NOVEMBEB, 19X0 fAGB IS GOLFERS Tennis and Base Rail Players use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE (Continued from Page Three) ders than probably any other town in the Others come for the winter, and go back state, and probably than any other place and tell others, and so it has come to be its size on the continent. I am told like the locust story, in which one locust a a a& informal gathering one night came to the barn and took a grain of las winter sixty men were present who wheat and went away, and another one were rated millionaires. But money is came and took a grain of wheat and went D0 big factor at Pinehurst. Men away. with big pocketbooks come to Pinehurst. You know the story. It was a great So do men with big intellects. Educators, year for locusts, and the farmer had his bankers, scientists, statesmen, politicians, barn full of wheat and a locust came plutocrats and probably some Bolshe and got a grain and flew away, and pres vs or Pinehurst is as democratic as a ently another one Well, they came to South Carolina election. Novelists write Pinehurst. Last year they tell me about their stories at Pinehurst. Ambassadors, thirty thousand people applied for ad- cabinet' ministers, soldiers from the mission to the hotels in this sandy army, Annie Oakley, golf experts, region and could not be accommodated, jockeys, agricultural experts, everybody, So James Tufts laid the foundation, for even to the cattle and horses and dogs a community that should give health and tnat tave tteir names among the high up little farms to many people and the on the registry. . " A 1 1 pians never, materialized. Ana so Pinehurst is twenty-five years old, Leonard Tufts builded a community And the one thing to me is that it is still that had never been planned, and the same old setting of Sandhill bar which is now planning and which is to rens, with the marvelous climate, al be built on still broader scale and though man has worked wonders all magnitude, and here we find now a around. The peach orchards of Pine- deveiopment mat oegins any piace you hurst are as renowned as the cherry want to start with the beginning line, fields of Kerasund in Asia, and men are and goes out all over the lower end of making fortunes from the peaches and Moore county, part of the adjoining peach orchards from the sandy hills counties, including the biggest artillery Peaches, tobacco farms, cotton fields, post in the world, which the government dewberry vineyards, scuppernong grapes is now constructing at Camp Bragg, are creating in the one time sterile region and a lot more of North Carolina. a paradise. James W. Tufts had put his Pinehurst was quick to recognize the foot in the land of Canaan, and like value of golf as a winter occupation. Moses, he died before he was allowed to Southern Pines started out witn cro- realize the marvelous story that has quet, but that did not seem to have the been made by the people who followed engine power on the steep grades and his lead. Pinehurst has grown in the Mr. Tufts installed a golf course, quarter of a century to be a positive That led to another, and all devotees of creation, with a purpose that will now outing sports know the result. At more surely follow certain lines. Where Pinehurst now are four eighteenrho-le James W . Tufts bought his sand hills is courses and another one over at South- now a community that could hardly be era Pines. Two or three 'more are bought for a thousand times what the planned at Knollwood, which is the philanthropic pioneer paid for it. legitimate offspring of Pinehurst and Homes, hotels, farms and orchards, to say Southern Pines, and Donald Boss has nothing of the new developments that his eye on golf possibilities all around are in the kettle, Pinehurst has been a this neighborhood for miles. Golf has steady transformation scene. Except the come to perfection at Pinehurst. Golf farm and orchard that adds to the pic-. is viewed from two standpoints. The turesqueness of the place it has not an player sees in it a game. I was in industry, for Pinehurst is a vacation, a Pittsburg a few days ago and naturally day off. It is the source of many hun I had to foregather with the old chaps dreds of thousand dollars to the people who in the fin de siecle had been my com of the surrounding country, for Pinehurst panions in the newspaper world. They is steadily expanding, and employs a confessed to me that they had to have small army of people in season. It daily reports of Pinehurst golf stuff in buys enormous quantities of things from the season. To us it is news to print. the farmers. It pays a gigantic pro Golf, gun club work, the races, the portion of taxes, and without a shudder, coming and going of notables from I have seen Pinehurst grow from the everywhere, now make the news that must sand, and see that it is growing as much be telegraphed out from Pinehurst every as it has grown, and that its influence day, just like from New York and Wash- is to bring the surrounding country f or ington. Pinehurst is a little town with ward along with it. But having seen no corporate existence, yet it . is the end the plans and how many of them were of a Pullman run from New York, and discarded and how many things grew up as many as seven Pullman cars have that were no more planned than Topsy pulled out from the station on one train, who just growed, I make no . forecasts starting on their journey northward, about the future except that we are go- It will not be long until a solid Pine- ing somewhere and are on the way, but hurst train will run between Pinehurst have no idea where. Pinehurst has been and Washington, nor long until air plane a helper in many ways to the community service will be in operation, for the as well as to itself. It has introduced traffic is heavy, and it is traffic that has here in the Sandhills the idea of the the money to pay the freight. Pine- electric light, the modern conveniences hurst has a bank, schools, hotels of the for the home, the landscape garden, the most elaborate type and the highest order picturesque in rural life, the good roads, of service, but no mayor, town council, for Pinehurst has been the father of good nor anything1 of that sort. In season it roads, and nobody knows what all Pine- has more wealth represented in its bor- hurst has done for North Carolina. The Southern Pines, North Carolina Pineflmirst Peparimemt Have a complete line of high-grade goods in all departments. Your patronage is solicited. Telephone Your Wants Phone 127 The Antiseptic Powder to shake into the shoes be cause it takes the friction from the shoe, freshens the feet and makes walk ing a delight. Shake Allen's Foot-Ease Into your shoes before go ing on the links and no tice the difference in your comfort, which often af fects your score. The Government sup plied 1,500,000 Ibs.of Pow der, for the Feet to the troops during the war. Be sure to get the genuine Allen's Foot-Ease. At dealers everywhere. Sam ple Free by mail. Address ALLEN S. OLMSTED. Lo Roy, N. Y. Cottage Scbool for 3308 anb (Bfrls Why not bring your children with youf They can continue their grade work here. MISS MARY CHAPMAN Principal Merchants & Miners Transportation Go. STEAMSHIP LIKES Between Boston and Norfolk Most delightful route to and from PINEHURST Tickets include meals and stateroom ac commodations on steamer A. E. PORTER, General Agent, NORFOLK, VA. MYRON W. MARRf M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN FOR PINEHURST Office at the CAROLINA Office rioirs: 10 to 11 A. M. or by Aopointment FR HA. lit? The very best house with the very best Furnishings in the very best Location The very best Oarage property in best location including some of the very best vacant business Lots I can give you the very best price. WHIDIIAM SOUTHERN PINES, - N. O. Dr. Ernest W. Bush OSTEOPATH VISIT JACKSONVILLE ON YOUR TRIP SOUTH Two great attractions are the 18-hole golf course at Country Club and HOTEL WINDLE You will enjoy your game on the course and your stay at the hotel. European plan, com plete, modern, steam heat; convenient to every thing. Cafe in connection, next to City HalL WINDLE W. SMITH, PROP. The Kiitaood CAMDEN HEIGHTS CAMDEN, S. O. UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE SOUTHERN WINTER HOME TO LEASE FOR WINTER MONTHS Modern furnished home with beautiful spa cious grounds overlooking Winyah Bay, 5 miles from Georgetown, S. C. One of the most picturesque places on the Carolina coast; 233 acres. Great live oaks hang with Spanish moss and an avenue of japonicas and azaleas lead to a modern house of 13 rooms. Garage and out buildings. Saddle horses and Motor Boat, good servants fine hunting grounds, duck, deer, turkey, quail and other game. For further particulas ad dress, OWNER, Belle Isle Plantation, Georgetown, S. C.

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