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THE
PILOT
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Ca
Address all commimicatioas to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1926,
NUMBER
SUBSCRI
NEW FORESTS OF
LONGLEAF PINE
Big Acreages Rapidly Reforest
ing With This Fine
Timber
BION H. BUTLER
One of the surprises of the Sand
hill country is the rapid growth of
jong leaf pine trees since the stock
aw has shut hogs from destroying
the young trees by digging up the
oots. All over the lower section of
the county young forests are coming
jp. and contrary to the general notion
the long leaf pine resists damage by
fire to a remarkable degree. One of
the best example of this is seen in the
:ttle grove near the Mid-Pines club,
ivhich last summer seemed to be
wholly destroyed by a late fire, one of
the most disatrous fires that come
this way. But this summeir the
trees all came out again and are in
fine fettle.
Around Pinehurst and Southern
Pines long leaf pines are coming up
m such numbers and vigor as to
astonish the folks who are not famiL
ar with the persistent growth of these
trees, and much of the lower part of
Moore county is destined to be refor
ested if the trees are given the slight
est encouragement and appreciation.
Last week with Sheriff Blue I ran
ever a considerable of the area in
the quadrangle bounded by Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, Patterson’s bridge on
Drowning creek, and the Buchan farm
down the creek near the county line.
Now I go out over that country every
[*nce in a while, but this trip we be
gan to note the wonderful growth of
pine trees, and as the sheriff is much
of an observer we paid more attention
to this one feature than we might \m-
ier other conditions. Around Pine
hurst, and as far northwest as the
^ong leaf pine thrives the stand of
young trees is remarkable.
ItrJoV letter to ALFRED
The Lee County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee of which Aus
tin McCormick is the chairman,
are trying to have one big politi
cal meeting at Sanford on the
night of October 22. Former
Governor Hon. Cameron Morri
son will be the speaker. Cam's
fondness for speaking is exceed
ed only by the eagerness of his
followers to hear him, so McCor
mick has made a splendid begin
ning in his plans for a “big night.”
If you wish to hear good old Dem
ocratic doctrine expounded by a
past master, nere's your oppor
tunity. Don’t forget the date,—
Friday, October 22, 7:30 p. m. at
the Sanford Town Hall.
MOORE CHAPTER
Suggestion To Daughters Of The
American Revolu
tion
No doubt the subject of this let
ter has been discussed many times by
your Chapter, but after a long de
layed visit to the old Alston home on
Deep River, now owned by John Will-
cox, we are moved to write this letter,
in the hope that it may revive the
the subject, which we hope may have
been tabled by your society, for fu
ture discussion.
Although having no claim, so far as
I know, to membership in any Revolu
tionary organization, we are possessed
of an earnest desire to see preserved
to future prosterity the relics of that
. . conflict which be within the confines
1 e is ecoming abundant there, too, of our county, and which as time
passes become, more rare and incalcul-
and the sheriff says deer, an occasion
al, bear, turkey, quail and the smal
ler creatures are numerous. Good
roads now open the forests for auto
mobile traffic, and a drive may be
made around the forests in any direc
tion, covering forty or fifty miles or
less if desired. A start can be made
from any of the villages of the county
and a finish at any point in the
quadrangle. All that is needed is a
Moore county road map, or a willing
ness to ask a
forks of the roads, or the nerve to
go up one road and down another
with the confidence that from any
point in the forest a further road can
be found that leads back home.
To my notion right here under our
noses and half an hour from anv
ably, more precious to the lover of the
glorious traditions of this Republic.
Those responsible are to be congrat
ulated for erecting the tablet marking
the grave of Governor Williams. It
preserves and marks for all time, the
resting place of an illustrious states
man and patriot. But in the old
Alston home we have an object for
preservation which in my mind,
few question's at the I ^ in many
ways that of the grave of even a gov
ernor. In its frame is found evi
dence of the terrible guerilla warfare
that raged in this section, the men
tion of which, sad to say, is so neg
lected in our school histories. Nothing
can so impress the rising generation
place is one of the most interesting i Doubting Thomases with the de-
features of Moore county-the grow- I “f ‘*’6 Revolution, as to put their
ing forests of long leaf pine trees
that are destined pretty soon to pro
vide great supplies of timber
and turpentine for the markets and
for local uses, and an interesting re-
Toward treat and outing for folks who like
Southern Pines they are coming up ^he clean and picturesque scenery of
m dense forests of little saplings.
And all the way from Pinehurst to
fingers in the bullet holes in the
walls of the house and
them realize that the struggle for in
dependence was not confined to Paul
Revere’s ride and the Battle of Bun
ker Hill.
The house is a remarkable example
Beats Commercialism
In The School
The Senoir Class of Farm Life
school has proven that they can
do other things than those done
in the classroom. And the
teacher has proven that she has
her eyes open for opportunities
of practical services. Last Sat
urday after attending the meet
ing of the County Teachers in the
morning, this teacher took her
class to the cotton patch, where
all worked happily until night,
the object being to make money
for the many class purposes. This
particular teacher is a graduate
of N. C. C. W. and vice-president
of the Moore County Teachers’
Association, but she can do other
things than those prescribed for
the course of study. The class
did some heavy picking, also some
happy singing, and the teacher
did some wise building. All honor
to such teachers!
VASS HAS FINE
DAHIY OUTFIT
Leslie Farm Builds Modern New
Plant That Is
Model
struggle for the emancipation of the
American people.
It should not be your privilege alone
to provide funds for such a worth
while undertaking. Should your
chapter sponsor it, I feel confident
that the citizenship would come to
your support. Children donating to
such a cause would enrich their appre
ciation of our sadly neglected local
history as in not other possible way,
and their appreciation would increase
with their age.
REVIVAL SERVICES AT
ABERDEEN BAPTIST CHURCH
Drowning creek, whehever they have
had a chance they are coming in
thick, and they tell of the future I
merchantable forests if they are given |
even a fair chance. ,
Naturally the sheriff was more alert
to the conditions down on his own
territory near Drowning creek, where
*e has several thousand acres comingL
up to long leaf, with some short leaf,
isnd he was also enthusiastic over
some big tracts in the same neighbor-
Jiood belonging to Dr. McLeod. In
that magnificent tree, the long leaf | of Southern Colonial architecture. The
pine. 'front door (now used as a back door)
■ ! with its fine hand carved frame and
Sive evidence of the skill of
jkSiiA 1 1 r U\l3 A xm Jl I the architect and the taste of the
builder. The back entrance with its
carved Greek Key design bears equal
ly the mute testimony that here was
the castle of a feudal lord, where time
meant nothing to the craftsman, who
giving years of his skill to fashion
with rude tools this manorial home
of a cultured Southern Gentleman and
Patriot.
FARM-UFE SCHOOL
Play To Be Given This Friday
Night By Cast From
Vass
The American Farce Comedy, “Saf- |
ety First,” attended by a large aud- |
ience at the Vass-Lakeview school i One of the former owners removed
hat neighborhood not many farms | week, will be given at Farm Life 1 the two wings, one of which was the
are cleared, and the forests that have
t*een cut over in the past are coming
i:n again, and right now much timber
could be cut out. But the thing
that impressed me is not the mer-
1 school, Friday, October 15, at 8:00 i kitchen containing the chimney where
Mrs. Alston and her children took re
fuge from the British bullets. Mr.
Willcox, who now ownes the estate
has replaced the original, many
p. m.
The original cast from Vass will
stage the play, which is sponsored by
the Woman’s club, of Vass. The pro-
WOMEN’S CLUB TO
MEET AT SANFORD
Annual Meeting Of 9th District
N. C. Federation Of Wo
men’s Clubs
ihantable possibilities, but the inter- | derived will be divided between
frsting landscape and scenic attrac-, Woman's club and Farm Life,
lions that these fine and thrifty young
forests afford. In the course of a
few years a system of intelligent lum
bering will be required, for the trees
will soon have to be thinned out by
the saw mill. But if done with re
gard for the future the forests will
not be harmed, as they will have the
5?maller growth to continue to make
new forests, and indefinitely crops of
pine timber can be taken from all that
region along Drowning creek covering
thousands of acres. It is fortunate
that that land is in the hands of men
who hold big tracts so that it is not
liable to be broken up into little pieces
and the timber destroyed. For no more
farm land is needed in that section.
Far more attractive is it to retain
and operate those forests, and proba
bly in the long run forestry will be
more profitable. Then with fores
try properly practiced and with tur
pentine worked as a side line on the
economic lines of the modern methods
pine timber in Moore county is likely
to be again a big industry and prob
ably a more profitable ane than in
those days when the timber was
slaughtered and the turpentine wasted
in its crude methods of the old days.
Already the forests of the section
fiTe so interesting that a drive in that
JiTea is worth while any day. Wild
paned sash, with ones having larger
glass, for which no one who has ]
cleaned these old fashioned windows j hostess church, Rev. C. E. Ray
can blame him, and he is to be com
mended for the manner in which he I ~
has preserved this house which in | ^01 IjVTV TO
modern sense of the word is incon-| i-I M. i 1 1 Vr
veniently designed. Other than this i
it is in an excellent state of preserva- ;
tion. I
As long as most of the older inhab
itants can remember, the Leslie farm
on the outskirts of Vass has had a
reputation for milk and butter, for
long before many people of this sec
tion began to take dairying serious
ly Mrs. Leslie had such interest in
Jersey cattle and superior dairy pro
ducts that she was sending her famous
butter to surrounding villages and
markets, and her cows were the ad
miration of the vicinity. And now
that modern conditions have brought
about modern methods and the state
has set new ideals in milk and butter
production the old Leslie farm is still
keeping its rating.
This week the dairy has finished a
new set of buildings under the direc-
tion of the state Sanitary engineering
department, and on Wednesday the
cows were moved into the new bam
for the first time, and milk from the
new dairy will go out from a plant
that will rank with any in the state^
A new plant has been built, wholly
in accord with modern rulings, and it
is a model of production, modern
equipment and methods. The main
building is the barn, which has stall
room for twenty cows. The floors,
and foundations are of cement with
walls of the old long leaf heart pine
lumber that was recovered from pull
ing down the cotton gin built years
ago when long leaf lumber was abun
dant. In every way the new barn
is in keeping with state requirements^
cement floors, steel stanchions, sepa
rate feed rooms for mixing and stor
ing feed, screened ivtnitews, iron roof ^
running water for the cattle and for
washing purposes, abundant light and
plenty of air and room for each cow.
Close by the barn is a new building
of tile, with modern equipment for
caring for the milk. This includes,
a steam boiler, steam steriMzing
plant to sterilize the bottles at a tem
perature of boiling water after they
have been washed in a solution of
hypo-chlorides in a steam washing
plant, and in the sterilizer the bottles
stay until they are needed to bottle the
I milk when it is brought in from the
I barn night and morning. After bot
tling the milk is cooled by another
machine that lowers the temperature
to a proper degree for taking to the
consumer and then it is packed in ice
Rev. A. R. McQueen, of Dunn, was immediate delivery,
unanimously elected moderator of the The milk goes chiefly to the resi-
North Carolina Presbyterian Synod al^ dents of Southern Pines, where it will
the 113th annual session, which con- rank with the best milk produced at
vened in the First Presbyterian any dairy in the state, and where its
church at Statesville, Tuesday night, excellence will be guaranteed by a
The session opened with an enroll-1 certificate from teh inspector of milk
ment of 225. The address of wel-1 fo*" the Southern Pines district, L. L.
come was delivered by the pastor of j Hedgepeth, working under the South
ern Pines board of commissioners and
the state. This will be one of the
models dairies of this oart of the
Beginning, Thursday, October 14,
and continuing through October 24,
a series of evangelistic services will
Ije held in the Baptist church of Aber-
deen^
Kev. Jesse Blalock, pastor, will do
the preaching and D. H. Buie, of Red
Springs, soloist and song leader, will
have charge of the singing.
It is hoped that the town and com
munity may be greatly blessed by
these services.
Everybody cordially invited. Ser
vices each evening at 7:30 o’clock.
ANGUS M’QUEEN
HEADS SYNOD
Dunn Minister To Lead Presby
terians Of North Car
olina
nal.
I state, and it will be operated under
j state supervision, which gives it a
i standing that is enviable. The cows
BLOW STUMPS I in the dairy are Jerseys, as has beea
On next Tuesday, October 19, at the
Wilrick Hotel, Sanford, there will be
held the Annual meeting of Ninth Dis
trict North Carolina Federation of
Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Charles R.
Whitaker, chairman of the Ninth Dis
trict, will preside. The morning ses
sion begins at 10:00 o’clock and the
afternoon session at 1:30. A very
extensive program has been prepared
on which several outstanding subjects
have been assigned to ladies from
Moore county. Mrs. Robt. N. Page,
Sr., of Aberdeen, will resuond to the
address of welcome. Mrs. Charles
M. Grey, of Southern Pines, w^ill rend
er a musical selection. Mrs. Palmer
Jerman, Past President of the N. C.
F. W. C. will deliver an address at
the afternoon session.
The Woman’s club of Vass will be
represented by the president, Mrs.
Guy H. Simpson.
The second story has been reweath- j pyrotol Demonstration To
Held In County Next
V^eek
erboarded, but I understand that the
original siding was not removed. Most
of the original doors are in use,
as well as many of the locks. The Why let stumps stay in your fields
rooms are paneled and a suggestion of | ^nd take up space that could be used
to grow valuable crops ?These stumps
can now be removed at very little
cost with pyrotol or government
blasting powder. Try to arrange to
attend one of our meetings next week
which will be held as follows:
Thursday, 2:30 a. m., October 21,
with J. S. Flinchum, near Calvary, on
highway No. 74.
Friday, 9:00 a. m., October 22, with
G. S. Cole, near Cameron.
For further information, drop me
a card or call me at Carthage.
E. H. GARRISON, JR.
County Agent.
the case for years, Mrs. Leslie having
I been an admirer of Jersey cattle when
Be! the first of that type were brought
to this part of North Carolina.
the Greek Key is used in the cap
moulding, as well as in the heavy cor
nice and beautiful mantels. The chim
neys are of fine hand made brick in
stead of field stone ordinarily used in
contemporary buildings, again attest
ing the affluence of the builder.
I am not aware of Mr. Willcox’s
feeling in the matter, but knowing him
to possess the fine qualities of its
previous illustrious owners, I am
confident that for a fair remuneration
he would gladly relinquish his claims
on this house to an organization of |
the calibre of the D. A. R. to become
upon restoration and under a respon
sible caretaker the shrine of your
chapter and the reliquary for the few
and fast disappearing objects of that
Southern Pines School
On another page in this issue
is an article of particular interest
to those residing in the Southern
Pines School District.
SEASON SERVICES PINEHURST
BEGIN SUNDAY MORNING, 17TH.
The busiest farmer is the man who
should keep records. The man who
does nothing has nothing to record.
Services for the season at the Pine
hurst Chapel will" begin on Sunday
morning, October 17th at 11:00 A. M.^
to which everybody is cordially in
vited.
From May 15 until September 15>
farmers of Henderson County sold
over $14,000 worth of produce on the
curb market at Hendersonville.
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