VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
35
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.
RICHES IN HOLLY
SAYS NEW YORKER
Ai! Kinds of Valuable Things
Obtained from the
Leaf
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce has a letter from a man in
Brooklyn, New York, who tells a won
derful story of what he has been find
ing in the leaf of the holly tree, and
he predicts that the crop of holly leaf
that can be raised in any territory
suitable for its cultivation is one of
the great possibilities of the future.
The story he tells is rather roman
tic, but this is what he says:
SANDY JONES
His real name is A. J. Jones, but
the folks all call him Sandy, and
he has so long been known by that
name that he fits it completely.
Anybody who knows Moore coun
ty at all needs not to be told that
Sandy Jones lives at Glendon, and
that the old spruce covered moun
tain side out there by the river
side where the iron bridge crosses
over to the talc mine country was
there before Sandy Jones. And
that old mountain side is about the
only thing that was there before
Sandy unless the river is excepted.
The Jones family is one of the tra
ditions. And Sandy has been a fac
tor in Glendon life long before the
railroad came and made a little
town of Glendon, for back in the old
days he kept a store over near the
river opposite the talc mills, and
that was long ago.
When the railroad was built out
from Gulf Sandy came in from the
river to the railroad and built him
self a house and a store near the
station, and there he concentrated
his affairs, and the village grew up
with him. Here and there he took
a hand in many things, and the
fates were kind to him, and he
prospered. Possibly he thrived, be
cause he had an eye out for others,
for Sandy Jones has tossed many
a loaf on the waters, and if some
of them never returned after many
days he has had a satisfaction in
knowing that he has served where
help was deserved, and that ap
pears to give him a value for his
money.
Sandy is a big farmer, a stock
holder in cotton mill ventures, and
ii^ the things that go to help the
community along. He has been ac
tive in road and school work, and
is now a member of the highway
commission. His family consists of
himself and the cat, although his
fiiends have tried at various times
to help him land a helpmeet, but
he has always been too bashful, and
it is doubtful now if he will over
come that habit.
But if Sandy Jones has no wife
and kids of his own he has been
^ patriarch in the neighborhood,
many another household has
Pvoiited by his success in life. San-
is a good citizen and a good
^eij^hbor, and he is able to keep the
Wolf from the door during the bal
ance of his life. He has built a
house on the south side of the
railroad, and he usually drives a
pretty fair car. There are worse
fellows for the ^rls to think about
than Sandy Jones, and The Pilot
vouch for him any day.
Holly prunings containing twigs,
leaves and berries are placed or fed
into a hopper connected with a steril
izing apparatus which sterilizes the
leaf and separates it from the twig
and berries which are in turn separ
ated from each other and deposited in
different compartments of the appa
ratus. Later the berries can be plant
ed in drills for the future holly crop
and cut with a mowing machine in
stead of a pruning shear. The wood
is used for fuel to operate the plant.
After the leaves are sterilized they
go through a percolating and concen
trating process, which takes out the
champagne extract and alcoloids, as
the leaf proceeds in the process the
proteins and fats are taken off; later
the liquid soap is taken off. The leaf
is then further treated and prepared
for a filler of cigars and cigarettes
or it can be converted directly into
animal food after the champagne and
the alcoloids are taken off.
After the champagne extract leaves
the concentrating process it is treat
ed in a fermenting process, which fur
ther eliminates products and by-pro
ducts such as are used for confec
tion and medical purposes and not re
quired in the manufacture of holly
champagne.
The entire process is adapted to be
continuous and automatic and letters
patent have been filed in this and for
eign countries by me on all of the pro
cesses, and to further protect my in
terest in these various produces, copy
rights and trade-marks have been pro
cured and adopted on all the products
and by-products produced by me from
the holly leaf to' give a monopoly to
me on holly products and by-products
for all time, so far as it is possible
to do so by the law in this country and
foreign countries.
To illustrate the hundreds of mil
lions of dollars of wealth I have cre
ated in this country and put into the
hands of those owning holly or inter
est in holly land the following illustra
tion ought to be sufficient:
The owner ot about three thousand
(Continued on page 8)
FRIDAY, JULY 18.1924
SANDHILL POWER
CONPANY IS SOLD
Carolina Light and Power Co.
Buys Property from John
R. McQueen*
John R. McQueen, last Friday, clos
ed the negotiations that transfers the
Sandhill Power Company to the Caro
lina Light and Power Company. The
consideration is understood to be up in
the neighborhood of a million dollars.
This includes all the belongings of the
PAUL A. TILLERY
of The Carolina Light & Power Co.
; Sandhill company, in all the towns and
villages, the dams, steam power estab
lishments, lines, etc. The trade has
I been going on for several weeks, as
I The Pilot noted when the dicker was
commenced in May, and it has been
i reasonably certain for some time that
I it would be wound up early in July.
Possession was given last Saturday.
The Sandhill Power Company has
been so long and so intimately con
nected with the fortunes of the Sand
hill community that its disposal is of
more than ordinary interest. It had
its .beginning with I. F. Chandler who
started in a small way to furnish light
for Southern Pines a quarter of a cen
tury ago. He expanded in a crude
way by taking in some water power
over at Thaggards and by building
a dam at the Chandler place, and then
he found that he was obliged to go on
extending to try to care for the grow
ing business. It was a struggle all
the time to keep the budding light
plant up with the steadily growing
communities that he was obliged to
hook up, and finally he saw that a
big new dam was necessary and he
planned a plant at Carbonton on the
Deep River.
Meanwhile McQueen had found it
necessary to increase the facilities for
lighting Pinehurst, where he had be
come general manager, and he built
dams on Little River below Vass, and
was overtaken by the same difficulty
that had fallen on the Chandler ef
forts. Growing population kept call
ing for more service faster than the
plants could be built and put in op
eration, and finally it was decided to
unite the whole equipment in the
hands of Mr. McQueen. He bought
the Chandler interests and proceeded
to build the plant at Carbonton.
It was hoped that Carbonton would
settle the problem of sufficient cur
rent but two things arose to interfere.
The first was that continual growth
of the Sandhill communities, which
ceaselessly called for more current,
and the second was the two years of
abnormally low water in the streams,
which made the production of suffici
ent power impossible. A small steam
plant was built at Lakeview, but it
was not sufficient, and a big plant
at the Carolina Company's mines on
Deep river followed. About the time
it was finished the Carolina Power
Company began to be insistent about
buying the Sandhill company, and as
Mr. McQueen saw that he had only
reached a place where he could breathe
a few minutes before beginning new
construction to care for still further
(Continued on page 8)
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
NcBRm TALKS
ABOUT CHILDREN
Underprivileged Members of So
ciety Brought to Attenti(m
of Kiwanis Club
At the meeting of the Kiwanis Club
Wednesday at the hotel at Lakeview,
Dr. McBrayer and Sam Richardson
were the speakers, and they divided
the honors. Mayor Richardson told
of his early life in Maine when he had
the advantages of a somewhat narrow
field and the benefits of work and a
reasonable amount of the privations
that belonged with these early days.
JOHN R. McQUEEN
President of Sandhill Power Co.
How his ciscumscribed childhood and
youth shaped a character that broad
ened as he came in contact with broad
er surroundings he made clear as he
unfolded his narrative. He climbed
along from modest circumstances to
a point where he can borrow money
with a certain freedom and success
now, and he says he thinks the school
of hard knocks is still about the best
preparatory school he knows of.
(Continued on page 8)
Moore County Sum.nc\er ScHool Notes
At THE end of this week, the summer school will have reached the middle of the Summer Course, and it is very gratifying to the instructors to
observe the interest and determination with which the ninety-one teachers and prospective teachers, are facing their tasks. The comment of
one of the instructors, who has had several years experience in summer school work, is that the Moore County Summer School work is of a
higher standard of excellence, than any school in which she has participated.
Superintendent Cameron has been visiting them at chapel period every day this week, and has been giving some splendid talks to the student
body, on topics relating to school management.
The chapel periods next week are to be devoted to a thorough study of the Elson Rural Art Exhibit, under the direction of Miss Irma Carra-
way. The chapel period is from 11:55 to 12:25 each day, and the nrblic is cordia ly invited to attend, and observe the nature of the work. We feel
especially fortunate in having the Elson Art Exhibit, as it is especially adap ed for our needs in the study of great artists, and the development of
a higher appreciation of the best pictures. The chapel program for Monday, July 21, is outlined below:
DOBMITORT OF TB* FARM LIFE SCHOOU WBBEE THE MOORE COUNTY SUMMER 8CB00L IS HELD
^ gong Holy Night; 2. Psalm 96,1:8; 3. Naming and Commenting on the Forty-one Pictures of the Elson Ehibit; 4. O Little Town of
B thlehem* Raphael—Sistine Madonna and Madoni^ of the Chair, by Miss Sallie Caudle; 6. Murillo—Children of the Shell, by Miss Ethel
Hinsbaw ' 7. Picture Story from Primary Grade; «. Millet—Angelus, Gleaners, The Sower, aiMi Feeding her Birds, by Mrs. J. W. Thomas.
The other programs for the week will be,on Re order of Monday’s program, up until Friday, when the period will be . devoted to a contest in
't‘ne the names of pictures and artists. On ^'hursday evening of next wefk, at 8:30, a public program will be given by the members of the
^»»e» in “Music ^nd Games,” under the direction Mrg. Essie Blankenship. The program for this entertainment - will be printed in next week's
paper. Refreshments will be sold on the lawn, and the public is invited to attend.