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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
26
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
THE PILOT PR1NTIN(. COMPANY. VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927
FORMER MOORE
PASTOR HONORED
He Served Seventeen Years As
Pastor of Carthage First
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. John K. Roberts, of Green
ville, S. C., attended, this week, the
King College commencement at Bris
tol, Tenn., where the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Divinity was con
ferred upon him Tuesday.
This honor comes to him for serv
ices *to the church at large, and for
jhis scholarship in the department of
Religious Education.
We claim Mr. Roberts as a Moore
county boy and rejoice in this honor
which comes to him, because Carth-
age-Union churches were his first
pastorate which he served over nine
teen years; and for his kinship with
more than one Scotish clan by his
marriage to the oldest daughter of
Hon. A. D McDonald.
King College celebrated its 60th
anniversary this week, and her sons
from far and near were there to take
part in laying the corner stone of
the new administration building.
King College, though a small col
lege, is large in its influence through
the number of eminent ministers and
leaders it has given to the Presby
terian church. Among her celebrat
ed sons that were present, Rev.
James I. Vance, D. D., pastor First
Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Ten
nessee, delivered the alumni address;
and Rev. J. Sproil Lyons, D. D., pas-
WARNS WORLD
WAR VETERANS
War-Time Insurance Must
Converted Not Later
Than July 2.
Be
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KOLNSEVELLE MAKING
START AT IMPROVEMENT
T; velle at the Archory
Club has made a start at the im-
jrovlnient of the pp^operfcy facing
the Midlands Road. He has bought a
hundred dollars’ worth of the various
trees that enter into the construction
of bows and planted them on the
Archery property. These include lo
cust, Circassien Walnut, Yew, and
Other trees and will be followed by
ethers until he has everything grow
ing that enters into the construction
of bows and arrows. The archery
plant is coming to be one oi the sho*-»
places of the region, and the variety
(f trvies will add to the attraction.
HAYES FERNINST
THE ROAD SIGNS
Would Have All Banished But
Direction and Distance
Signs.
EARLY DAYS IN
MOORE COUNTY
An Old-Settler Tells the Story of
the Sandhills
By HON. ROBERT N. PAGE.
My work in life has been somewhat versatile; I have tried
to do any number of things, but the writing of history is a new
venture, undertaken at the request of some of my younger friends,
who have shown some interest in the
stories told now and then, by me, of the
Sandhills of another day. And, really in
pppreciation of the men and women who
have wrought here, it is essential that what
they had to start with, be told. I am going
try to paint the picture and sketch in as
the tale unfolds, not only stages of develop
ment, but personalities, some of whom have
made a larger contribution than others, but
the memory of every one of them worth
keeping green, for what they did, or what
they were.
My story must begin with the date
when for the first time I saw this section
now known as the SANDHILLS.
In January, 1880, my father and I came on a tour of in
spection of the long leaf pine timber. For the greater part of his
life he had been engaged in the manufacture of lumber, having
started in the eighteen forties by cutting and hewing, by axe, the
long leaf pine along the lower stretches of the Cape Fear River,
and rafting the hewn timbers to market at Wilmington; then
back to his native county, Wake, where he was a pioneer in the
business of sawing trees into lumber by the use of the steam mill.
I Upon the exhaustion of the timber"]^
{supply in that section, he had start- i OPlVfFIVT OlV
led various enterprises, though none ' f v/1 ITlL'll 1 Vfil
of them seemed to win him from his
i
first love. The Seaboard Air Line,
then the Raleigh and Augusta Air
Line, for the units forming the Sea
board had not then been consolidated,
had just been completed to Hamlet.
After an all day journey on the only
train then can-ying passengers, we
stopped at Hoffman, in Richmond
I County, for the reason that a bn,lh-
j er of my father, Lewis Page, had
-just gone there a few months before
I with a small steam mill. The next
i day was spent on horse back inspect-
I ing various tracts of timber east of
Hoffman, bringing us at night fall to
a point about midway between where
now svand the villages of Southern
Pines and Aberdeen. The last piece
of timber inspected was the 640
acres, now Montevideo Park, an<l ex
tending southward to Mill Creek in , each. These are so planned
what is now Aberdeen, then Blue’s ! ^^at tn. buyer may cut them into
Crossing, so named for the reason smaller units if he desires, or they
that here one of the few roads of the retained, as probably most
section crossed the newly construct- them will be, of the larger size, ;
led railroad, and there Mr. Malcolm ^«r a sentiment seems to be | pi\lFm TDCT WHMAIVf
Blue operated a turpentine distillery. i Sandhills that with the large |j J.11 J. T t N
* This piece of timbered land was, a amount of land availabel a man
, few days later purchased from Cap- ”^^S:ht as well have a few acres
i tain Archibald Ray, a typical Scotch- | around his house as to put a fine
I man, whose forebears had been only | building on a limited frontage, and
I a generation or two before, among i room for landscape work
about the home.
CRIPTION $2.C0
MIDLAND ROADS
Unless World War veterans heed
the warning of the U. S. Veterans'
Bureau to reinstate and convert their
war-time insurance by July 2, 1927,
some thirty billion dollars of insur
ance will become void on that date,
and will be lost to veterans.
Although numerous bills to extend
this date were introduced during the
last session of Congress, none of
these were passed, so there is no pos
sibility of the final date being ex
tended as happened in the past, for
Congress has adjourned without
amending the law in this respect,
and the date cannot be changed by
Bureau regulation.
On March 1, 1927, the Veterans^
Bureau had paid out in disability and
death benefits, on term insurance, the
huge sum of $849,936,509. On con
verted insurance up to that date,
they had paid disability benefits to
talling $2,313,265, and death benefits
to beneficiaries amounting, to $27,-
038,929.
The total amount of term insur
ance reinstated up to March 1 was
$2,649,267,868, and converted insur
ance which had been dropped and
later revived totalled $76,555,063.
J. S. Pittman, regional manager of
the Bureau at Charlotte, N C., calls
Eighty-Acre Tract Near Pine-
hurst Ready For
Market.
The influence of the Pine Needles
Inn at Krollwood village is alrear3y
reflected in expansion projects along
the line from Pinehurst to Knoll-
wood. Following the James Barber
work, on the new road, the dam and
the club house, Harrison Stutts and
I. C. Sledge have begun to open and
prepare for market a tract of eighty
acres they own west of the Shaw
home on the Midland road, and there
will be made a building section, in
which the divisions are about five
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ATTENTION COTTON
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS!
I will be in the court house at Car
thage on June 14, r.t 11 o’cIocL, for
ihe purpose of distributing checks
to the members of the Cot*or. Asso
ciation in the county, for the last
payment on the 1926 crop. Mr. Bla
lock or some one from the Rg.leigh
office who is familar with the sale
of lihe cotton and the final seTtlemont
will be with me and expla'n fully
everything connected with che last
year’s proceedings
We are very anxious that the mem
bers and all others who desire to at
tend be present on the above date.
Yours very imly,
L. C. PHILLIPS.
WINS TOURNAMENT
IS THED^KE
THREATENING US?
Reader of The Pilot Says We
Must Economize or
Agonize.
At the Kiwanis Club meeting at
Aberdeen Wednesday Claude Hayes
started a war on the road signs that
' bstruct the highway in all sections
f the country, and before the Pres
ident stopped the gunfire a commit
tee was advised to take the matter
ander advisement and see what can
be done to improve the appearance
•f the country and State highways.
The proposition to beautify the roads
has been gaining decided headway in
tne Kiwanis meetings of late, and
lae of the instructions to the com-
J^fiitee given the matter was not to
Jeave it in cold storage, but to report
promptly, when the effort will be
made to take care of this phase of
the highway sitnaation.
Then came up the question of the
double road between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines. Some talk has been
heard of a possible single road, and
^formation was asked of the mem
bers as to the reason for a double
track. This will be gathered by a
committee familiar with the needs of
the community, and presented to Mr.
Cox and Mr. Page of the State High-
''vay Commission, who are open to
conviction on the subject
Charlie Mason announced that the
¥olf tournament was starting this
'Week, and he hopes to see it one of
the most interesting events on the
summer course.
the Scotch who settled the section.
This particular tract of land had
come to him through his wife, Mar
garet Shaw, given her by her fath
er, the settler of what is now known
as the Shaw place just on the west
ern edge of Southern Pines, at her
birth, he having entered it from the
I public lands, in her name. He did
I the same thing, entered a six hun-
! dred and forty acre tract, known as
I a section, in the name of each of the
112 children born in that home. This
j (Quantity was the maximum, under
I the law, that could be entered in one
I name. This timber had been worked
I for three or four years for turpen-
i tine, and the purchase price was
I $3.50 per acre, this value being plac-
I ed upon the timber, on the land noth-
iing.
• This opening up of a virgin forest,
large in extent, was attracting peo-
I pie who were interested in the man-
I ufacture of lumber, from everywhere,
and they were coming in in consid
erable numbers, some buying for
immediate use, others looking to the
future Of the people who came to
the section at that time very few re
mained after the timber was cut, a
majority of them following the long
leaf pine further South, as it was
opened up by transportation facili
ties. There were no towns south of
Carthage excepting tpie village tof
Mr. Wicker is on the grofund this
week laying out roads, and making
plans for the new project, which will
be ready to offer to buyers during
the early summer. The old Seals
road goes through the heart of the
plot, while the Midland road is a por
tion of the southern boundary, and
a series of roads runs into Pinehurst
and opens the tract in all directions.
The creation of a State highway of
Mrs. Roi^nsevelle V^ictor
Archery Meet in Rye,
New York.
In
Mrs. Phillip Rounsevelle, of Pine
hurst, won the ladies’ open champ
ionship at the Metropolitan Archery
Tournament held in Rye, N. Y., on
the grounds of the Westchester Bilt-
more Country Club last week.
The rules of the Metropolitan
Archery Tournament read that the
the Midlands road has wakened a i Metropolitan championship must be
won by a person who lives within 50
decided interest in this neighborhood,
and a determination to make of the
Midland road the most attractive
possible drive in Middle North Car
olina is arousing the folks all through
the Sandhills. Talbot Johnson driv
ing along the road the other day re
miles of New York City, but that the
open championship may be won by
anyone from any locality. In win
ning the open championship Mrs.
Rounsevelle had to beat Mrs. Owen,
winner of the ladies’ metropolitan,
marked that it should be planted j defeated all contestants in
with pines, dogwoods, forsythia and | events.
Cherokee roses from one end to the i ^
Mrs. Rounsevelle is the only wom-
The Pilot sounded a true note of
alarm in the leading editorial of last
v/eek that should receive the com
mendation and wide-spread attention
of our people before it is too late.
Some time ago you commended an
address by Max Gardner in which he
used the words “economize or agon
ize” as the climax. The only trouble
with it was that you did not publish
in full that address and that every
other paper in North Carolina did
not. I asked half dozen or more
thinking men, some of them promi
nent, what they thought of that ad
dress and none of them had even
seen it, much less read it. I am
sure that most of the people do not
realize the true condition that con
fronts them. North Carolina surely
has gotten in the lime light of recent
years and if they do not mind they
are going to get in the dark before
they get through with it.
I mentioned to a young lady some
time ago the words that Gardner
said as above. She said, “Well, we
are already agonizing at our house.”
I knew they were not, at least not
in the way he mentioned it. She
along with the other children, while
of poor parentage, had been reared
with a silver spoon in hfer mouth in
the way of indulgent but foolish pa
rents, and probably she and the oth
ers were really agonizing now that
this program of spending and having
what you w*anted was likely to end
diisastrously, la^nd tha^ they would
have to go to work, and it was the
humiliation of it that was causing
the agony and the fail in pride.
Pride any way is at the bottom of it
all. Moore County and many other
counties built fine court houses be
cause some other county did it, not
because they were able. Many school
houses the same way, maybe all need
ed, still the money had to come out
of the folks and at the rate it has
been coming for the past few years
it is not a very inviting prospect.
You did not mention the causes of
all this extravagance, though of
course you knew. What you were
afier was a remedy, and you named
i;>, in two words: economize, work. I
went out the other day after some
berry pickers. Driving up to a group
of negro shanties I saw a man drive
i:p in a coupe with a bill book in his
hip pocket. What business my mind
' asked would he have at such a place
'on Monday morning. I soon found
j out, or at least guessed, for I heard
j some one knocking on a high grade
I piano in that house that was hardly
I big enough to hold a piano. The roof
I was all but falling in and the house
Iwas hardly fit for kindling wood
! though affording some kind of ^-lelter
I for its inhabitants The next door
I there was a somewhat better house
I with iwo cars. Many of these houses
I have talking machines, radios and
jmany other things bought on time.
: They are simply weighted down for
! months ahead with installment debts
j that are sapping their earnings away.
I Every week nearly I get inquiries
I from commercial agencies wanting to
know ihe standing of folks in the
community who want to buy such
things, I make it a habit to reply
they are poor people and not able
to go in debt any more. As a result
the inquiries have fallen off. They
other, with a bridle path betw^een the
two roads, and with the home-mak
ers on either side vieing with each
other in making their holdings the
most interesting the soil and climate
here permits. He has some lots on
the Southern Pines side of the creek,
and there in the woods he has al
ready been doing some planting. And
it is so all along the route.
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There are 12 important parasites
of chickens in this country. There
are 40 or 50 parasites of cattle. And
there are 50 to 60 found in horses.
an known to kill a deer with her bow
since the days of Queen Elizabeth;
was the winner . of the ladies’ third
place at the National Tournament
last year, holder of the ladies’ champ
ionship in the South; and holder of
the world record practice score for
women in the American round.
All the equipment that Mrs.
Rounsevelle has been using is made
within the bounds of the State. The
craftsmanship of the skilled bowyers
and fletchers of The Archers Com
pany at Pinehurst is already well
known throughout the archery world.
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CHILDREN’S DAY AT
YATES-THAGARDS SUNDAY
There will be a children's day serv
ice at Yates-Thagards Church Sun
day, June 12, 1927. In addition to
children’s exercises, Mr. and Mrs. N.
L. Gibbons, of Lakeview, will tell of
their recent trip to the Holy Land.
In the afternoon Rev. J. E. Ayscue
will preach.
Dinner on the ground. Everyone
come. Bring a well filled basket.