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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of
Carolina
Address all communications to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N C.
FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 1927.
HAWES TO BUILD LLOYD GARDNER
ON MffiLAND ROAD WARNS OF FIRE
Fort Bragg Officer to MakeiKi^anjg j^lks About Traf-
Home Near Pinehurst jj,. jjjgj,.
Village.
ways.
CEMENT MARKERS LOCAL MAN WINS
NUHBER
BSCRIPTION $2.00
CH GIVES
ON YADKIN ROADI IN NEW JERSEY FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Ancient Thoroughfare To Have
Monuments to Indicate
Its Location.
Among the significant announce-
menu coming out this week is that | nesday was’Targel7 a'discussion 'of
Kiwanis dinner at Aberdeen Wed-
CoL George P. Hawes, Jr., formerly
connected with Fort Bragg, is to
Tbuild on the Midland road near Pine
hurst, the site being nearly opposite
the home of Gould Shaw. Col. Hawes
will have some horses and dogs, and
plans an estate of a number of acres,
somewhat similar to Mr. Shaw's. He
gets out far enouerh sa that bo can
secure acrea;;e for tho de/el-
opment of a country home where his
dogs and horses will have plenty of
space, and where he can build such
a place as room will permit, yet in
close touch with all the conveniences
that a location on the Midland road
affords.
This emphasizes the sentiment
that is growing in the Sandhills
which is that course of development
is to include homes wth sufficient
acreage to found attractive estate,
for in this territory where land is so
abundant the old Hoosier school
master’s theory of getting a plenty
of land while you are getting it still
holds good. It is argued that town
lots are for towns and compact
places, but that the country road has
land enough along its meanders to
warrant the man who builds a home
to buy enough so that he can turn
around without stepping on his neigh
bor’s cat and children.
The Pilot has heard much comment
on this tendency to secure acreage
holding} % ine1udi^=s^tbos€ ^^hat in
volve many acres, and those that are
content with two or three or five or
ten or twenty or whatever appeals to
the results of carelessness, and the
tremendous costs that follow the
neglect of the simple rules of prud
ence in dealing with automobiles and
fires. Lloyd Gardner talked briefly
on the subject of fires, as this is fire-
prevention week, and he informed the
club that in North Carolina nearly
seven million dollars in property is
One day James Wicker, of Pine
hurst, and Leonard Tufts were talk
ing of the historical articles R. N.
Page wrote for Th« Pilot not long
ago and Mr. Wicker observed that
thfe younger men in the community
took too little interest in the things
of the earlier days. He laid empha
sis on the old roads, and in the talk
came the proposition that if Jim
Johnson, the Aberdeen historian of
the earlier era would write some in-
T. A. Cole, of Moore Coi^ty,
'Marketing Master” In
North.
«T
lost yearly by fires, and nearly three ! monuments along the
hundred lives. In the nation the fire
loss is half a billion, and the loss of
lives by fire 20,000. Mr. Gardner
comforted the club by the informa
tion that 80 per cent of the fires
comes from carelessness, that this
enormous loss is preventable by sim
ply paying attention to a few ordi
nary precautions as to fires, and that
the big end of the destruction is an
absolute and useless waste. He urg
ed cleaning up of the premises, care
T. A. Cole, an ex-service man and
farmer of Moore County, has met
with much success as “marketing
master” in Hammonton, N. J. After
working with the division of mar
kets, State Department of Agricul
ture during three shipping seasons
out of this State, Mr. Cole was rec
ommended to A. E. Mercker, former
ly in charge of inspectional work
here but now chief of the bureau of
markets in Trenton, N. J., for the
work which he has been supervising
at Hammonton this year.
The Atlantic County Board of Ag-
Greatest Red Cross Roll Call In
Many Years Expected
This November.
road Mr. Wicker would cast the mon
uments in concrete. Mr. Tufts con
ferred with Mr. Johnson, who is al-1 expresses their appreciation
ways ready to lend a hand in pub-service of Mr. Cole and com
ment upon his success in handling,
lie affairs, and the result is that five
large concrete tablets about five feet
square are ready to be set at points
along the Yadkin road. The first
one will be put at the point where
the old road crosses the State high
way, the second will be at McDeed’s
Creek crossing of the Yadkin, the
with the use of matches and espec- ^
jally with cigarettes, wh.ch p.le up a | Pinehurst,
the fourth where the Yadkin road
big share of the damage costs, and
to beware of fire traps that abound
everywhere.
The effort to get action on the still
greater destruction of life on the
highways brought out more discus
sion, and this subject will be present
ed at the district convention of Ki
wanis clubs at Dlbrham in a few
days. Figures for the first seven
months of this year show that in the
United States we killed 418 more
pwple than in the same time last
year, which indicates progress in our
bloodletting, and the expectation is
that We will run the total to 25,000
the man who buys, and fits his ideas ! deaths by the close of the year,
of a piece of ground to correspond Philip Rounseville presented some
with the kind of home he proposes to
crosses the new road from Pinehurst
to Carthage, and the fifth near John
Horner’s house where Route 70 al
most corresponds with the old Yad
kin road.
The inscription on the monuments
reads:
THE YADKIN ROAD.
Said to be a buffalo trail con
necting the Upper Yadkin River
pastures with those of the lower
Cape Fear. Used in Colonial
days by Emigrants passing west
ward; through the revolution by
Cornwallis and during the Civil
war by Sherman’s troops.
make. From Eldridge Johnson’s big
tract down on Drowning Creek, and
James Barber’s holdings around Pine
hurst and Pine Needles down to the
modest homestead of two or three
acres it is all along the same idea.; kill.
Real estate men are looking for an
increase in the number of purchases
of acreage lots as the days go by.
They say that gradually people who
are interested in making homes are
entertaining the idea of going farth
er out from the postoffice and the
ment upon his success in handling,
are to be made into pleasant places
to live.
or little over a third as many as we
.boys and it is with decided interest
The Yadkin road is one of the ®*^"jthat the people of this section hear
figures showing that in this country ^ient routes of travel, and the refer-1 of this purchase and wish the new
We kill one person for every thou-! ^nce to the buffalo trail is said to tell | part-owners every success,
sand cars running, while in Europe jth . origin of the road. When the
they make the insignificant record of buffalo roamed this section and mov-
only one killing for every 2,700 cars, gd backward and forward from the
sea to the foothills a persistent path j a frequent visitor there—ialthough
was followed and as it was right well home is now in Rockingham where
It was a bloody record Wednesday. | located the Indians followed the buf- | jjg jg a member of the firm of Young-
Twenty thousand deaths by fires, and j trail. White men followed the j Cagle Drug Co—Wholesale Drug-
25,000 by automobiles, a total of 45,- buffalo and the Indian, and today the j gists.
000, or about as many as we lost in | old Yadkin road comes close to be-j Blue has for a time b'^en em-
the World War in about the same Jng the Main street of the Sandhills, jpioyej by the Shields Drug Co.,
“No man has ever wetted clay and
left it ,a« if there would be bricks
by chance and fortune.”
Pluljarch speaking nearly 2,000
years before the first Roll Call could
not have voiced a more fitting senti
ment if he had been addressing a
Red Cross meeting.
The organization should have this
j November its greatest Roll Call in
many years with not less than five
million members enrolled. In the
Mississippi valley its accomplish
ments “shall never be dimmed, how
ever brilliant may be Red Cross ope
rations in the years to come.” Its
relief work in the Florida hurricane
is still fresh in the people’s minds.
The service it has performed follow
ing other disasters during the last
year, has demonstrated to the Amer
ican people as never before that
their Red Cross must be kept ever
ready to meet such emergencies. Its
other peace-time activities have gain
ed tremendous prestige and apprecia
tion which will bring increased sup
port.
Even so, remember that there can
be no “bricks by chance and fortune.''
The clay is wetted but there is work
to do if these humanitarian impulses
of the nation are to be collected and
molded into countless services.
The importance of adequate public
ity needs no advocacy here. A Roll
Call cannot be successful without it.
This pamphlet suggests merely a
few things which can be done by the
chapter t.o remind the eommimity of
its obligation to support the'^’^.ation’s
official relief agency. Adapting the
material and suggestions herein to
suit local conditions, the chapter is
urged to make the best possible use
of them and to devise many other
ways and methods for presenting
^ 1 , . ^ TT this message to its constituents.
Robert Cagle, who is a son of H. t ^ o u if ui a?
^ ^ , • J r. Mrs. J. H. Suttenfleld, of Pmebluff,
C. Cagle, was raised near Carthage . ^ ^ j. •
, u 18 the Moore County Chapter Chair-
and for the last few years has been i j iT u 4.
through their market, over $400,000
worth of berries in a manner satis
factory to the farmers, buyers and
the residents of Hammonton.
Mr. Cole* will be expected back in
North Carolina during the inspec
tional season. He is a State College
man.
SHIELDS DRUG CO.
SELL PART INT.
Former Moore Co. Boys Buy In
terest in Old Established
Drug Business.
j One of the most interesting busi-
Iness transactions closed in Moore Co.
I recently is the buying of a two-
; interest in the Shields Drug
I Co. at Carthage by Robert Cagle, of
I Rockingham, and “Dolf” Blue, of
j Carthage. These are Moore County
man, and she hopes to put over the
biggest Roll Call, and secure the
largest number of members ever yet
enrolled.
G. W. TUFTS,
President.
The Cotton Crop Is
Decidely Short in Lint
length of time. We killed by these , for from McDeed’s Crrek to the Me
two agencies in the United States in ! Donald house, where the third mark-
a year more than all the people inler will be placed the present Mid-
any city in the State except Char-'land Road closely follows the old
lotte or Winston-Salem. |road. From McDeed’s Creek the i
County road to Manley is almost on i
jjlUSt HRVG More lAt the McDonald home the Midland
making his home in Carthage where The Cary Poultry Growers’ Asso-
he is well-known and liked among ciation in WaKe county is selling its
his many friends ther:, and through- eggs at a profit of about 15 cents a
out the surrounding sections. dozen to the producer.
In one week, farmers of Nash Farmers of Moore County are or-
county bought 545 pounds of crim- dering lime for alfalfa and clovers,
son clover seed, 900 pounds of hairy g^d small grains. Orders for five
The picking of cotton is going for
ward rapidly, and the result is that
the job is going to be finished at an J donations from the
Mnnpv Fftr Twitl« 'Road turns to the left to reach Pine- V, ‘ 7.
iTlilllCy 1; or IWIIIS# j. 4. U -i I vetch, 100 bushels of Abruzzi rye and ^ars of L*me were recently placed by
hurst, but Route 70 strikes the old -i,
I J • f ^ 4- An mO bushels of barley to he planted co-operative action.
My call for help for the twins that farther up toward Greens- P
are in Rex Hospital at Raleigh, re- I horo and the two run close together
Ep-
early date, for the arrival of | worth League of the Methodist
weevil in large numbers about church' in Carthage, Woman’s Bible
time the top crop was setting has Qjass at Aberdeen, two mothers of
recited in the utter destruction of Pilot Mountain and a read-
the top crop, and the one picking will county papers liv-
clean up the big end of the harvest, Johnson City, N. Y., and one
The yield is estimated variously, but, contribution.
probably not much above two-thirds
of what it amounted to last year.
Prices range around 20 cents or a
little better, which to some extent
offsets the yield.
Baptists Buy Lot For
Southern^ines Church
The Baptists of Southern Pines
have found their church growing too
small for thh congregations that at
tend services, and it has been decid
ed to have a larger building, so a lot
has been bought on Ashe Street and
New York Avenue, and it has been
paid for, so Sam Richardson says.
Church projects are now under con
sideration, but no dtefciito schfinae ka«
yet been adopted. 1*he intention is
to undertake to put up a new build
ing as soon as it appears possible,
and the hope is that the time is not
fto* distant.
for some distance.
Originally the Yadkin road ran
from Fayetteville to Mocksville, as
far as can be discovered. Later the
Morganton road was built, about a
century or more ago, and the curious
feature is that the two roads run al
most parallel to each other for many
miles. They both come out from
Fayetteville, and each one pajBses
close by Southern Pines and Pine
hurst, and they both carried vast
amounts of travel in their day. Near
Supt. Welfare Moore CoUnty. | the battlefield at the Blue farm in
Hoke county, the two roads unite,
but a short distance farther east
Long Street carries the Yadkin road
over into the Carthage road, ayid the
traveler could go to Fayetteville by
that routC; thus making from all of
the territory of Moore County two
practcally parallel roads past Pine-
This is entirely inadequate and we
hope more contribution^ will b|r
forthcoming promptly as the need is
urgent.
LUCILE M. EIFORT,
1.328 BALES OF COTTON
GINNED THIS YEAR.
FARM LIFE SCHOOL
BOYS ARE BEEKEEPERS.
Tobacco Prices
Improving
On the Aberdeen tobacco mar
ket Wednesday the prices aver
aged for the day 21 1-4 cents,
which was held down by sdme in
ferior leaf. But the tendency is
to bring out a better type, and
that is getting a good figure. Tlie
sales up to d&te are about douWe
the lilimbfer of pouftds sold by this
time last year, and a better tone
is felt on the warehouse floors.
The boys in the Agriculture De-
There were 1,328 bales of cotton ^artment of Farm Life School are
ginned in Moore County from the j^arning how to keep bees in mod-
crop of 1927 prior to October 1, 1927, hives. Last spring the boys and
as compared with 1,340 bales ginne^ ^^hers, aided by the agriculture
to October 1, 1926. teacher, bought co-operatively $300
W. McC. BLUE, ^orth of bee supplies at a saving of
Special Agent for Moore Coun y. supplies consisted of mod-
old settlers raised much tobacco and em movable 10 frame hives and
they moved it to Fayetteville by roll- supers, wax foundation for combs,
ing the hogsheads along the road, smokers, hive tools ahd other neces-
As the Yadkin Road kept to the hills sary equipment for handling bees,
and away from the streams the hogs- Another co-operative order will be
heads had nothing to interrupt them, given this spring for more supplies.
The MoTganton Road, built later. Bees from old log or boxgums are
was built almost straight, but it transferred in early spring to mod-
went up and down hill, and crossed em movable frame hives. This is
many streams at fords. It was not an inexpensive way of securing the
Incidentally, bees. Later the bbirs buy from a re-
_ a good tobacco road.
huwr*Manre7 and SoutherJi Pines'to the Norfolk Southern Railroad from , liable queen breeder an It^ian qUeen
Fayetteville. It is curious to rtbte Aberdeen, which takes thfe hills tike and introduce her into the modem
that the Yadkin road in all its dis
tance in Moore, Hoke and Cumbfer-
Hlnd counties, rarely crosses a
stream. James Cre^ coming Into
Moore, and McDeed*i Creek nAd
Joe's Fork above Pinehurst are abdOt
the number. It is told that this 4>W
road was used so largely beca\ise tftte
the Yadkin road, has almost no
sti^m crossings from Aberdeen to
its northern terminal.
Wllen Flora Macdonald traveled
this ^fection from the Cape Fear set
tlement to her home in the Ellerbe
neighborhood the Tftlllnii Hoad was
her route.
hive after removing the old queen.
Within a few months they have a
hive full of yellow bees.
These boys do not expect to be
come commercial beekeepers; Tliey
iiitend to supply home I^SmIs fliat,
then sell endf^ l^y other sup
plies as needed.