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THE
PILOT
NUflBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the SandhiU Territory of North CaroUna
Address all communications to
^,HE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C
FARM LIFE OPENS
FALL SESSION
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1927.
BUILDING LAKE AND illDACnPPTC 1?AD
FOUNDING FISHING CLUB. ritUor lit 10 rUll
FORMER VASS MAN
GOES TO ASHEVILLE.
County Action Makes the Out
look Better Than
Ever.
The Sandhill Farm Life School
begins its twelfth session on Wed-
nt^sday, September 8, with brighter
prospects than it has had for a num
ber of years. Due to poor crop of th^ folks of Southern
J. N. Powell, Dr. Mudgett, Dr.
Milliken, Dr. Hart, Mrs. Wiley, and
one or two others have bought the
land connected with the old Ray mill
property below Dr. Dickey’s, and are
building a dam which will create a
pond of considerable size which will
provide a fishing and swimming
pond, and be the site for a club house
for a fishing and social club for a
THE SANDHILLS
All Conditions Point to Decided
Progress and Pros
perity.
It is doubtful if as much confidence
in the immediate future of the Sand-
C. W. Bazemore, newspaper man
of Chapel Hill, will leave for Ashe-
vile September 1, to assume his du
ties with the school system of that
city. He was recently appointed to
a position in the Creative English
department of the Hall Fletcher
high school there, and in addition
will take active part in the direction
hills has been manifest in a long of the journalism classes and publi-
time as at the present. Several
things are working together to bring
! about this state of mind, and the sen-
years, and its expanding program, vicinity. The location is
the school has had particularly hard j ^o^^^enient to the two villages of ' timent is felt and noticed in all di
sledding during the past three years, i Southern Pines and Aberdeen, and jrections. Aberdeen has awakened a
Many friends of the school Country club, and the remarkable interest in the prospects
throughout Moore County have ex- | while it is a private or- of the local tobacco belt, which is re
pressed their pleasure that it now it will no doubt include j fleeted in talk in all quarters, and
seems possible for the school to go of the organization in its the village is alive with building and
forward with its work, under more | Privileges. Work is go^ng along at all kinds of prophetic activity. A call
favorable conditions. During the j ^ ^^ ^ ! for houses to rent is frequent, and j two summer vacation periods.
a solid forward movement is appar- ‘
cations work of the city’s high
schools. Mr. Bazemore is a gradu
ate of the University of North Caro
lina, and has for the past several
years been associated with Louis
Graves in newspaper work in Chapel
Hill.
He is a native of Windsor, N. C.,
and is known to Vass people through
his connection with The Pilot for
SUKCRIPTION $2.C0
LUMBERTON LADY
WRITES ON MONEY
Thinks Solomon Slipped a Bit
When he said, “Money An-
swereth all Things.
99
past summer two steps have been i Q l\f1 TlTI All/I
taken which insure for the school a ' ||.M 1jf ^o any observer there,
sounder financial basis, with greater ^
opportunity to adequately care for
the increased number of students |
seeking admission to the various de-
partments of the school The first | Sandhills Sixteen Now Heard
of these steps was taken by the citi- , On the Phonograph
zens of Eureka community, when at Home.
they voted by a large majority to \
raise the local tax from 30 to 35 j Beyond peradventure the event of
Plnehurst is characterized by still
T Or^AT expensive house building, and
the widening of the boundaries of
the village as the houses encroach
cents on the hundred dollars prop- .the Kiwanis dinner Wednesday at
erty valuation, and at the same time | Aberdeen was the presentation of half
to take in a larger territory. Fol- a dozen phonograph records that
lowing this the County Commission- were made by the Sandhills Sixteen
ers levied a two cents tax for the I at their recent visit to Camden, New ^
purpose of maintaining a teacher [Jersey, to the home of the Victor hardly recognize,
training department, a commercial - Talking Machine Company. The rec- ! Southern Pines has extended in all
ENTHUSUSM IN
MARKET OUTLOOK
farther on the outlying territory. rv
All summer long a force of men have Approach of Tobacco Opening
been busy rebuilding the streets and
walks and making more room for
traffic that is calling daily for wider
roads and more numerous sidewalks.
The entire village is set now with
Interesting Every
One.
BION H. BUTLER.
With the opening of the tobacco
alignment stakes and when the j^^^^on in a couple of weeks the
guests return in the next few weeks preparing for the big-
it will be to see a Pinehurst they business this section has ever
known. The crop is the best and
biggest, and the weather has been
gilt-edged for tobacco from the time
department, and vocational training jords were exhibited in a phonograph j directions. Out the Aberdeen road plants went into the ground,
in agriculture. With this increase brought to the dinner, and the en- ja new community has fixed itself as ^he early markets of the
in revenue it is now possible to ope- thusiasm they awakened was out of la conspicuous member of the village, ®
rate upon a sound financial basis, jthe ordinary.
South have been selling their leaf,
iand building is so persistent there , ^
. I 4.U V 1 1 1*1 u the prices are decidedly favor-
and to add much needed equipment. ; The proper amount of hilarity went looks like a new house every quality that is offered,
From the time the school was es- with the event, which Dr. Dickey an- | and the tobacco farmers are unusu-
t^blished, the main ofa^tive has
been to furnish instruction ot a vo
cational nature. Training in home
had seen Frank Buchan since Satur
day knew that the first arrival of
economics and agriculture have fur-jthe records had been received, and
nished the subjects, around which j Frank looked as joyous as a boy with
the entire course of study has been jhis first pair of redtop boots when
BCMinced by saying that anybody who Weymouth way it is a similar optimistic over the ouUook in mention many other
There is a verse somewhere in Holy
Writ that says: “Money answereth all
things.”
We would like for some one to ex
plain the meaning of that verse, for
when we think of the many things
that money cannot buy we are in
clined to doubt even Soloman.
Money would not answer me if I
should ask it to purchase for me a
real friend—one whose soul would
respond to every desire or emotion
of my own. I might take a million
dollars in my hands and offer it to
the greatest person in the world if
he would sell to me a trusting
heart, faith or sympathy or love, but
he could not give me these things for
money.
If I had a billion dollars I could
not purchase the wonderful care-free
spirit of youth. Money cannot be
exchanged for character, nor honor,
nor wisdom. We cannot buy the de
sire for knowledge, nor the will to
acquire it, nor the power to retain
it. We have known people whose
minds were so brilliant and whose
hearts were so big and wholesome
and free from narrowness that we
would be willing to work a lifetime
for enough money to purchase such
or have it bestowed on us at the
owner’s death. But the best things
are not purchasable nor transfera
ble. Money cannot buy happiness
nor contentment nor sympathy. But
it can destroy them.
tale, and all parts of the town are
showing new shingles and new walls.
Pine Needles has set the woods <Juring^r
afire with optimism. The solid type
of construction and the fine effect of &®tting ready for th« warehouse
the Sandhills.
Curing has been going on rapidly.
developed. Three years ago a teach- Doc made the statement But in- hotel there on the hill markets
^ jJl ^ m*iue me SiaWJllieni. dux. in , « nnnAAanna in have dropped out of the race the auc-
er training department was estab- stead of taking the wheel to steer aroused a confidence m the | , . jj .
lished, and two years ago a com-hhe records through the critical analy-puttmg all of the , ,... .
Sandhills on their toes. Thiss is re-
co will call out good offerings from
mercial department was added. These Uis of the club he modestly side step- Sandhills on their toes. This is re- tobac-
two departments were added to sup- i pej for Dr. McBrayer who made a ‘^e work that Knollwood
ply a much felt need for vocational .few bluffs and then brought Bill Dun- ® ® Needles,
training for high school graduates lop into action. Then the show pro- progressed so far that it
who are not able to equip themselves leered. The entire six records were having its influence in put-
with a college education. run through, and the applause show- whole terri- want a httle money before the home
The success of the training in ag- ed that the music was appreciated. ^ woo wor is no
the start. A small proportion of the
crop has gone in little lots to the
Southern markets where farmers
riculture and home economics can
only be measured in the daily appli
cation of this training in the lives
of a large number of Farm Life grad
uates in the surrounding country.
All over Moore County can be found
It was appreciated both because the I “"'S' f'T bringing
singers were local, but on a sound- new^ ground that w.ll be available
markets open, but the quantity is
small in comparison with what will
be sold at home, and will probably
things of inestimable worth that
money cannot buy, but even these
that we have mentioned make us
wonder what the author meant when
he said, “Money answereth all
things.” Perhaps he was disgusted
and spoke sarcastically as the man
did not long ago when he said, “In
Gold we trust!”
Money is useful and we admire
people who try to get a comfortable
share. But the best things in life
are not purchasable nor transferable.
M. BULLOCK.
Lumberton, N. C.
building, but the management offset by the Southern tobacco ! CAMERON SCHOOL
er basis, because the job was well ? ^^at will come this way later on e
done. Cold-blooded inquisition of the when the better prices of this mar-
OPENS SEPTEMBER r..
work is compelled to say that the I Instead of mer Iv l^et will offer more money for good j Cameron Graded School will begin
training Ellsworth Giles has given instead ot mer. ly .staking another school vear on Tuesday
, , - 1 1 • • U !•£ J out roads and making them passable ! anotncr scnooi year on luebuay,
mduates of the school, who are . he local musicians has qualified following Jack Boyd’s i Weather and conditions have been September 5. The faculty is as fol-
farming the.r home places, or who ithem to do the kind of stuff they favorable to a good cure of tobacco lows: J. Clyde Kelly, superintendent
have bought farms of their own The .stand for. and to do >n a way that ^ high school; Mrs. J. L. McGraw. his-
school now has three trained alumni |will please the hundreds of thousands surveyed a better results from ;he work at the tory and French; Miss Katherine Ar-
teaching vocational agriculture in iof folks who will hear their songs.
^ J , . mu u 1 4.U u !system of clearing out the under- i barns than ordinarily. Also a wi
North Carolina, and three alumni now The harmony, the volume, the chorus | i «...
taking college work in agricultural i adaptation, and the command of tone
wider nold, science, English; Miss Louise
growth has begun, and when it is I experience helps to get a better grade , Johnston, Mjathcmatics. Grammar
, . . 1 11 lu commana oi tone region above Pine Needles I of tobacco year by year. Then it is grades: Miss Annie McFadyen, Miss
education, expectmg to teach agn- all the way through are of a high ^ ^rust Com- Mary A. Kirk. Miss Effie Gilchrist.
culture upon graduation. There are I character and what is better the « earance of th . whole neigh- pany »nd some others that the work Primary: First grade. Miss Marga-
also among its graduates two home | singers have that familianty with ^he ground is right well ithey have been doing to secure bet- ret Green; second grade, Miss Min-
.^jie material they handle to know young pines, some of them Uer tobacco is having its influences nie Muse; third grade, Mrs. Mann.
K'onomics teachers, a dairy special
ist. several farm managers, expert
mechanics, and many teachers.
The teacher training department
established three years ago, has ren
20 or 30 feet high, some not so big, jand that will add much to the total All indications are that the school
dered two distinct services to Moore people who do not know English
County. First, it has enabled the she is spoke in North Carolina.
Countv Superintendent of Schools to i necessary to go fur-
fill his rural schools with better [ther with this story. Hayes has the
trained teachers. It was with this i records, and Moore county will be
in view that Superintendent Cameron I saturated with Sandhill Sixteen
offered his co-operation and support | songs on the phono^aph in the next
to the movement to obtain a normal jf^w days, and as Bob Page, m his
department for the county, and since j classical rhapsody about the man
Its establishment has helped to who was born ten thousand years
how to give it the atmosphere in !
which It originated. A Southern folk bigger. These will be left, i revenue that will come to the far- will have a most successful year,
song by Southern singers is entirely undesirabe hard woods like ' mers of the Sandhill sec.ion from Patrons are cordially invited to visit
the black jacks are taken out, and i their crop this year. Another agency the school at any time and inspect
the more attractive hardwoods like I that has been helpful this summer is its work. It is hoped that parents
hickory, dogwood and sourwood are i will, so far as is possible, en'.er their
different from the same song sung
left with the pines to give an inter- |
est to the opener ground. The ef- i
feet is so pleasing that it deserves
to be followed wherever land own
ers can see their way to do it.
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HqUSE PARTY.
children the first day of school and
make a special effort to kc«p them
in school every day of the term.
PROF. J. CLYDE KELLY,
ago, says, “I’ll kill the man who says
it is n’t so.” (N. B.—Young Bob
not old Bob.)
strengthen the department by giving
employment to its output. During
the three years of its existence, the
school has placed 30 teachers in
Moore County, and the surroundinj' j All the world loves to laugh with
territory. The second distinct sen'- 'or at a lover.
iCe rendered by the teacher training
Those enjoying a very delightful Superintendent.
The excellent condition of the golf l house party at Lake Waccamaw last ^
icourses at PineHurst and at Mid- week were: Misses Myrtle Frye, of FINE HOME GROWN APPLES.
Pines and Pine Needles suggests Carthage; Ruth MacNeill, of Vass; L. L. Johnson, at his fruit empor-
that more attention can be paid in Lou and Johnsye Eastwood and Sel- |ium on the road between Aberdeen
the whole Sandhill belt to improv- ma Smith, Alma Mclnnis and Grace and Southern Pines is showing some-
ing the lawns. The Pinehurst Ware- Gardner, of Lakeview; Messrs. Her- thing of the apple possibilities of the
• J.1 1 X Ui-MnTvt T .olro_ Can./lViilla TT. Vioa Vio/1 /\n aal^ a
department was that of enabling gi**!*?
of moderate circumstances to qualify
to teach under the State certificate
plan at a minimum cost.
While the Moore County Commer
cial school has been in existence oi'ly
two years, many boys and girls have
taken advantage of the training of-
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There is one thing about dying—
you never have to do it again.
Troubles must come to all men,
but those who are always looking for
them will have the largest share.
Nothing makes a bride so angry
as to be told that she might have
done better.
houses in their advertisfement this
week cite the lawns of Pinehurst as
an example of what can be done by
an intelligent effort, and the use of
suitable grass seed and fertilization.
Possibly this may be giving Harrison
Stutts a bit of free advertising to
refer to what his grass seeds are do
ing, but if he can prevail on the
whole of the Sandhills to follow the
Pinehurst example and make the
whole country as attractive as Pine-
(Please turn to Page 3)
bert and Hiram Mclnnis, of Lake- Sandhills. He has had on sale a lot
view; Fred Taylor, of Vass; Norman of gilt-edged fruit grown by Reed
Day and Clifton Johnson, of South- Page on his orchard near Aberdeen,
ern Pines; Lacy Miller, of Ft. Bragg; and at every point that fruit is ready
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gregory, Mrs. to meet all the requirements of in-
Jack Yates and Buddie Milan, of ! spection. Size, color, form, quality,
Southern Pines. Mr. and Mrs. Tom and all are there to speak for the
Vann, of Southern Pines, chaperoned orchard and the way it has been
the party. . handled . While the apples last they
Miss Gardner swam the lake in deserve to be seen and remembered
one hour and 46 minutes on Sunday
morning, and in all probability she
will try the English channel next
year.
by farmers in the neighborhood for
following the example they suggest
might be a good thing for the coun
ty.
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