VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
27
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
the pilot printing company. VASS, N. C.
FRIDAY, MAY 23,1924
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
PINEBLlIFf TO GET
LARGE NEW HOTEL
Plans Will Include Golf Course
and to Be Ready for Next
Winter.
Last week a charter was issued
from the State Department at Raleigh
to Alexander P. Holbrook, J. Stanley
Smith, M. F. Butner and J. Talbot
Johnson authorizing the construction
of a large new hotel at Pinebluff, the
capitalization to reach $150,000. This
new project contemplates the erection
of a big fireproof hotel of 50 rooms
with facilities for adding further
rooms later on, a golf course of nine
holes and provision for making it
eighteen holes as soon as a larger
course is justified, and such other
features as will make the new house
the perfect equipment that the grow
ing* Sandhill resorts are calling for at
the different villages.
Mr. Holbrook is a Newark, New
Jersey man, Mr. Butner from Win-,
ston-Salem, Mr. Smith a hotel man^
from Virginia Beach and Pinebluff.
Mr. Smith will have the management
of the house, which will probably be
called the Holbrook.
The site chose is on the knoll be
yond the town assembly hall, between
the old highway and the new one,
overlooking the spring. A tract of 50
acres of land has been given the pro
ject by T. J. Maslin, of Winston- Sa
lem, president of the Moore County
Farms Association which has large
holdings and development near Pine-
b’uff, and Mr. Maslin has signified his
willingness to sell additional acreage
to the company for further develop
ment if it shall be needed and at a
moderate price. The hotel will stand
on the top of the knoll, and looking
out to the southward will be the golf
course, which will extend across the
valley and down the hollow, between
the two roads.
The building will be of brick, to
cost about $100,000. The balance of
the money that is contemplated in this
venture will be used in the golf
course and the other features. Plans
are now under discussion, and it is
thought that within the next few days
a decision will be reached as to the
designs, and arrangements can be
made to get at the preliminary work.
Subscriptions will be made by some
of the Pinebluff folks who have the
means, and it is the expectation that
the acquaintance of the incorporators
with financiers elsewhere will speedi
ly secure the funds necessary to car
ry the work to a finish by Christmas
so that the house will be ready for
use by that time.
An elaborate scheme is entertained
for the development of the hotel sur
roundings, but for the present the
main job will be to get the building
and the golf course in readiness and
after that the other things will fol
low. A lake is in contemplation, and
attention will be paid to fishing as
well as boating and bathing in the
warmer periods of the season. Trans-
poi’tation lines to Pinehurst, South
ern Pines, Knollwood and the Drown
ing Creek camps and canoeing points
will be provided, as it is proposed to
connect the new development with
everything else in the Sandhills that
v/ill be worth while.
The location of the new hotel and
golf layout is such that it is believed
a large number of private cottages
will follow the hotel, for the ridge
that will bound the golf grounds on
all sides will be a highly inviting
place for a winter home, and for sum-
iner, too, for that matter. It is plan
ned to have the golf course so close
to the hotel that the hotel will serve
as the club house as well as for gen
eral hotel purposes, and make the en
tire venture one big unit.
While the hotel will be immediate
ly adjoining the village of Pinebluff
will be far enough away from the
railroad so that the noise and dust of
^he trains will be avoided, yet close
enough to the station so the bus lines
convey travelers back and forth
quickly and with no discomfort. The
highway will run within a few hun
dred feet of the building and in full
sight, and a connecting road will run
to the hotel entrance.
Winston-Salem interests are show
ing a tendency to help push Pinebluff
along and it is believed that the new
development will attract considerable
attention in that direction. Much en
couragement has been extended the
new movement by hotel men at Pine
hurst, Southern Pines and elsewhere
in the vicinity, as the crowds that
come to the Sandhills now are fre
quently so large that the hotels and
cottages are crowded beyond capaci
ty, and another golf course will be
welcomed by players and by the coun
try clubs already in existence. Pine
bluff will be looked on as a helper in
caring for the visitors and in no sense
as a rival.
Mr. Smith says he has all manner of
encouragement from all sources, and
feels entirely confident that the new
venture will be a success from the
start.
RADIO ON THE FARM
The radio, while generally regard-
ed as belonging more to urban than
to rural life, has become popular in
the country. The department of agri
culture recently completed a survey
showing that $145,000 farm families
are now equipped with radio receiv
ing sets.
Based upon an estimate of five per
sons to a family, this would mean
that there are now 750,000 rural radio
fans capable of tuning in and hearing
the various programs put on at broad
casting stations.
The radio may work as a greater in
fluence than the telephone, good roads,
electricity or the motor car in keep
ing people on the farm, for these con
veniences, in many cases, only increas
ed the hunger for things urban.
Bobbed hair continues to hold its
own as a topic of conversation, but we
hardly expect it to become an issue in
the presidential campaign.
TO DEVELOP THE
MIDLAND REGION
Houses Built on Time for First
Three Buyers of Five-
Acre Lots
On the Midland road between Pine
hurst, Knollwood and Southern Pines,
lies the property known as the Mid
land Farms, formerly the J. Van
Lindley orchard tract. Some of this
property has been sold to buyers of
small lots and a number of homes are
already in existence. The remainder
of the orchard fronting on the double
road has been cut into pieces 200 feet
front by 1,000 feet deep, amounting to
just a trifle less than five acres to the
lot. These will be sold to persons who
want more room than the restricted
town lots of the villages afford, and
to stimulate the movement the Mid
land Farms Company will for the first
three persons buying a lot build a
house on the lot, using plans supplied
by the company, the conditions being
the payment of one-third of the cost
of the house on its completion, and the
balance in equal payments in one, two
and three years. The cost of the
house will be the cost and no more, no
profits or commissions, and the plans
will be practical plans used by Pine
hurst for the attractive cottage so
common over there.
The Midland Farms property is the
most desirably located prospect in this
section for a man of moderate means
to make himself an attractive home.
It is but a few minutes run from
Pinehurst and Southern Pines, the
places that will afford employment,
and with the best roads to go back
and forth. The low price of the land
makes it possible for almost anybody
to buy one of the five-acre lots, and
a lot of land of that size is big enough
for a pleasant home, a garden, trees,
chickens, a pig, a cow, and room to
make feed for the animals as well as
food for the family. The Midlands
road will always be the most promi
nent driveway in the Sandhills, for
Southern Pines, Knollwood and Pine-
BAUJEY NOT STRONG
IN NOORE COUNTY
Regarded by People as an Er
ratic Man Disposed to Com
plain at Everything
Considerable talk with the people
of Moore county concerning the pros
pects of the candidates for governor
appears to bring out the opinion that
Mr. Bailey has no great following in
the county, and that he is rather a
brilliant fellow with not much inclina
tion to back up substantial proposi
tions, and to complain too much of
anything that happens to awaken his
antagonism. It is said of him that he
never stays long enough with any doc
trine to know that he is really friend
ly to anything, and that he is more
chimerical than practical. The only
Bailey man who has talked with The
Pilot in the last few days says he
thinks Mr. Bailey has lost the fight
in the county.
One of the most observant men of
Moore county said that Mr. Bailey is
taking on too much of a useless fight.
He seems to have the faculty of arous
ing needless antagonism, and that is
having its effect in this county. He
made the mistake recently of appear
ing to be on the offensive against the
state democratic organization in his
denunciation of the existing tax laws,
which were enacted by democratic
votes, and when Mr. Bailey accused
Mr. Dawson of taking sides in the
campaign he invited the response that
Mr. Dawson sent back, that the man
who is antagonizing the policy and
doctrine of the democratic organiza-
jtion must expect the criticism of the
democratic committee.
This attitude of Mr. Bailey toward
the party organization and the policy
and doctrine of the party he presumes
to be traveling with has aroused con
siderable resentment in the county,
and he is accused of playing a repub
lican game rather than working inside
of his own party. He has made an
other slip when he proposes to take
! from the state certain of the taxes
I
j that come from the railroads, the cor-
! porations and other sources to be used
j for county purposes, for the argument
is put up that to take anything from
the present state revenues would re
quire either state taxes from some
other sources or lessen the amount of
revenue the state now receives, and
that would mean lessening the money
available for the state purposes,
schools, public institutions, pensions
to the veterans and their dependents,
the loss to be made up by further tax
es on something else. As the present
tax law is the work of the democrat
ic organization it is charged that Mr.
Bailey’s complaint against the system
is a complaint against his party work.
It is also said that he is so favor
ed by the republicans that a suspicion
is felt that he is playing with the
enemy. This seems to be arousing a
feeling on the part of democrats who
think Mr. Bailey should be training
with his own crowd instead of with
the opposition.
If The Pilot is any observer the
McLean men in Moore much outnumb
er the Bailey men unless the latter are
keeping under cover, for the expres
sion of sentiment is so one-sided that
it looks like a McLean winning in the
county. Not so much is heard of oth
er names on the ticket. It is difficult
to forecast the vote that will be cast,
even though the primary election is
not three weeks off now.
TUFTS AT ROARING GAP
The Charlotte Observer of Wednes
day, says:—
“Roaring Gap as a mountain resort
place is particularly a Winston-Salem
asset. The good roads having been
built, a long-cherished dream of the
people of the section is about to be
realized. A development company has
been organized which will get behind
the plans of Mr. Leonard Tufts to di
rect the building of a great resort cen
ter and then to manage it. Mr. Tufts
thinks Roaring Gap “one of the pret
tiest spots east of the Rockies” and
he has ideas in development that will
undoubtedly make of it “a great Sum
mer resort for the South.” Mr. Tufts
years ago saw the possibilities of
Pinehurst as a recreational center,
and the world knows how well he
took advantage of these possibilities.
That is a Winter proposition, and the
fact that Mr. Tufts is placing his cap
ital and his energies into a continuity,
we might say, with determination to
embrace Summer activities, is mighty
encouraging. And Mr. Tufts is get
ting in “on the ground floor.” In pre
empting Roaring Gap, he has secured
one of the most attractive regions in
the western part of the State. That
Mr. Tufts is to play a hand in the
west is matter for State-wide con
gratulation.” ....
SCHOOL CONTRACT
WORK BEGINS SOON
Awarded to Mooney—McPherson
Dreams a Dream — Other
Cameron News
When old Tecumseh Sherman said
“War is hell” he proved that he didn’t
know anything about taxes.
NOORE CO. SUNDAY
SCBOOLCONVENTION
Held in Pinehurst Union Sunday
School, Saturday and Sun
day, May 25th and 26th
hurst will grow to be more and more
the active heart of the resort area.
With the influence of the other vil
lages on either side of the Midland de
velopment and the backing of the Mid
land company, so closely affiliated with
Pinehurst and Knollwood Village,
these new homes will be in an atmos
phere of charm and progress. The
plans from which the first building
will be selected will be tasty and con
venient, expanding the development
that has commenced. With ample
room to make a delightful country
community the Midland settlement
Saturday Night, May 24th:
8:00, Devotional; 8:15, “The Most
Important Work of the Sunday
School—Evangelism,” Rev. G. W.
Hanna; 8:45, “The Sunday School and
Its Worship Program,’^ Miss Flora
Davis, Associate Superintendent North
Carolina Sunday School Association.
9:20, Announcements; 9:30, Adjourn.
Sunday Morning, May 25th:
10:30, Devotional, Rev. G. W. Han
na; 10:40, “How to Secuie More Effi
cient Sunday School Teachers and Of
ficers, Mr. George R. Ross; 11:05, Pe
riod of Business: Reports of County
and Tov/nship Officers, Appointment
Committees; 11:20, “Objectives for
Objectors,” Mr. J. M. Broughton, Ral
eigh Superintendent of Tabernacle
Sunday School; 11:50, “Our Common
Task,” Miss Flora Davis; 12.20, Of-1 her birth.
There were about fourteen bidders
in all here last week, bidding for the
contract to build the new graded
school building. Mr. Mooney, of
Mocksville, was awarded the contract,
and begins this week. The building
is supposed to be completed by No
vember 15th.
Mr. H. P. McPherson, while not
much of a believer in signs, dreams,
omens, the effect of the moon on
crops, and such like, nevertheless
dreamed a dream Monday morning
that impressed him somewhat.
Awakening at his usual hour, he drop
ped off again for a slight snooze, and
dreamed that he opened the Bible to
read a chapter in Proverbs, and the
first verse that met his eye was “And
he shall be named Angus Wilton!”
The interpretation thereof is thine, 0
Stacy Brewer, of The Pilot.
Owing to the death of Mr. C. C.
Yates, of Carthage, brother-in-law of
Rev. M. D. McNeill, the vacancy at
the Presbyterian church Sunday night
was filled by Mr. J. Alton Mclver, of
Carthage, who gave an excellent dis
course on “Personal Work.”
Rev. Mr. Fletcher, of High Point,
conducted services at the Baptist
church Sunday night. He was ac
companied by his sister, Mrs. Bing
ham, wife of Dr. Bingham, of Car
thage.
Miss Myrtle Gaddy and brother
Hampton, were dinner guests Sunday
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gaddy.
Mrs. 0. H. Taylor and little son, of
Cheraw, are visiting Mrs. D. S. Ray
and family. ^
Melvin Thomasson is quite ill of
pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Thompson and
children, of Vass spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaddy.
Misses Bessie and Ethel Boaz, Mr.
Charles Boaz, attended the funeral
of the little child of Mr. Taylor at
Mt. Airy, Sunday.
Mr. J. F. Saunders spent Monday in
Hamlet.
Mr. James Hinson, of Monroe, spent
the week-end with relatives in Camer
on and vicinity.
Mr. May Gaddy came up from Ab
erdeen Sunday to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gaddy.
Beginning last week Miss Ada Mc
Neill is serving at her dinner table
fresh Irish potatoes from her gar
den.
Mrs. J. D. McLean and Miss Thur-
la Cole, with each of their Sunday
School classes enjoyed an outing, and
an elegant supper at Thagards Tues
day evening.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wes
ley Joyner, of Vass, have received an
nouncements of the arrival at their
home, May 13th Paul Wooten Joyner.
Mrs. Joyner who before her marriage
was Miss Vera Wooten, was born,
reared and married in Cameron, and
has a host of friends in the town of
fering or Support of County and State
Sunday School Association Work;
12:30, Announcements;
Adjourn.
Dinner on the ground. Everybody
come and bring a basket.
Sunday Afternoon, May 25th:
2:00, Devotional; 2:15, “Sunday
School an Opportunity for life Invest
ment,” Mr. J. M| Broughton; 2:45,
“The Young People: How to Interest
and Hold Them in the Sunday School,”
will be one of the most interesting | Rev. R. G. Matheson; 3:15, “The Chil-
and homey in Middle North Carolina, I dren: The Greatest Responsibility of
and the prices are so low that im- ' the Home and Sunday School,” Miss
mediate advancement will begin to be
felt, and in a few years the worth of
a home in the Midland Farm group
Flora Davis; 3:45, Questions and Dis
cussions; 4:00, Reports of Committees
and Election of Officers; 4:15 Adjourn.
will be materially above the original! Sunday Night, May 25th:
costs. I 8:00 Devotional, Rev. A. G. Groves;
The Midland Farms Company will ^8:15, “The Sunday School Teacher that
have its general office at the Pine
hurst office with Richard S. Tufts in
authority. The selling representative
in Southern Pines will be S. B. Rich
ardson, at his office in the Arcade
Building.
Makes Good,” Mr. J. R. McQueen;
8:45, Song; 8:50, “The Wide-Awake
Sunday School,” Miss Flora Davis;
9:20, Adjourn.
M. C. McDONALD, Co. President.
W. G. CARTER, Co. Secretary.
Mrs. Daisy Graham Loving, of Mt.
Airy, is visiting her sister. Miss Co
ra Graham on route 2.
Miss Mary Cameron on route 3 was
the week-end guest of Mrs. J. E.
Phillips.
Mr. Ernest Hartsell returned Satur
day to Norfolk after a visit to home
folks in town.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ferguson and
daughters, Jean and Nancy, of Chica
go, were guest at a dinner, last week,
given in their honor at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen.
Dr. and Mrs. Oehler and children,
of Sanford, were callers in town last
week.
Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Dawkins and
Charles D., Jr., returned last week
from a visit to relatives in Hoffman.
Miss Sadie Phillips returned Satur
day from Flora McDonald College.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Phillips and son,
Jack, and the correspondent heard
the Hon. Josiah Bailey at Sanford
last week.
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