest
ing Is ready now, some rye having been
headed q week ago.
Spring wheat planted early In May
and that seeded late In June will not
be more than 10 days apart at harvest
time this year and. from present indi-
cations, Will yield as we'll II not fill bet
ter, the heads appearing to be longer.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12

or cutting them with a binder or header.
Where grain lis to be cut with q combine
harvester 1T usually is necessary to let the
grain stand from q week to 10 days long
err than when the header or binder is
used.
Farmers who have large grain acreages
and do not care to let fields stand to in
sure the necessary maturity and dryness
are finding the extension service bulletin.
Reducing the Cost of Montana's Dry
Land Wheat Harvest" by M. L.. Wilson
and H. e. Murdoch, of value. This bull
letin contains many suggestions for re-
ducing time, labor and cost of harvesting
with the binder and header. Copies may
be obtained without cost from county ex-
tension agents or from the Montana ex-
tension service, Bozcman.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
FLOODS DID NOT
AFFECT MARKET
(From Montana State College)
certified Bliss Triumph seed DC

~ERTIFIED Bliss Triumph seed po-
' alto producers OF Montana need
" have no fear regarding the effects
of recent floods in the south upon
the market for their high quality prod
ucts, is the r~eassuring message brought
to the state by G. L.. Tiebout horticul-
turist IF the University of Louisiana. who
is heading a party of potato specialists
and railroad representatives on an in
spection trip OF Montana's potato fields.
The floods disturbed but did not destroy
the plans for developing the agriculture
of the south n an ever increasing de-
mand for disease-free. high-yielding seed
potatoes may be expected in the future.
he advises.
The southern visitors to the state are
highly impressed with the thoroughness
of Montana's seed potato inspection sys-
tenn directed by the Montana experiment
station and the Montana Potato Improve
ment association and are equally i'm
pressed by the carefulness displayed by
farmers in roguing their fields, thus re-
ducing potato diseases to the minimum.
Southern growers are vitality concerned
with the methods and conditions under
which seed potatoes are grown, said Prof.
Tiebout. Perhaps some Montana grow
ers feel that we are altogether too par
ticular In these respects" he continued.
However, diseases which appear OF lit
tie Importance in Montana are greatly
multiplied when transferred to the south.
Seed potatoes produced from plants
which show b slight indications of such
diseases as mosaic, spindle tuber, witches
broom and others in the fields in which
they are grown In the north often de-
velop aggravated stages of these diseases
when reproduced in the south.
1.-THE same can be said of those proper
ties of seed potatoes which are respon-
sible for high or low yields. High yield
ing strains are desired because only seed
of exceptional vigor can be expected to
yield profitable returns in the fields of
southern potato growers"
The south has ambitions to become one
of the leading commercial potato grow
ing sections Of the country, says Prof
Tiebout. Favorable climatic conditions
will permit growers there to put new po-
tatoes on the market early in the spring
at a time when the consuming public is
firing Of old potatoes. In the develop
ment OF this industry the south must
look to Montana and other northern
states for its seed stocks, he said.
The seed potato situation this year is
not altogether assuring, according to the
reports of visiting inspectors. In Mon
tana gnd other northern states the late
wet spring followed by rather cratic
weather conditions during the growing
season has in many cases resulted In poor
stands, uneven plant growth and late ma
turity. In Montana, fields which have
passed the field inspections Of representa-
tives Of the experiment station appear
to be OF the usual high quality. Some
fields visited by the party were declared
to be Of an exceptionally high standard
The party has visited potato fields In
Big Horn. Yellowstone, Carbon, Gallatin,
Lewis and Clark, Cascade, Teton, Pom
1aro Eif1 p1a}Na nrd nx41Iirr rc,Y~t4Ao
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-12
EARLY MISSIONS
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Continued from feature page)
Three-quarters or an hour passed be-
fore the arrival OF the cowboys. who lift
ed the nuns out one by one, and saved
the horses and buggy. Mother Amadeus.
like the good captain she was, claimed
the right to be rescued last.
1t should be kept in mind that these
women who went through such trying
experiences on the frontier were most OF
them gently bred n unaccustomed to
h~ardships, yet their courage and re-
sourcefulness never failed in time of trial.
This won for them the respect and adj
OF many who did not share
their religious belief.
Some one has said that there is no
trait which appeals to an American as
does courage, n this was possessed by
these Ursuline missionaries In a high de-
gree. They attributed its possession to
their faith and, from a psychological
standpoint. they were probably right.