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KIWANIS HEARS
FARM TROUBLES
NUMBER
St. Paul Publisher Discusses
Perplexing Sit
uation
Kiwanis Club met at the Civic Club
in Southern Pines Wednesday and
had a lively experience from start to
finish. Roy Pushee and his fellow
workers announced a net of over $500
which he and Shields Cameron and
the other boys had pried loose for
the benefit of the under-privileged
children, and they gained the approv-
PUSHEE SELLS HIS
BIG WEYMOUTH LOCATION
One of the significant transactions
this week at Southern Pines is the
sale by Roy Pushee of the acres on
Weymouth Heights to George W.
Robertson, of Danville, Virginia, at
the rate of $3,000 an acre. This marks
an advancing price which seems to
be the case in all directions. The lo
cation is adjoining the Hawlands
home, overlooking the broad valley
out toward Fort Bragg and is one of
the most desirable in the Sandhills.
It is said to be Mr. Robertson^s inten
tion to build shortly. That picture
al of the Club, naturally. , vast expanse of dogwood blos-
The committee to see the highway ' seen rom the hill top is one of
commissioners announced that the _ appea mg eatures up on the ridge
road through Pine Needles giving a
short cut to Carthage would be built
at once. Elwood Cox notified the
club that the State commission would
hear the club on Thursday concern
ing the two-way road from Pinehurst
to Southern Pines, and a committee
was appointed to go up and see what
could be done.
Dr. Cheatham invited the club to
appoint a date to attend services at |
the Pinehurst chapleone of these i A very interesting meeting of all
days, and the hardened sinners with those interested in the growing of
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927
IMPORTANT REAL
ESTATE DEALS
SUBSCRIPTION $2.aO
Barber
House at Knollwood
Sold to the
0;?dens
The influence of the new hotel at
NEW ROAD SOUTHERN
PINES TO CARTHAGE.
Quick work. A week ago The Pilot
proposed a short link of road from
the Pine Needles road to the Carthage
Southern Pines road west of the wat
er works and the Kiwanis Club ap
pointed a committee to meet with the
Highway Commissioners Monday to
discuss it. A few minutes was suf-
Knollwood is felt materially all over ficient for the commissioners to ap-
the Sandhills, and one of the most
important transactions noted this
week is the sale by Mason and Gard
ner of James Barber’s fine property
predate the wisdom of the connec
tion, which is only about 1,200 feet,
and saves a mile of travel, and they
ordered the road built before Mr
i now
POTATO GROWERS
MEETATVASS
Interesting Talks Were Made
By Dr. Poole and Mr. Geo.
Ross
near the Mid-Pines Club. Mrs. Mary j Jackson’s crew leaves the Knollwood
E. Ogden, of Bar Harbor, Maine, and j section. It was also decided to im-
New York, is the buyer. With her | prove the Chandler hill by going
will be her daughter, Miss Harriett j around the steep grade, and that is to
V. C. Ogden, and Mr. and Mrs. John- j be done at once. This will make the
son DeForest. Mr. DeForest’s fath- [road from Southern Pines to Carth-
one accord arose and told the clergy
man they would be on hand and make
an event of it.
After a lively barrage of various
sweet potatoes was held at Vass last
week. Dr. Poole, associate professor
of plant pathology^ made a very in
teresting talk on varieties, diseases
things H. C. Klein, of St Paul, pub- | bedding, curing, etc. Mr. Geo. Ross,
lisher of the agricultural papers, | chief of the division of markets, then
told us about the possibilities of mar
kets and kind of packages to pack
and ship in. There are several va
rieties of potatoes that will do well
in this section, but from al indica
tion the Porto Rico would be the
choice variety for home use and for
markets in North Carolina, at least
teast the same thing would apply.
Fertilizer recommended by Dr.
Poole was an 8-2-5. This to be ap
plied before the potatoes were plant
ed at the rate of about 800 to 1,000
pounds per acre. Well rotted bam
“Farmer” and “Farmers’ Wives,”
was presented and he delivered an ad
dress that had more in it for the num
ber of words he uttered than the av
erage man hears on public questions
once in a hundred years. Mr. Klein
started with a quotation from Clar
ence Poe, saying the next 25 years in
this country belongs to the South,
and he proceeded to show why Poe is
right. He told his audience that when
the West was opened cheap lands and
low railroad rates built an empire.
But freight rates have been advanc
er is curator of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, one of
the foremost institutions of its kind
in the United States, and in connec
tion with the museum he is prominent
in scientific and research fields.
The Barber house is the pioneer in
Knollwood. Mr. Barber bought the
first lot that was sold in the new de
velopment when it started, A. S.
Newcomb being the representative of
Knollwood at the time. The location
of the house is ideal as Mid-Pines is
on one side of the road and the Pine
Needle development is now beginning
on the other side, and the road has
age better and shorter.
favor that section is steadily meeting
become a double-track thoroughfare i with among men of means and busi-
between Pinehurst, Knollwood Vil
lage and Southern Pines and also the
inlet to the Pine Needles hotel and
home sites. The Ogdens and DeFor-
ests are the type of new neighbors
that will be an excellent addition to
Knollwood’s community.
ing and cheap lands have gone way up | y^-rd manure was also recommended
in values and the West no longer has j where this is available.
the edge on other sections. “With t There are several iseases which at-
the fertile low priced lands occupied
and freight rates high, we naturally,”
said Mr. Klein, “turn to other regions
with low-priced lands nearer to popu
lation centers. In the South lands are
low, climate is an advantage, the
costly buildings required in the North
are not needed in the South, and a
new agricultural prosperity and an
tack the potato and a good many of
these can be avoided by getting dis
ease free plants or by treating the
potatoes before they are put into the
bed. For this purpose use either cor-
rosine sublimate or mercurochloride.
One ounce of either of these may be
disssolved in 8 gallons of water and
the potatoes allowed to remain in
BY AEROPLANE
TODI1VI^UITDCT
increased population has made this j the solution for 10 minutes. They
market attractive to the Eastern j can then be taken out and bedded.
manufacturer. The manufacturer For best results in bedding, make a _ ^
finds a new market for his goods, and I small pit of the size you think it will j mar'gin' of only five days "from the
ness sagacity. An addition to the
Pinehurst colony is W. L. Glatfelter,
of Spring Grove, York county, Penn
sylvania, one of the foremost Ayr
shire cattle men of the United States,
and likewise a big manufacturer,
whose mills near York have been one
of the outstanding industries of that
old industrial neighborhood for years.
Mr. Glatfelter has bought from
George T, DunWp the house Mr. Dun
lap at present lives in. Mr. Dunlap
is building for his own use a new
house near the junction of the high
ways and will have a prominent build
ing among the Pinehurst homes. Mr.
Dunlap has been a resident in Pine
hurst for many years, and is one of
Charlie Picquet tells The Pilot an | the substantial and esteemed mem-
interesting bit of news concerning a
belated print for exhibition at the
Carolina Theatre. He says:
Carolina
Theatre Gets
By Air
Mail
Film
“The Carolina Theatres manage
ment has had some disquieting tele
grams from the Pacific Coast in the
last few days relative to the arrival
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of the print of ‘Camille’ in time for
the date set for its world premiere.
“On Tuesday of this week a wire
was received to the effect that it
would be impossible to get the print
to us in time as there would be a
he finds a cheaper source of labor and
lower taxes
“Henry Ford,” continued the
speaker, “spread the doctrine of de
centralization very rapidly, and he is
manufacturing where he sells rather
than at one central point where he
will have to pay high freights to his
customers. The drift of Eastern man
ufacturers to the South has been a
great surprise and shock to the coun
try but We are due for a complete
change of our industrial map. Our
factories were built up on the basis
of cheap power or convenient mater
ials. Minneapolis became the heart
of the flour industry because of its
water power and wheat. Pittsburgh
created the steel industry. But Min
neapolis is no longer the dominent
center. Buffalo is contesting for that
rank, and Minneapolis has lines out
now in six or seven other locations.
The steel industry is affected the
same way. Troy, New York, has re
cently built a $7,000,000 plant to
make coke in competition with Pitts
burg, because freight rates are too
high to move the coke Big steel mills
have been built at Duluth on the
lakes and similar basic changes in in
dustrial location are taking place
everywhere.
“Railroad rates have advanced,”
said Mr. Klein, “not from the fault of
the railroads^ but from reasons not
now to be discussed, an those changes
have introduced conditions that are
revolutionary. But a still greater in
fluence is at work, for we have the
require for your needs Put in three
to four inches of fresh stable ma
nure. Then cover with about three
inches of sand. The potatoes are to
he put on this top layer of sand and
covered over with sand to the re
quired depth The stable manure
merely acting as a source of best to
start the potatoes sprouting. The
potato plant gets its food direct from
a supply stored up in the potato and
does not feed from anything applied
to the bed as is sometimes supposed.
For curing purposes the tobacco
bams, which most farmers already
have, was recommended as being very
satisfactory In some cases a little
modification might be necessary, but
this would cost but very little if any
thing. This seemed to be a point of
interest to a good many people.
It may be that you are not yet in
terested in growing potatoes for oth
er markets but we can with little
care grow enough to take care cf
home needs and a few for market.
Why not keep our money at home in
stead of having to send it to other
parts of North Carolina for the po
tatoes that we use each week? Any
further information will be gladly
given you.
day it could be shipped from Cali
fornia to the date scheduled for its
showing. Late that night another
wire was received advising that they
would ship it by first class mail, spe
WILL PRESERVE
SANDHILL TREES
Organization to Antagonize For
est Fires in Moore
County
Stately pines, which make the
Sandhill section of Norh Carolina one
of the country’s beauty spots, and
forests in general in that section are
to have the fullest degree of protec
tion from devastating forest fires un
der a system being worked out un
der the direction of C. H. Flory, dis
trict forester of the Department of
Conservation and Development and
landowners of that section.
An organization to be known as
the Moore County Forest Protective
Association is being built up in the
southern part of the county contigu
ous to Pinehurst, Southern Pines
West End, and Jackson Springs.
For a number of years Pinehurst,
Inc., realizing that the forests of that
region constitute one of the most im
portant features of attractiveness to
visitors, has maintained one of the
most efficient forest protection sys
tems in the country.
The company's equipment functions
something on the order of a well or
ganized city fire department with an
extensive warden force. The force
is fitted out with a fire truck, equip
ped with extinguishers, rakes, shov
els, back-fire torches, and water
Itumps. During dry and windy days
a watchman is maintained on the top
of the Carolina Hotel as a lookout
for forest fires which originate in and
about Pinehurst.
With this small amount of protec
tion it is only necessary to drive
through this section and note the lit
tle damage that forest fires have
done in the past.
Covering all of this area is found
a growth of wild grass which during
most of the season is highly inflam
mable, and especially when dry is an
exceedingly had forest fire hazard.
With the winter resort idea in the
section, the protection of the pine
bers of the permanent winter colony, other natural features is magni-
Mr. Glatfelter has been in Florida | jjj importance. So much stress
has been laid upon the planting and
care of the long leaf pine that the
MOVING UVELY
AT PINEHURST
Big Men Getting Into the Game
In That Vicin
ity
The week has seen some pronounc
ed transactions at Pinehurst and Pine
Needles which tell definitely of the
considerably, but on coming to Pine
hurst this winter concludes he likes
climatic and other conditions better | southern part of Moore county today
in the Sandhills and he pitches his | jg ^ spot of beauty. This is a differ-
tent in the favored region. He has | phase of forestry in that the tim-
also bought two lots at Pine Needles, i ^er is not being planted and protected
and taken some stock in the new ho- ; timbering purposes but for the
tel. i esthetic values alone, and under this
Another subscriber to the stock of consideration forest fires must be en-
the new hotel is Eldredge Johnson, tirely eliminated if the beauty of the
who has bsen making some sizable region is to be retained,
investments in this region. Mr. John- The organization now being formed
son will be one of the large stock- is to extend the efforts inaugurated
holders in the Pine Needles corpora- ^by Pinehurst, Inc., over a larger
tion, as well as the owner of one of area. Efforts of the company have
the finest properties in Pinehurst, and so impressed the importance of the
of a big farm on Drowning creek work throughout the section that oth-
cial delivery and special handlihg. I which he bought from Carl Bucan. He i er property owners are eager to join
Just as we go to press the third wire
has been received stating that the
print had been shipped by Air Mail
direct to the Carolina Theatre, Pine
hurst. This should insure its arrival
here not later than the night of April
8, or the morning of April 9.
“This will be a record and the folks
of the Sandhills will have the honor
of not only seeing a world’s premiere
but a print that has hurried across
the Continent by air mail.”
“HOME TIES” AT FARM LIFE
SCHOOL THIS FRIDAY NIGHT.
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WELFARE ASSOCIATION AND
RED CROSS TO MEET.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Moore County Health and Wel
fare Association and American Red
Cross will be held at 2:30 on Tues
day, April 12, at the school house in
Jackson Springs.
ALICE PRESBREY.
White Hill Community will give a
play, “Home Ties,” at Farm Life
School Friday night, April 8th, at 8
o’clock. The proceeds will go to help
pay on a piano for the school.
The cast of characters:
Martin Winn, Wilton McDonald.
Leonard Everett, W. J. Harrington.
Harold Vincent, Graham Salmon.
Josiah Tizzard, Earl Rice.
Alma Wayne, Maggie Cameron.
Aimt Melisia, Cleto Jackson.
Mrs. Poplin, Edith McCaskill.
Lindy Jane, Mary Oldham.
Ruth Winn, Treva Auman.
Two hundred acres of snap beans
have been planted in Brunswick coun
ty for the early market.
expects to build a new house in Pine- j in the program
hurst this summer. i Area contemplated to come under
Subscriptions to the stock of the ! organization now being built up
new hotel are going forward rapidly, | consists of approximately 45,000
and the subscribers include some of i forest and cultivated lands,
the strongest financiers of this coun- j sufficient interest
among the landowners in this area to
raise a fund to insure co-operative
protection with the state and federal
government Contributions on the
basis of two cents an acre have been
estimated will be sufficient from the
landowners to insure the protective
area.
“Fifteen thousand acres, or about
one-third of the total area,” says Dis
trict Forester Flory, who has head
quarters at Fayetteville, “was signed
up in two days and it is felt that be
fore the middle of April that the to
tal of 45,000 acres will be subscribed
to.”
“The state and federal government
will match the amount raised by land
owners, and the fund will be directed
to place a permanent lookout some
where in the vicinity of Pinehurst,
connected by telephone communica
tion with all the wardens in the pro
tective area. Full fire fighting equip
ment wiU be furnished and held in
readiness for immediate use.”
“It is possible that the area of for
est fire damage in this section can b«
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CANT DO WITHOUT IT.
Pilot Printing Co.,
Vass, N. C.
Getlemen: My subscription to The
Pilot has expired. Enclosed you will
find a check for $2 for which enter
my name for another year.
I appreciate The Pilot very much,
especially your neighborhood corres
pondence, having lived the better part
of my life in the Sandhills of the
community. I like to hear from them.
Wishing you success for the coming
year, I am.
Yours truly,
J. S. BLAND
Apex, April 3, 1927.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that an elec
tion will be held at Gunter's store on
Monday, May 2, 1927, for the election
of a mayor and three aldermen for
the town of Vass.
By order of the board.
Vass, N. C., D. A. MkiLauchlin,
April 5, 1927. Clerk.