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Clyde Eubanks

Clyde Eubanks (1871–1965) was a Chapel Hill druggist and bank executive who helped found the town's Merchants Association and served as a town alderman for 25 years. He is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Source: Town of Chapel Hill: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Centennial Brochure

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StorylineEubanks Drug Store, Chapel Hill, 1897–19641897–1964 · 7 events · Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892, bought the drugstore when Dr. Roberson died in 1897. In 1901 he moved it into a new building he had put up, and in 1914 into another on his own lot about a hundred yards west. Carl Durham went to work at the store in 1913 and came back as a pharmacist after serving in the Navy Hospital Corps. In 1949 the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gave Eubanks its Mortar and Pestle Award. He sold the property to North Carolina National Bank and in 1964, on the eve of his retirement at 93, was named Merchant of the Year. Ben Courts then took over the store. StorylineChapel Hill and its dogs, 1923–19481923–1948 · 13 events · For a quarter century Chapel Hill and Orange County contended with stray dogs and repeated outbreaks of rabies, answering each with muzzles, leashes, quarantines and the shooting of dogs at large. In 1926 an outbreak put fifteen people under the Pasteur treatment, a course of rabies vaccine injections, and the aldermen ordered loose dogs muzzled and leashed or shot. Police shot loose dogs in 1929, and from 1932 a town pound killed unclaimed dogs. The county began vaccinating dogs in 1936, and outbreaks brought quarantines in 1937, 1940 and 1941. In 1948, with about 8,000 dogs thought unvaccinated, the commissioners ordered vaccination checks in every community. StorylineThe hard winter of 1935–19361935–1936 · 3 events · Chapel Hill had not had so cold a winter since 1899, said Clyde Eubanks, who kept the town's weather records, and by February 1936 snow and sickness had put off University events and closed the Chapel Hill school. Snow and ice lay on the ground almost without a break from just before Christmas 1935, and on January 28 the thermometer near Phillips Hall read 6 degrees above zero. The heaviest of six snows, beginning February 6, left about a foot. On February 11, in what Dean Robert B. House called a mild epidemic of colds, the University postponed Parents' Day, the midwinter dances and the week's athletic events, and the school closed on February 13 and 14.

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  1. Dr. Abner B. Roberson buys the Central Hotel and moves his drugstore into it After the hotel's owner, Jones Watson, died, Dr. Roberson bought the Central Hotel, moved his drugstore into it with Clyde Eubanks as druggist, and leased the hotel's management to 'Bunn' Patterson. Adam A. Kluttz opened a store called the Glass Front in the many-windowed west end of the building. People: Jones Watson, Clyde Eubanks, Adam Alexander Kluttz, Abner Benton Roberson Place: Central Hotel, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 161
  2. Clyde Eubanks buys Dr. Roberson's drugstore When Dr. Roberson died, his druggist Clyde Eubanks bought the drugstore and kept it in the Central Hotel until 1901. People: Abner Benton Roberson, Clyde Eubanks Place: Central Hotel, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 171
  3. Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own Eubanks left the Central Hotel and set up his drugstore in a new building he had put up on the west corner of the Tankersley property on Franklin Street. People: Clyde Eubanks Place: Eubanks drugstore, Tankersley property, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Central Hotel, Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179
  4. Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space. People: Clyde Eubanks Place: Eubanks Drug Store, East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207
  5. Druggist Clyde Eubanks joins the Chapel Hill board of aldermen On August 12, 1926, the Chapel Hill aldermen elected druggist Clyde Eubanks to the board in place of Carl Durham, who had resigned after moving his home outside the town limits. The same week Eubanks became president of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. People: Carl T. Durham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1926, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Zeb Council and three aldermen With no opposing candidates, about 100 voters re-elected Zeb P. Council as mayor and G. M. Braune, Clyde Eubanks and M. E. Hogan as aldermen. Many citizens who had registered only for the 1928 general election were turned away because the town kept a separate list; the officers were sworn in May 13. People: Clyde Eubanks, Gustave M. Braune, Milton E. Hogan, Zeb P. Council Place: Chapel Hill Graded School, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1929, p. 1
  7. Chapel Hill elects John Foushee mayor Former town manager John Foushee won the mayoralty with 186 votes to 134 for Mayor Zeb P. Council and 108 for B. J. Howard. Aldermen Clyde Eubanks, M. E. Hogan and J. T. Dobbins were re-elected over a late bid by Joseph Hyde Pratt, and L. J. Phipps beat Odell Sapp 361 to 123 for judge of the recorder's court. People: Clyde Eubanks, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Luther James Phipps, Zeb P. Council, John M. Foushee, Milton E. Hogan, B. J. Howard Place: Chapel Hill Graded School, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Foushee, J. T. Dobbins, Odell SappSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1933, p. 1
  8. Bank of Chapel Hill directors elect Clyde L. Eubanks vice-president The directors of the Bank of Chapel Hill elected Clyde L. Eubanks vice-president in place of the late Robert L. Strowd. At their meeting of June 5 they also spread a memorial to Strowd on their minutes. People: Robert L. Strowd Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1934, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill orders loose dogs killed after a rabid dog roams Carrboro A rabid dog ran loose in Carrboro, and possibly in Chapel Hill, from August 17 to 19, 1934, until a resident shot it, and the state laboratory confirmed rabies the next day. Mayor John M. Foushee, after conferring with health officer S. A. Nathan and alderman Clyde Eubanks, ordered the police to kill every dog at large without a muzzle or leash under the town ordinance, and the Carrboro police killed several dogs. People: S. A. Nathan, Clyde Eubanks, John M. Foushee Place: Carrboro and Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 24, 1934, p. 1
  10. Bank of Chapel Hill stockholders set up a surplus fund to end their double liability Stockholders of the Bank of Chapel Hill adopted a resolution creating a surplus fund equal to the bank's common capital stock under a 1933 state law, so that on the commissioner of banks' order they would be freed of double liability if the bank were liquidated. A new state law in March ended double liability for stockholders of all state banks from July 1, 1935. People: M. C. S. Noble, Clyde Eubanks, Milton E. Hogan Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 11, 1935, p. 3
  11. Chapel Hill Movie Guild adds a Sunday night show after church hours The directors of the Chapel Hill Movie Guild voted to add a Sunday night picture at 9:20, after church services, to the afternoon Sunday shows, beginning March 31. The Guild, which ran the Sunday shows for charity, reported $804.63 received in the 24 weeks since September 29, spent on relief allotments, help for the sick and destitute, school lunches and books, and the bath-house at the University Lake pool. People: Clyde Eubanks Place: Carolina Theatre, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 22, 1935, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill sets a two-hour parking limit on the business block After weeks of complaints that merchants and clerks stored their cars all day on the Franklin Street business block, the aldermen passed an ordinance limiting parking there to two hours between 8 A.M. and 7 P.M., Sundays excepted. People: Clyde Eubanks, Peter L. Burch, John M. Foushee Place: Franklin Street business block, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1935, p. 6
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  1. Chapel Hill bars young children from swimming pools as infantile paralysis spreads With infantile paralysis spreading in eastern North Carolina, health officer S. A. Nathan and University physician W. R. Berryhill had signs posted at Sparrow's and Hogan's pools and the University Lake pool barring children under 15. Parents were asked to keep small children from the movies, and Sunday school classes for small children were dropped. No case had yet appeared in Orange County. People: S. A. Nathan, W. Reece Berryhill, Clyde Eubanks Place: Swimming pools near Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1935, p. 1
  2. A Black delegation asks the Chapel Hill aldermen to curb lawlessness in their neighborhood Representatives of a Black organization for social and moral improvement asked the aldermen for more police protection on West Franklin and West Rosemary streets, where they said bootleg liquor, rowdiness and profanity made the streets unsafe at times and drew children into bad places. The aldermen and the town manager promised to cooperate and asked for specific complaints, which would be kept confidential. People: Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John L. Caldwell Place: Board of aldermen meeting, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West Franklin and West Rosemary streetsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1935, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill committee declines a state historical marker opposite the campus A committee of Mayor John M. Foushee, Aldermen Clyde Eubanks and R. J. M. Hobbs, and planning commission members Carl Durham and Louis Graves voted unanimously to decline the State Historical Commission's offer of an aluminum highway marker on Franklin Street naming the University as the first state university to open its doors. After marking out the sign's size, three and a half by three feet, on the bank's directors' table, they judged it too large for the front of the campus. People: Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Louis Graves, John M. Foushee, Carl T. Durham Place: Board room of the Bank of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 22, 1935, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill aldermen ask the Carolina Coach Company to move its bus station off Franklin Street To relieve congestion on the business block, the aldermen adopted a resolution asking the Carolina Coach Company to find another place for its Franklin Street station and named Aldermen P. L. Burch and Clyde Eubanks to negotiate. A site on Columbia Street between Franklin Street and the fire station was suggested; the station handled 36 bus arrivals and departures a day. People: Clyde Eubanks, Peter L. Burch Place: Bus station, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Columbia Street, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1935, p. 1
  5. Temperature falls to 6 degrees in Chapel Hill's hardest winter since 1899 The Weather Bureau thermometer near Phillips Hall read 6 degrees above zero on January 28, and T. R. Harwood reported 2 below at his dairy on the Durham road. Clyde Eubanks, who kept the town's weather records, said Chapel Hill had not had so cold a winter since 1899; snow and ice had lain on the ground almost without a break since three days before Christmas, including seven or eight inches on December 28 and 29. People: Clyde Eubanks Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: T. R. Harwood · Also mentions: Phillips HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1936, p. 1
  6. Protesting citizens get the aldermen to put off the new garbage ordinance The day after the town tried its new tax-supported garbage collection, about a score of citizens led by historian H. M. Wagstaff came to the aldermen's meeting to object to a rule that containers be set in sight of the street, and some to shifting the cost onto taxpayers. The board put off the ordinance, sent the trucks back to the old method, and soon dropped the disputed rule. People: Charles Staples Mangum, John M. Booker, Clyde Eubanks, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs Place: Board of aldermen meeting, Chapel Hill · Also named: H. M. WagstaffSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1936, p. 1
  7. A Pure Oil filling station opens on the old Methodist parsonage lot Ben Rose Strowd opened a Pure Oil station on the West Franklin Street lot the Methodist church had sold to the Pure Oil Company, and thanked motorists for the trade of its opening days. The sale had gone through in early September after Clyde Eubanks, a Methodist steward and alderman, got the assent of three other aldermen and the town manager issued a permit to cut the street trees in front; W. C. Coker said his tree committee had not been consulted. People: Clyde Eubanks, William Chambers Coker Place: Former Methodist parsonage lot, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ben Rose StrowdSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 5
  8. Chapel Hill citizens petition the legislature to keep an elected recorder's judge After the aldermen asked Orange County's representative, B. J. Howard, to bring in a bill letting them appoint the judge of the Chapel Hill recorder's court for one-year terms instead of having him elected, more than 200 men and women of the town petitioned the legislature to keep the popular election. The bill was introduced on March 3 and sent to the calendar committee, which set a hearing for March 5 in the Supreme Court library. People: Clyde Eubanks, B. J. Howard Place: Chapel Hill; State Capitol, RaleighSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 5, 1937, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission After more than a year of urging by the Chapel Hill Weekly, a Town Meeting on April 4, 1941 named a committee of John M. Booker (chairman), W. D. Carmichael Jr., Clyde Eubanks, Joseph Hyde Pratt and H. G. Baity to study the look of the business section. Its report, taken up at a Town Meeting on April 21, asked the mayor and aldermen to appoint a five-member Town Planning Commission to plan for stream-valley land, zoning and parking and to have a consulting architect pass on the designs of new and remodeled buildings. The aldermen then created the commission by ordinance, and by November it was at work with Baity as chairman and Pratt, Collier Cobb Jr., L. J. Phipps and J. P. Harland as members. It set the Colonial Revival look of downtown for the next decade. People: William D. Carmichael Jr., Herman G. Baity, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Clyde Eubanks, John M. Booker, Collier Cobb Jr., Luther James Phipps Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. P. Harland, W. D. Carmichael Jr.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Town Hall, National Register nomination (OR0327), p. 10 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 11, 1941, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 18, 1941, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1941, p. 6
  10. Clyde Eubanks becomes president of the Bank of Chapel Hill The directors of the Bank of Chapel Hill elected Clyde Eubanks president to succeed the late M. C. S. Noble, with Collier Cobb, Jr., as vice-president and Roland McClamroch as secretary. Eubanks had been a director for more than 35 years and secretary since 1910. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Roland P. McClamroch Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Franklin Street · Also named: Roland McClamroch, Collier Cobb, M. C. S. NobleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1942, p. 1
  11. Druggist Clyde Eubanks receives the state pharmacists' Mortar and Pestle Award The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gave its annual Mortar and Pestle Award to Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892 who had served 25 years as alderman and was president of the Bank of Chapel Hill. Chancellor R. B. House, Congressman Carl T. Durham and Mayor R. W. Madry spoke in tribute at the University's pharmacy school. People: R. B. House, Carl T. Durham, Robert W. Madry Place: University pharmacy school, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1949, p. 1
  12. The Bank of Chapel Hill finishes an addition that doubles its banking house In the summer of 1952 the Bank of Chapel Hill finished a year-long enlargement: a rear extension that made the building 135 feet long, more than doubled the lobby, raised the tellers' windows from six to eleven and added vaults, safe deposit boxes, offices and air conditioning. Several hundred people toured it at an open house; the bank, chartered in 1898 and opened in 1899, then held about $7.4 million in deposits. People: Clyde Eubanks, Collier Cobb Jr. Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1952, p. 8
  13. Chapel Hill merchants name 93-year-old druggist Clyde Eubanks Merchant of the Year At its installation banquet on Monday, January 27, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association named Clyde Eubanks, who had worked in the town since 1892, its Merchant of the Year for 1963 on the eve of his retirement. His store property had been sold to North Carolina National Bank, and druggist Ben Courts was to run the store under a six-month lease. People: Carl T. Durham Place: Eubanks Drug Store, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ben Courts · Also mentions: North Carolina National BankSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 30, 1964, p. 6
  14. Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892, retired in January 1964 at 93, after selling the East Franklin store property to North Carolina National Bank, and druggist Ben Courts took over the store under a six-month lease. Bryant says Benjamin and Ellyn Courts renamed it Courts' Drugs, kept it where it was for about two years and moved it to University Square East in 1967 when the bank began expanding. The News of Orange reported in December 1964 that Courts would open the store in new quarters on East Franklin Street, next to Chez Kemp, on January 1, 1965, as the bank was taking over the old building. People: Clyde Eubanks Place: Eubanks Drugstore (Courts' Drugs), East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Benjamin Courts, Ellyn Courts, Ben Courts · Also mentions: North Carolina National Bank, East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 323 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 30, 1964, p. 6; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1964, p. 1

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