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VOLUME
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THE PILOT^
NUMBER
18
^ Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of No^
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C
EXAMINATIONS
FOR DRY FORCES
Campaign to R^ruit Eligibles
For Positions in Bureau of
Prohibition.
STATEMENT FROM LEADING
FARMER OF MOORE XIOUNTY.
Editor Vass Pilot.
Dear Sir: Mr. W. E. Kelley, pros
perous farmer, of near Carthage,
said upon resigning the new contract
on April 7, that “the reason I first
signed was because I believed in or
ganization and corporation as the
only hope for we people who farm.
“Farming now is and has been an
uphill business and if it had not had
been for the influence that co-opera
tive marketing has had on the mar
ket cotton would have sold for
much less than it is now bringing. I
Pinehurst, April 14.—The United
States Civil Service Commission to
day launched its country-wide cam
paign to recruit eligibles for the 2,500
positions in the Bureau of Prohibi
tion which were classified under the
civil service law by the Act of March
3, 1927. The Commission announced .hope that our farmers of North'Car-
open competitive examinations forjolina will sign in sufficient numbers
the following positions: enable the Association to handle
1 chief of field division, at $6,000 a ong quarter of a million bales in this
I State. And with this new popular
5 prohibition zone supervisors, at i contract I believe we are going to do
$5,200 a year. |it.»
24 prohibition administratoVs, at
$4,000 to $6,000 a year.
24 assistant prohibition adminis
trators (enforcement work), at $3,-
300 to $5,200 a year.
24 assistant prohibition administra
tors (permissive work), at $3,300 to
$5,200 a year.
50 deputy prohibition administra
tors, at $3,000 to $4,600 a year.
2 field office inspectors, at $3,800 to
$3,900 a year.
(Bion H. Butler.)
Within the next few days a harvest
will take place at Pinehurst which
ought to be of the highest interest
to farmers and stock men of the
Sandhills section as well as of the
more substantial soils of this part of
the State. The crop will be taken
from the alfalfa fields, and at present
the fields are among the most inter
esting farm exhibits in this neigh
borhood. The progress of the alfalfa
is such that it is constantly followed
by the American Limestone Company
of Knoxville, Tennessee, a concern
that sells lime all over the states of
its territory, and which is doing a lot
to improve the condition of the far
mers.
L. M. Wilcox, of the Denver Field
and Farm, who has for years been
closely identified with alfalfa grow
ing, says alfalfa is the greatest for
age plant the world has ever known,
J. D. McLean, tax collector, says and in his book on irrigation farming
4 associate field office inspectors, at t the money from taxes is coming in | be devotes a chapter to alfalfa be-
TAX PAYMENTS
MOVING FREELY
Bigger Deposits Than Ever Be
fore at This Season of
The Year.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927.
PINEHURST FINE
ALFALFA FIELDS
Sight That Moore County Far
mers Should See and
Study.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.C0
HERBERT JACKSON
GETS QUICK ACTION.
The short cut road through the
Pine Needles property to the Carth
age road from Southern Pines was
not long delayed. At the meeting of
the highway commission on the first
Monday in April the matter was pro
posed, and within a week cars were
driving over the new road. The coun
ty portion of the project is grubbed,
graded and clayed, and from now on
traffic from Southern Pines to Carth
age will use the new route, as the
Pine Needles portion was all finished
except a few yards of clay before the
county started. The loop cuts off al
most a mile between the two towns,
and the improvement of the road the
other side of the Chandler hill will
make a big difference in the drive.
LAKEVIEW AFTER
SUPPLY OF WATER
Drilling Big Well to the Lower
Levels in The
Rocks.
at
109 prohibition investigators,
$3,000 a year.
53 junior prohibition investigators,
at $2,400 a year.
228 prohibition agents, at $2,400 a
vear.
For some time Lakeview has been
troubled by shortagee in their water
freely this year and the amounts ! cause its great value as a farm crop i supply, and although considerable dis-
^ ’ cussion has followed the lowering of
the water level in the wells in the
last year or so nothing has come to
a head until John R. McQueen not
long ago arranged with Dowdy and
Butler to bring their big machine
down and start a six inch hole to the
$3,000 to $3,600 a year.
18 senior prohibition investigators, ; turned over to the treasurer are | brings in the work of irrigation in his
at $3,800 a year. \ greater than ever before at this sea- j P^rt of the Union, and permits a di-
son. The totals collected by the close | grression on the worth of this plant
of March reached not quite so much I to the farmer. He says its term of
as in March of last year, but the de-
1,280 iup'^r prohibition agents, vX
$1,860 a year. 1 at the end of March the amount left
ito collect was $125,598.90. In 1926
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REV. McNEILL TO PREACH
AT YATES-THAGGARD
The machine was moved in tKts
week, and in a few days it is expect
ed that a supply will be fojmd. The
existence in the ground has not yet
posits with the treasurer were great- | been established, but it will last the
er. The deposits at the end of March i average age of man, and he mentions
in 1925 were $217,000, last year $267 - la root of an alfalfa plant that he_hrocks.
hOcT^rthis year $^4,350. In 1925 4 knew of in New Mexico that was »2 ^ * -
feet long. An ancient Mexican told
i:o,oyo.wu. m bim that an alfalfa field in the fami- ^ supply will oe iQu:
this sum was $82,191.85, while this 1 ly bad been cropped regularly every j stopped in^he sand
year it is $81,821.42. The total of | year as far as he could learn for two 1 strata, as Mr. McQueen figures that
taxes this year will be slightly less | hundred years and was still yielding jg ^^g when it is here to
than last year, as the reliefs and i an enormous crop. It came into Mex- ^ the bottom of any possible
abatements are greater, and the dis- j ico with the early Spanish conquer- . source of supply, and to make that
Rev. M. D. McNeill, of Cameron, ! ^overies are less. The advalorem and I ors, and spread all over the mountain | supply as definite as possible by go-
will preach on the second Sunday in j pQj|g ^^e also less this year than last | country and California, and is prob- j into a hard rock bottom.
May at 3 o’clock, p. m., at the Yates- j thousand dolalrs, as [ ably the greatest hay plant in the ! drillers have just finished a
Thaggard Baptist church. noticed. . I world, and also the greatest soil re- .
' The statement for the three years j novator Mr. Wilcox says aKalfa is | opened a big
today putting more money into the , . ^ f
YOUNGER FOLKS
NOT SO FIERCE
Old Folks Make Them What
They Are, Speaker
Thinks.
At the meeting of the Kiwanis Club
in the Civic building in Southern
Pines Wednesday, Rev. W. W. Wil
liams, of Carthage, told the members
that he is not ^o much concerned
about the young folks of today as
some folks are, for the natural tend
ency of boys and girls now is not dif
ferent from what it has been through
ages. However, conditions are some
what different in this swifter age
and boys and girls may be influenced
by conditions if older folks do not
lend a hand in leading the young folk
in the right lines. The speaker led
up to the work the Boy Scouts are
doing, and found in that organiza
tion an influence over the younger
people to provide for them an inter
est rather than letting them alone to
find their amusements and their as
sociations and practices where the
surroundings and the practices are
not so wholesome.
Mr. Williams urged the Kiwanis to
stand by the Scouts movement, and
to do any other wholesome thing to
keep the young folks in line with the
serious purposes of life and of inter
est in things of existence, and was
heard with much appreciation by the
audience.
A box of oranges sent from Florida
by Dr. McKee, a friend of many* of
the members was sent to the county
-at tliA aiiiyorotttii/Mtt. ^€-<2awr»-l?irtVi
ardson, who said he,.^believed Poe-
would be pleased at that method of
showing appreciation of the remem
brance and that the folks at the home
would be mighty glad to receive cheer
of that sort, and Sam was backed by
the crowd and the oranges went on
their errand of good will.
The date for the organization to
attend church in Pinehurst at Dr.
TWO NEW HOTELS
NOW IN PROGRESS
One of Them at Knollwood, and
the Other at
Pinehurst.
follows:
1924 Taxes Collected by the Sheriff
Up to March, 1925.
Ad Valorem and Polls $348,547.70
Sheriff’s discoveries 6,717.05
Schedule B, Nos 858.63
The new hotel at Pine Needles has
been let to the Good Construction
Company at Charlotte, who will start
at once to put up the building. The
foundations are almost ready, and by
the time the construction company
has made its preparations the job
will be ready for them to go ahead
with their work. It is the expecta
tion that the job will be completed
by December 15 so that it can be put
into service with the coming season,
and thus open another big and excel
lent house for the accommodation of
the increasing patronage that is eag
er to come to the Sandhills in the
winter.
The Davis' and Davis Company is
already at work on the new house for
Mr. Satterfield, out the Aberdeen road
a short distance from Pinehurst, - and
will have it ready for opening with
the next season.
An interesting feature about both
of these new hotels is that each one is
planned so that' it cain* be enlarged
easily at any time to acommodate
three times the original population
and the plans now in use are the plans
for the completed structure in each
case. Just as fast as the demand for
more room is made at either place
the facilities can be provided by ex
panding the original plan, and until
the added room is needed, the hotels
are both complete in their power to
care for their business.
At the Pine Needles the golf
courses are being pushed forward
rapidly, and it will not be very long
until they begin to show green with
the grass which will come rapidly
with the fertilizing and care that is
griven them.
Total $356,128.38
Reliefs or Abatements 1,341.66
Collected 225,182.82
Total $226,524.48
Bal., Receipts on hand —. 129,598.90
Cash col. (as above) 225,182.82
Deposited Co Treas 217,000.00
pockets of the farmers than any oth
er forage plant. He also says that,
contrary to the opinion prevalent in
some circles alfalfa will grow suc
cessfully on a wide variety of soils,'
and that other canditions than soils
are to blame for difficulties that arise
with this crop. Old, loamy soil, rath
er light in texture, and with porous
undersoil is the best, and that is what
the fields at Pinehurst have.
:.upply of water that looks like enough
o care for a moderate sized town.
Their discoveries over there were in
teresting. After passing below the
level of the water in the wells at
about 25 or 30 feet the drill continued
on down through dry sand and clay
another hundred feet before encount
ering enough moisture to dampeen
the tools. Then when rock was ap
proached water began to develop in
modest quantities, but it was at 250
feet that enough was found to satis-
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MUSICAL EVENT
FRIDAY IGHT
Stainer’s Cantata of the “Cruci
fixion” at Southern
Pines.
One of the big musical events of
the year will be given at the new
Episcopal church in Southern Pines
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends for
their many kindnesses and sympathy
in our recent bereavement
JOHN LANCASTER,
MR. and MRS. J. S. LANCASTER.
and FAMILY,
DR. P. E. GRIFFIN.
TWO FINE NEW HOUSES
IN THE RESORT SECTION.
The success of the Pinehurst fields
show what alfalfa will do, and they | i;';h;‘“;;^;;i;th7rltie7 tLrit was i
are not alone in this county. On the ^ to stop. The indications there I Sixteen, with an equal num-
,Blue farm on the Carthage road is a j^^e that he ground near the surface
I fine example of alfalfa. John Wilcox practically been exhausted of its ® ^ ® y
jhas another in the Horseshoe, andl^^^r surplus by the three or four John Stamer, one of the most in
here and there are others that serve j j weather, except in such things of its kind in the
to show what alfalfa will do for the gp^ngs converge in the hoi- ® T*'
farmer who will properly care for jQ^g gather what water accumu- stoiy, but its great ^pular-
his crop. But Pinehurst is the most ^u^h places from the less i churches at this sea-
convenient example in this neighbor- I frequent rains ^ ^ ® religious year gives it spe-
hood and every farmer who can ! , ^ ^ ^ cial weight. Sir John Stainer was
nuuu, . 1 Mr. Dowdy says he is watching the
would profit by making a pilgrimage . ^ , Lakeview with
to the Pinehurst alfalfa fields while i^akeview witn
Mrs. R. H. Rose, of Binghampton,
New York, has let to the Reinke Con
struction Company, of Fayetteville,
the contract for her new house on
Weymouth Heists. This will be one
of the big new houses of that section
for this spring. The cost will run up
toward $30,000 by the time it is com
pleted with all the adjuncts, and it
will make one of the leading home lo
cations on the hill. The site is near
Dr. Cady’s, not far from the Inn.
Over at Knollwood, Mrs. Burke
will have a new^house to be built by
John McPherson, of Soutliem Pines.
Thu location is n«3tt to Major Nfettle-
ton's house, on the hill overlooking
thQ golf- coi»s«s, and is one, of the
most desirable in the Mid-Pines vi
cinity. Mrs. Burke will have an ex
pensive building, with the modem
equipments, and on that picturesque
spot will add greatly to the progres-
give note of Knollwood village.
the crop is still uncut.
If We can establish alfalfa as a fac
tor in the farm’CTopS of Moore coun
ty and with it increase our stock and
poultry production as alfalfa would
enable us to do the agricultural in
terests of the county would encount
er a revolution, and it is worth try
ing.
HONOR STUDENT
AGAIN THIS YEAR
Mr. A. E. Cameron, son of Mr.
and Mrs. .Alex CBniieron, of Man
ley is a first honor student again
this year at the University of
North Carolina. Mr. Cameron was
inUjiated into the Order of Grail
last week. The Order of the Grail
is a student honorary organizs^
tion at the University, the chief
aim of which i» to promote whole-
somee social intercourse between
fraternity men and non-fratemity
men at the University.
much interest, as it will tell what is
under ground in this section with the
water level in the ground dropping’
as it has been. These folks can drill
a hole ten inches in diameter, and a
thousand feet deep if desired, and it
is possible they may do some work in
Vass before the machine is moved.
Their machine is the biggest ever
brought into this neighborhood.
STATE FAVORABLE TO
TAKING MIDLAND ROAD.
The committee sent up to Rfileigh
by the* Kiwanis Club to urge the
State to take the Midland road from
the county was favorably received,
and without any considerable discus
sion was informed that the State
would take the project under consid
eration, with the assurance by Mr.
<5o^ and Mr. Pagte that thei-e is ho
apparent oppositiott to the State tak
ing the roai^^ and the impression was
left on the minds of the comnlittee
that the road will be accepted by the
State.
one of the great producers of church
music, and was prominent in his line
of production as well as in his mast
ery of the organ, which won for him
his raise to the nobility.
Mr. Giles, who will conduct the
singing, has had much experience
with this particular composition in
New York and elsewhere, and witli
the help of the Sandhills Sixteen, wh/
have made their reputation here, and
an equal number of female voices
from the best talent in the various
towns of the county the result will be
eminently .satisfactory.
The* program is scheduled for eight
o'clodc, with the doors to open at
seven-thirty, but the house will be
full, so no one need think to be late.
No admission is charged, bat an of
fering will be taken 16 pay for the
books of the cantata which the sing
ers had to procure to sin^ from, and
the surplus will go to the work of the
church. The solo and choir work in
this cantata is especially impressive,
and gives the local singer an excel
lent chance to exhibit their work un
der Mr. Giles, who has had them in
training for a couple of years.