VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
S
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927
Address all a>mmunication8 to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VA&S. N. C
THE PINEHURST WAREHOUSES
Two or three weeks ago the Pine-
hurst Warehouses printed a small ad
vertisement saying that if you can’t
find elsewhere what you are looking
for the place to seek is the Pinehurst
Warehouses. The New York Herald-
Tribune read the advertisement and
published enough of it to tell the
story and added that it must be a
comfort in these prohibition days to
know where you can get what you
want.
But the affair is not so much of a
joke as might seem, for while possi
bly the New York paper might not
find what it is looking for it is a fact
that at the Pinehurst Warehouses a
large variety of things is carried in
stock, and so many of the unusual
things that business comes from all
over the country, and occasionally an
will oonie m half wav
across the continent. It is filled, and
probably if a man wrote for an ele
phant or an Egyptian obelisk the
Warehouses would catch the thing
and have it on the way before the
end of the week.
For that reason the Pinehurst
Warehouses are starting the new
year in 1927 just as they have started
new years before, with greatly in
creased facilities for doing business.
This year the concern gets into its
nvw brick building, just as it last
year entered a similar brick struc
ture along side of the new one this
year, and just as it had been ex
panding every year from the time it
commenced business some years ago.
The one difference is that until a
couple of years ago the growth had
to be to fit conditions. This year it
is in accordance with a plan that can
be carried out indefinitel, for the
Warehouse corporation finally de
termined to keep ahead of its trade
instead of being crowded along just
a little behind it and cramped for
room. A tract of land was bought
where the present buildings have
been put up, and Mr. Sise was in
structed to design a continuing
S#»b<»Trrf'
tion of proper buildings as fast as
needed. The tract was bi^ enough
for any expected gi^wth. The two
buildings are part of the plan and it
is possible tliailr^j|blrfore
buildings will be n^ssary.
The last building is given over to
a number of things, but the main
article is furniture. The greater part
of the second floor is stocked with a
type of furniture that is not often
found in a small town, and it is in
the Warehouse in quantity. The most
of it is from the big furniture fac
tories of North Carolina which have
made the State famous for their
product. Bedroom and dining room
suites, parlor and kitchen equipment,
the utilities and the novelties are
stocked on a scale that could hardly
be possible by any other store in the
interior towns of the State. But the
Pinehurst Warehouses have a patron
age that justifies carrying a stock of
the higher types of furrcture and a
quantity of it.
The man or woman who has not
been keeping up with the advances
North Carolina furniture factories
have been making will be surprised
M diidav at .* H# new
intf. This ^ aarprlSeTlgir
already led to some sales of gratify
ing* size, for folks who have dropped
in to see what is to be had have found
interesting pieces and' setS:-that
tney hfive taken advantage of the op
portunity right there. And while the
show rooms are but recently opened
the sales have been crowding the
force almost faster than goods could
be unpacked and placed.
In a general way the Pinehurst
Warehouses are pretty well known to
the people of Moore and surrounding
counties. But the new building per
mits shiftiniT to the first floor .of the
new warehoues some of the materials
kept in the building put up a year
ago, and that allows expansion
through the entire plant. The base
ment of the new building will give
a big space to tractors and trucks.
Mr. Beasley, in the painting depart
ment, will have a large room for
painting, varnishing, duco finishing,
for cars, furniture and anything that
needs to be livened up. He will also
have headquarters there for house
painting and outside work away from
the warehouse, for he does a large
share of the painting about Pinehurst,
using the paihts the .W^houses sup-
irfiv ^ iriciuejitan'y itiir ^tfeVe^ "that
Pinehurst is one of the best painted
towns in the United States. Twice
the place has been featured in the
Saturday Post as a model of
painted mnd^^^ time by a
different concern and In full page ad
vertisements. Much of this painting
is Mr. Beasley’s work, and with Pine
hurst Warehouse paints.
The American Soda Fountain Com
pany is represented in Noith Caro
lina by the Pinehurst Warehouses,
and since the Warehouse corporation
has taken the agency the sales have
been biger in the State than ever be
fore. The show room- for soda foun
tains is on the second floor, adjoining
the furniture department. The two
together make a harmonious disi^y.
The Warehouses are easily reached
from everywhere. The railroad is on
one side, and a siding brings car
loads of goods to the doors of tlie big
buildings. The State hard-surfaced
highway passes the other side of the
building, and the junction of the
Aberdeen and Greensboro highway
withjthe Pinehurst and Carthage and
Raleigh hard-top road is but a few
feet from the buildings.
This institution has built a reputa-
os hand wbal
want, and also for standing behind
what it sells, and of providing a qual
ity that brings its patrons back for
more. That has been the basis of its
remarkable growth from a small
room o|ff freight station to its
present capacity and invoices. And
the signs point to the same expansion
in the immediate future that has
characterized the place from the be
ginning.
BETTER SYSTEM
OF TAXES NEEDED
Manufacturer Says North Car
olina Must Change Tax
Laws
At the Kiwanis dinner Wednesday
at Aberdeen, Smith Richardson, of
the Vick Chemical Company, of
Greensboro, talked to the members
on the archaic tax system of North
Carolina. Mr. Richardson said that
his company had been forced to lo
cate their chief manufacturing busi
ness in Philadelphia, although main
taining a small plant at Greensboro,
and the reason for going outside of
the State was the big difference in
the taxes in the two states. He says
his company could save $75,000 a
year by moving to Philadelphia the
small plant still operated in Greens
boro, but that plant is kept there as
a connection between the big busi
ness and its original location.
Our tax system is a constitutional
measure, established 60 years ago,
when our industries were almost
wholly agricultural, and is based on
conditions that existed then, but
which are wholly different from those
of the present.
In recent yeasr industry has come
forward with a rapid advance, but
under the old laws industry is handi
capped at every turn, and the biggest
handicap is our tax system. “Of 100
mills moving lately from New Eng
land South, North Carolina has se
cured four,” said Mr. Richardson.
“Men move out of the State instead
of into the State. The cotton mills
are in bad shape. New Jersey has a
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PINE NEEDLES
THENEWHOTEI.
Gets Its Name, and Now Ready
For the Work to Go
Forward
The new hotel at Knollwood was
formally given its name Monday at
a meeting of the directors, and it will
be known as the Pine Needles Inn.
The psychology of the name is inter
esting^. .Much has been accorded the
pme t^ in the North Carolina Sand
hills, and it was argued that some
other name might be as appropriate
as anjrthing having to do with pines.
But a wise suggesting prevailed when
it was said that the pines of the ter
ritory are becoming more and more
every day a realized asset, and that
pines are more typical of the neigh
borhood than sand, which is also a
great resource. So Pine Needles Inn
was finally adopted, and after the
christening the sentiment was that
the name has a good sound on the
tongue.
The plans were under discussion,
and were sent back to Boston for final
revision, with some proposals for
minor changes, and are expected back
in a short time. Meanwhile work is
going forward rapidly on the golf
links, and forces of men are busy
now on two new roads. One going in
from a point on the Midlands road
near Judge Way’s house will pass the
hotel and connect with the other
which leaves the Midlands road down
at the foot of the hill near the Mc-
Deed’s creek bridge. This road will
be wider than the usual avenue, for
it is the expectation that before long
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HE APPRECIATES
AN OLD TEACHER
Dan Graham Has Kindly Words
For A. Cameron and His
Sunday School Work
A. CAMERON
On his way from the old home to
his saw mill operations in South Car
olina, Dan Graham dropped into The
Pilot office the first of the week and
while talking over the weather and the
fashions and other timely things he
drifted back to the days of his boy
hood, and that brought in the old
Methodist Sunday school at Johnson's
Grove, about a mile from Vass. There
Mr. (iraham, then a boy, was under
the guidance of A. Camoren, then
some 30 years younger than he is
now, but active in every thing in the
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GOOD YEAR AT
EUREKA SCHOOL
Superintendent Makes Report
of the Gratifying Work
There
Due to the fact that a large num
ber of the friends of the Sandhill
Farm Life School lack definite infor
mation as to the enrollment and the
type of work being performed at this
school, the superintendent has com
piled the folowing figures:
1. Number boarders enrolled in
dormitories, 70.
2. Number of teachers, 13.
3. Number of boarders from Moore
county, 35.
4. Number from other counties, 35.
5. Number boys enrolled in agri
cultural classes, 40.
6. Number girls enrolled in home
economics classes, 41.
7. Number enrolled in teacher
training department, 10.
8. Number graduates of this de
partment now teaching, 15.
9. Number enrolled in business de
partment, 21.
10. Number business graduates in
last year’s class now employed, 9.
11. Number of boarding pupils
over-grown and backward in school
work, 6.
12. Number of boarding pupils
either lacking satisfactory home con
ditions, or orphans, 8.
13. Number of boarding pupils,
who could not remain at home and
pursue the courses desired, due to
lack of scho3l facilities, 36.
14. Number high school pupils, 86.
15. Number high school students
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N. C. ACTOR COMING
TO THE SANDHHiS
Sidney Blackmer Will Appear In
“Love-In-A-Mist” at Pine
hurst Theatre
If “Love In A Mist” had nothing
else to recomn*end it, the very fact
that it is positively the same cast and
production which made such a tre
mendous hit for many months in New
York, would make it notable.
Charles L. Waner, manager of
“Love In A Mist,” believes that the
South deserves something else other
than second rate companies in the
New York hits, and has backed up
this belief by sending Madge Ken
nedy, Sidney Blackmer and the orig
inal suporting cast for a short tour
of the South.
This section is singularly fortunate
in being one of the favored spots in
which this delightful comedy of love,
laughter and lies is to be presented.
Another feature which is of de
cided interest to this particular lo
cality is the appearance of Sidney
Blackmer in the male lead with
Madge Kennedy. Blackmer is a
product of the South, in fact, he is
“one of us,” havin been bom in Salis
bury, N. C., and educated in our own
North Carolina university. Again and
again things happen in the theatre
that people believe happen only in tho
novels of Horatio Alger. It is the
one field of endeavor where it is al
ways possible that the aspirant may
wake on the morow to find himself
famous. The rapid ri^ of Blackmer
is a case in point. Blackmer is only
28. Four years ago he was hardly
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