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VOL. XXII, NO. 1
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1918
FIVE CENTS
THE YICTORY PARADE
Of Tbe Sandhills, Will Feature at
Pinehurst Fair
Governor Rickets, War Pageant
Annie Oakley, and Horse It ace
In Community Frolic
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THE ANNUAL FAIR
takes place at the Pine
hurst Race Track on
November 20th and 21st.
Like a famous divine
or a royal duke it has
gathered its honors and
titles as it goes, until
(this year it blossoms
out under the full title of:
The Sandhill Fair and tho Berkshire
Hog Congress.
Charlie Picquet is field marshal. For
the uninitiated we may say that the
Sandhill Fair is no prepared exhibition
attended as a show by a gaping crowd
of spectators. It is the annual frolic
and exchange of the people of this joy
ful neighborhood, and themselves both
are and see the show.
It is quite literally a gathering of the
elans from the allied towns. This year
every hamlet will proceed en masse to
the celebration in the wake of their ex
hibits. The princial feature of every
town's contribution will be the compe
tition float for the victory parade. All
Sandhill fairs are inaugurated by a pa
rade, including all the works, like Bar
num's circus. And a boy must be
blind or a girl crippled that isn't in
the line-up in some costume or capacity.
This year the motif is suppied by
the conquering heroes, a kind of Sand
hill Iliad of the great war. From Aber
deen, J. R. Page will roll into line with
his "Treat 'Em Roughs," a correct
imitation of the only real and original
Paris to Berlin Caterpillar Line. In its
wake will appear the shade and sad
similitude of the devil of the sea, Mein
self und Gott's incomparable soupmarine
what there is left of it. . Lloyd Bred
beck will be hard upon it with his new
destroyer, the Admiral Sims, designed
and completed in five days, which we be
lieve to break the rivetting and all
other ship building records. The cot
tage colony will not be unrepresented.
Squire Wicker is in charge of the aero
plane program, and will lead the Pine
hurst jubilee in a model of the famous
battleplane of Jim McConnell.
In full matching order the Junior Ca
dets of the Farm Life School whose
actual fighting record is second to no
college in the country will impersonate
the embattled legions of their older
brothers over the seas.
The women of the old plateau will be
the predominant feature as they have
been the predominent feature of the sup
port given the front. Led by Miss Ja
net Baxter, of Southern Pines, the
Camp Fire Girls will personify the war
savings campaign, and the Red Cross
Chapters will be there in the very life,
North Carolina militia of Moore, Lee
and Chatham counties.
Having participated in this review, all
hands will repair to Agricultural Hall to
take in the exhibitions of the harvest.
This year there will be a special empha
sis given to the tobacco that blessed
fag stuff that made the money that
bought the bonds that sent us over . the
top in the drive;
THE FAMOUS SEXTETTE
In former years the greatest hit at
the fair has been made by the Scotch
girls from Flora Macdonald College,
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Philips Shoots the Winning Putt
accompanied by floats representing the
famous poster "The Greatest Mother of
Them All," a typical First-Aid station
and the Red Cross ambulance. The
stretcher bearers are recruited from the
Farm Life School.
THE LINE OP LAST DEFENSE
Representing themselves as the last
line of support in the successful strug
gle, the canning club girls, heralded by
a war garden in the life, will wind up
the procession with a rear guard of the
singing and exhibiting the highland
fling on the greensward a performance
by the original Flora Macdonald sextette
that in our sober judgment surpasses
anything I have ever seen on the stage
in the wicked city They will be there in
full chorus this year, but will have to
look to their laurels Under the direc
tion of Miss Alice Page, of Aberdeen,
the school children of the district will
pull off a Patriotic Pageant on the sec-
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NEW GOLF CHAMPION
Philips Strikes His Gait and Lifts
The Carolina Trophy
Decker TV In the Medal and puis
Frank Oatfi, Title Holder
Oat of the Jlnnnlng-
THE 1918 CAROLINA
Golf Tournament, held
at the Pinehurst Country
last week, beginning on
Monday the 11th of No
vember, will long be re
membered for its orgie
of extraordinary putt
ing. The putters went
into a frenzy. They began by sinking
everything on the sand and ended by en
tirely substituting a mashie in the long
timber for their final shots.
This was the more fortunate for the
scores. For paradoxical as it may ap
pear, the fact that the course was fifty
per cent better than ever seen before,
made the going in other respects harder.
The grass was so much thicker than
Pinehurst approachers are led to expect,
that the fancy running up shots that are
stowed away in the champions' lockers
had to be replaced with impromptu pitch
shots for the greens.
This, and the usual rusty perform
ances that mark the opening- of the sea
son, explain why the medal round
brought out nothing better than an 88.
Frank Gates of Broadacre, who is so
used to taking the honors in this tourna
ment that we had almost come to re
gard it as his prescriptive right, strug
gled home having only caught sight of
par on five holes to find himself for all
that tied with the veteran Becker for
the medal at 88. Gates was out in 45
and back in 43. Becker made both
in 44.
Howard Phillips was the only near
competitor, and he was pushed to show a
ninety. Practically the whole normal
line-up of the North Carolina crowd who
usually make this event a fast one be
ing off to the war, the tournament was
played in two divisions of eight each.
The first eight all managed to slip in
under the century mark, with Harry
Waring and E. D. McCabe of St. Al
bans ending the list with 99 each.
The interest of the first day's match
play naturally ' centered on the Becker
Gates match. This both because it was
popularly supposed that the winner