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Smyrna times., 1931-07-29

How Some of Our Fishermen
Caught Shark Smyrna has half
a score of expert amateur fisher
regular Isaak Walton's, who
enjoy the sport for the pleasure it
brings. They mostly go down our
creeks for few fours after the
sun has entered on it's Western de-
livity, but now and then they take
a day for it and launch out in
bolder waters. Last Friday three
of them, Professor Groves, William
III. Carr and j. w. Jones went
down the Bay to the Drum
Sticks" seven miles from the
shore in a batteau. They had not
been fishing long before Jones felt
a strong pull on his line. He
thought he had three or four
hundred pound sea turtle, and
bending to the resistance, in he
brought it along side of the boat,
lining it half its length The huge
thing Topped over on its side and
opened its mouth wide enough to
take in any of their heads and
snap it off in a wink Jones look
ed around to the Professor with
bewildered but inquiring look that
did not need to be articulated,
what shall I do?" The answer
came quick and subdued, but with
emphasis, 'let her go Jones' let
her 60" The rich pink which the
animated sport gives to Carr's
complexion was being shaded with
lighter lines as he looked down the
monsters throat, when the latter
taking in the situation as it SEEM
ingly hadn't before, with one
fiounce snapped the line as if it
had been piece of wrapping cot
ton, carrying hook and bait down
with him in the vastly deep to di-
gest at his leisure. The intrepid
fishermen were quite as much re-
lieved as was the "man-eater" at
thus parting company, but their
luck did not desert them, for they
brought back as the result of the
days work 140 fish, mainly Della
ware Bay Trout.
Blackbird Camp-The following
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29
PARKER-PRFCE MARRIAGE
Ceremony Quietly Performed At
Havre DE Grace on June 22

Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Mrs. Ella Cecilia
Price, of Denton, and Burton Mad
ison Parker, of Perry Point, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Burton
Parker, of Denton. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Elwood
o. Jones on June % at Havre de
Grace. Mr.. Parker, a past master
councilman of the Denton Order of
DeMolay, also served as chaplain
of the same order. The bride and
groom are now the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Parker, in Denton.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29

Charles H. Wagnar
selinsgrove '79 2. MILDRED Was.
ding march. Ii
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS
REVAMPED FROM OUR FILES
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TIMES, JULY p, 1881
Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago

(The Smyrna Times has started
TO look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue. half century
ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else.
Il will call to mind people and events
of that day that should be interesting
to the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
erly sought and read-Editor.l
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29
Well Def ned

James Bryce, English !.
said OF the Panama '9N lISa
was the greatest liho,ra.llal D
ever taken with ratnre la'
Smyrna times., 1931-07-29
THINK STILLWELL INTENDED
To BURN BODY OF VICTIM
STATE DETECTIVE DONOWAY
HAS THEORY OF ATTACK
Had Can of Gasoline in Car-Body
of StillweIl is Claimed by His
Brother; Funeral Thursday

That Earl Stillwell, 20 years DID,
whose body was found in a field,
near Milford, Tuesday of last week,
intended to first kill H. Walton
johnson, of Middletown, now of
Georgetown, and then burn his
body, was the latest theory ad-
vanced in the shooting of Johnson,
near Milford, on Monday night,
July 20. This theory was advanc-
ed by State Detective Ottie Dono-
way who had a long talk with
johnson in the Milford Emergency
Hospital where the latter is recov-
ering from a bullet wound in the
back of the head, at the hase of
the brain, which he said was in
f1icted by Stillwell
Intended to Do Away With johnson
Stillwell, the detective said, was
an effeminate sort of a person and
was well knwn about Georgetown
and the presence in the automobile
of knife in addition to the revol-
yer with which the shooting was
done leads the authorities to be-
lieve that Stillwell intended to kill
Johnson and pour gasoline over the
body and set it on fire. There
were two gallons of gasoline in a
can in the car which it is believed
Taa iy14n dod 70 f0 -
In conversation with Detective
DonoWay, Johnson said he had
never been in Stillwell's company
except once in his life before Mon
day night. About two weeks ago,
he said, young man from New
York was the guest of Stillwell and
he was invited to go for a ride
with them. They visited Laurel,
Delmar, and Salisbury. Since then
Johnson had not seen him until in
vited on Monday night to accom-
unable to advance any reason why
Stillwell sought to kill him. De
tective Donoway in further support
of the theory that Stillwell intend
ed to kill Johnson, pointed out the
presence of extra clothing in the
machine. 1t is believed that after
disposing of Johnson's body Still
well intended to change his cloth
ing and destroy those he had on.
It is also the belief that after the
shooting, he waded into Haven
Lake in order to remove any blood
stains that may have splashed on
him during the struggle.
StillwelI's Body is Claimed
Stillwelrs BODY was claimed at
Milford by a brother, Arthur Pabst
of Neptune, N. ]. The funeral was
Thursday from the funeral parlors
of William Berry, of Milford with
services conducted by the Rev. ]
L. Nichols, pastor of the Methodist
Protestant Church of Milton. II
was reported that Stillwell was
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

Odd Bits of Information about the knights

ward voyage the water was
rough for the first four or five
days, and Jane, seasick, moaned:
81 thought Pacific meant peace
full" They stopped at Homo
lulu. There Jane learned an
Hawaiian dance which, since her
return, she has been performing
for the delight of her friends.
Mr.. Knight did not take
kindly to Chinese food, and it
did not take kindly to him. :.
The knights went on journey
from Shanghai to Paiping
(Peking) by rail, and thence to
the Great Wall along the north
ern border. One thing that
impressed them was the extent
to which men and women served
as beasts of burden, carrying
through the streets and along
the roads not only passengers
but immense loads of lumber and
stone and other materials. Once
a group of American educators,
among them Mr.. Knight, were
taken up a steep road several
miles in chairs borne by coolies.
Some of the foreigners wanted
to walk, but the Chinese object
ed vigorously and, by insistence,
compelled them to ride.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Chapel Hill Chaf

Archibald Henderson has a
reputation for using long words,
but | must say that almost al
ways when | have been in his
company he has pleased me by
his simple and direct language.
| recall once that | asked him to
try to tell me what Relatively
was all about, and he explained
it in words very few of which
contained more than one syl-
liable. In fact, he gave his ex-
planatiOn an atmosphere of such
simplicity, with homely illustra-
tiOns, that for a minute or two
| came pretty near to thinking
that | understood it. And when
he has talked on other subjects
Shaw, for example, have
had no trouble at all in compre-
hending everything he said.
Still i'm Some of his writings,
and on the platform when the
occasion demands, he does use
pOlysyllables of Johnsonlan mag
nificence. Mark Twain once told
a friend that he had found in
one of Mr.. Henderson works
twenty words he had never seen
before.
In private conversation his
long words are lnfrequent, but
now and then one slips in. The
feminine fashions of the day
were under discussion once
when my brother Ralph was on
visit to me here, and Mr.. Hen
derson hoored us by describing
the womens garments as e.
iguous. When he had departed
we consulted the dictionary and
learned that erlguous meant
scanty. | thought eriguous was
a fine word and wa&<glad to be
introduced to it. ;
These incidents ate recalled
by Mr.. Henderson reading of
the citations for the four men
who received honorary degrees
from the University at the
Commencement celebration last
Continued on page seUen)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Fighting Termites
Citizens of Village Trying to Thwart
the Wood Eating Insects

Fighting termites-the white
flying ants that feed upon and
destroy the timbers Cf houses
is one of the activities of Chapel
Hill citizens these days.
Concerns that make business
of protecting buildings from the
pests have sent their represen-
tatives to the village to inter-
view property owners who have
discovered their woodwork un-
der attack. O. W. Skidmore Of
the Southern ExterminatOr
Company came over from Ra-
leigh last week, and Charles II.
Hartsook of the Terminix Com
pany of North Carolina, with
headquarters in Durham, has
been here this week.
In consequence of the article
about termites that appeared in
this paper recently, many people
have been moved to examine
their homes to see if the ter
mites were present, and some
have sent for the United States
department of agriculture's bull
letins on the subject.
On Tuesday Mrs. Kluttz,
armed with a broom and a can
of gasoline, went after the ter
mites in her house, recently oc-
cupied by the Fenleys, at the
corner of Hillsboro street and
Rosemary lane.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Julia s Alligator

Julia Booker has an alligator.
Her uncle, Wilson Battle, sent
it to her by mail from Florida,
and she has named it Unc. 1t
is about 8 inches long.
Once before she had an alli-
gator, and that one died. Julia
and her father, John M. Booker,
decided that its death was caused
by a too close confinement; and
so, when the new pet came, they
turned it loose by the outdoor
spigot beside the front of the
house. The ground is slightly
depressed here as a result of the
dripping water. and the visitor
finds the dampness congenial.
Unc has discovered chip
munk's hole nearby. 1t goes into
the hole forward and comes out
backward.
Alligators should not be tick
led, prodded. or punched, and
Julia has made a sign which
reads: "Do not entertain the
alligator" This persuades sight
seers to stand by quiet, and thus
the alligator is encouraged to
be friendly and not to keep him
self hidden away all the time in
the chipmunk's S hole.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Steene Paints Jones
Ard Then Plays Golf on Atlanta Links
with the Celebrate Bobby

MIR. and Mrs. William Steene
and their two daughters drove
in from Atlanta day before yes
ter day.
During their six weeks stay
in me Georgia capital Mr.. Steene
painted a portrait of Bobby
jones, the worlds greatest golf
er. And Mr.. Jones took him out
tc the links and played golf with
him. They loafed about togeth-
er good deal, and the painter
says he found the golfer a de-
lightful companion.
While the parents stay at the
Inn the daughters, Betty and
Marianne, are guests of Janet
Lawrence. After several days
here the family will go on to the
North to spend the summer.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Adult Education Course
Miss Edgerton to Give instruction in
the Training of Illiterates

The University extension di-
vision, in cooperation with the
Summer School and the state
Commission on Adult Illiteracy,
will conduct here, from July l
to Is, an intensive course of
training in methods Of teaching
adult illiterates. Miss Eva
Edgerton, supervisor of night
schools in High Point, will be
the instructor.
A demonstration class is to be
organized somewhere near Chap
ell Hill-probably a few min
utes' drive out in the country.
The class will meet between
a and 6 o'clock every afternoon
in room 106, Bingham hall. A
nominal registration fee will be
charged, and certificates of at
tendance will be awarded to
those completing the course.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Miss Daggett Injured
Young Woman Who Once Dwelled
Here Hurt in Automobile Accident

Miss Mary Daggett, who lived
here until her father Parker II.
Daggett became dean of the
school of engineering of Rutgers
University, was injured in an
automobile accident last Satur-
day on the way from Asbury
Park to New Brunswick, N: j.
The report in the New Bruins
wick newspaper said that she
was suffering from "a possible
fractured pelvis," but in a let
ter to a friend in Chapel Hill
her father says: "The doctor
has reported that the x-ray
shows no fracture and he doesn't
think Mary is seriously injured. !"
The car in which Miss Dag
gett and three other young
women were riding was struck
by another car at the intersec-
ton of the Old Bridge -Matawan
road and the BordentoWn Turn
pike in the village of Old Bridge.
1t was overturned, and Miss
Daggett was pinned underneath.
The noise of the collision and
the screams of the young women
brought a crowd quickly to the
scene. A police officer took Miss
Daggett and two of her COM
panions to the Middlesex hos
pital.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

The f. w. knight family got
home from China Sunday eve
ming. In Shanghai Jane
Knight went to school every day
in a rickshaw drawn by a big
Chinese coolie in tattered
straw hat. When she left home
her mother would give her a
bunch of coppers, wrapped in
piece of paper, with which to
pay off the man on arrival at
the school. One day he hap
pened to see that she had an
other packet Of coppers, besides
the one meant for him, whereat
he grumbled and said she owed
him more than the usual fee.
She had been hearing tales
about bandits and she hastened
to place in his outstretched hand
her entire supply of coppers.
A Chinese institution with which
the Knights became acquainted
was the Squeeze" meaning the
rake-off that Chinese servants
get upon the groceries and other
supplies bought by them. Who
ever sells anything to a family
has to pay the servant who
places the order commission.
This is custom hallowed by age
and tradition, and the stranger
who sought to combat it would
get into far more trouble than
his reforming efforts were
worth. Hailing from a land
where greed, graft, and extor-
tion are unknown, Mr.. Knight
was deeply panied at the preva-
lence of the squeeze" among
the heather. On the east
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Tower BEGINS to Show OrnamentatiOn

for the contractors, Thompson &
Bros, expect the tower to be
completed by the first of Septem-
ber. After that the bells will be
installed. and they will be ready
for the dedication on Thanks
giving day.
Probably the ceremonies will
be held just before the Virginia.
Carolina football game. The
donors of the tower, John Mot
ley Morehead, minister to Swe-
den, and Rufus l.. Patterson,
will be present. Another visitor
will be Frank Patterson, one of
the editors of the Baltimore Sun.
No doubt Governor Gardner
and other notables will make
speecheS-which had better be
short, because the throng will be
all a-quiver to get on to the sta
dium and see Johnny Branch
pursue his rapid and tortuous
expeditions through the orange
and-blue invaders.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
UNIVERSITY MUST
WORK OUT A NEW
SCHEDULE OF PAY
Appropriations Law COmpels a
% Per Cent Cut in Total for
Personal Services.
CHANGE EFFECTIVE JULY |

Il is definitely settled now that
thf members of the University
faculty, along with other state
employees, are to have their
salaries cut July |, the first day
Il the next fiscal year. The law
says so in plain words.
! he contrary opinion that was
hell for. a week or so after the
al 0urnment of the legislature
as due to the confusion that
~ allied in the last hours of
IT, session. so many changes
we're made in the finance bills in
>u~1 a short time that even peo-
p]e in a good position to know
WtIe mistaken as to the final
fo1m of the appropriations act.
] - paper had it on what ap-
I~ Ared to be excellent authority
t1@- persons performing in
~ actiOnal service were except
ed rom the provision calling for
1t in pay, but this turned
DHt to be an error.
he final figure for the Uni
Vty,ity's annual maintenance
f4rl is 1921 900, and the gen
efal belief is that this will not
be reduced, as the present years
tlr1 was, by the state budget
bureau. Since 1929 the Uni
VtI>ity has suffered severely
from the lack of essential books,
supplies, and classroom and
laboratory equipment, and the
4 a1-horities hope that the vari-
ou> departments will not be
similarly crippled in the next
" years.
/ or a long time the Univer-
sly has been losing its teachers
t4a ause of the higher pay Of
te3ed elsewhere, and, when the
20 per cent reduction in the
maintenance fund was decreed
~ he budget bureau, sacrifices
were made in all other classes
of expenditure in order that the
salary level might be main
tai1ed. Now that the new law
co7npels a lower salary schedule
it may be possible to buy sore
" needed books. Supplies, and
equipment.
What the much-talked- about
CONTINUED on lat page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

The Morehead-P Patterson me-
mortal bell tower, on the south
edge of the campus between the
library and the kenan- stadium,
has risen far enough to exhibit
some of its ornamental features.
At a height of about 120 feet
from the ground the workmen
are building the limestone balus-
trade and pilasters for the bell
chamber. This is just above the
four circular openings for the
four-faced clock.
Soon the bricklayers will have
completed the rectangular mass,
and then the tower will begin
to taper of into the pointed cap.
The ultimate height will be
about 10 feet. The colonnade
at the base will be left until the
last SO that there will be no
danger of interference from fall
ing objects.
Atwood and Weeks, the Uni
VerSlty'S engineer architects,
and j. A. Page, superintendent
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
L. R. WILSON TO
HELP PLAN THE
NEW UNIVERSITY
Appointed by President Graham
to Serve on the COnsOlida-
tiOn Commission
BODY STARTS WORK SOON

Complying with the law that
merges the states three leading
educational institutions into a
single University, Frank Gra-
ham has appointed Louis r.
Wilson, the librarian. men,
Der of the commission that is
to work out the consolidation
plan. Governor Gardner will
announce the entire membership
of the commission.
Under the law the president
of each of the three institutions
appoints two members of the
faculty as members of the COM
mission, or he may himself serve
in lieu of one faculty member.
Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Wilson will
be the representatives from
Chapel Hill
Six members are chosen by
the Governor. Two Of these
must be women, and only one
may be selected from the board
of trustees of any one of the
three institutions. The Gov
ernor will serve &c oHclO, and
so there will be 13 members al
together.
"The commission says the
law, shall employ distinguished
and competent experts in the
several pertinent fields of higher
education in America. These
experts shall take account of the
experience of the several Ameri-
can states in the various forms
of unification, whether cOnSoli-
dation, coordination, or other
forms of unified guidance and
control of higher education, and
shall study the circumstances
and needs of higher education
in North Carolina. On the basis
of their expert studies and scien-
tifc findings they shall make
their report and recommends
tions to the commission with re-
gard to the form, extent, pro-
cedure, and all details of unified
guidance and control"
The report of the commission
is to be submitted to the Gov
ernor and the consolidated board
of trustees not later than July
|, 1882. The trustees may modl-
fly any part of the report of
which they disapprove.
Gifts and endoWments here
CONTINUED on last paQe)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
An Invitation by Cable

Mrs. George Logan received
"a cablegram from her sister,
Mrs. Alexander Cameron, in
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scot
land, yesterday, saying: de
lighted, but why not come here
first? Mrs. Cameron sent the
message after reading in the
Weekly that Mrs. Logan was to
spend the summer in London.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Music Department Events

instruction in Dalcroze Eu-
rythmics for men will be given
at 7:3O Tuesday and Thursday
evenings in Person hall. There
will be an open demonstration of
class piano work, with children
taught by Miss Grace Helen
Nash, at a o'clock Tuesday in
Music hall /; everybody is invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Paving Contract Let

The contract for laying an 49,
feet-wide strip of pavement
along the middle of Cameron
avenue has been let to Cobb and
HomeWOod.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
Fenley Going to Arizona

c.. Ward Fenley, of the French
department in the University,
has resigned his position to ac-
cept a better one in the Univer-
sity of Arizona.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
A Years Leave for COnnOr

r. d. w. Connor has a leave
of absence from the University
and will spend the next college
year abroad. This summer he
and Mrs. Connor are in Chicago !;
their address is 5,718 Dorchester
avenue.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
The Vances Are Here

Z Mr.. and Mrs. William Reynolds
Vance have come and are in
the former Mccormick home on
Boundary street. Mrs. Vance
was formerly Miss Anne Wilmer
Hume of Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

The dormitories upon the
campus are fully occupied, and
three of the four across the
Raleigh road, near the tennis
courts, are partly occupied.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
1925 Students
Summer School Enrolment Is about
10 Per Cent Below Last Years

The number of students regis
tered in the Summer School is
1925. Last yeas's registration
for the first term was 1882, and
so this years decrease is about
9.5 per cent.
The record of attendance in
the six years from 1926 to 1881
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

Friday, June 10
Nesper Services, :15, Dave Poplar.
Long Dance'-90O to II 80 Gymnasium.
Saturday. June 20
Long Dance"-9OO to II 80 Gymnasium.
No classes today
Sunday, June II
Services all churches IL 200.
Church at IL 700.
Monday, June 22
Social meeting of all hostesses 80 with Mrs Lee
Hall.
Vesper Services, 7:15, Dave Poplar.
Alexandra Barjansky, internationally famous cel first
American concert will appear Music Hall at $50 Adms
sion Is
Tuesday, June 23
Vesper Services, 7: :15, Dave Poplar
"Short Dance'7:15 to 8 rs, Gymnasium.
Wednesday, June "a
Vesper Services, 7:l5, Dave Poplar.
Thursday June %
Vesper Services, 7:15, Dave Poplar.
Note to Candidates for Degrees in Summer
All students the Summer School who expect to complete the
for their degrees should confer with their
tive deans and make application for the degree
boXyop ofolro DIV
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dardis are
rejoicing over the arrival of a baby
girl born February Z.
Those who attended the costume
party given by the Misses Amy Grot-
to and Emma johnson and MRS. B.
Gates at the M. w. A. Hall last Sat
urday evening declared it to be one OF
the pleasant events of the season.
Mr.. Stewart of Willow Lake, S. D.
was here last Saturday afternoon in
terviewing members of the school
board.
Mrs. VIM. Henke went to Wood
Lake for the weekend.
Miss Irene Peterson and Miss Clar-
ice Peterson entertained a group of
young people Monday of this week at
Miss Irene's home, the occasion being
the birthday anniversary Of both
young ladies.
Pre-lenten dancing parties seem to
be the order of the day. One at II.
Kremin's and one at N. p. Knutson's
last Saturday evening and one at
Nick Welus' last Wednesday evening.
Leon Anderson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Fraser furnished the music for
the dance at Lucan Friday evening.
Thomas and Wheeler of Montana
held horse sale at the Mrs. w.
Novak farm last Saturday afternoon.
The Camp Fire Girls held a special
meeting at the school house last
Wednesday.
T Mrs. E.. Hicky returned from Tracy
last Sunday and reports that her
mother, Mrs. Ford, is much better
and can sit up in a week.
The many friends of Mrs. Jens
Have will Be happy to know she is
home from the hospital. Mrs. F. Rey-
nolds is caring for her.