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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of NortlrCarolina
Address all communications to
jHE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927.
mi TOBACCO IN
HOME MARKET
Movement to Preserve Fame of
Sandhill Bright
Lealf.
BION H. BUTLER.
Last week one day a group of men
gathered at Jack’s, in Southern
Pines, to discuss an unfolding pros
pect in this section, the bright leaf
tobacco industry. The main spring
in the gathering was a few men
from Aberdeen ^ho have been keep-
mg a finger on tobaco, but possibly
the significant representation at the
meeting was the bankers from all
the surrounding towns, who were
there to show that they are concern
ed in this important crop of the
Sandhills. Out of more or less dis
cussion came the expression of a
sentiment by the bankers that be
fore farmers take their leaf away to
distant markets in search of an ear
ly sale of tobacco before markets
open here it would be wise to talk
the matter over with the bankers
and see if a way cannot be found to
hold the tobacco until local markets
are ready for it with their higher
prices, for local markets have a rec
ord of paying more for Sandhill leaf
than the other markets do.
CAMERON
Mrs. L F. West, of .Greensboro,
Mr. and Mrs. Thagard West, of High
Point, Mrs, Lucy Thagard Rice and
daughter, of Columbia, S. C., Mrs.
C. C. Yates, of Carthage, were visi
tors Sunday afternoon of Rev. and
Mrs. M. D. McNeill.
MrsT Dugald Stewart, of Laurin-
hurg, was the guest the past week of
her sister, Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen.
Mrs. Harvey Spiers and children,
Mrs. Hughes, of Portsmouth, Va.,
who have been on a visit to Mrs.
Spier’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Phillips, returned home Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hartsell, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Hartsell, of Tampa,
Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, Miss Annie
Hartsell, L. F. Hartsell attended the
Hartnell reunion at Cj^kboro last
week.
Mrs. Alice Blue and grandson,
John Cameron, of Raeford, were htre
last week to see E. M. Borst, who is
in very ill health, and left last week
for the hospital at Rocky Mount, ac
companied by his son, M. C. Borst, of
Wilmington.
I am pleased to acknowledge a
View Letter Card sent me from
Greenock, Scotland, from Miss Kate
MacKellar, in which she says “Trust
ing this may give you some idea of
one of the bonniest of Scottish
Bays” 0 ban Bay! It is indeed
I bonny. There are several views of
Sandhill tobacco has made a name j ^he bay. Among them, Dunollie cas-
for itself, and that name is much ] tie, once the stronghold of the Mac-
NEGRO CHILD IN
CARTHAGE
"^RIPTION $2.C0
DTTDT ir* CPUAAT C
I LJIjIjIv Ov;I1UULiIj 'Rutherford College, spent a few days
Dr. N. C. Newbold Enlightens
Kiwanis Club on
Subject.
At the Kiwanis Club Wednesday
at Southern Pines, Dr. N. C. New-
bold, director of negro education on
the State Board, talked about the
status of the negro child in the pub
lic schools. Dr. Newbold surprised
his audience b^y telling^ them of the
remarkable progress the colored
schools are making in North Caro-
Una, for it seems the State practic-j in Wilmington,
ally leads the States of the Union in
last week with Mrs. Billups’ mother,
Mrs. Mollie Person.
Miss Bertie May, of Asheboro, is
spending the month of August in
Carthage.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Caldwell, of
Aberdeen, spent Sunday with N. A.
McKeithe nand family.
Mrs. Alice Thompson and son, R.
D., of Raleigh, are visiting Mrs.
Mamie Harrington.
Mrs. Luther Wallace is visiting
friends in Sharon, S. C.
U. L. Spence spent several days
JAMES ♦?i’S
DEVELOPMENT
Golf Course and Club House
North of Knoll wood
Village.
more impressive in the grading
rooms of the big cigarette factories
than it is here where the tobacco is
grown, for it appears that this leaf
makes a type of cigarette that is re
ceived with uncommon favor by the
cigarette buyer. The factories are
trying to keep Sandhill tobacco sep
arate from other kinds and it seems
the factories are willing to pay more
for straight Sandhill leaf than for
mixtures, and therefore they are en
couraging Sandhills farmers to mar
ket their tobacco in the Sandhills
markets that the leaf may be as
purely the true type as possible.
This is one thing the hankers saw,
and one thing they want to encour
age, the marketing of Sandhills to
bacco in the Sandhills where it will
not be lessened in value by contact
with other leaf of lower grade, and
the creation of a more pronounced
recognition of the Sandhill type. We
have unwittingly developed a brand
of our own in the Sandhills and that
brand seems a highly enviable one.
Now the Aberdeen Commercial and
Agricultural Club recognizes the
worth of that bamd, and is trying
to capitalize it fully, for it is a dis
covery that is a gold mine if it is
followed and nursed.
Tobacco is going into the bams
rapidly now, and the crop is a good
one, and the quality excellent. It is
apparent that the harvest of Sand
hills tobacco this summer is bound to
add much to the fame of this type
of leaf, and if every effort is made
to classify and hold separate Sand
hills tobacco from any other kind,
so that the factories can get the full
benefit of Sandhill excellence the
fame of the brand will from this on
be unimpeachable. It is not only the
tobacco farmer who will be sitting
on top of the world, but the whole
Sandhills community, for with this
whole sandy region capable of pro
ducing this peculiar type of tobacco
it is easy to expect several million
dollars’ worth of this high grade leaf
in the immedaite field. Last week
the wiost remarkable migration of
transient tobacco men this belt has
ever seen clogged the roads leading
into the Sandhills. This prejsages
more tobacco farmers, and another
thing helps to make that possible.
Peach orchards that are dropping
out from time to time make the best
possible tobacco farms. Many acres
of this sort of land is available now,
and from year to year more will be.
Tobacco is destined to expand in its
acreage and production.
With that production the bankers
want to see the type kept distinct in
the Sandhills and the Aberdeen folk
(Please turn to page 8)
Dugalds. Miss MacKellar is a near
relative of Miss Vera McLean. Her
the work it is accomplishing in this
respect. Educators have come to
the State from Africa, from Oxford
Uni^ ^rsity in England, from other
nations and Continents, interested
in the rapid advances negro educa
tion is making in this State, and in
the influences it is having on the^
race. And that influence is astonish
ing. The speaker mentioned some
court records to show that negro
crime has made an unsuspected de
crease as education bias increased,
and the figures tell that the negro is
in court and in prison much less than
the white offender is. From furn
ishing two-thirds of the criminal
population a few years ago the neg
ro now seems to be furnishing only
a third, which is largely proportion
ate with the increase of negro chil
dren in schools as compared with the
sister, Miss Jessie MacKellar, a j past when negro crime was greater,
very charming young woman, once | Dr. Newbold says the State has a
visited her relatives in Moore Coun- j definite program for negro education
ty. The Correspondent haid the j jg carrying it out. The Rosen-
pleasure of meeting her. Bonnie
Scotland! When I see pictures of her
beautiful lakes and glcTif*,
of heather, her towering castles,
now crumbling to decay, I am thrill
ed—although a feeling of homesick
ness steals over me, and then I know
that Scottish blood runs red in me.
Miss Margaret McLean, whose
wald fund has provided 650 school
for elementary negro schools
s,^uunt for a third of the pop
Miss Norman McKeithen is visit
ing relatives in Aberdeen this week.
E. A. McKethen, of Aberdeen, was
in town Monday.
Rev. W. W. Williams spent a few
days in town this week. He brings
good reports of the boys at camp.
Carl Buchan, of Southern Pines,
was in town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Ellis, of Sa
vannah, Ga., are visiting Mrs. G. H.
Muse.
Mrs. I. T. West, of Greensboro,
Mr. and Mrs. Thagard West, of High
Point, and Mrs. Rice and daughter,
Lucile, of Columbia, S. C., visited
Mrs. Petty and Mrs. Yates Sunday.
Misses Mary and Janie Under
wood and Mrs. Edgar Underwood, of
Sanford, were Carthage visitors
Monday.
Rev. William Currie, of Jackson,
is visiting his brother, Wilburn Cur
rie.
Mrs. Jack Lane, of Martinsburg,
W. Va., is \isiting her mother, Mrs.
W. H. Jackson.
, i. 1 ^ u 1 i Mrs. Clyde Kennedy, of Charlotte,
houses for elementary TO !.^ Mammie
Harrington.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Black, of
ulation. Towns and cities provide
for as many more, and other rural
schools are caring for a large share
of the remainder. These are not so
well provided, but conditions are im-
I proving. Three-fourths of the teach-
hospitable home is on Rt. 2, with her j ers are now fair to good, while but
little niece, Margaret Ayers, of Oak
City, were supper guests of Miss
Vera McLean an evening of last
week.
“Not changing the subject,” as
folks say when they do change it—
In Carutl^rs Revolutionary Inci
dents, among the names of many
men he mentions, is that of Archi
bald (Ban) McNeill, the ban in pa
renthesis. Since he was the husband
of “Jennie Ban,” possibly that is
why she was called “Ban.”
W. A. Muse and sisters. Misses
Minnie and Jacksie, called Sunday
afternoon to see Arthur Thompson,
divinity student, who had the mis
fortune of having his leg amputated
because of disease and not an auto
mobile wreck. It seems very unfor
tunate for this young man, intellec
tual, moral, and talented.
Prof. Clyde Kelly accompanied
Rev. M. D. McNeill to Lobelia Sun
day, where Rev. McNeill baptized
the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Alec
McFayden. Rev. M. D. McNeill may
quit preaching, but his former mem
bers are going to still keep him to
marry them, baptize their babies,
and preach the funerals of all who
pass.
The John McNeill Society met at
the Presbyterian church last week
with L. B. McKeithen a leader.
Norfleet Ray and family, of Pine-
hurst, D. S. Ray and family, of Vass,
spent Sunday with Mrs. D. S. Ray,
and daughters. Misses Elizabeth and
Rebecca Ray.
Misses Lorela Rogers, Lucile Rog
ers, Mary Emma Thomas, L S.
Thomas spent Sunday afternoon at
Ashley Heights.
M. McL. McKeithen, Mrs. L. B.
McKeithen, Misses Mabel Muse, Re
becca Ray and the Correspondent
spent an afternoon of last week in
Carthage.
Circle No. 2 of the Young Wom
an’s Auxiliary met last week with
Misses Margaret and Effie Gilchrist.
Program in charge of Miss Thurla
Cole, who introduced a Bibk contest
in which Miss Mabel Muse was win-
a few years ago the proportion of
fair telachers only was not great.
High schools are developing, and 58
I Jonesboro, spent the week end in
I town.
Miss Gladys Watson has returned
to her home after spending some
time in the mountains.
W. M. McVallum and sons, Wil
liam and Rogers, of McColl, S. C.,
visited relatives here last week end.
Rev. J. W. Wright has returned to
good ones are now carrymg on, be- I, . , . ^
.J ; J his home m Carthage after under
sides some that are not so good. | . ^ ^
^ , . , , , . , going treatment m the Central Car-
Good equipment and good teachers ,
I?• iT u 1 J ohna hospital,
m the h,gh schools are gett.ng good | Woman’s Club held its regu-
results and a crop of children ,s go-: Thursday,
mg now to the dozen higher mstitu- . ^ ^iss
tions that are training teachers and hostesses for the [ the whole tract is now undergoing a
The development James Barber is
making north of Knollwood village,
just beyond the reservoir of the
Southern Pines water works, is tak
ing shape that tells the magnitude
of his plans. The golf course is in
the hands of a score of men who
have already cleared much of the
ground for the eighteen holes, and
the work has gone far enough to
show that the new links will be
among the most interesting in the
South. Mr. Barber has not planned
his course for a difficult proposition.
But he has laid out a picturesque
tract on the summit of the hills,
which gives a constant outlook all
over the country. Below the fair
ways the reservoir with its sixty
acres of open lake spreads out along
the whole west side of the course.
From the bigh spots on the course
Southern Pines is visible, Carthage,
the territory around Vass, Pinehurst
and into the indefinite distance in all
directions. The club house is rising
under the hill, not far from the res
ervoir, a big log cabin with the mod
ern equipment, fitting the rural into
the general scheme.
The old Seals road from Pinehurst
out to the Carthage-Southem Pines
road passes through the new golf
course, which permits approach from
Southern Pines on the east side of
the creek, or from the Midlands road
a broad clayed road reaches the club
house from the Pinehurst side and
from Southern Pines. It is easy now
to drive through the
golf course, and the route is an at
tractive one already. But far more
than attractive it is instructive, for
it tells the story of what is just
ahead in the triangle embracing
Southern Pines, Pinehurst and the
Knollwood section. Mr. Barber’s
lands adjoin the Knollwood and Pine
Needles property, embracing several
hundred acres. His development
comes to the State highway recently
taken over between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, and to the road to
Carthage past the water plant. With
Barber, Knollwood, Pinehurst and
Pine Needles all working together
in the ground included in this area
teaching children in other lines as i
j afternoon.
* , Messrs. Arch Smith and Ben Har-
The program is being carried out , Fayetteville, were the guests
as well in the schools as available | ’ |y[j.g Downing Sunday after
funds permit, but unfortunately the
negro does not always get a fair di- Mrs. Murdock and two children of
vision of the school revenues. Dr. I charlotte, and Mrs. Bullock, of Lex-
Newbold cited some cases where I i^gton, were the guests of Mrs. J.
negro schools get less money than I ^ Long.
decided expansion that is putting out
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
From Pinehurst to Knollwood is a
broad ridge. From the water works
up to the Barber golf course is a
broad, not very steep valley, with
some cl ared land, some woods, and
on the east side the large scopie of
country cut into the links. On the
the colored folks of the district pay,, jy^jss Margaret Bartlette and Mrs. goruth and west is the Midland farm
a wrong that he said is being cor- | Richmond, Va., are
rected as fast as it is recognized, | yjgiting their sister, Mrs. O. D. Wal-
and he has great hopes of much im- ^
provement in this direction. He said | ]yi|ss Dorothy Tyson is visiting rel-
that he had been asked what is the | stives in Henderson,
wisdom of colored schools, and in ad- j Master Billy Clegg is visiting rel-
dition to the change in crime that has i stives in Aberdeen this week,
followed the multiplication of negro j Mrs. Henry Ledbetter has return-
schools. Dr. Newbold said that in j home in Rockingham after
1920 North Carolina negroes had re- | visiting relatives in Carthage.
ported to the tax assessors as great
a value in property in farms as all
the property in North Carolina own
ed by all tax payers, white or black,
a rate of progress that justifies edu
cation or anything else that helps to
improve the condition of the color-
country, and Knollwood on the south.
The whole picture is flat in front of
the Barber golf course, no matter
where the players turn and when
once the grounds are open for play
ers that is certain to be a busy scene.
At the entrance to the property
from the Midland road Mr. Fuller is
arranging to build a pair of stone
pillars to give the property line a
Rowland Beasley, of Aberdeen, | si^iflcant gate way and to mark
ed folks. He was well received. ^ phillips.
and Miss Nell Bezzell, of Mt. Ver
non Springs, were maiTied in Car
thage Monday night, August 1.
Misses Elizabeth and Eliza Green,
of Raleigh, spent the week end in
Carthage with their mother, Mrs. R.
The committee to gather up a fund
to provide signs to post along the
roads warning travelers not to mo
lest the shrubbery on the highways
reported sufficient money, and the
signs are now in process of construc
tion.
ner. Sandkiches, pickles and ice tea
ner. Sandwiches, pickles and ic© tea
Miss Louise Thomas, of Broadway,
is visiting at the home of her grand
mother, Mrs. Laura Rogers.
Mrs. L. B. McKeithen was a visi
tor in Laurinburg this week, guest
of Misses Meta and Mary Stuart.
(Please turn to page fe)
The following old soldiers are at
tending the reunion of the Confed
eracy in Raleigh this week: Mr.
John C. Monroe and Mr. Brewer, of
Bensalem, Mr. Charlie McLean, Mr.
Connell and Mr. Guledge, of Carth-
the point of departure. From this
point to the club house the whole
road side is fitted for a number of
desirable homes, the high ground
giving good outlook, and a level
sweep to facilitate building. Across
the little creek on the road leading
to the club house are fine sites in the
pleasant cove for more picturesque
home sites. Then all over the hill
around the links are numerous places
where interesting homes can be made
if Mr. Barber is inclined to encourage
age, and Mr. Thomas Mashbum, of . settlement through that quarter.
Deep River. They were accompanied
by Sheriff Fit, of Carthage, and
Mr. Dunlap, of Sheffield Township.
ICE CREAM SUPPER.
Ice cream supper at Eureka Sat
urday night, Aug. 6. Proceeds go
for benefit of the church. Come.
The drive going on by the Midland
road and crossing the stream, up by
the club house, on past the progress
ing golf links and back by the Seals
road and the Carthage road and the
water works is worth while now, for
it will afford a wholly new concep-
(PleAse turn to page 7)