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AN ACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD
THE BALSAMS
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N. H.
Open June to October
Clyde L. Davis, Keeper of the Great Seal of the Sandhills,
Tells What the Dynamo Is
The new GOLF COURSE fulfilled every expectation
in 1915. Each season the playing conditions will be
improved.
The Club House, really magnificent and harmoniz
ing perfectly with its surroundings, occupies a site that
could not have been better chosen nor more excellently
arranged.
The Hotel Plant, complete in every detail, is situa
ated among forest clad mountains, upon an extensive
tract including farms, dairy, fish-hatchery, hydro-electric
plant, garage and machine shop. Pure spring water
is supplied in abundance. Indoors there are rest and
homelike comforts; out of doors every opportunity to
enjoy tennis, boating, bathing and wilderness life.
The Balsams Winter Inn, having steam heat,
electric lights and private baths is open from October
to June.
For booklet and information address
CHARLES H. GOULD, Manager,
Dixville Notch, N. H.
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Bank of Pinehurst
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CHECKING AND SAVING ACCOUNTS
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Workings of the Farm Demonstration Idea in Moore County.
THE ETERNAL QUESTION
' ' 'Zanny thing happening in the Sand
hills now?" The secretary hears this
question day after day from Dan to Beer
sheba and from Ben Salem to Lobelia.
It is perfectly pertinent and is usually
asked . with genuine interest and in all
sincerity. The answer is yes, yes with
multudinous acclaim and wild eclat.
'Zanny thing happening in the Sand
hills ! ' ' Well I should say there is. It is
dollars to doughnuts that there is not a
rural section this side of Northern France
where so many different things are hap
pening just now.
ANOTHER QUESTION
This is no empty boast. And anyone
who could ride over this section day after
day and see the hundreds and hundreds
of acres that are being cleared or im
proved which a few months ago were
wild as Eden before Adam would readily
comprehend that something is taking
place. My employers expect me to know
what is going on in the Sandhills. I
work every day and usually put in be
tween ten and sixteen hours; but I find
it impossible to keep up with all that is
being done. The paramount question in
my mind sometimes is, "What isn't being
done in the Sandhills ?"
SEEING THINGS
As I rode into Candor recently I saw
something. I went to investigate. If the
Allies had built a munitions plant here
with capacity enough to supply the
French Army I wanted to know it. But
superintending the construction of the
great building I saw the Eeverend Robert
Arrowood, and then I knew that Candor
has a new high school of which a town
twice its size might well be proud. Coming
back Mr. Von Canon showed me through
the beautiful new church at West End.
Just after I had watched the remodeling
of the Jackson Springs Church an auto
came near getting me as it whizzed by.
Later I learned that the driver was ex
cusable; for each auto that carries chil
dren to the new Derby consolidated
school has to make three trips both
morning and night. Somebody asks how
the new Pinehurst school is doing and
before this can be answered someone else
asks if I know that the Women's Auxili
ary has raised another thousand dollars
for the Farm Life School. I attempt to
come back by saying that the new schools
at Samarcand and near Lobelia are both
doing well, and that I have been invited
to talk at Ingram Branch as soon as the
new school house is finished, and that Mr.
Lowry said day before yesterday that
one of the best of the New England mas
ters would surely have a private school
at Jackson Springs next winter; but that
I am not sure Dr. Achorn's friend will
establish the school at Pinebluff, and that
I do not know as yet just what the gen
tleman who is now writing to me about
founding a school here will do. ' 'Zanny
thing doing in the Sandhills ! ' ' It would
take an around-the-world-in-eighty-days
man to keep up with the schools alone!
FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF TH1 EARTH
AND ELSEWHERE
Nearly every day somebody writes to
know about what the section has to offer.
Forty letters have come in in less than
two months asking for printed mat
ter, and some are coming to look the
place over with a view of locating here.
Books and letters are sent to them. The
letters are written conservatively and
nothing is stated that cannot be backed
with facts. The facts are plenty strong
and striking enough without any frills
or frescoes.
ALREADY HERE
No one but the recording angel knows
just how many people have settled in the
Sandhills during the last year. The place
is so big that nothing but Gabriel's
trumpet could locate them aU. Scores
have visited and not a few have located
in the vicinity of Cameron. Mr. Hinshaw
is getting a colony to going near Vass.
D. J. Priest has a lot of new neighbors
down near Lake view. There are several
new families at West End, and whereever
one goes one finds the old faces nearly all
there still and new ones here and there.
Mr. T. D. McLean has an opportunity to
travel over this section three times as
much as the average citizen has. Yet
the other day when he drove into the new
settlement just west of Pinehurst he
found himself a stranger in the land of
his birth. If all the development that has
taken place in the past year could be
put in one place even the dullest man
would soon realize that there is something
going on in the Sandhills.
GROWING EVERYTHING
It is doubtful whether any section of
equal size is producing so many different
crops. Last summer I counted eighteen
different crops on one farm and it
wasn't Deaton's Nursery either. It was
just an ordinary farm. Mr. Tufts thinks
that we shall soon have hay enough and
cheap enough if alfalfa pans out as well
as his acre promises to do. Soudan grass
promises well. The most unique thing
of all, I suppose, is Mr. Springford's
prune orchard which is growing famously.
Of course all that miscellaneous planting
is a grand medly of wisdom and folly,
but nobody now knows just which is
which. Moreover, some are ready to bet
that pecans will soon get an inning and
the evidence is that they will hold a per
manent place in profitable agriculture.