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NUrlBER
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927
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Prominent Carthage Man
Dies Suddenly Saturday
County and State Shocked by
Sundden Death of Hon.
Robert Lee Burns.
(By BION H. BUTLER.)
In the death of R. L. Bums this
section of the State loses a man of
uncoimmon character and strength.
He was a native of the upper part
of the county, and on the hills and
lowlands of Cabin creek he lived in
early days the life of the farm boy,
amid the crude i^urroundings that
give confidence and stimulus to a
boy of mental parts, and his contact
with the realities of existence de
veloped a reliance and breadth of ag
gressive energy that made him a man
of presence when he in his maturer
days came into town.
The career of Mr. Burns is well
known to every one in the county and
the community. He came to Carthage
to establish himself in the law after
he had ventured out into the world,
and seen some of the United States,
and he grew in influence and public
esteem as his touch with men became
wider. It is doubtful if the county
had a man of more helpfulness or of
more actual influence in doing the
things that should-be done. He gain
ed a leading place in the law, and
one that held the confidence of the
people. He was not always on the
popular side, for he was often in ad
vance of his people, but a look back
wards shows that the things he stood
for have proven themselves, and that
the movements he sponsored, some of
HON. ROBERT LEE BURNS
ANOTHER HOTEL
FOR PINEHURST
Calvin Satterfield Will Build on
Aberdeen Road Bevond
Polo Field.
Another new hotel near Pinehurst
is the last project. It will be built
by Calvin Satterfield, of Richmond,
on a site bought from A. S. New
comb, Richard TTufts and Albert
Tufts, on the road between Pinehurst
and Aberdeen, about a mile from
Pirn hurst, near the lands owned by
them apparently too far in advance ! Lehrer and J. R. Page. The
to be regarded with entire favor at site embraces a ten acre location on
the time, have become a part of the
sentiment and life of the communitv
top of that magnificent hill not far
beyond the road to the Littlecote Tea
now, and accepted as the necessity , Houiie, and toniinands a view of Pine
rather than as the dream of a man
ahead of his day.
Mr. Burns in the Senate was the
advocate of local measures affecting
roads in the county, the schools, coun
ty government, ocal advancement
wherever possible, and the good road
system of the State was one of his
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POPULAR MOORE
CO. BOY MARRIES
hurst. Southern Pines, and nearly all
of creation that is within eye range.
Mr. Satterfield will proceed in the
early days of April to commence a 30-
room house, colonial type, with
sprinkler system, with his plans pro
viding for enlargement later on, the
first unit to be ready for opening in
the fall He owns and operates a 70-
room hotel at Cape May, Virginia,
and has an excellent summer patron
age there. He has concluded that he
can bring from Richmond and from
his friends and patrons generally a
good business for his winter hotel in
CARTHAGE
His friends were shocked to hear
of the death of Mr. R. L. Bums,
which occurred at his home here last
Saturday at 4:30 p. m. He had been
complaining since the Tuesday week
before when he had the doctors with
him, but no one dreamed the end was
near. Bom and reared in this coun
ty, the son of the late Frank Burns,
educated at Wake Forest College, he
returned to his home here but im
mediately afterward left for Texas
where he taught school two years
and then entered the University of
North Carolina for the study of law
and was admitted to the bar In the
early part of 1890. Locating in Car
thage he began the practice of his
profession, forming for a time a
partnership with H. F. Seawell, under
the firm name and style of Seawell
and Burns. He joined the Republi
can party when Sion H. Buchananon
and others were the leaders of the
party and served with great ardor
with the Republican party, running
for the legislature on the Republican
ticket, hut finally in 1912, after / be
ing a Roosevelt delegate to the Chi
cago convention he deserted the Re
publican party and supported the
late Woodrow Wilson for President
and since that time has been a Dem
ocrat, having been elected to the Sen
ate of the State legislature for the
term of 1923 where he served with
distinction, both as a local representa
tive and as a servant for the State.
Since that time he has been an ardent
Democrat and active worker both at
the polls for the primary and at the
general election.
He was elected mayor of Carthage
where he lived and where he has
served with fidelity as tax collector
and as mayor. He was a leading
member of the Moore County bar but
spfjcialized as a colle^ *'or. Mr. Burns
was not a biilliant lawyer but v?^as a
plodder, who always worked for his
client whether right or wrong. He
never gave up hope of ultimate vic
tory but continued steadfast to the
end. He could not see a point readily
but had to labor through to his con
clusion hut once arriving at a decis
ion he stood there irrevocable until
he was jarred loose by a higher court.
By his methods he made friends but
also incurrd bitter enemies. A candit
date for the Senate iii the last pri-
CAMERON MAN
ENDORSES CO^PS
Says It Takes Hard Work To
Have Anything
Worthwhile.
STOCK HOLDERS
GET LOTS FREE
Pine Needles To Follow Roaring
Gap Plan in Building
Sites.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Thinking that you are favorable of
the welfare of the farmers of this
section, I am asking you to publish a
few lines inbehalf of the cotton grow
ers.
I have been a member of the Asso
ciation for some years and after hav
ing the experience that time has
brought to me, I desire, without any
hesitation, to give it my indorsement.
I have signed the new contract, which
is much more liberal than either of
the old ones. To make a plain state
ment, any man who desires or favors
Co-operative Marketing has no good
grounds to refuse to give his name
and influence to what I consider to
be the only hope for the farmers of
the South. We have gone five years
and have been fought by certain spe
cial interests all the while,, during
this time not one fradulent or dis
honest act can he shown by any man.
Today the Association stands fairer
among the farmers and business men
who are taking time to give it any
thought than at any time in its for
mer history.
It^s a fact that we did not get as
much for our cotton last year as we
thought we should have had. This
was due to conditions and circum
stances over which no one had con
trol, but this year the cotton of the
1926 crop has been, and is being, sold
at satisfactory prices. And it now
seems a certainty that the members
of the Association will receive an av
erage price above the outside aver
age. There has never been any re
form movement but what at some
time it met with disappointment and
temporary setbacks. It has been true
of all moral and social efforts of im
provement. It was so when our fore
fathers attempted to spread the Gos-
, pel of civilization over this country.
It was even true in the Spiritual life
of the world. And today we as a
people rejoice in fact that we are
The attractive features of the new
field that has been opened at Pine
Needles with its picturesque sur
roundings and creations, its roads and
building sites, and its proximity to
everything that will appeal to people
who will want to make homes in the
Sandhills in the vicinity of the cen
ters of winter activity, has suggested
the plan of Roaring Gap in the dis
posal of building sites. When Roar
ing Gap hotel and development wa&
projected a number of well to do men
of Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Elkin
and other places became interested
in the hotel proposition, and also fig.
ured on obtaining building sites in
the vicinity where they could build
cottages for themselves. The idea
was taken up and worked out to such
good advantage that many of -the
finest cottages on the mountisnn are
those that have been built by stock
holders in the Roaring Gap corpora
tion, the stock carrying with it a
building site.
At Roaring Gap some of the cot
tages run up in cost as high as $30,-
000 or $40,000, and among them are
decidedly attractive stone buildings,
which could be folowed as examples
here in the Sandhills, for the same ex
cellent types of stone are abundant
in this neighborhood. On the Pine
Needles property the roads and the
building sites have been laid out in
harmonious relations with the golf
courses and the tennis courts and the
hotel, which will permit the location
of m^y handsome homes in the im
mediate vicinity of the various fea
tures, and impressed with the suc
cess of this method at Roaring Gap
Pine Needles will offer six per r«nt,
cumulative prefererd stock in ,’\e
Pine Needles concern with a building
site selected from the plan of the
free^ in the; fact that we have a civ
ilized land, and in the fact that we
i
mary, he found by his astute knowl- j are 'a Christrian nation. Simply bc-
edge of politics that he could not be cause those who preened us in these
nominated and hence withdrew before } hours of trial stood by and fought for
the Sandhills, and thus add a new | election. Mr. Burns had a for- j the causes that they knew to be right.
I line of business to this section. Rich- | giving disposition but was pugnacious i To free the farmers from the dr-
Bride Is the Attractive Daugh- mond folks already come this way in I of his views. i pressed condition that he is under and
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MONEY PUT UP
FOR EGG GRADfNG
Ex-Governor Morrison, of Char
lotte, Advances Money
For Movement.
ter of Prominent Virginia
Family.
j considerable numbers. With a popu
lar hotel man from their own town to
look out for them, Mr. Satterfield fig-
Danville, Va., March 12.—Miss ures that the number will be largely
Alice Boatwright, daughter of Mr. I increased, for Richmond is but a short
He married Miss Emma Lee Muse,
daughter of the late Howard J. Muse,
who with six children survive him. In
and Mrs. H. Lee Boatwright, was
married at six o’clock this evening to
Walter Harold Williamson, of New
York, at the home of the bride by
Rev. James M. Shelbume. The event
was quiet, though attended by many
friends of the family from a distance,
including Mrs. Carter Glass, of
Lynchburg.
Miss Marion Boatwright was the
maid of honor and Mesdames Robert
Sanford, of Evanston, Illinois, and
Henry Page, of Aberdeen, N. C., were
the dames of honor. Claude Tyson,
of Carthage, N. C., was the best man
and Bobbie Mac Boatwright was the
ring bearer.
A reception followed the wedding
after which the bride and groom left
for their bridal tour prior to making
their home at Kew Gardens, Long Is
land
Mr. Williamson formerly lived at
Carthage, N. C., and is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina, be
ing now identified with the Chase Na
tional Bank in New York. His bride
was educated in Danville, New York
and Paris and is socially prominent.
Guests from a distance include:
Miss Rosa Williamson, Mr. and
Mrs. Currie, Claude Tyson, of Carth
age; Mrs. Henry Page, of Aberdeen;
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Carr, of Dur
ham; Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Boatwright,
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Long, of Roxboro;
Mrs. Mar Reese and Miss Margaret
run from Pinehurst, and with the ex
cellent train service the new place
will be attractive.
The location is such that it will be
practically a Pinehurst house, for
it is but a short distance from the
Polo field ,and from the golf courses
at that end of Pinehurst village, while
the paved highway runs past the site
of the building. The Davis and Da
vis Construction Company, of Rich
mond, will build the hotel.
Under the stimulus of a new house
in that vicinity the owners of the
land surrounding it have planned a
development that will probably bring
building sites on the market during
the summer, as that hill top will be a
highly desirable neighborhood for a
good type of homes. The coming of
this Richmond interest is regarded as
one of the important new leads of the
winter, and those familiar with its
details look on it as of great value.
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Littfe Lakeview Girl Receiving
Pasteur Treatm-ent in Raleigh.
Little Miss Edna Earl Richardson,
attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Richardson, of Lakeview, was
the victim of a bite from her pet cat
Saturday, March 12. On the follow
ing Tuesday information came that
the cat had hydrophobia at the time
he bit his mistress. Little Miss Rich
ardson is now in Raleigh taking treat
ment, and it is the sincere wish of the
entire community that the bite does
not prove fatal.
to place him in a position so that he j Several thousand dolars has been
can receive a full reward for the la- i put up by Former Governor Cameron
bor perform'd, he must stand firmly j Morrison, of Charlotte, to s't up ma-
his home life he was an indulgent and i by and give all his support to the or- chinery for grading North Carolina
patient father and a loving and de
voted husband. It is not too much to
say for him that perhaps no family
in our midst ever had a more loving
ganized efforts brought about by Co- I eggs, George Ross, chief of the Divis-
opjrative Marketing. Many are do
ing this and by so doing it they feel
a conscienceness of the fact that they
and benignant head as father and j are doing their duty, which brings to ! ping eggs without grading, a lower
husband than Mr. Burns. Here he ' man that peculiar pleasure that noth- price is received by North Carolina
ion of Markets of the Department of
Agriculture, announced yesterday.
Under the pres nt system of ship-
will be sorely missed. As a neighbor
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MORE INVESTMENT IN
WEYMOUTH TERRITORY.
The accession of the Union Trust
Company of Jersey City, to the finan
cial horizon of Southern Pines, was
speedily followed by the acquisition
by B. A. Tompkins, vice president of
the Bankers^ Trust Compnay, of New
York, of the Hamlin, the Maples and
the Yeomans lots adjoining the Wey
mouth property. The sale was ef
fected by Frank Buchan and involves
about 150 acres out that way. It
joins the tract the Boyds bought from
Knollwood not long ago, and puts into
their hands or in the possession of
their friends about everything on the
immediate east of Southern Pines out
as far as the Kahler place. One of
the significant features of the deal
is that Mr. Tompkins is a man of
broad acquaintance in New York, and
that his liking for the Sandhills coun
try will probably infect some of his
friends and neighbors. This will be
another step in making thsi neigh
borhood a pleasant plac- to live as
Jack Boyd expressed it.
ing else can.
In my candid opinion a brighter fu
ture is just ahead and if we stand
solidly by our organization the gray
streak of the morning light will soon
see the dawn of a brighter day.
JAMES R. TURNLEY.
Cameron, March 15, 1927.
SECOND PRESENTATION OF
MAMMY’S LIL WILD ROSE.
The play given by the Vass Ep-
worth League at the Vass-Lakeview
school building on last Friday night,
will be presented at the Farm Life
School on Friday, March 18, at 8:00
o’clock, p. m.
Children, 15 cents, and adults, 25
cents.
REVIVAL MEETING.
The revival meeting at Union
church is being well attended. Rev.
W. L. Foley is preaching strong
Scriptural sermons. The evening
service begins promptly at 7:30.
There will be an election of officers
at Union immediately folowing the
s-rvice Sunday morning.
D. MONROE.
farmers, and indeed in the rush sea
son of the spring months, the sur
plus cannot be disposed of without
sacrifice. The division did not have
the ready money to employ grading
experts, and pay the farmers cash
at the car door at a higher price
than the local markets are bringing.
Mr. Ross made a trip to Charlotte
Saturday when he conferred with the
ex-Governor, explaining that the Four
Hundred in New York wanted their
eggs all white, while the only kind
of aristocratic egg in Boston was a
brown one. California and Kansas
at present hold the reputation for
high class eggs, but Mr. Ross declared
that the eggs produced in North Car
olina were second in quality to none,
and with the proper grading and
packing, would rank with the best.
Consequently, Mr .Morrison agreed
to put up the money for setting the
machinery in motion. Three centers
will be selected ,one in the West,
one in the East, and one in the South,
where the farmers will be asked to
co-operate by turning in their egrgs
at the central market for grading.
There will be five grades, one for
the extras of white eggs, brown eggs
and cream eggs, and a lower grade
of the while awd brown.