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p. 192T, ppcciaU Chear» everj eadacb€ restra;:!. t exam- 1 fits you patisfac* correct* receive child to Sanford u M. to |$4, our mxuiiim Lets un- Sted call i VOLUNE THE PILOT NUMBER 37 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of all communications to ^ ^ Carolina Address all communications to JHE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927. PICTURES MST IN SANDHILLS WHY SLATE CAME TOSANDHHIS BIG DEVELOPMENT 'EX-SHERffF SAM AT KNOLLWOOD JONES PASSES ■IJBSCRIPTION $2.00 jS — tTION AT PINE NEEDLES in Course | He Was Widely Known Througli Most Substantial Type From SkTivffr «A/ntiA im rnck u'nwMAm* T m ^ ^ a.* I . ^• | - J^l ^ '^V 11 d I Roof. Stuff While in the Farmer in This Light i of Construction at i This Section of North North. Soil. Present. Carolina. That the Sandhills have the most BION H. BUTLER. | The newest big thing in the Sand- up-to-date moving pictures and j Down the Laurinburg road below hills section at the present minute Ex-Sheriff Sam Jones' health had not been good for two or three years. fact that Charlie Picquet has had a way of getting hold of the best in moving pictures and producing on the handling of such affairs is clearly j the Johnson s Mossgiel farm, is a 1 is the task Knollwood Corporation I Saturday after dinner he lay down shown by survey of the bill hoards jfine big tobacco plantation owned lhas laid out for Talbot Johnson, the and pictures on the screens of the (and operated by J. W. Slate, who has vice president, who is the active'res- Northem theatres. Moore county | put in the curing barns in the last ident authority of the corporation, folks have always appreciated the jtwo or three weeks the crop from and who is taking hold of the job in ' ^ - V , , rj^ acres of as fine tobacco as a man *a way that is changing the whole hill needs to concern himself about. “I top from the Pine Needles to the imagine it will run about 800 pounds Midland road and to the old Carthage local screens a high grade of plays : to the acre,” Mr. Slate said, “and road past the former experiment sta- that fairly crinkle in their newness. : some of it probably more. But if it tion farm. Mr. Johnson has a bunch In a recent trip through several of reaches 800 I will be satisfied. I am 'of men and mules, a crowd of sur- the Northern states this was noticed i pretty well content with tobacco here veyors, axemen, and everything in- m particular. Every visitor in the in the Sandhills,” the farmer contin- i dicated in a task of this sort, busy new country, no matter what direc- 'ued, “for I came down from the |on the job, and already he has'about tion he finds himself in, is finally mountain country where conditions j five miles of new roads cut out headed at some time or another to jwere harder than here, and that some movie house by his would be ' makes this section look pretty good entertainers. In Washington, Phil-i to me. Here a man can care for a adelphia, Atlantic City and Ocean larger acreage than up in my old sec- City, N. J., the bill boards were no- tion, and do it with less hard work, ticed, and noticed with the fact that The land here is almost level, free a great many pictures were being from stones and gullies, and where I |the people who like to get out into shown that were an old story to the had been accustomed to small fields jthe attractive corners of the county, tar heels from the Sandhills. In one of three or four acres because of the Three hundred acres have been of the big new show places of Phil- I limits of the rough character of the I surveyed for this new plan, and all adelphia a picture was advertised for ground, here you can see that a field i between the Carthage road and the I business college for a short course the week following that we had tak- ! niay cover a hundred or a thousand | pine Needles tract is already pretty I about the time he was entering man- en some Yankee visitors to see over or whatever number of acres a man well along in-road construction. En-j^ood. two months previous in our own home imay care to include in his farm. town. In Ocean City the plays were [Then we can use machinery here to _ drawing a large crowd of folks, and better advantage, which makes our the various drives through the Pine They were people that came from crop cost us less in the making. In 1 Needles property, and cross roads many states for the summer months. Stokes county we figured that one j connect all the direct drives. The And here again the pair from Moore hand could account for about four or i propetry is cut into building sites i^ess at Manley. For several years on his bed for a rest and fell into a peaceful sleep from which he never awoke, dying about 9 o’clock that night. It was known by all of his friends that he was not in good health but the end was not expected so quickly. Sheriff Jones’ career had brought him in contact with a large circle of people in this section of North Car olina and his physical appearance was such as to impress every one who beheld him. Born in the hills and clay of west- grubbed, graded, and in such shape jern Moore, they seemed to impart that cars can pass over most of the i^eir rugged steadfastness to his na- new work. As soon as it is a little ^ture and the integrity and homely I more packed down under wheels the virtues acquired in his early days whole length of road will be easily from the homegeneous natives of passable, and of decided interest to i these hills followed him through life. He did not have the advantage of good school facilities but he &ot the most he could from the schools in existance in his day and attended a trances go in from the Midlands i About the time he was 21 years of road, the Carthage road, and from age he connected himself in busi ness with his elder brother, O. S. Jones, who about that time was in the turpentine and commissary bus- county saw familiar faces from five acres of tobacco. Here one hand scenes they knew something about, can care for about ten acres, and In Washington at one of the most i what is of importance I can get help popular theatres a number on the ] prograai was a picture seen in North Carolina three months ago. All this goes to show thta we aren’t such back numbers after all and that the man in charge of the Carolina thea- goes to show that we aren’t such attractions that aren’t too ancient to be of interest here and for the out side world some many weeks and months later.—H. K. B. MOORE COUNTY (Please turn to Page 3) TAXES SAME AS in the early eighties he was active in the affairs of the Sandhills about Manley, Blue’s Crossing and Keyser. that will run in the neighborhood of an acre each, and every one is ac curately marked with permanent monuments. Th«. excellent water of j the Southern i^ines system is im- j mediately available as the 12-inch mains pass thrdugh the Knollwood ! HOTEL MAN (Please turn to page 8^ property as well as through the Pine j T'lUA V17ADC ANeedles territory, and the Southern! 1 Tf I iJimllM xmllvl Pines piant is one of the most mod- ' ; ern and efficient in the country. It i LEAVES VASS Little Higher Than Last Year, g. Lancaster, Successful Ho- hiii M«r^ PrnnoHv Vnliioc 1^®*^ modern devices to I’’* ^ but More ^^erty Values satisfac cry and sanitary j [Water, with reservoir ard storage The County Commissioners on “ *"PPly tel Man, Goes to Wake Forest. FARM NOTES Monday made the tax levy for the enough to run two or three yea« year 1927, and it runs at $1.18, ahead, and the engineer who built the plant says it will care for a com- Announcemrnt was made bere this week that after September 1, Hotel Vass would be under new manage- which is about equal to that of two lor a | Lancaster, who j years ago, but a few cents higher “Xi rTt Interesting Notes on the Redjthan last year. County is fixed at „ , . u-„ . Tuesday outlook from the hill top on Wajjp Porest, where he will have charge of a boarding house, catering to student and faculty members. Mr. Lancaster is known through out North Carolina and Virginia as a successful hotel man, having had charge of numerous hotels in both states. Coming to Vass two years ago from Martinsville, Va., and pre- The excellence of the construction and design of the Pine Needles hotel is a surprise to everybody who sees it as it develops. It was announced at the beginning as a fire-proof structure, but no one had any idea of the complete absence of combus tible material that marks its prog ress. The frame is of structural steel, as was anticipated. The floors are of concrete, the walls are of brick and tile, the stairways of steel, and the partitions as far as they have been set are of tile. No such sub stantial building has been put up be fore this in this part of the State, and no building that is so attractive and in everyway a credit to the neighborhood and so efficient for its uses. It is possibly not wise to advise folks to go over and look at the building as it develops in the heads of the builders, for they no doubt have small need of people around in the way. But it is a good plan for the folks to know what that fine building is like, and perhaps if visit ors will keep out of the way, and do most of their observation from points where they do not interfere with the men at work no harm will be done. It is a good thing for the whole com munity to know as fully as possible just what kind of work is done at Pine Needles and what kind of a ho tel it is to be when it is ready for visitors. And the picture from the upper floors is one of the wonders of this Sandhill country. Scarcely half a do2en inhabitants of this cmintry know the remarkable scenery that the hill country affords. We have talked about our many advantages but one of the most importiant we (Please turn to Page 3) Speaking of women, attractive simpletons are more popular with men than intellectual bores. KIWANIS ailB HAS SIGNS UP Spider and Uses of Fertilizer. 15, roads 35, school 61, which is a raise of 6 cents, and vocational j'vhich most of th.* building sites have school, which is for the Eureka vo- |been located, covers the entire coun- Begin Now to Plan Cover Crops. I cational, two cents. The special dis- ' Southern Pmes, and up Now that all the crops are made j tricts note a slight change in a few | Seaboard and over the and some of it already harvested we | districts, but in most cases are the ^ should begin thinking about cover ; same as previously. distm^ish. The Mid-Pmes golf crops to put something back into the i The assessments in the county un soil to build it up and to cut the | der the new four-year valuation, amount of fertilizer that will have j disclose almost a million more values course and the new Pine Needles course, both built by Donald Ross, are within a few hundred feet of the lyious to that successfully running to be used next year. This can easily in property, but the rates have been of . hotels in Newton for 12 years, he be done now by putting on a good , raised but little in any of the town- | N^dles golf course go with j -^^^s not here but a short while time crop of vetch with either rye or oats | ships, while in one or two the total ownership of home sites in ju^til he had Vass on the map from and in a great many places barley | has declined slightly. The adjust- i Knollwood. Pmehurst, with all its ^ hotel standpoint, for it was not has been used to good adviantage. ! ments were reached with very slight activities is but a few minutes run, difficulty, and from the sentiment of the people over the county it looks as if the recent assessment was reached with more confidence of the per acre was 16 bushels in 1919 and pc0pl®> it is believed that a clos- 20 bushels in 1926. inquiry into values all around each district awakened a confidence that According to government figures Moore county in 1926 increased her corn acreage 1,045 over the acreage w com in 1919. The average yield Yield has a direct relation to pro duction cost; low yield per acre us ually means high per bushel cost of production. Our average yield of com can be raised materially through a greater use of cover crops, seed selection, better cultural methods, and a more liberal application of fertilizer suit ed to the needs of the com plant on our soils. Throtigh the assistance this year of Messrs. D. A. Dunlap, John Dunlap, Aubrey Dunlap, Charlie Dunlap and S. L. Brown, of the Spies section, we are conducting five one acre deni- onstrations this year. The purpose of these demonstrations is to increase ^he yield per acre and if possible to ireduce the cost per bushel. The com plant needs large quan- (Please turn to Pafre 3)' an effort was made to get at rela tive values more thoroughly than un der the old methods. JUDGE WAY STARTING NEW GREENHOUSE PLANT. Over at Knollwood Village Judge Way has on the ground material for a large new green house, which he will at once proceed to build. Two buildings, one 25x75 and anotiier 16 x75 feet, will be the first units of what later will be enlarged to care for a project that is of considerable importance. The site is between his brick house amd the Hudson house, both owned by the judge, and the building will be a i>art of the devel opment plans he Has in mind for further unfolding. Hi6 whole plant is devoted to orehids, which lie ready sale for. and Southern Pines is on the other side, likewise but a few minutes dis tance. One of the new roads that has been made will be a short cut from Pinehurst to Pine Needles, and it is as picturescfie a drive as any thing in this section. The whole area is coming up with young pines, while many big trees are all over the place. Across the old Carthage road James Barber’s new golf grounds with the new club house is but a short distance from the new devel opment, thus bringing the entire area from Southern Pines to Pinehurst into one extended project of expan sion, and all connected together. The four golf courses at Pinehurst, the two at Mid-Pines and Pine Needles and the two at Southern Pines, all of them 18 holes but the small one at Southern Pines, and with the early enlargement of the small one at Southern Piiies, and including the one Mr. Barber is now building give a total of nine courses, which is unap proached by anything dtny where else. Tournament* engaging nearly. long until he had s opping here with him many of his old traveling friends, who heretofore had given the hotel the gobye, and from the remarks of many of them it will be hard to get some one to run the hotel and keep it up to the standard that Mr. Lan-' caster had it. ^Hotel VaSs is one of the best equipped commercial hotels in the State. Since coming to Vass Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster have made many friends, and it is a regret that they are leaving here. NEW BUSINESS BLOCK PLANNED FOR ABERDEEN Mr. Straka, of Southern Pines, who has built a number of buildiii^ in his home town, has botight the Heck- art comer in Aberdeen and it is his intention to put up a husinss block there that will accommodate five stores. He has been a progressive builder since he conamenced in the Sandhills and his venture in Aber deen is regarded as an imi^rtant sign ias to t^e direction of the financial wind in this section, as his judgment is looked on as good. Folks are Warned Not to Cut Shrubbery or Trees Along Highways. Frank Shamburger, of the ciom- mittee to put up signs along the highways notifying folks not to de stroy shrubbery or trees along the roads, notified the Kiwanis club at the Wednesday meeting that the signs had been posted on all the roads entering the county and that, the money was raised and the bills paid for the job. Mose McDonald told of a trip up into the peach districts of Delaware and Maryland, and while he was not as well satisfied with the peaches up there as he is with those of the West End district, he was impressed with the more rigid methods the states North of us have of handling traffic on the roads. He met with no dif ficulty in getting through all right, but the North Carolina roads strike him as about right, although he has a leaning to the notion that we might emulate the practice of road police ihe encountered while away and put a little firmer hand on handling the traffic. An impromptu discussion of school affairs came up in an informal way, and it was intimated that the next meeting will be given over some to this subject, and possibly one meet ing will not settle all of the matters at issue. Tliere are those who think we might improve on school affairs and also on some other features of Stailie management, , and possibly some of the bolsheviks may offer some su^estions that will lead the gathering to say things. •is 1 ri,t
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