VOLUNE
7
THE PILOT
NUMBER
16
^ Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
the pilot printing company. VASS. N. C
BUYS FULL CAR
WOOD FOR BOWS
Local Archers Company Imports
Enough to Fit Out
Two Regiments.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927
The Archers Company at Pine-
hurst, has bought a solid car of lemon
wood for bows. This material comes
from Cuba, by way of New York, and
is expected to arrive in Pinehurst in
a few days. It will contain enough
wood for 10,000 bows or enough to
fit out two regiments, and leave
enough for bows for the boys. Mr.
Rounsevelle in speaking of his pur
chase said, “To the best of our know
ledge this is the first time any one
has purchased this much wood in one
lot for bows Of course we may be
mistaken, but if any such a large
shipment has. been procured before
we have no knowledge of it. The ma
terial in this car will make archery
tackle, bows, arrows, arm guards,
etc., representing about $100,000. At
our present rate of growth the wood
will serve us about eighteen months.
We endeavor to use nothing that is |
less than a year old, but this new I
stock will be thoroughly seasoned by |
the time we have exhausted our pres- |
ent stock.
“We are now giving employment to
sixteen persons of this section, and
expect to pay out in salaries and
wages during the current year be
tween $15,000 and $20,000, if not
more. Besides this we purchase ex
tensively of local material, as it is
our policy to buy everything we can
at home, pro\ided the quality is sat
isfactory and the price within reach.”
A novel project is now holding Mr.
Rounsevelle's attention. He is set
ting out many trees around the new
buildings, and he is tryiaf? to make
the entire plantation a collection of
KIWAMS HEARS
STRUTHERS BURT
Famous Author Talks of Con
servation and Natural
Resources
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BAKED BEAN AND
SALAD SUPPER.
There will be a Baked Bean and
Salad Supper at Assembly Hall, Pine-
bluff, N. C., Wednesday night, April
6, 5:30 to 8:00, for the benefit of the
hall. Plenty of good eats. Every
body cordially invited. Under the di
rect supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
tin R. James, the well-known cater
ers. Tickets, 50 cents.
At the Kiwanis dinner at Aberdeen
Wednesday Struthers Burt talked to
the club about conservation, and he
set the audience to thinking about
some things that ought to be of in-
erest to the Sandhills. Mr. Burt told
of how forestry started in the West,
and then how it led to a biological
survey, which has for its purpose the
preservation of wild life, and from
that he followed to the national parks
that have been established beyond
the Mississippi. That brought him
to the national park about to be cre
ated in the mountains of the western
part of North Carolina, which he
characterizes as one of the great fac
tors of our present day development.
Conservation of the forests is one
of the necessities of life, for every
time a child is born another demand
on natural resources is made. There
fore conservation has become an im
portant phase of life that we may
provide for the future. But after all
is said the creation of parks, and in
that same connection the preserva
tion of the natural beauty of the
country about us, is likewise an im-
Dortant factor in getting out of life
what it offers.
Mr. Burt was not pleased with the
succession of advertising signs along
the highways, which obscure the real
things that are worth seeing, but he
was enthusiastic over te possibilities
of making the Sandhills a pleasant
place to live, and he has great faith
in the future of this State when the
big park in the mountains is created,
for brinpf millions of neODlfi
to North Carolina from everywhere
and he hopes to see the Sadnhills
keeping up its attractiveness that
those who come this way will find
the beauty and pleasure they seek,
and that we who live here may have
the most pleasing surroundings pos
sible.
A committee was appointed to see
the highway commission Monday and
urge the wisdom of building about a
quarter of a mile of road that will
connect the new Pine Needles road
with the Carthage road near the
water plant and shorten the road
from Southern Pines to Carthage
about a mile.
D. A. R. MEETS NEXT
TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH.
The Alfred Moo^ ■ Chapter D.
A. R., will meet Tuesday, April
5, at 2:30, in Carthage at the
home of Mrs. T. B. Tyson. All
members are urged to attend. Vis
iting Daughters cordially invited.
MRS. L. P. TYSON,
Corresponding Secy.
SERIOUS DAMAGE
OFBOLLWEEVE
Dr. Leiby Says More Weevils
Found This Month
Than Usual.
The warm weather of the middle
and latter parts of March has been
such as to rouse a good many boll
weevils from their winter’s sleep
says State Entomologist R. W. Leiby'
of the Department of Agriculture!
1 From March 11 to 16 the maximum
temperature housed right around 74
degrees with a low minimum of 36
degrees and this weather brought out
more weevils alive in the cages at th®
Aberdeen laboratory than were taken
alive from the same cages during
1926 between March 15 and June 15.
This means, says Dr. Leiby, that the
weevils have apparently survived the
winter in unusual numbers, and if the
emergence keeps up there ought to
be ten times as many weevils pull
through the winter of 1927 as got by
the winter of 1926.
It is customary for the entomolo
gist to collect 75,000 weevils in the
cotton fields in fall and to put them
in wire screen cages together with
leaves and trash and Spanish moss.
Then the entomologist examine the
REMARKABLE JOB
OF STONE WORK
Fire-Place and Chimney at Mer
rill House Unique
Structure.
One of the most interesting bits of
maconry in the State of North Car
olina is the novel fire-place and chim
ney at the new Merrill Studio on the
Weymouth hills in the eastern edge
of Southern Pines. This job was laid
up by E. F. Pickier, from designs by
Mr. Yeomans, and from every point
of view it is a bit of art. It is big
enough to serve for Walter Scott’s
old time Christmas poetry^ and that
it may answer all purposes it is fitted
for the crane on which the house
holders may cook their dinner as
their ancestors did if such should be
the desire.
The house to start with is built of
stone and open beamed finish inside.
The chimney rises from hearth to
roof exposed the full height, with
stone flagging in the hearth and stone
linings and back walls. Its pattern
is such as to show the character of
the stone throughout . It. is a gigan
tic thing in its dimensions, occupying
half of the end of the room where it
stands. Half way up a gallery opens
at either side of the stack showing a
second floor, where all sleeping
apartments can he provided, but
which can be shut off from the lower
floor if desired. The room in which
the big fire place and chimney stand
is of ample size to fit the stone work,
and the plans of the building are
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TENTH ANNUAL HORSE
SHOW AT PINEHURST.
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MISS KEITH AND MISS SHARPE
ON Y. W. C. A. COUNCIL.
MORE COUNTY RAISED 10,043
BALES OF COTTON IN 1726.
W. McC. Blue states that there
were 10,043 bales of cotton ginned
and to be ginned in Moore county
from the crop of 1926, as compared
with 8,318 bales for the crop of 1925.
The turpentine industry of North
Carolina shows prospects of coming
back L*' fire is kept from the second
growth long leaf pine now making
good growth in certain parts of the
State.
One of the big social events of the
Winter season, the annual Pinehurst
Horse Show, takes place on Monday
and Tuesday, April 4 and 5, forenoon
beginning at 10 and the afternoon
beginning at 1:30.
Unusually large classes of saddle
horses, hunters, jumpers, harness and
running horses are entered and the
finest field of polo ponies ever seen
in Pinehurst will, in themselves,
make an outstanding show.
An added attraction will be a com
plete battery from Fort Bragg, con
sisting of 75 mm. guns, and line es-
I cort wagons, drawn by the finest ar-
! tillery horses in the service.
! Tea will be served each day by the
I ladies of the County Welfare Asso
ciation.
— At-zrit»ce*|iijgr Monday night, March
21, the V W. C. A., of Raleigh, or
ganized the House Council. Among
those elected for offices, Miss Glennie
Keith, of Vass, was elected treasurer.
Also Miss Lois Sharpe, from Aber
deen, was elected president.
Both young ladies are well known
in the Sandhill section as well as
elsewhere.
ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES!
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Stock Subscriptions and Lot
Awards Now Going
Forward.
Please do not forget meeting of
Sandhill Post, No. 134, to be held on
Thursday evening, April 7, at the
Civic Club in Southern Pines. All in
dications point to this being the big
gest meeting of the year and every
! member is particularly urged to be
I present. We hope to have with us our
State Commander, Paul Younts, as
well as several other notables.
PAUL DANNA,
Commander.
The plan followed at Roaring Gap
whereby stockholders in the company
building the hotel and developing the
property connected with it were given
a building site for private cottages
with each purchase of stock of fixed
value has been adopted at Pine Nee
dles, and it is already interesting a
number of purchasers, buyers taking
from $3000 to $15000 worth of stock
with a lot for each $3000. The condi
tions of the stock apportionment with
lots are set forth in a circular issued
to subscribers, and indicate that Pine
Needles, which has been incorporated
has purchased 531 acres of land, near
the center of which the new hotel is
now arising. Over 300 building sites
have been laid out, fronting on the
golf course, which is now ready for
seeding, or on the Midland road or
on roads convenient to the golf
ground. The hotel will be operated
by the management of Pinehurst,
which is sufficient guarantee of its
status as a winter resort among the
people who will patronize this sec
tion. All profits on operation will be
paid to the Pine Needles corporation
as rent, Pinehurst guaranteeing all
interest and amortization charges on
bonds to be issued.
Pinehurst has purchased $150,000
worth of common stock in Pine Nee
dles, which is practically all the com
mon stock. A mortgage of probably
$150,000 will be placed on the hotel
and 13 acres of ground on which it
will stand. In addition cumulative
preferred stock to the value of $300,-
000 will be issued, dividends to be
paiH"-annually^ijfe tiie first of April.
It with thi? preferred stock that
lots will be deeded to the purchasers.
For this purpose 100 loto have been
selected, many of them on the Mid
land road opposite the Mid-Pines
Club, and a preference being allowed
on other lots should they be desired.
Water and sewer connections will be
made at any time a house is built on
any of these lots. The lots are roomy,
averaging around 125 feet front,
some of them much bigger and few
less.
At Roaring Gap one of the most
attractive features of the place is
the number of fine homes that have
been built on the sites that were in
cluded when buyers subscribed fo^
stock. At Pine Needles the possibil
ities are equally as good as at the
Gap, for the topography of the land
at Pine Needles is hilly enough to be
1 picturesque, and with the type of
j houses that ’will be built to fit the lo-
I cations and the surroundings the en-
I tire Knollwood area will be one of
ithe most delightful sections of the
Sandhills country
The experience of hotel operation
at Pinehurst indicates a profit from
the new hotel of $30,000 to $40,000
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HONOR WINS.
SilfhfvfeighVclSs Sditorium. library, office and all modem conveniences. The cost will be about $35,000.
An unusually interesting drama to
b.0 presented by the senior class of
Vass-Lakeview High School in Vass-
Lakeview school building on Friday,
April 1, at 8 p. m. Admission 15 and
25 cents.
Cast of Characters:
Mr. Grayson, president Grayson
Motors Corp., Redga Thomas.
Mrs. Grayson, his wife, Selma
Smith.
Mrs. Hammond, a friend of the
Graysons, Lillian Oldham.
l^ndall, her son, Winfred Causey.
Dr. Judson, a famous surgeon, Al
bert Graham.
Mrs. Winston, a good mother,
Louise Leslie.
Sammy,^ her son, J. R. Thomas, Jr.
Miss Compton, a boomer, Willie P.
Alexander.
Mxs. Ayers, a feature writer, Ina
Rollins.
Mammy, a Winston, Ileen McFad-
yen.