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PILOT
NUMBER
43
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory
Carolina
Address all communications to
HE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1927
DEVELOPMENT ON
KNOLLWOOD, WEST
Water Lines and Sewer Pipes
Are to Be Laid at
Once.
BION H. BUTLER.
At a meeting of the Board of Di- '
rectors of Knollwood an appropria
tion of $20,000 was made for develop- ^
ment work on the tract of land im- j
mediately adjoining the land of Pine
Needes Inn. The purpose of this
money is to lay water pipes and sew
er lines to serve the territory north
of the Midland road and west of the j
Pine Needles Inn. Roads have al- *
cf the 300 acres, and water m-iins of
sufficient capacity to supply all of the ,
neighborhood in the Knollwood tract !
from the experimenta farm of Pine
Needles and to the Mid Pines Club
will be laid at once. The mains will
be in a circuit connecting with the 1
big pipe from the pumping station j
where it comes on the Pine Needles I
gronnd and following through the :
Knollwood streets over to Mid Pines I
and probably there tying in with the
mains from Southern Pines supply
ing that community. This will give
a continuous flow through open pipes
the entire distance and will do away
with the dead ends in the pipe line
which have caused more or less col
oring of the water where the flow is
Tiot continuous.
Sewer lines will be laid on the
streets as the water mains go down
and will connect with the Pine Nee
dles sewer lines crossing McDeed’s
Creek to the disposal plant on the
Southern Pines side of the stream.
Work will begin on these projects at
once. Surveyors are already locat
ing the line and C. A. M^aze, who has
had much experience with munici
pal work in Southern Pines, has
been made superintendent of the
operation. He will have charge of
water, sewerage and street construc
tion, and the expectation is to push
the work along so that if building
sites are sold in the near future all
facilities for building new homes will
be provided.
BSCRIPTION I2.C0
1 MAKES
FRIENDLY WILL
, Aged Citizen Remembers Many
Beneficiaries in Unique
Way.
D. A. McLAUCHLIN, Chairman.
M. G. MCDONALD.
C. G. SHAW.
The Cr.mx ■ Commissioners who are consolid ating the County Organization on the lines of
Good Go. cm meat.
KIWAMS FEIIOWS iWEST END’S NEW
DRIFT B ACK HOME SCHOOL HOUSE
TRAINING SCHOOL
RECEIVES AH)
Sandhills Look Good to the Structure Occupied for First The Enrollment is Largest in
Wanderers of the i Time and Doing Good the History of the
Summer. I Work. I School.
The Kiwanis dinner Wednesday af- West End is feeling kind of cocky i It will be of interest to the tax
temoon at Aberdeen was giv.n over ^he opening of the fine new payers of Moore ounty, now that the
. school house built during the sum- ^ County Traming School at Farm Life
as a penitentia con ession on ^ and occupied this fall for the is receiving county support, to obtain
part o ose pro iga s w o ave , build- a few facts and figures relative to
come ® a summer s : ^hich will still be used to some the enrollment, and the communities
a sence. e ret ^pea er was ' chiefly for the present as a from which the students come.
Richard Tufts, w o as sp^ e | laboratory for the high school, and First, let us take note of the fact
summer in New nglan . ic ar atixiliary space ithat thie enrollment is the largest in
emphasized Bob Page’s experience on extending school work that the hislory of the «chool. So far,
Pennsylvama roads by teHmg of traf- enrollment is:
fic conditions on the New England community. The school is un- Elementary school 173
roads, wher. driving is safer and g.
better than in North Carolina. New
England polices the roads and traf
fic laws are observed, just as Mr.
Page found them in the states he
visited.
Business conditions in the North
are right fair, which Richard interp
rets as favorable for the winter sea-
This move on the part of Knoll- ! Sandhills. He also found
wood follows with the development i returning home that cottages in
of Pine Needles and is looked on by | pj^ehurst are renting freely and that
the best posted observers in the fo|. hotel reservations are ac-
Sandhills as a step of the highest »j«he people he talked to in the
significances. Comment assigns to have a broad acquaintance in
•the Sandhills and a high apprecia-
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N. C. Hyde Comes
With Horses and Dogs
formerly of South Carolina, a man Teacher training 16
fully equipped for the work, and he Commercial 17
is highly regarded by the school pa-
trons, both because of his personal Total 283
qualities and training as well as for Of this total enrollment, 189 come
his apparent ability to carry on the from Eureka district, 57 from Moore
school on the high standard that has County outside of Eureka district,
been established. and 28 from other counties. On a
The building is a model in its Percen.aga b»sis, a little less than
way, with a large auditorium in the student body come
central part of the structure, sur- ^rom outside of Moore County, this
rounded by class rooms on all four U^aves approximately 90 per cent of
sid's, along with office, stock room, students from Moore County. Of
and their apartm nts essential in the Moore County students, 22.3 per
work and comfort of those in the ^ almos. one-fourth, come from
tion of the climate and every condi- $35,000, outside Eureka district.
The hunting colony in the Sandhills
receives with pleasure the informa
tion that Nelson C. Hyde, of Syra
cuse, has leased Mrs. Kelly's house
in Southern Pines for the winter,
where he has installed his family.
He brings with him a bunch of hunt
ing dogs and horses, expecting to
take an active part in the fox chases
by the Moore County Hunt Club,
which is becomng more conspicuous
in the Sandhills year by year. Mr.
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Charlie Picquet Goes
To Movie Conference
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Shields Cameron Opens The Harvest Ball
Real Estate Office. Becomes Certainty.
Charle Picquet leaves the last of
the week for New York, where he
goes to attend a conference of the
Federal Trade Commission, which
has for its purpose to remedy some
of the conditions complained of by
the moving picture people. Mr. Pic
quet represents the two Carolinas in
the convention, which hopes to clear
Hyde and his family constitute A i the air somewhat and some radical
Tight good addition to the social and ; changes are predicted by the movie
out door group of thfe county. | producers.
Shields Cameron, who has been
for a number of years with S. B.
Jerry Healey is authority for the
statement that the Harvest Ball an-
Richardson, at Southern Pines, has i nounced last week as a rumor, has
opened an office for himself in the | become a certainty. It will take
Welsh Block, on Broad Street, where , i. v i. ^ /-.i v.
^ J • place at the Pinehurst Country Club
he will carry on real estate and in- ; ^ #
surance as he did with Mr. Richard- j Friday or Monday of the
son. Shields has a wide acquaint- ! month. The date will be announced
ance in the Sandhills and is an active as soon as it is determined. The tid>
hustler and popular with the people.
Everybody regards his prospects as
good.
ings of the ball have been received
with much favor, and a big crowd is
expected.
When the final summons came a
few days ago to ’Squire John Camp
bell, who since before the Civil war
days has been an interesting char
acter in the southwest corner of
Moore county where he owned and
operated a big farm, a fine old man
answered the roll call and laid him
down to the eternal sleep in the as
surance that he had done a good
work in the 93 years of his sojourn
on God’s footstool. He lived on the
frontier of the county, at the point
where Moore, Richmond, Scotland
and Hoke have their meeting place,
and for his younger neighbors he
had such men as John Buchan, Jim
Johnson, of Mossgiel farm, and oth
ers who had lived there or owned
land there for a longer period.
'Squire Campbell was a name known
to numbers, even those who had nev
er seen the man, and his rating was
high by repute as well as by ac
quaintance. For probably half a
century he had been a justice of the
peace, and he had written wills,
deeds, documtnts, tried cases, mar
ried the young folks, and Lycurgus
in his day and country was hardly
more famed in proportion than
'Squire Campbell in the Drowning
Creek comer of the four counties.
It is said by a prominent lawyer that
'Squire Campbell and 'Squire Shaw,
of Southern Pines, did more of the
legal work of minor character in this
neighborhood than any other two
men the region has known.
JohB»^ Camf^ell v/&s not so stuck
on law that he could overlook justice
but he was so inclined to justice that
some "Jmes he interpreted the law
to fit the case. In the cases that
came before him he endeavored to get
under the surface and to understand
the situation so that he might com
pose differences as well as referee
the dispute. He knew most of his
defendants and plaintiffs, and much
about any of the affairs that came
before him, and he arranged many
curious but satisfactory verdicts
partly by ordering them and partly
by advising them. A tale is told of
him that illustrates his attitude in
some of the little matters, and as
the story runs Alex McLeod, now Dr.
McLeod, and his brother Bob, (this
was long ago when they were boys)
had secured a small rifle, twenty-
two, possibly an^ air gun, possibly
more serious. The boys saw George
Blue one day, some distance away,
and wondered if they could hit him
with a bird shot. They tried, and
they were successful in grazing his
leg. He was hot like most of us
would be, and brought the boys be
fore the 'squire. The shot was in
significant as it merely grazed the
skin, and the 'squire looked over his
spectacles and delivered his verdict.
He pronounced the boys guilty, but
added, “I guess, George, you better
pay the costs."
John Campbell was a good farmer^
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Tobacco Market Is
Showingr More Strength
The Sdiool BulMinff at Wert End, N. €.
The tobacco market at Aberdeen
is growing stronger as the weather
gets a little cooler, and the prices
are becoming more satisfactory. Both
warehouses are handling much more
leaf than at this time last year and
while a proportion of it is of not the
best quality a fair amotint of good
stuff is coming in. The indications
are that as the season grows oMer
the amount of the tobacco expected
will b« fjiljy re^iis^d. Reports from
other places show that Aberdeen is
selling a sufficient quantity to make
it reasonable to believe the market
will be prominent in th^ central
belt.