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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927
ON S2.Q0
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the pilot printing company, VASS. N. C
SCOUT WEEK
AT PINEHURST
Special Sermon At Ck>mmunity
Church By Rev. W. M.
McLeod
The celebration of Boy Scout week
began at Pinehurst by a special ser
mon at the Community church by Rev.
W. M. McLeod on Sunday morning,
February 6, at 11 o’clock. Promptly
at 11 o'clock the local scouts accom
panied by Mr*. Stephenson, their scout
master, marched into the building in a
body. They were seated in the front
of the middle aisle where seats had
been reserved. Some of the scouts
dressed in uniform brought in the
flag of the local troup and the Amer
ican flag After a brief flag ceremon
ial the scouts led the audience in
singing “America.”
The special sermon to the scouts,
which was heard by practically all of
the local scouts, was enjoyed to the
fullest by one of the largest audiences
of the year. The speaker told of the
high ideals and aspirations of the or
ganization, and urged the boys to con
tinually strive to advance in the
teaching of scouting.
The Pinehurst council met at a
noon luncheon in the high school caf
eteria on February 8, with the follow
ing present: Rev. W. W. McLeod, Rev.
T. A. Cheatham, Scout Executive
Claude Humphrey, L C. Sledge, A. P.
Thompson, E. B. Keith, Gordon Cam
eron, Pat Stephenson, and W. P. Mor
ton. The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
As per the request of Chairman
Sledge at the December meeting,
Scout Master Pat Stephenson furn
ished the members of the local coun
cil the nsiu;;8, rank, standing, merit
badges and etc., of each member of
the local troup. This information
will enable the members of the local
council to do personal work with in
dividuals of the local troup.
Chairman Sledge called attention
to the meeting of the Walter Hines
Page Council at a dinner at Southern
Pines Thursday evening at 6 o’clock.
He urged all members to attend. He
reported that he would go, and asked
for volunteers to attend this meet
ing. W. P. Morton and Pat Stephen
son agreed to go. After some dis
cussion the council voted favorably
upon a motion made by Mr. McLeod
to give the committee attending this
dinner full power to represent the lo
cal council. Mr. Humphreys explain
ed in some detail the importance of
having representatives at this meet
ing with full power to act, as plans
for the future of the council would be
discussed and perhaps acted upon.
The council after some discussion
asked the secretary to inform Mrs.
Gertrude W. Tufts that she would be
asked to remain as a member of the
local council, but would not be expect
ed to attend all of the meetings. All
of the members felt that her influ
ence would mean a great deal as a
member of the local council, and her
presence occasionally would be worth
a great deal to the council.
At the request of the reading chair
man, W. M. McLeod, the council voted
to buy a full set of merit badge
pamphlets.
Scout Executive Claude Humphreys
made an interesting announcement in
regard to the rally to be held at San
ford Friday evening, February 11.
He urged the local council to provide
transportation for the local scouts.
After some discussion it was unanim
ously decided to allow W. P. Morton
and P. H Stephenson $6 to provide
transportation; that is, to make $6
the limit. Mr. Humphreys emphasiz
ed the importance of all of the scouts,
the scout master and as many mem
bers of the council as possible attend
ing this rally.
Afi^er an unusually interesting
nieeting the council adjourned to meet
at the high school building Tuesday
evening, March 8, at 7 o’clock. On
the same evening it was decided to
hold a court of honor meeting from
8 to 9 in the high school auditorium.
Parent-Teacher Association Of
West Ejnd Holds Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Parant-Teacher Asociation of West
End, was held at the school house
Tuesday, February 15, at 7:30 p. m.,
with the president, F. W. Von Cannon,
presiding.
Reports as follows were heard:
Oyster supper committee reported
$17.53 cleared; chicken dinner netted
to the Association $75. A favorable
report was made by the library com
mittee. Two teachers reported hot
lunches.
Mrs. Leonard Tufts, of Pinehurst,
was present and spoke words of greet
ings, and explained the hot lunches
which have been put on in five schools
by the welfare workers of the coun
ty.
Professor Morton, principal of
Pinehurst school, made a most inter
esting and helpful talk along the line
of the work of the Association.
Miss McLeod, Mrs. Freeman and
Mrs. Shields from Pinehurst, attended
the meeting.
MOORE COUNTY
FARM NOTES
Farmers Beginning To Think
About Better Balanced
Farming System
Lespedeza, Carpet and
Dallas Grasses.
Ten farmers of Jones county who
will plant 200 acres to tobacco this
season recently had the county agent
treat their seed for insurance against
leaf spot diseases.
The man who cared for his poultry
flock this summer is now cashing in
on the high prices for eggs.
JAMES BOYD BUYS
KNOLLWOODLAND
Gets the Shaw Tract East of
Southern Pines and
Weymouth.
Last week Frank Buchan neg"otiat-
ed a deal whereby James Boyd se
cures the Knollwood land lying east
of Southern Pines and adjoining the
Weymouth property and the Yeoman
orchard. This purchase has been un
der contemplation for several weeks,
and folows the acquisition of the
Marks land noted in the early winter.
This was formerly owned by James
Shaw, as a part of the Duncan Shaw
property of the earlier day.
This is a significant sale. It is a
tract that is tinusually attractive as
it is the dividing watershed between
the valley of James creek, and that
of Rockfish and Aberdeen creeks, and
a continuation of the summit between
the Yadkin and the Cape Fear rivers.
On the tract is some of the highest
ground in this section. The land is
covered with young pines, and is
growing into value because of the re
seeding pine vendure, and also be
cause in the course of a short time
it is destined to come into market as
the site for homes for those people
who want bigger acreage than can
be found in the villages, yet who
want to make pleasant country domi
ciles convenient to town facilities. Mr.
Boyd said in regard to the purchase
that h3 had no particular plans in the
matter, but that he thought the land
was desirable and ^ worth securing
while prices were satisfactory. It is
not the intention to cut it up into
small building sites, for the villages
have now enough of that sort of
property, but there is a suspicion that
if members of the hunt club, or oth
ers who are eager to have homes in
the neighborhood, should want a
building site on which to put the right
kind of a house, with the expectation
of helping to make in the neighbor
hood that pleasant hom« section that
has been heard about more or less
recently a piece of the ground could
be had without much difficulty.
The property at its nearest point is
a little more than a mile from the
Highland Pines Inn and about half a
mile from the home of D. C. Lemon.
It runs southward to the Marks place
beyond the Grover orchard It con
tains 225 acres. It cleans up the
Knollwood holding in that direction.
Unless one can grow cotton for 10
cents per pound, he had best prepare
to supply his groceries by some other
means.
Due to the failure of the cotton crop
and the uncertainty of other money
crops, farmers in general are begin
ning to think about a little better
balanced system of farming. Natur
ally a system of this kind includes
livestock. This then of course in
creases the demand for pasture and
hay crops. For the benefit of those
concerned characteristics of Lespe
deza and the two grasses are given as
follows:
Lespedeza or Japan Colver.
This is one of the clovers with
which practically all of us are fa
miliar. It is one of the clovers which
reseeds itself each year if given any
kind of a chance. Used for pasture,
or for soil improvement and on good
land with plenty of moisture makes a
good hay crop. Does well in pasture
mixtures, especially with Bermuda
grass. The seed weigh 25 pounds to
the bushel but this in reality is little
more than half a measure bushel after
they are well cleaned for shipping.
This, however, is a standard bushel.
Will grow on poor soil but like most
of our other crops it prefers good soil
Responds to lime but can be grown
well without it. Inoculation is usual
ly not necessary. When sown by it
self, about 25 pounds to the acre is
used. Broadcast this by hand or with
a seeder. Should not be grazed too
closely in the fall if it is expected to
reseed itself. In Union county Les
pedeza iias >een used to good advant
age in building up the soil and also
for hay crops, by broadcasting it over
small grain. After the grain is cut
the Lespedeza is allowed to stand and
cut as hay or turned in for soil im
provement.
Carpet Grass.
Carpet grass is used principally for
permanent pasture. It is a creep-
grass, forming a sod and spreads by
creejpin^r stems which root at the
joints. It is not a pest like Bermuda
grass and Johnson grass. It is par
ticularly adapted to soils where mois
ture is near the surface. Carpet grass
will grow on poor soils but can not
stand too much of a drouth. To be
sure of a success be sure to do the
following:
1. Select a dry time and bum the
area as clean as possible.
2.*Cut all bushes, briars, and trees
that have no timber value.
3. Drain all placse on which water
will stand for any length of time.
4. Begin grazing as soon as the
seed are sowed. The trampling will
benefit the Carpet grass and the graz
ing will keep down the weeds and ob
jectionable grasses, thus preventing
the young Carpet grass plants from
being crowded out.
5. Do not plow, disc or harrow the
land in preparing for carpet grass.
Simply sow the seed on top of the un
stirred ground.
Conditions for Pallas grass are sim
ilar to those outlined for Carpet
grass. Dallas, however, will grow
On land which is a little too high and
dry for Carpet grass.
Place your ofder Saturday for any
of these grasses that you would like
to have. We are trying to make up
an order for that time.
Livestock Needs Grass.
A timely little article clipped from
last week’s Southern Agriculturist is
as follows:
The South can produce at a profit
more dairy products, more beef, pork
and mutton than it is now producing,
hut only if it produces these things
chiefly on cheap feeds. It will find
little profit in increasing its produc-
ton of any of them unless it first pro
vides a means of feeding its livestock
cheaply.
The cheapest feeds for all classes
of livestock comes out of good pas
tures. The South as a whole is sadly
deficient in good or even decent pas
tures. It lacks pasturage for the
livestock it now has.
Land in pasture grasses or legnmes
tends to increase in fertility. Really
cover a field with grass, or with Les
pedeza or any other legume, and the
soil will get richer. There are in this
section thousands and thousands of
fields so poor that they do not pay
decent wages for the crops raised
upon them. This year there is even
less inducement than usual to plant
these thin lands to crops in which
they are usually planted. There is
even more reason than usual for put
ting them into pasture crops, and so
starting them on the road to fertility
as well as making them the founda
tion for a more profitable livestock
husbandry.
Poultry Car to Run About the First
of March.
One of the first poultry cars to stop
in this section so far this year will
stop at Vass about the 10th of March
unless other arrangejments are made.
Now is the time to cull out all the old
hens and the ones that are not profit
able and dump them on the market.
The price may not be quite as good
as you can sometimes get on the local
market but these people will take
anything that you have to offer for
sale and any amount of it. Get out
all those you intend to sell and put
them up to fatten for a while. You
can put a pound or two on a good
many of them by feeding a good wet
mash for even a short while.
NEW DEVELOPINT
NEW SUGG FARM
About 125 Acres of Land Will
Be Opened a(
Once
PINE NEEDLE INN
MAKING PROGRESS
Excavation Completed and Now
Ready for the Concrete
Work
While th« rainy weather has held
back operations somewhat at Knoll
wood, decided progress is noted from
week to week. Excavation for the
new hotel is now completed and car
penters are building the forms for
the cement concrete of the walls. With
fair weather it will only be a short
time before Mr. Pender has the foun
dations ready for the serious work.
Material is arriving and everything is
eady to push ahead.
At this writing a contract has not
yet been let for the b^uilding above
the foundation. It seams evident that
a steel frame with brick and tile will
be the style of construction. These
features will be concluded in time to
be ready for the work when the
foundations are built. The shape of
the new building is nOw plainly shown
on the ground, along with the com
manding position that the big house
will occupy. 'As the new road is fin
ished, clayed and dragged, those who
are interested in the work can easily
make the trip to the new building.
One end of the road leaves the double
road at the crossing of the creek and
winding around the knobs swings
past the hotel site and returns to the
Mid-lands road near Judge Ways’
house. This is a fine road, substan
tially built, graded and clayed the
entire distance and wide enough to
handle all the traffic for a long time
to come. An extension of this road
will continue beyond the hotel and
come out on the Carthage road prob
ably over near the water works. It
will shorten the distance from South
ern Pines points to Carthage,
Frank Maples said Wednesday that
the eighteen hole golf course is so
nearly completed that by the middle
of March he can be at work with
seeding of the grass and he will have
the grounds in excellent shape for
play with the opening of the season
next Fall. The favorably weather all
during the winter has alowed him to
do good work and he is much pleased
with the situation.
The success that Frank Buchan has
made • with his development at Pine-
dene has stimulated the building of
a niunber of houses out in that nei^h-
bo^ood. This calls attention to the
possibilities of that convenient part
of Southern Pines, and on Monday a
contract was signed by M. N. Sugg
and Frank Maples, which will bring
in,to market about 125 acres of land
between the highway and the rail
road, reaching from the overhead
bridge at Southern Pines nearly a
mile toward Aberdeen. Where Broad
street strikes the highway, the high
way swings off to the right. At that
point what is to be known as the
Broad street extension will continue
straight toward Aberdeen between
the highway and the railroad. This
road was planned when the lots there
near the junction were sold a couple
of years ago and Mr. Sugg and Mr.
Maples will continue the road down
through their property until it con
nects with the highway again at the
foot of the curve this side of the old
Frank Buchan place. Near the low
er end an avenue will lead in from the
highway to be called Henson street,
which will wind about the knobs and
then turns to the highway farther
down. The contract to grade, clear
and clay these roads has been given
to J. A. Marow who has been doing a
lot of construction work over at the
new hotel at Knollwood and with a
big force of men and teams he pro
poses to have the job done within a
few weeks.
Lots wil be staked off with a front
age of a hundred feet or more so that
every buyer may have ample room.
They will also have a reasonable
depth. The theory is that where so
much ground is available it is un
necessary to crowd houses too close
together. Inquiry for lots in that
neighborhood indicates the prospect
for building is good, and that an ac
tive movement in the vicinty of the
Sugg farm will be a feature of de
velopment in the inunediate future.
Vass and Community
Miss Ruth McNeill, Duke Univers
ity student, spent last week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mc
Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas and sis
ter, Miss Mary Thomas, visited rel
atives in Jackson Springs Sunday.
Miss Martha McKay returned
Monday to her home in Buie’s Creek
after a visit to her sister, Mrs. A. M.
I Cameron.
“Mammy’s Lil’ Wild Rose” will be
given in the school auditorium on Fri
day evening of next week. Don’t
miss it.
Mrs. Lillian Foreman returned
Monday from a visit to her home in
Roxboro.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Graham spent
Thursday in Raleigh.
Miss Mona Horton, of Raleigh and
Farm Life School, was the guest of
Miss Mildred Gunter the first of the
week.
If you like fortune telling and
horse racing, . and romance, see
“Mammy’s Lil’ Wild Rose.” Babe
and Orpheus will furnish the laughs.
Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Rosser and
children visited relatives in Broad
way Friday.
J. B. Cameron and family and Mr*
and Mrs. Mason, of Pinehurst, spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. Came
ron’s parents, Mr. and Msr. W. J.
i Cameron.
! Mrs. C. J. Temple, Mrs. H. A,
Seventy-six poultry and swine far
mers of Davidson county purchased
18 tons of fish meal in January at a
saving of $225.
A solid car of soybeans for seed
purposes were delivered to farmers
at Siler City in Chatham county in
early February.
{Borst, Mrs. C L. Tyson and little Miss
'Marie Cameron Tyson were Sanford
visitors Friday.
Cameron McLean, of Wilmington,
visited his brother, N. M. McLean and
family Tuesday.
D. C. McGill, of Rolfsville, spent
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