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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Warning to Cat-Owners

Several entirely unwelcome
cats have been infesting my lot
recently. They are large, agile,
and predatory. They stalk about
the place, frightening and some
times killing the birds. Aside
from their war upon birds, | do
not like their mean and stealthy
looks. To whom they belong
or whether they belong to any
body-I do not know. But
hereby give warning to their pos
sible owners that these cats, if
they are not kept away from my
place, are going to be disposed
of. Two days or thereabouts af-
ter the appearance of this paper
will be allowed as a period of
grace. Next Monday is the day
when / expect to put my mur-
derous purpose into execution.
L. G.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Midwinter Summertime
Warm Spell Causes Children to Don
Bathing Suits; Flowers Bloom

The weather in the middle of
this month of January came
near deceiving people into the
belief that summer had come.
1t fooled some of the flowers too,
so that they began to pop out
into blossom.
Mrs. Koch came back to the
house from a walk up town one
day last week and found Bobby
and his friend, Deedee Carroll,
scampering around the yard in
bathing suits. The calendar
meant nothing to them-they
just knew it was warm. Young
Margot Baker was restrained
with difficulty from going bare
footed. Saturday gang of chill
dren went down into Battles
Park on a crawfish and polly
wog hunt. 1t has already been
chronicled that Zeb Council
launched the fishing season a
week ago yesterday.
In the Arboretum the winter
jasmine and the winter honey
suckle were in bloom, Sunday,
and the big apricot tree was
budding.
The hunger for tennis and golf
was made keen by the balmy air;
but it could not be appeased be-
cause, while the air was full of
May, the ground was full of
mud.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Miss Lewis Speaks
Reviews Miss GlasgOw's Novel before
Clubs Literature Department

Miss Nell Battle Lewis of Ra-
leigh made a talk Tuesday eve
ming under the auspices of the
literature department of the
Community Club. By reason of
her wide celebrity and the eag-
erness of people outside the club
to hear her, the meeting was
held in Gerard hall.
After being introduced by
Mrs. N. B. Adams Miss Lewis
announced that she would dis
card the topic which had been
advertised for her, "The New
Spirit in Southern Letters" and
would devote her hour to a re-
view of Miss Ellen Glasgow's
most recent novel, "The Roman
tic Comedians" However, by
way of introduction, she cons
trasted the romantic character
of writing in the South gen
Grafton ago to the realism of
today.
The story of 'The Romantic
Comedians" was summarized,
and the characters were briefly
sketched. With a judicious al
formation of quoted passages and
her own keen comments Miss
Lewis kept her audience thor
oughly interested.
While in Chapel Hill she was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John
M. Booker. Before she started
back to Raleigh Wednesday
morning she and Mrs. Booker
went about the campus and the
village on a tour of inspection.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Trustees Stand by Their Request
For Adequate University Support

insofar as the promise of the
political leaders could be effect
i've. It could not be effective,
of course, in the legal sense,
since one legislature is not
bound, in the matter of appro-
priations, by the act of a pre-
ceding legislature; but it was
what is commonly called a "mor-
al obligation"
Now the six years have pass
ed, and new needs have arisen.
The $2,383,OOO asked of the
present legislature for buildings
would, if granted, bring the to-
tai of the improvement fund, for
the eight years ending in 1929,
to about $6,32O,000.
The resolution adopted by the
trustees Tuesday was as follows :
Whereas, the general assem-
bly, of 1921, after due considera-
ton, indorsed a six-year pro-
gram for the enlargement of the
states educational and other in
stitutions, involving a total ap-
preparation, to be made in bien-
nial allotments, approximating
$20,00O,O0O, in which the Uni
versity of North Carolina was
allocated SIS, $3.50 meet it's rec
ognized requirements, and
Whereas, under this agree
ment the university has received
only $3,940,O0O or 81 per cent
of it's apportionment, therefore
be it
Resolved, that in view of
these facts, the trustees of the
University of North Carolina
respectfully petition the general
assembly, as matter of justice
to the university and as a pro-
vision for the urgent needs of
the six-year improvement pro-
that institution, to now appro-
pirate a sum that will at least
Continued on page two)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28

The University's board of
trustees decided at their meet
ing in Raleigh Tuesday that they
would not accept without pro-
test the reductions advised by
the Budget Commission in ap-
preparations for the institution.
Pursuant to a resolution
adopted by the board, President
Chase appeared before the ap-
preparations committee of the
legislature yesterday and spoke
in support of the University's
requests. He also urged the re-
moval of the limitation which
the Budget Commission had put
upon the amount to be expend-
ed for library. The original
estimate called for 1851, 900 for
a library, but the Commission
limited this item to $500,O00,
thereby taking from the trus-
tees the right to determine the
relative Importance of the Uni
versity's needs.
In the estimates presented by
the University last fall, $685.
600 was asked as a building
fund; $1,114,00O was asked for
maintenance for the year 1927
%; and 81, 1885, 900 was asked for
maintenance for the year 1928
20. The Commissions recon-
mendations were: 81 ,220, 900 for
the building fund; $850,000 for
maintenance for 1927-1928; and
$880,0O0 for maintenance for
1928-1929.
If the legislature limits its
grant for buildings to $1,220,-
900 it will fall short by $425, ,000s
of completing the six-year build
ing fund of $5,585, 900 which
was approved in 1921. There
was no statute in 1921 commit
ting the state to complete that
fund, but the carrying out of
gram was virtually promised,
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Bird Attacks House
Mystery in Why He Wants to Drill
Holes Through Wall

A bird whose species was not
identified by several persons
who saw it, but which Oscar J.
Coffin says must be the familiar
woodpecker, has made a furious
assault upon the Edward Gra-
ham house, now occupied by
Mrs. Julia Graves and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Rees. He has drilled
two holes through the shingled
wall of the house by the attic
window on the south. Each of
these holes is as large as mans
hand. -
For several days Mrs. Graves
had heard a mysterious knock
ing. Last week a man who was
working in the yard called her
out of the house and bade her
look up under the caves. There
for the first time she saw the
holes; and the bird, which was
busily engaged in making them
larger, was large and gray. She
did not see any red about it, but
Mr.. Coffin who passes every
morning, testifies that he has
seen a red headed woodpecker
doing the same sort of trick on
the other side of the house.
Around Christmas time Mrs.
Graves, going up to the attic
one afternoon, found a bird fly
ing about. Wondering how it
had got in, she caught it, opened
the window, and turned 1t loose.
This must be the same creature
who is now drilling holes through
the wall.
The family, relatives, and
friends are puzzling over the
strange performance, and also
over what is to be done about it.
There is a law against discharg-
ing firearms in the village, ex-
cept by the police; 50 perhaps
Chief Featherstcne will have to
be called upon to serve as exc
cutioner. ...@
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
FINE ARTSSTTDY
HELPED BY GIET
University Receives from the
Carnegie Corporation
Donation of $4,000
IN FORM OF MATERIALS

The Carnegie Corporation has
awarded to the University SIS, 900
in material to be used in the
study and teaching of the fine
arts. This gift is the result of
a suggestion of Edgar Wind,
member of the faculty in the
philosophy department.
The whole question of the de-
velopment of a school of fine
arts in the University is under
consideration by a faculty COM
mittee of which George Howe is
chairman. Mr.. Howe recently
visited several of, the large in
stitutions of the country to
gather information about train
ing in painting, sculpture, and
architecture, and his report will
be the initial step in the for
mutation of a University policy
with regard to this branch of
culture.
Many of the men most influ-
ential in the University councils
feel that the time has come when
the institution should give seri-
Gus attention to the encourage
ment of both artistic achieve
ment and the appreciation of art
in it's various forms. The eff
forts in this direction, thus far,
have been spasmodic-rather
the expression of individual in
terest than of a deliberate and
ordered plan. From time to
time w. S. Bernard has given
lectures, illustrated by lantern
slides Of paintings and statues
and buildings, which have been
much enjoyed; and Mr.. Wind is
now offering a fine arts course
as part of the program of the
philosophy department.
The exact character of the
gift from the Carnegie Corpora
ton has not yet been disclosed,
but the understanding here is
that it consists of books, prints
of celebrated works of art, and
textiles. One of the immediate
confronting the Uni
versity is: where may the prints
be exhibited? Possibly the bal
cony around the lobby of the Ii
brary will be put at the disposal
of the committee.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
School Honor Roll
List of Good Performers in Third,
Fourth and Fifth Grades

The following members of the
third, fourth, and fifth grades in
the Chapel Hill schools were on
the honor roll for the fourth
month:
3rd grade: Edith Birtchett,
Lloyd Boothe, Vester Brockwell,
Lindon Correll, David Forester,
Milton Hogan, Nina O'Brian,
Brooks Patten, Halle Phelps,
Anna Schmitt, Delmar Sim
mons.
4th grade: Nell Booker, Jane
Daggett, Catherine Deans, Mary
Frances Gooch, Mary Henry,
Barbara Janda, Mary Mckee,
Margaret Munich, Sallie Page,
Josephine Pendergraft, Odena
Tolbert, Landon Corbin, Edmund
Taylor, Charles Vilbrandt.
9Th grade: Gilbert Wagstaff,
William Tankersley, John Pavla-
kis, Richard Sparrow, Jesse
Sparrow, Benson Partin, Tom
Mosher, Donald Mckee, Millard
Cate, Billy Daggett, Ted Cald-
well, Erika Zimmerman, Audrey
Williams Geneva Neville, Mary
Lloyd, Lucille Bennett.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Journalists Are Robbed

Oscar J. Coffin and Robert w.
Madry drove down to Raleigh
one day last week in the latter's
car. They vert into the lobby
of the Sir Walter hotel for a
few minutes. When they came
out the professors overcoat and
the news bureau chiefs scarf
had been stolen from the car,
but both their suit-cases were
still there. Mr.. Coffin bought
him a new overcoat at once.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
NEW CLUBHOUSE
READY IN SPRING
Building of the Hope Valley
Club Is Within About 2
Months of Completion
SEEDING THE GOLF COURSE

With the slate roof about to
be laid, the officers of the Hope
Valley Country Club, between
here and Durham, expect the
clubhouse to be completed about
April /. The building is ~265
feet long and will cost approx
imately $75, 900.
The fairways and greens for
13 holes of the golf course have
been seeded. Donald Ross, the
constructor, has been giving the
work his personal attention; he
comes oftener to Hope Valley
than to most courses which he
designs because he spends the
winter at Pinehurst and can
make the trip from there cas-
lily.
The entire Is holes will be
rushed to completion as rapidly
as possible. A few of the holes
at a time will be brought into
use, being thrown open to the
players as soon as they are
ready.
Three miles of hard surface
road have been laid through the
property. Along one side of the
development runs the New Hope
Valley road, and this is connect
ed with the Chapel Hill-Durham
highway by a road which winds
through the pine woods and
through the golf links. Chapel
Hill people who want to see the
house and the links will find it
convenient to follow this latter
route, turning from the high
way near the little sales Office
and the monster sign about a
mile beyond the midway bridge.
Preparation is being made for
a number of homes around the
club property. r. j. Mebane
will start his in week or so,
and two other prospective build
ers are E. L. Webster and Will
liam F. Lickle.
Within the last few months
225 half-acre building plots have
been sold, SO of these to profess
sOrs in the University of North
Carolina and Duke University.
Thirty persons have expressed
their intention to take advantage
of the discount of Is per cent.
in the purchase price of land,
which has been offered TO tnOSe
who start building operations
within the year.
The improvements (house,
roads, pipes, etc. to be made
in 1927 will represent a cost of
about $275,OOO. The pipe line
bringing water out from the
city of Durham is expected to be
completed by the first of March.
The company in charge of the
development has extended well
come to everybody who wants to
come and look the place over.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Mrs. Chase Home Today

Mrs, Chase comes home today
from a month in the hospital.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Tive in One Day

A son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. T. E. Wright and a daugh-
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Couch
in Watts Hospital Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. Wright live in the
Sides home in Forest Hills.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Chapel Hill Chaf

"A young woman VINO %teacneS
school in a small North Carolina
city was in Chapel Hill a few
days ago. What she told me
about her superintendent made
me have a high regard for this
man. He not only does not have
'prejudices against amusement
and modish clothing for teach
ers, but encourages them to look
their best and have plenty of
pleasure in their off hours. This
is of particular interest to me
because, year or so ago, I saw
a letter from a superintendent
in an eastern Carolina city who
told an applicant for a job in his
school that'she must be prepared
to abjure all the frivolities of
life. This other school man, the
tolerant one, says to his teach
ers: Skirts? Wear 'em as
short as the ordinary styles de-
mand. Look your best. Paint
on the face? Well, personally l
don't approve of too much on it,
but everybody does it. Most of
the mothers of the children
whom you teach decorate their
cheeks a bit, and | certainly
don't expect the teachers not to
follow the established custom of
the country. Of course l expect
them to beha We decently and do
their work properly, but when
they are not on duty / like to
see them have a good time"
Naturally, this superintendent is
very popular with his teachers.
They say he is strict enough in
demanding good class room per-
formance, but he commends him
self to them by not being a med
dler.
One of the frequent tasks of
self-help students in the Uni
Hersity is tending babies. A fac
ulty member and his wife want
to go out in the evening to a
dinner or a party. They phone
to the self-help bureau at the Y.
M. c. A., and a young man comes
to their home to stand guard
while they are gone. "This is
the easiest kind of job ever
have" a self-helper said to me
this week. "There is almost nev-
er anything to do. You just'sit
in a comfortable chair in a warm
room, and study or read. My
experience is that the children
of Chapel Hill are a healthy lot.
Once they are put to sleep they
stay asleep. Occasionally | have
heard a whimper from the bed
room and have had to go in to
pet up a youngster a little. But
this is pretty soft compared to
Continued on page four)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Church Design Wins Prize

At the Mostra Internazionale
di Edifizia, an international ar
chitectural exhibit at Turin,
Italy, diploma of merit was a.
warded to Hobart Upjohn for his
design for the Episcopal church
in Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Will Box Georgia Monday

The universities of North Car
olina and Georgia will meet in
a series of boxing bouts in the
Tin Can next Monday evening,
January 81,
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-01-28
Trabue to Sneak Sunday

Mr.. M. r. Trabue will speak
Sunday evening at 7:45 in the
Methodist church. His topic will
be "The Revelation of God
through Science.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04

shown the mother as the final rest,
ing place of her son.
The family, which had adopted
Oscar, however, had grown to love
the lad and decided to make him
their own. His name was changed
to Max Cashdan and the family
moved from the neighborhood.
During a quarrel, Max Cashdan
learned he was not the son of the
couple with whom he was living.
He advertised in Jewish newspap-
er and his mother read it. There
was a ioyfal reunion and for the
first time Max, or Oscar, as he
had become known, met his sister
Mollie.
The brother and sister feeling
gave way in a few weeks to q deep
er feeling of love. Young and i'm.
petuous, they could not conceal their
feelings and the bewildered mother
finally sent Oscar away from home
for the second time.
The love could not be downed.
however, and two months ago Mol
lie and Oscar disappeared. They
were married here, had a one day 3
honeymoon in Albany and then re-
turned to live in The Bronx. Oscar
obtained a Job as a chauffeur.
Last night they were arrested. Os-
car was held under $1,000 bail on
a statutory charge while the girl
was given into custody Of juvenile
authorities.
"They told me she was nv sis
ter but 7 don't believe it the
Young bridegroom-brother said. cit
was not our fault. We loved each
other.
cit doesn' matter, I still love
him. the child wife said.
But the social code makes the
two victims outlaws.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04
NOTICE TO cRED1TAoRs

T. Notice is hereby gwen by George
f. Kennedy, executor Of fGhe estate
of ,Violette s. Campbell, deceased
to all persons having claims against
said deceased, to present them with
in ten months after first publication
of this notice to the undersigned at
l07 Rehkopf Building, FL Centre,
California, the place selected to
transact business of saad estate, or
file them within ten, months after
first publication of 1his notice in
the office Of the Clerk of Superior
Court, Imperial County,.
Dated this 30th day of April, 1927.
GEORGE F.. KENNEDY,
Executor.
Jas. W. Glassford, Attorney, for
Executor NJ 3 10 II . 81
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04
RO N ANCE OF
BROTHER A N D
SISTER TOLD
BY United Press Leased Wire

NHW YORK, May 4.-The tragedy
of a marriage between brother and
sister-although thev were separat-
ed II years and still do not believe
they are brother and sister-faced
New York g juvenile authorities to-
dav.
Fourteen years ago Mrs. Minnie
Chasel separated from her husband.
She had two children, Mollie, year
old, and Oscar, g. She finally allow.
ed a family TO care for Oscar and
managed TO scrape together SO
weekly for the upkeep Of her son.
Then she was advised her son was
dead aud an unmarked grave was
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04

experience in almond orchards fol
lowing Il heavy crop.
The dairy products plants of Sis
kiyou county have signed an agree
lment with the state department of
| agriculture which binds them to as,
scss themselves one-fitth of n cent
pound on all milk fat received to
! pay for the maintenance of stat"
inspcction system in that comfy.
Walter l.. Huber, consulting en-
gineer of San Francisco. has filed
applications with the state division
of water rights to construct fiv"
estraining dams on the middle fork
of the American river for the man
ufacturc of hydro-electric power.
The dam sites are located in FL Do
RADIO and Placer counties. In his
application. Huber seeks to divert
q total of 1860 cubic feet and store
100000 acre feet annually
Del Norte county's seasonal rain
fall. figured from September to
April l, totals 93.31 inches, accord
Ing to the report of the government
observer.
Forty three cows Of 2l9 tested in
Glenn county during March produc
ed more than 43 pounds each of tut
terfat. The high COW gave 6J.45
pounds.
The residents of San Francisco
will soon have an opportunity to vote
on the question of buying the
Spring Valley Water Co. property
for Sal 100000.
Bids are asked for the grading
and standard surfacing of l492
miles of the Redwood highway from
Orick 10 the n0rtherlv boundary of
Humbold county.
In Lassen and Plumas counties
2650 acres of land have been thrown
open to settlement. The first 80
that, ANYBODY, though but SO acres
are unsettled.
7. J. Sheehv, Clarks valley, Glenn
county recently made 4 record by
digging oat II coyote = den On his
ranch and capturing the female and
10 puppies. He collected $2sj in
bOuntics
Sheehv : record on cuvotss has
since been broken by Bill Hunter,
also of Glenn county, who captured
a female and ten puppies and the
male as we'll. He Will get more
than $500 in bounties. -
Development of 1924 additional
theoretical horsepower of electric
energy at the power plant near Az
cry Station, Calaveras county, is
contemplated under an application
for 1856 acre feet of water filed
with the division of water rights.
\ high wind wrecked an old barn
on the A. w. Morris and Sons farm
near Woodland, Yolo county, re
Gently. Two noted herd sires, Sir
Aaggie De Kol Acme and Prince
Aaggie Mead De kol, and several
COWS were in the building but We're
not injured.
The authorcss of one OF Broad.
ways banned plays says that on her
first night in Jail she gathered ma
terial enough for ten plays. Pardon
her. governor, pardon her!
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04
News Notes From
Here and There

Burr clover planted on the rice
stubble and then irrigated is prov
ing a valuable after harvest cover
crop in northern counties.
The California National Bank at
Sacramento is awarding sterling
silver sweepstakes trophy for the
best one farm exhibit made at any
fair in California during 1927.
Prospects for lighter crop of al.
monds in all sections this year, fol
lowing the heavy crop of last year,
were reported at the annual meet
ing of the California Almond Grow
ers Association. This is the usual
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our most sim
extended to US SO much sympathy in
our lad bereavement, including the
Swiss Club for their extensive par
ticipation in the funeral. We want
to mention especially Mr.. Aklev,
traffic officer, and the FL Centre
fire department, who tried s, nobly
to save our darling.
NJ. and Mrs. Waiter Groe,li.
IA Relatives. alr
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-04

that he could Identify the gun
Through th5 notches on the barrel
He said that these notchos were on
il when he took it from q Mexican.
in eross-examination Slaughter ad-
mitted that while he believed it to
he the same gun which he gave
Hardwick there was possibility
that another such gun could have
been procured.
Ralph Williams then testified to
efforts to obtain medical aid for
Taylor He further testified to the
conversation between HardwicF and
Taylor at the police station in
which TAYLOR said:
That's once YOU drew too
quivk
''Wen why did you reach for
your hip pocket" HardwicE is said
to have asked Taylor and the latter
replied: 81 didn I mean anything
10y IT,
a l.. DilbeeE and W. f. Druehart
testified that they were present in
tie police station after the shooting
and told Of the conversations they
overheard. Their testimony corrob-
Grated that OF previous defense wit
ueSses.
Testimony was also entered rela.
tive 10 the visit To the station ~ /
some CT Taylor : friends, demand +
ing medical attention for Taylor
and Of their being told to leave the
room by Taylor. II was testified
that Hardwich escorted them to the
door and pushed them along.