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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK A won It jten of Iurka Improve School Ground lf Grubbing- Stumps and Felling- Tree Neighborhood co-operation did great things at the Farm Life School last Friday. More than twenty men gathered with shovels, axes, grubbing hoes, and made marked improvements in the school grounds. Stumps that have stood post wbe condita were hoisted and started toward the fireplaces, along with many a tree which had grown where it had no business to.be. The boys of the school also rendered yoeman service, and the girls provided a Hoover dinner for all who toiled. It is difficult to run wars and schools .at the same time. During the Revolu tionary War, says the historian, "most of the schools and colleges in the United Colonies were obliged to close.' ' Men still alive remember what havoc the Civil War wrought in education. "The his tory of agricultural communities, 11 says the famous Irish editor, "seems to be that communities are built up in times -oi peace and that war tears them down." Just now the North Carolina School Authorities are finding how diffi cult it is to prevent the school of the state from retrograding under the influ ence of the world war. The people of Eureka feel the addi tional burden, but are determined that they will meet the situation like men, and will keep things improving at the Farm Life School in spite of Hindenburg, the IKaiser, the Devil, and the rest of that lass. THE ROLL OF HONOR A short time ago Mr. "Warren Man ning, the Landscape Architect, who has the work at Pinehurst in charge, went out to the school and indicated what work should next be done toward giving the school grounds a proper appearance. "Many ugly stumps and a jungle of trees -still stood in front of the buildings. These were marked for removal. The courses of roads were indicated. Mr. Manning also deemed it important that a rack be provided so that horses would no longer be hitched to the trees. The men of the community took this Tvork in hand. Those who did their bit Mere Messrs. Martin Blue, Henry Blue, 2. V. Blue, Walter McCaskill, Will Jack so" Frank Mabry, Ernest Home, J. F. Southwick, Charles Deaton, Will Deaton, James Deaton, Walter Deaton, John Deaton, Noah Deaton, Martin McLeod, p. Davis, E. F. Brown, Maj. Plaine. J- W. C. Blue was unable to be present but sent the world's champion colored stump digger to work in his stead. CHARLIE ARRIVES WITH AN IDEA. Before noon many a venerable stump had been uprooted, Manning-marked trees were down, and the whole front yard looked as if a young cyclone had been exercising itself and trying its strength ab t the premises. Charles Deaton arrived rather late, but soon made yp for lost time, because he brought an J3ea with him. The idea was finish pull ing each stump with a mammoth wire stretched which he had rigged up. From that time on things went faster. Part of the force dug around the stumps and chopped off the most stubborn roots, then the Charlie machine was put in operation. When the day was done it looked as if two full-grown cyclones had attacked those stumps. Dinner was served at noon and the toilers ate with the students in the big dining hall. Noah Deaton, the oldest man in the crowd said that he had been doing a man's work at the table for over eighty years, but if his memory served him right he had never struck into a better meal than the one the girls pro vided although they had kept religiously within the Hoover limits. After dinner the group sat around the fire in the living room for about half an hour listening to the victrola and allow ing digestion to proceed uninterruptedly. Then all hands to the work again. The boys of the school rendered great assist ance. They rigged up a tackle and with yo ho ho altogether pull they brought down many a tree. One would climb the tree like an inspired squirrel and fasten the rope to the top. Others would cut the surface roots, and then with a long pull they all brought it to the ground. Mr. Z. V. Blue and Major Plaine spent the evening making a hitch rack so that horses no more bo tied to the dog woods and other ornamental trees except by men of innate perversity and original sin. JLTIIEItTON ffMNS IUE SIIOOT John Philip Soma a Sood Second The weekly trophy given by the Pine hurst Gun Club for 100 target handicap Event at the Traps was won this week by A. P. Atherton of Chicago. Working with a handicap of ten birds he chalked up a score of 100, which was only one better than the net score of John Philip Sousa, the famous bandmaster and shot, who made a good 99. The complete scores were: A. P. Atherton, 90 10 100 J. P. Sousa, 87 12 99 D. J. Dalton, . 87 10 97 J. V. Hall, 81 15 96 B. V. Covert, 87 8 95 J. Dillon, 79 15 94 Mrs. D. J. Dalton, 77 13 90 J. Abberts, 82 8 90 Julian Bishop, 69 17 86 Makes Heir Mark Two new amateur records were estab lished for this season by Norman Max well. On Tuesday he played number one course in 74. The folowing day he low ered his own record of 78 for the Cham pionship course to 76. Course No. 1, 5 4 5 4 5 4 3 5 439 out 5 3 534435 335 in 74 Course No. 2, 453553 5 2 335 out 554 4T 5454 541 in 76 Townsend's The Greatest Grass-Cut-ter on Earth j Does the work of 3 men, 3 horses and 3 mowers. 5yj Triplex W VSUbO CkU UU DUa kill Floats over the ground as a ship rides the waves I li i r-.V f See it operate A i ' on local links. S. P. TOWNSEnD & CO. Orange, N. J. BRETTON IN THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE WOODS Improved Golf Course Full 6,460 yards TUM JlOUtT PLEASANT TUB fflOUXT W 4 ftll IXGTO C. J. Dunphy, Manager d. J..Trudeau Winters The Copley Plaza Winter: Hotel Ormond Boston, Mass Okmond Beach, Fla. 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