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VOLUME
7
THE
NUMBER
7
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communicatioDS to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C
FAMOUS AUTHOR IS
PLANTING TRB
Hu^h MacNair Kahler Is Set
ting His Land at Soutliern
Pines With Pines.
FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 1027,
SUBSCRIPTION %2M
Patch Department Store
Everybody who reads the Saturday
Evening Post knows Hugh MacNair
Kahler, who for several years lived in
Southern Pines, and who still has a
tract of 100 acres of land east of the
town. To be nearer his work, which
is with the magazines and book pub
lishers, Mr. Kahler went North, but
he looks forward to the time when
he can come back to the Sandhills and
build himself a home on his pineclad
hills and live forever after in Para
dise.
Much of his land is already seed
ed to young pines, and on one piece
in particular he has an ideal grove of
several acres, and this has inclined to
him to plant the balance wherever the
young pines are not coming as freely
as he would like to see. So on a
recent visit to the community he made
a contract with Mr. Bowers who lives
on the land adjoining the Kahler lot
to go over the property and fill u
with young pines enough to practical
ly cover the entire place when the
trees have grown to a size sufficient
to give results.
“The Sandhills never looked so
promising to me,” said Mr. Kahler,
‘‘and if conditions were such that I •
!
could come back now I would be glad ■
to. But a man can’t get too far away !
from his work. But I can see now ;
how all the dreams we dreamed of |
the promise of this section are ma
terializing. I have been out over my
possessions, and the picture from that
fine ridge, looking aU over the swing
of the horizon, is mighty interesting.
And the way the young pine trees
have grown is a revelation. I see
now what this country is for. I have
no delusions about raising pine trees
for timber. While that would be a
good crop where the trees would have
a chance to grow into timber it would
be all right there. But here around
Southern Pines and Pinehurst the
pine trees is one of the greatest pos
sible decorative features any country
can have.
“The magnificent growth of the
second crop of pines in the Boyd
woods is evidence of what is ahead
of this whole section if we will give
the young pines a chance, and I am
going to cover my place with pines
for the sake of the beauty they will
afford in a few years when I am so
situated that I can make a home on
one of the summits of my land, and
live there in their shade and seclus
ion. All the desirable features of
Sandhill life appeal to me, but I be
lieve that the one thing that rises
above all others is the green forest
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At the CaroKna Theatre^
Pinehurst, Monday,
January 31st.
At
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DAIRY MEETING
AT FARM UFE
The picture above is the enlarged j that the store had done three thous-
store of C. T. Patch at' Southern j dollars more than in the corres-
Pines. Prior to the holidavs, Mr. | month a year ago.
^ , • J 4^u !-• u 1- When Mr. Patch started to build
Patch occupied the addition which ho | p^^ion of the block The Pilot
had been building during the sum- | predicted that it would not solve his
mer, and the store is now one of the problem, for anything that grows pro
big concerns of Central North Caro- vides the stimulus for further
lina. Mr. Patch is among the older | growth, and the fact is that Mr.
settlers of the Sandhils, and has all ' Patch at the time considered whether
his life in this section carried on a j to put off building that addition until
mercantile business, growing up from | later he felt it wise to build an en-
modest proportions to the present | tirely new big block o nthe whole
commanding rank. j portion of the square he owns, or fill
Possibly nothing better indicates |out the block with the addition. He
the progress of this community than ! decided that the addition would fill
the Patch store. When the first part ; the bill for some years. The situa-
of the big building was put up it was Ltix.il that he cn.-oahl^fer or community.
Buyers ' come from neighborhood
towns to trade, and frequent orders
come by mail from a distance. Then,
on the broad principles of providing
facilities for satisfying the people
who winter in the town a store like
Patch’s has become a necessity. It
fills a requirement that Southern
Pines could no longer get along com
fortably without.
But the enlarged store is a thor
oughly modern business place, and the
selection and quantity of things it
handles is a feature of this commun
ity. It would not be a very good
statement of the Patch stores if men
tion were not made of Mrs. Miles, the
buyer of much of the merchandise,
for there is a woman who is a genius
in selecting and handling dry goods
and apparel. She has had an active
part in making the big store the suc
cess that it is.
The Patch store is not only an in
dication of the growth that is taking
a monument to the optimism of the moved into the new section was that
builder. But before long the second he still had too many goods to be ac-
story had to be occupied by the store, I commodated by the addod space, and
and then an addition in the rear was | the store is now as much overcrowded
required. That held for a while, and with surplus stock as it was at any
last summer the further addition run- | previous time. The expanding trade
ning out to the corner of the block ^ makes increased supply of goods nec-
was taken in. The wisdom of the en- | essary, and that increasc^i supply
largement was apparent when the j loads the additional shelves just as
close of business in December showed : before the extra room was provided.
COUNTY BERRY
GROWERS TO MEET
SIDNEY BLACKMER
MAKES A HIT.
The Meeting Is to Be Held
At the Cameron School
Building.
To Be Held for Those Interested
In Establishing Cream
Route.
There wil be a good meeting next
week for those interested in estab
lishing a cream route through the
Eureka and Vass sections. This meet
ing will be held at the Farm Life
School at 2 p. m. on January 27. Mr.
Arey, of the State College force, has
promised to be with us at that time
and go over everything in detail. “The
Cow, the Sow and the Hen” program
has been carried out well in several
of the other counties as a means of
combating low prices of other things.
If other counties can make a success
with this program the people of these
sections can do it also. Please try
to be on hand and bring your neigh
bor with you. Let^s have a good
meeting and see if we can start an
other source of income into the coun-.
ty. We shall be glad to have anyone
else who is interested meet with us
whether you live in this section or
not.
At a meeting of the Moore County
Dewberry Growers’ Association in
Cameron on January 10th, it was de
cided that the Association would in
vestigate more fully the possibilities
of track sales of dewberries. For this
purpose the Secretary was ordered to
write J. A. Bown, of Chadbourne, and
George Ross, chief of State Bureau of
Markets, and ask that they be present
at another meeting to be held at their
earliest convenience.
This has been done and that meet
ing is now called for 1 p. m. on next
Tuesday, January 25th, at Cameron
school building. This meeting, or vot
ing therein, will be open only to mem
bers of the Asociation. But member
ship in the Association is open to
eyery growjpr of dewbterries. < The
Zees are only $1 a year and it is ceiv
tainly worth that to every grov^er,
whether he consign or sell his berries,
to have an org^anization to try to
solve the many problems of the in
dustry that come up. Joining the
Association doesn’t mean that you
are joining a track sales organiza
tion, but merely means at the pres
ent that you are trying to inveatigmte
the posfiibilitiee of this system to
your own satisfaction. Don’t trust
to someone else to do your deciding
and then “cuss'’ him out about the
results.
Your name and $1 may be handed
to the secretary or D. McDonald at
this meeting or any time before then.
L. ft. MfeKetthen, Secy.
Friday night saw the Pinehurst
Theatre filled to capacity, with dis
appointed late comers turned away
at the door. They came from Dan
to Beershcba and'the plains of Esdra-
lon. And the number was a larger
delegation than ever assembled at the
big front doors for any previous at
traction. The play, “Love In A Mist,”
was the drawing card, and with the
satisfaction expressed by the audi
ence there was no doubt over the
success of the affair and the pleasure
given those witnessing the play. As
the last seats were taken there were
still a number of folks that could not
be accomodated only to be turned
away with keen disappointment.
The comedy had a local interest,
with a young man from North Caro
lina, a Chapel Hill boy, starring in
the leading role, sharing equal honors
with Madge Kenedy, the well-known
actress who has established quite a
record fol* herself in her stage ca
reer. As Diana Wynne she is fasci
nating in the part of a misguided he
roine who leads herself into serious
trouble over juggling with the truth.
Sidney Blackmer, as Gregory Fam-
ham, was not efisily discouraged and
with persistency won his suit, and the
women of the audience wondered if
there were many men so endowed to
be encountered in life. An3Tway it was
a good show and the way folks turned
out to see it brought dollars enough
to Chirlie Piequet^that £’*'• *^fforts to
ent^rtiun wei«n’t in vain, and that is
satisfaction enough.
SANDHILL POST 134
AMERICAN LEGION
Sweetheart of the A. E. F. and
Ex-Service Men to
Appear Soon.
From the tailboard of an army
transport from which she did her
performances for the American sol
diers in France during the world war
and for Which she received the desig
nation of “Sweetheart of the A. E.
Fto the concert stage is the transi
tion that Elsie Janis is now effecting.
Captain Elsie is making her first tour
in a concert series with four of the
world’s greatest artsts and she will
come to the Carolina Theatre at
Pinehurst on Monday, January 31.
For her first tour, obviously the
most important of her professional
engagements. Miss Janis has arrang
ed a set of numbers including imi
tations, character songs and costume
dances. To these specialties in
which she has escelled since the days
when she was known throughout the
country as “Little Elsie,” a tot with
pigtails down her back, she has ad
ded sevreal numbers which she re
gards as the greatest achievements
of her career, among them being a
wonderful imitation of Will Rogers.
In view of the fact that Will Rogers
is to follow her at Pinehurst in two
weeks, this imitation will be of un
usual interest. It is not necessary
to take much space discribing this
great artist. There is only one El
sie Janis and in her career in the
theatre, beginning almost from the
day she was bom and continuing up
to the present moment without miss
ing a single season before the public,
she has appeared in every branch of
theatricals and has demonstrated her
place in all the Sandhills, but it is a ^ ^ tw ^ ia
most versati^Kctress of ^her genera
tion, equally as popular in London
and Paris as she is in her own coun
try. There is no gain saying that
Miss Janis is supreme in American
musical comedy and is now and has
long sinc^e been regarded a^ • the
greatest mimic of all time.
Miss Janis is carrying with four of
America’s greatest Artists in Robert
Steel, the young American Baritone,
Carolina Lazarri, Contralto, Lauri
Kennedy, the world’s famous Austra
lian Cellist and Dorothy Kennedy, the
young Australian pianist.
In a letter to the local manager.
Miss Janis, writing from Palm Beach,
stated that she was looking forward
with sincere pleasure to her first visit
to the Sandhills of which she had
heard so much and she was planning
to get here, if possible, at least one
day before her engagement.
That she will be greeted with a ca-
Elsie Janis, Sweetheart of the A.
E. F., and favorite of the ex-service
men, will appear at the Pinehurst j pacity house is a foregone conclsuion
One hundred and twelve club boys
in Davidson county produced new
wealth to the amount of |8,844.i0
last year. Their net profit totaled
|6,061.tl.
Theatre on Monday evening, January
31, 1927.
Upon that occasion Elsie Janis will
make the presentation of the Post’s
new colors to Sandhills Post No. 134
of the American Legion.
The ceremony will be brief and im
pressive and we greatly appreciate
Miss Janis’ willingness to thus honor
us at that time.
The Theatre management has very
kindly agreed to donate a portion of
the proceeds of the ticket sales that
evening to Sandhill Post No. 134.
Also special reserved seats at reason
able prices are being held for Legion
and ex-service men. Further infor
mation in regard to this occasion will
be sent to all Legion men and pub
lished in^next week’s papes. We wish
to urge all ex-service men to remem
ber this date and to make every ef
fort to be present, and not only show
our gratitude to Elsie Janis, but also
help make the ceremony a complete
success.
as it will be one of the biggest events
this section has ever seen and one to
be long remembered.
PINEHURST BOY
SCOUT MEETING
The honey bee is one farm laborer
that works without thought of pay.
A field of alfalfa in MecUenbarf
county produced 2t toss of cured luiy
on the eight acres. The alfalfa is be
ing sold for $35 per ton and is siT*
ing a return of $100.45 per acre. How
does this compare with cotton, asks
B. J. Hunter, the owner.
Held In High School Cafeteria
On Tuesday, De
cember 21st.
The council of the Boy Scouts of
Pinehurst had a most delightful
meeting in the high school cafeteria
at a noon luncheon December 21st.
The following members of the coun
cil were present: Richard Tufts, Gor
don Cameron, P. H. Stephenson, Elsie
Keith, Rev. T. A. Cheatham, Rev. W.
M. McLeod, A P. Thompson, W. P.
Morton, and Scout Executive Claude
Humphreys.
After being served with a most de^
licious lunch by the high school cook^
ing girls under the supervision of
Miss Alice Barber, the council held a
business meeting, with, I. C. Sledge
presidims-
The^ Gountil uraaJflKliisly voted to
ask Mrs. Leonard ^j\ifts to re-conside^r
befbre she resigned from the council,
and the chairman appo^ited W. P,
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