HEMP
The County Moore Mills, now un
der construction at this place, will not
be a yarn mill, as previously reported,
but will weave only, making fine and
fancy goods and silk striped shirting.
The plant will have 250 looms. W.
W. Cowgill, of Pinehurst, N. C., is
president and treasurer and G. N.
Rowe is secretary.
Elise Boy’s Basket Ball team play
ed Carthage on Friday night in the
tobacco warehouse at Carthage. The
game was a good, fast one, well play
ed. Elise won 21 to 16.
Miss Ava Maness spent the week
end at her home near Howard’s Mills.
Miss May Gilmore visited her home
at Dunn over Sunday.
Mrs. G. N. Rowe and son, Glenn,
spent the past week at their old home
in Catawba county.
The Woman’s Auxiliary met on
Sunday, and under the leadership of
the Vice-President, Mrs. C. A. Pre-
'vost, Jr., enjoyed a good program.
The Presbyterian church of Marion,
presented the Elise Presbyterian
church with a bell for the new church
building, which is nearing completion.
A letter from Rev. J. C. Story, pastor
at Marion, says that the old bell has
called two generations of worshippers
to prayers, and contains a wish that
the bell may call the people to come
^nd w^orship God for many more years,
and that it may be used to help ad
vance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
check for a years’ subscription to The
Pilot from the efficient and general
cashier of our bank, Mr. G. N. Rowe.
Ira Williams, who has been ill for
some time was taken to the Asheboro
Hospital on Saturday by Dr. W. N.
McDuffie and W. C. Brown.
Miss Parrish, of High Point, will
open a millinery store here before
long.
Mrs. Daniel Horner visited relatives
in Star last week.
Miss Margaret McQueen is giving
'weekly lessons in nursing to a class.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wilcox were visi
tors here on Sunday.
Fuller McDuffie, of the Big Oak
section, visited Dr. W. N. McDuffie on
Friday.
Mr. Elias Kennedy who has been
ill for some time is in the same condi
tion.
J. B. Muse, of Carthage visited the
Shields family on Monday.
Mrs. Thomas Cox, of Rockingham,
'with daughters, Faye and Helen Mae,
spent Sunday with relatives here.
With a District Conference at Tab
ernacle M. E. church on Friday, and
the formal opening of Arrowood dor
mitory of Elise high school, the same
day, followed by a picnic dinner, ev
ery woman in Hemp will be baking
and stewing and frying all week, and
chickens will be scarce after all these
festivities.
At a meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of the County Moore Cotton
Mills on Friday, it was decided to be
gin the construction of 20 houses at
once. These will be built on the mill
property, below the planing mill, on
the east side of town.
The Athenian Society of Elise will
present to the school this week a
handsome and very life-like portrait
of Rev. R. S. Arrowood.
BETTER NEWSPAPER MAIL
SERVICE
As a result of several months of in-
Arestiga.ion and study by experts of
the Post Office Department, Post
master General New today issued the
first definite, concise and complete
program that has ever been put out
by the Department for the mailing,
transmission and delivery of news
papers.
This order is most important. It
is far reaching. It gives the same ex
pedition to newspapers as is accorded
to first class mail.
The Older is the result of painstak-
—Our
Dry Cleaning
and Pressing
ing effort on the part of the post of
fice inspectors, under the direction of
Fist Assistant Postmaster General
Bartlett. Carefully worded and
minute instructions have been issued
to all employees engaged in handling
the mails, so that there will be no pos
sibility of misunderstanding the im
portance of getting newspapers to the
reader with a minimum of delay.
The essence of the order is that
newspapers shall not be mixed with
parcels post at any point in their dis
patch from the publishers’ offices un
til their delivery to the addressees.
Papers shall be handled by them
selves, and kept in constant transit,
not being sent to railway, terminals to
be reworked. In other words, they
are to be handled in the same manner
as first class mail.
An important feature of the order
is that no publication shall be given
any less efficient or less expeditious
treatment than at present. That
means that publications other than
newspapers will not suffer one iota
from this progressive innovation,
made by the Post Office Department.
Another striking feature of the or
der is the elimination of sacks of mail
which are known to the business world
as “mixed mail.” Sacks of mixed
mail some times contain letters, pa
pers, and parcels post, and often times
the entire contents w^ere treated as
parcels post. This order will prevent
a recurrence of that condition.
Another important feature of the
order is that postmasters are requir
ed to notify publishers in each in
stance w’hen they do not hit the dis
patch which they advertise to hit;
also to notify publishers when they
are sending to wrong addresses and
to the addresses of deceased persons.
Publishers will also be notified when
they are putting up their mail in an
incorrect manner.
Under the new system, newspapers
will be made up in separate sacks
plainly labeled with the word “News
papers.” If there are only a few
copies of newspapers at the point of
dispatch, they will be placed in pouch
es with first class mail or in separate
sacks, even though the sacks are only
partially filled.
This order means much to the
American public. It is one of the
most important and far reaching steps
in post office history. It is for the
benefit of those who desire to have
their newspapers placed before them
at as early a moment as possible. This
should keep both the city and rural
population in closer and quicker touch
with their several fields of activities.
NOTICE OF SALE
THE PILOT
WATCH TAX SPENDERS AS WELL
AS TAX COLLECTORS
Friday, February 1, 1924
Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a deed of trust exe
cuted by D. T. Haines and wife, Em
ma T. Haines to W. D. Matthews,
Trustee, on the third day of January,
1922 and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Moore County,
North Carolina, in Book 36, page 275,
to secure the payment of certain notes
and indebtedness therein described,
default having been made in payment
of said notes and indebtedness, and
the holder thereof having applied to
the undersigned Trustee to foreclose
said deed of trust in accordance with
the powers of sale therein contained,
the undersigned trustee, will on 11th
day of February, 1924, at 12 o’clock
noon, at the Court House door in
Moore County expose to public sale to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described land:
Beginning at a stake about two
rniles from the town of Vass on the
highway from Vass to Carthage by
way of Union Church, thence North
61-10 West 226 feet; thence, North
56-50 We ts502 feet; thence, North
45-10 West 306 feet; thence. North
18-45 West 417 feet; thence. North
3-35 West 192 feet; thence, South 5-
25 East 423 feet; to a stake Dolphus
Henderson’s line, the above courses
being the highway as mentioned
above; thence, North 28-20 East 1987
feet to a stake pine pointers; thence.
South 3378 feet to the beginning; con
taining 47.93 acres more or less; the
above is a parcel of land known as the
J. F. Cole tract, and surveyed by the
Atlantic Coast Realty Co. December
16-18, 1918, this tract being known as
tract number four.
This the 10th day of January, 1923.
W. D. MATTHEWS,
(Feb*l( Trustee.
Mr. A. W. McLean, of Lumberton,
who will be a candidate for Governor
in the next primary had this to say
in a speech at Concord last week, be
fore the Kiwanis Club, in speaking on
the subject of thrift:
“While there has been much lack of
thrift in personal and domestic af
fairs, and to some extent in private
business affairs, and to some extent
business affairs, that lake of thrift
in affairs of government has been,
from the foundation of government
the most widespread and the most
difficult to control and eliminate.”
He said there was no reason in prin
ciples why we should not be able to
apply the same theories and methods
of thrift and business economy to af
fairs of government as to our private
business affairs, and that the only rea
son why this much desired result has
never been accomplished is due very
largely to the fact that the people
themselves have not demanded of their
public servants a greater degree of
business prudence and frugality in the
conduct of public affairs. Summariz
ing briefly the prerequisites of thrift
in affairs of government, he mention
ed the following as of prime import
ance: (a) The balancing of the budg
et to the end that current operating
expenses of government, whether it be
national, state or local shall not ex
ceed current revenues; (b) that every
item of expense be scrutinized and
subjected to the test of public wel
fare and necessity, and if it cannot
meet such test, then it should be elim
inated, just as quickly and effectively
as a thrifty and prudent businessman
would eliminate it in the handling of
his own priv’^ate business; (c) there
should be an elimination of all dupli
cation in government departments.
This is perhaps the most prolific
source of a lack of thrift in the man
agement of our public business, and
is due most often to our uneconomic
system of government, where bureaus
and commissions are too frequently to
be found. There should be in every
government department a modern sys
tem of accounting, equal in all mater
ial respects to that maintained by the
best managed business concerns, and
this.system should be so set up that
the public can always understand
what their government is costing
them, and particularly the sources of
income and how the money is spent;
(d) we should realize that we cannot
have real thrift in government unless
we watch the tax spenders as well as
the taxcollectors.
ff If s Gas
Oil or Accessories of any
kind see the
NATIONAL
FILLING
STATION
Aberdeen, N. C.
We have it. Free air,
water and battery ser
vice. (tf)
Department
does the very best work possible, and
have installed a
nODERN STEAN PRESSER
to take care of the increasing business
in that line. Special attention paid to
work for ladies.
Vass Barber Shop
Beasley Building VASS, N. C.
9
i FOLLEY’S LUMBER YARD
Has been SERVING the Sandhill Section for the
past Ten Years with LUMBER
for all kinds of buildings. Always carry a Complete
Stock of Dressed Lumber, Red Cedar and Pine Shingles.
Bird’s Neponset Slate Surfaced Shingles and Rooffing,
Galvanized Roofings and Ridge Roll. The old reliable
Genuine Beaver Board. Face and Common Brick, Lime,
Plaster and Cement. Sash, Doors and Moulding.
M. H. FOLLEY
I DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS
j
I When you want Drugs you want new fresh stock,
i We have it or we get it. Also a complete line of
I Toilet Articles
\ and it is recommended by the preacher. Come to see us.
i
We carry a nice line of Jewelry, Whitman’s
Candies, Fountain Pens, etc.
AGENTS FOR FLOWERS
I
I WIGGINS DRUG STORE,
i
Vass, N. C.
t
THE LEADING DRUG STORE IN THE SANDHILLS
‘"Live and Let Live,” our motto.
Still
Making Tilings Jingle
AT THE
SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES, Inc.
Southern Pines, N. C.
The New CE11ENT and LIME House is Finished
AND IT IS FILLED
A new Warehouse has been commenced, to hold dress
ed and finished lumber.
In the arrivals in the last three or four days is a car
of BARRETT SPECIFICATIONS ROOFING. There is
a roofing material that no longer needs any introduction
to people who are building. It hass its rating wherever
substantial work is done, and all that is necessary is to
say that a car of Barrett material has come in.
A large shipment of rough lumber has arrived and is
arriving. This was held up a little in transit, but now
that it is here enough is on hand and coming to satisfy
all requirements.
You are missing something if you do not drop around
and see what kind of a plant this is swiftly growing to
be.* Come and get acquainted.
SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES,
Incorporated
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
THE STIEFF TONE
Has Never Been Imitated
Famous for 81 years. Few
pianos have maintained so high
a standard for so many years.
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc.
Charlotte, N. C.
Please send catalog and prices of
Pianos.
Name ....
Address
Chas. M. stieff, Inc.
Upright Pianos in both |
solid and veneered ma- |
hogany. I
Charlotte, N. C. j
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SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY
Trains leave Soutliem Pines, N. C., as follows, cor
rected to December 3rd, 1923:
SOUTHBOUND
No. 1—6:50 a. m., for Colum*
bia, Savannah and Jacksonville.
•
No. 3—7:28 p. m., for Colum
bia, Savannah and Jacksonville
....No. 5—5:52 a. m., for Monroe,
Atlanta and Birmingham.
No. 11—6:33 p. m., for Ham
let, Monroe and Atlanta.
No. 41—11:22 a. m., for Ham
let, Charlotte and Wilmington.
NORTHBOUND
No. 2—9:53 p. m., for Rich
mond, Washington and New
York.
No. 4—9:35 a. m., for Rich
mond, Washington and New
York.
No. 302—7:07 p. m., for
Washington, Philadelphia and
New York.
No. 12—-8:50 a. m., for Ral
eigh, Henderson and Norfolk.
No. 44—2:02 p. m., for Ral-
eigh-Weldon.
Train No. 6—11:23 p. m. stops on flag for pas
sengers for North of Norlina.
ABERDEEN,
NORTH CAROLINA
JOHN T. WEST, Div. P. A.,
Raleigh, N. C.
H. A. BORST, Agent,
Vass, N. C.
Friday, Febrj
pr
More than 1
trustees ai'd
pinehurst, ThJ
attendance of
meeting of thj
is clubs of thj
olina district.
occasion)
suing year
officials undeij
Harry T. Adi
governor. T1
ernors who
ams are Willij
Felix Harvey,
Charlotte; Jo|
C.; Richard
and district
Roderick Me]
C. One of th(
day’s conventj
of a| gold wat(
kin, of Columj
ident of the
ians presentej
silver servic<
Pinehurst lou<
ing the idealj
States for coi
Mrs. Janiej
her mother, l|
nesday evenii
day dinner pa|
ful event botl
as to the guej
ful home of IVj
especially dec
the occasion i|
so fortunate
enjoyable timj
ed in courses
all through tl
with beautifu
After dinner!
The visiting
Mrs. Chas. Pj
ner, Mr. and
Carthage, Mi
Messrs. Jas.
S. Dunlop anj
One of the|
by the Pine]
one of comm|
organizing oJ
Club on W^edi
ary 23rd, at
torium. Mrs!
ing, called thj
conducted th<
this importanj
lowing officer
man, Mrs. G^
Mrs. L C. S]
Bruce Camerj
be held month!
afternoon at
torium. Evei
life is asked
and join if
February 20tl
Miss Fanni<
Mr. and Mrs.
Saturday evei
at Lakeview.
Mr. and Mr|
ston-Salem,
Miss Mary
nessee visitinj
terest of her
hopes to ship
date.
We are gh
preacher, Revj
ly, are at hoi
just complete)
a Manse until
cured for the
ian church at
months since
Pinehurst he
wonderful w(
ary 27th, at
ter the sacrj
23 new meml
the church.
The friends!
are very son
tinued sicknes
young son of|
is still unabL
account of a
just undergon!
Mr. Frank
at the fair gi
The races
a full card t\
Those preseni
ally with the
was the first
Mr. Steve
spent Saturda]
the Polo gam<
Misses Callil
Kelly visited
end.
The Holly
der the manj
are open for tl
of the hotels
season will res
ary 1st which
breaker.
Mr. Pete Pel