North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME THE PILOT NUnBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Nort^ ^rolina Address all communications to THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927 BUSINESS VALUE OF PINE NEEDLES New Inn a Big Productive In dustry for All the Sandhills. hotel employed another big lot of hands during the summer and will keep a lot of other folks busy during the winter. The visitors there will help to employ the golf crews, the tennis employes, the gun club work ers, and all the list down the lines. And one of the beauties of this thing is that these folks who come here in the winter are people of means, and they have big demands for many things that o>ur local folks supply. Therefore the Pine Needles is another big and important indus try, centralizing another field of pro duction at Knollwood village, and just as surely as if a big factory had lo cated there, or at any other point in the territory. The Pine Needles opens BION H. BUTLER Sometime I wonder if the folks realize what a big new institution like the Pine Needles Inn means to the Sandhills, and to the country all around the Sandhills, even to remote boundaries. We can judge from one thing of this sort what any other sig nifies. Suppose the Carolina hotel is considered. While the other hotels at Pinehurst are aids in what the Carolina is doing, the big hotel is the basis for the prosperity of Pinehurst and much of the surrounding area. It is the fostering mother of the golt industry, which employs probably five hundred caddies at Pinehurst, and several other hands in various lines of work, and in summer as well as in winter keeps a large number of men on the pay roll. The caddies at Pine-1 Conference of Telephone People Over Several Days’ Stay. Pinehurst is having the gossipiest time of its history, for a couple of hundred representatives of the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph Com pany are there for a period of ten ABERDEEN FIXED TOBACCO MARKET This Season’s Success Guaran tees the Future Pros pect. bion h. butler. Probably Aberdeen is surprising a great many people in the substan tial manner in which it is definitely fixing its status as a tobacco market, but it is beyond a doubt now that the future of the prospect is positive. For the last few days prices on the TO ALL CREATION hurst are all colored persons, and the earnings are excellent, which means that this big army of workers is oc cupied at profitable employment find receiving every day a handsome in come which goes to swell the reve nue of the entire Sandhills, as well as to provide nicely for the men who earn the money. I imagine that no other place in the State has so large a proportion of its colored popula tion so congenially employed, certain ly not holding contact with such de sirable emmployers, or earning such satisfactory wages. It is common knowledge that in the Sandhills the colored folks are paid better wages, and are in better financial shape than in most any other part of the State. 'The same rule applies at Southern Pines, at Mid Pines, and as soon as the golf course is opened at Pine Needles It will apply there. The col ored people of the Sandhills are pros perous, and are of an excellent type largely because they have work that is encouraging to them, and from which they get a capable support, and are able to provide homes for them selves and are able to rear their chil dren with all the ordinary comforts. But golf is only one factor. An army of builders, in all the trades, is employed in the Sandhills villages. Contractors, plumbers, supply houses, mills, and all the phases of building activity are conspicuous in the Sand hill villages, and it is not unusual for half a million dollars’ worth of build ing to be done in the resort villages annually. This is all of a high class, indicating good wages, and white and black workers are employed in the building trades. Then comes the de mand for drivers, clerks, hotel em ployes, and the army that is busy providing for the wants of the many who are at work on the basic indus tries. The hotels several months of the year employ several hundred peo ple The stores, the railroads, the bakeries, the picture houses, the banks, the roads, and all the many things that the presence of many people all winter call for, add to the number of employes ,and all are paid good wages. Pine Needles will be one of the highest class hotels in the South. It will require a large number of high- priced employes, and it will also call for a list of supplies that will widen the market of Moore County to a generous extent. Here the farmer, the trucker, the ponltryman, the live stock man, and everybody who has any thing to sell, comes in to get a share of the business the new hotel brings. But the hotels bring cottagers, and they add likewise to the business and the prosperity of the community, for thtey have a lot of work to do, and doing that work earns a lot of mon ey for the people. Pine Needles had a big force of men busy on roads and sewers and water lines all summer. Knollwood is following along the same field of action, and men and teams have been a hive of industry ever there in the last few weeks. Over at the Chalfonte another new floors have been giving 30 cents a a big new business, one that is well)close chase as an average, and the known in the Sandhills to be a good ' amount of leaf offering each day is one, and beneficial to all of the peo- ; increasing, and the quality is improv- ple in broad degree. ing. This thing apparently had to — I be tested out by many of the farm- riI\TI?IIITrinnn who were impelled to take a ship- I lINLlllJuSl lltiU of tobacco to other markets, but it transpires that the other mar kets were unsatisfactory, and most of those who made the experiment are on the Aberdeen floors these days and are the most positive of the backers of their local market. The sales so far this year at Aber deen are almost up to the total sales of the whole season a year ago, justi fying the buying companies in their decision to locate salaried buyers at the Aberdeen warehouses this year. This is taken as a sign the companies look on Aberdeen as the most import State to be up to the average of last year, and also that he expects Aber deen to hold up to its average and to hold to its place in the front with the best of them. Guessers are figuring on close to four million pounds at Aberdeen by the time the hat drops for the finish, and if the average of 25 cents is maintained that will mean a million dollars paid out in the town, which is not a bad contribution to the prosper ity of the Sandhill tobacco belt. Poultry growers of Nash county have organized the “Nash County Poultry Association.” CRIPTION $2.00 The sheep population of Ashe coun ty has been increased 33 per cent during the past year and the animals are high in price and hard to buy. CHRISTMS FOR KIWANIS aUB Already Preparing* for Santa Claus Among the Children. ANOTHER LARGE KNOLLWOOD SALE days in a working conference which includes the study of problems that ant point in the Sandhills region," and R. A. Olmstead Buys Group of Lots on the Summit of the Heights. Wednesday S. B. Richardson’s of fice sold to R. A. Olmstead, of South ern Pines, formerly of Coudersport, Pa., a group of three lots in one block on the summit of the heights above the Pine Needles hotel in the new project Knollwood has opened on the north side of Midland road. These are numbers 512, 513 and 516, lying confront the company in its daily ex- j because of its geographical relation periences and also with this is a sort j to the Sandhills beit, and the railroad across Indian Trail Drive, from the of school of information for all the conveniences and other facilities j Bloxham location, and about 300 feet attendants. With the regular group Aberdeen feels that its advances are | from the fairway of the 18th hole on evidences that in the years ahead the the Pine Needles golf course. This market there will be more enthusi- of men in authority came a bunch of operatives and builders who have ar ranged a special series of connections to all parts of the country that the visitors may keep in touch with their affairs of the company back home, and it has been as common t.*) hear a call for Seattle or Bangor in the last few days at Pinehurst as to hear is regarded as an exceptionally fine astically encouraged by both buyers | section of the neighborhood, and Mr. and farmers than eveo-. ! Olmstead says he does not know any one thing the farmer is a.skej by in the Sandhills that is worth ! will ask folks to heAp make the plan The features at the Kiwanis din ner at the Civic Club at Southern Pines Wednesday started with a se ries of entertainments by the young daughter of Colin Spencer who put on some piano work and recitations that made a decided hit with the membership. She recited a bit of poetry with a proper touch of senti ment and then she gave an imitation of a girl wrestling with her piano lesson which sounded like home to most of the fellows who have girls that age themselves. She captui'ed the house. n the Pictorial Review for Decem ber, 1922, is an illustrated story of a Crowley Christmas, which shows how New York business men present to the orphan children of the whole New York city region a real Santa Claus on Christmas day. The man who headed this thing for years, George C. Crowley, was a visitor at the club Wednesday and he told how this thing is done there, and the example was so infectious that a committee of local men was appointed to get San^ ta Claus around North Carolina next month. Mr. Crowley told that enough bus iness men and others are asked for a small contribution in the way of something that a child asks for to make up a budget of things that will cover the whole city, and 40,000 or phan children in the ayslums are car ed for in this way each Christmas, The local committee will endeavor to apply Mr. Crowleys method, and then the Aberdeen folks to bear in mind, and that is that it is the farmer him- (Please turn to page 5) D. A. MIAUCHLIN MADE TREASURER die Funds of Near East Relief. the money if that group of lots is not. The price of sites on the hill self that makes the market. If far- j there is $2,000 a lot, the lots running mers persist in hauling their tobacco ] the neighborhood of 3-4 of an acre, to other points it will be bought at|Mr. Olmstead’s purchase fronts on j other points, and too much hauling I two of the main drives, lies high, and away of the tobacco from the, local k^ves a view of the surrounding coun-1 territory will give the buyers less in-1 try for a long distance as well as | Til A \firD APUQ terest in the local markets, and such | the immediate vicinity of the Pine! 1 Ililll liO lil U iVilLrjO a policy pursued to the limit would i Needles community and the Mid Pines mean an inferior market in the com- which is across the Midland road ' munity, and the necessity of taking ^he Knollwood Heights on which the purchase is situated. Mr. Olmstead says he has not defin ite plans in mind for the winter, but work. You will all hear about it a little later, when a contribution of something called for will be asked, and the children will be encouraged to ask for some one thing they want that their wishes may be gratified. AT PINEHURST ^ 1 T. 1 A • A J A XX tobacco somewhere else, and the Local j^nl^r Appoint^ to Han- ^Jtiniate destruction of the industry in the Sandhills. But that danger is passed. About ^^^t the situation of the land and the D. A. McLauchlin, of the Bank of I*"® million pounds have ' ‘‘PPf'' Vass, has been notified by Lieut. Gov.l'^een sold on the Aberdeen floors so him as a wise place to put a J. Elmer Long, that Mr. McLauchlin season, with the prospect of has been appointed treasurer of the !^ continued large patronage. Some North Carolina fund for the Near 'o^ the big farmers have not yet sold East College Relief movement, which ; quantity of their crop. That is An. Exceptionally Fine Field of Horses are Here for the Winter Season. What promises to be the most sue- little money just now, and he hasj'^*®®^"' time in the spring to deternMnc- how|°^ Pinehurst Jockey Club will be to develop his plans. He savs the 1Thanksgiving Day. purchase was a good one, and that;November 24, at 2:45 p. m. As this goes to press every sta- . • - hpfi^inTiinfir to come in now and the |seveial possibilities for the liiture! uSurch may present themselv., but he is ‘-.e the large plant is taken and not figuring so much on that as on the majority of the horses are now on the grounds, with ‘ others coming over the countrv as well a^ at home inarms at Raeford, where on 100 acres ^ and they pick him out when they I'* estimated that 100,000 pounds of finding what he wanted and getting want a man of standing. thrbigTrowers that a^re now 1 The Olmsteads live now on Wey-' .The Jockey Club is now able to getting on the market. From vari- j mouth Heights where they have one j horses with the result that VASS-LAKEVIEW SCHOOL TO OR.SFRVF ARMTSTirF DAY sections these big farms are;of the attractive homes of the Sand-it^^s year will see a much becter av- 'bringing excellent leaf, and some of:hills, and where likewise they havej®^^^^® speedsteers than evea last I the little farms are also delivering a j many substantial friends. Mr. 01m- year and an entirely new field will 'fine type of good material. ]stead’s father was one of the leading ^e seen. A review of the market at Aber- Pennsylvania in the genera-1 Both the running and the harness tion which has gone, where he was | divisions are top notch and keen corn- prominent in industrial and political i petition is assured affairs, and in the development of the | Every horse on the track will be 'The Vass-Lakeview school will ob serve Armistice Day Friday, Novem ber 11, 1927, 10:45 a. m., school audi torium. Program: America. Devotionals—W. Duncan Matthews. “In Flander’s Fields”—Elizabeth Simpson. “America’s Response” — Majorie Leslie. Chorus—“There’s a Rose That Grows in No Man’s Land.’ Address—R. G. Hutcheson, of Farm Life School. “Unknown”—Nora Byrd. Meaning of the flag—F. M. Dwight. Pledge to the flag—High School. Star Spangled Banner. Benediction—Led by High School. “Lord Grod of Hosts, Be with u» yet. Lest we forget, lest we forget.” —Amen. The public is invited. Tose farmers of Hoke county who co-operated to buy a car of fencing wire saved about $1,000 on the dwaf and several gave'the county agent orders for an additional supply. deen and a talk with the farmers here and there over the belt indicates that a confident tone is holding through the whole tobacco neighbor- northern part of the State, and the hood. Robert Stuart, from the Buch- younger man has taken a hand in an farm, says his crop is good, that Sandhill affairs with the same inter- it is fairly large and that it is bring ing a good price^ and that the farm \ outlook this fall is one of the best in a long tinie. He is typical of a lot of good farmers who are pointing to the price tags on fine piles of tobacco these days on the auction rows. At the present time Aberdeen is re peating its experience of last year when it made a record of overtopping nearly every market in the State in its daily average of prices. For sev eral days the daily average at Aber deen has been materially higher than at most of the markets all over the State, and some days it has held the record for the day’s work. With the advancing prices B. B. Saunders, who iff one of the closest observers of to bacco marketing, says he loolw for the average of prices this year in the “ready to go” on Thanksgiving Day and a record crowd will be there to see them hang up new speed records, est his father had in the land of their j ^ full program of the ever inter- younger days. jesting Equestrian stunts and special- Street improvement is going for- j ties is being arranged. ward on the Heights, with the exten sion of the good roads, and the wkter mains are rapidly pushing out over the ground. The intention now is to connect the new settlement with Mid Pines by a six inch main, and then to tie in with the old six inch line at the old water works plant below the Mid Pines Country Club. This will give two lines from the pumps at the new pump station to the tanks on the hill above Southern Pines, which will be a belp in maintaining constant circulation of water all over the sec tion served. Tom Tarheel says being a Master Farmer Is^abmit to“ work "him-to death. Box seats may be secured in ad vance at the Carolina hotel or at the office of the Secretary in the theatre building. Season memberships and parking spaces may be reserved with the sec retary. On Friday evemng, Nov. 18, West End high school will have an eve ning of entertainment. It will con sist of humorous selections, an ope retta, comedy, and good music. At this time the new scenery which is being installed will be used for the first time. Come and enjoy the eve ning with us.