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THE PILOJ =™—~>A NUMBER 8 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory^Sj^^orth Carolina Address all communications tn thk pilot printing company. VASS N C FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 facts against MERE OPINION Report By Revenue Bureau On Auto Accidents Supplies Necessary Information The State Health Bulletin for De- MAJ. A. L. JAMES SPEAKS ON WAR which a pedestiian is injured or kill-' IXWl A fpij ^11 ¥ I was accompanied by her friend, Miss ed, the proposed law is said to pre- UijA 1 it Uf J* I Moore. suniQ t at the motorist will be held | v I Mrs. Neill Dalrymple and daugh- o at .-rault, and that the burden of M MH11 I I l^X | ter, Mrs. Charles McDonald and two proof of nis innocence will be entirely ^ jj^bies, of Carthage, Mrs. O. F. Tay- upon him. The Times reports ihat, ^ | lor and son, Ervin Ray, were dinner ^ a t ough there are only one hundred i I'ies At C. C. Hospital In San- j guests last week of Mr. and Mrs., Thinks The Country Should Al- thousand automobiles in the whole of | ford-Other Cameron ! Ltchel Guthrie and Jamie, Jr. Mes-! ways Be Prepared to Defend Italy with forty million population,! News ! dames Guthrie, McDonald and Taylor | Itself the drivers of most of the cars are I I are three handsome—I might say- „,!Ipr'’savs: language, of i “They are gathering home from; buxom'lookmg'matrons. , n I- D i-v t i Times reporter “they worship i land, one, by one.” Another! „ m ii n i i t n -tv, deen Wednesday, Maj. A. L. James, North Carolina Revenue Department, ' i a r> ^ Mrs. Neill Dalrymple, of Carthage, „ • u • j* j , - . . ^ speed. They race each other alo-^ Cameron has answered the' , m , ^ ^ ^ retirvHl army officer, m s brief ad- under the law requmng a import of X'ctlr®” <=all. J. E. Phillips, well-known afternoon of last week j^ess, made one of the most inter- all automobile accidents ^currmg j, allowed in any otherprominent business man, merch- ^p the Coirespradent. ^ • ht State to be made to that bureau, | ^ f.^mer, passed p;acefully L Avas issued for the month of August, — , I , ,, h • lAd • M H ^ Major James is no We would like here to reiterate thaiaway at the C. C. Hospital at Sanford | alarmist, he pointed out the danger- This report promises to sup-1 havrhadlo" ‘he evening of Sunday, January ous situation of the country when war „,y ,.„me wry much needed and .m-j,„ the ope^tTon of!22, 1928, i„ his 69th year. He suffer! *’';!;/ Td L "k 7o'vner of poitvant infoimation concerning | automobiles, and that is that the driv-1 ^ complication of diseases, L / ii i f v plight when it finally vnhiVct of automobile accidents All ^ u j u • -n /. ’ IJonesboro, were callers last week at oamtx i« 1017 .ubjtct dents. All I automobile should have | ^ad been m ill health for some | !wJ ifi.lL of us are agi’eed that accidents are | increasing' in frequency, and that j there are entirely too many accidents. | Every man has an opinion on th& sub- | ject of the cause, and one man's opin-; ion is worth just about as much as another, everything else being equal. It seems, however, that there is a steady tendency emanating from Chi (Please turn to page 8) COSTLY FIRE AT (Please turn to page 2) time, was loath to give up and made I a brave fight t© regain his health. He was the son of J. A. Phillips and Belle Mclver Phillips, and was bom | 1 |^r|l¥^\T ¥ linPT \[ I and r. ared in the Buffalo section near 1 £ 1 j j| Y IjI i \ almost criminal state of defenseless ness, and argued that as we all know that war is always a threat to every nation that liveg there is no excuse j now any more than at any other time iin our history for us to be without 17TTD1?I^ A Cr^IIAAf And in early manhood! jIUIlCllA ^LnUUL!""'*«d with Buffalo church. He camel ii|iii|i«| i |lll»|l from aeeression I to Cameron in the early eighties, and iflll/ljnill/ H/Vni/ om aggression. r;-io» 4 a ^ merchant in which busi-j | history of the past is always a eago and spread out over the coun-1 UiriS Building Destroyed With j^^gg prospered. In 1887 he was I ^®*”®thing Doing This Week at sugestion of the prospects of the fu- ON MIDLAND ROAD "* “ • try to repeat like so many imrrots | that the chief cause for accidents ; runs about as follows: “Defective eye sight, defective hearing, intoxication, exceeding speed limit,'’ and so on down. All Property and Equip ment happily married to Miss Annie Laurie McIntosh, of Cameron, a descendant of honored ancestors of Moore county. To this union were born eight chil dren, three of whom are dead. Sur- Every Turn Along the Line. ture, and as all arument of the staff of the army in 1914 brought Us to 1917 with an army of only about 200,- Action is in evidence along the 000 men in regulars and National Midland road. Surveyors were start- * guard, so at the present we are not ed last week to make the preliminary ^ much better prepared now than then, survey for the nevir State highway Millions of men were speedily called that is to be built there in the spring, to the ranks, for men are easily as- And naturally that gives a new life sembled, but nothing was ready for to all the enthusiasm that centers | them. No guns, no ammunition, cloth- about that link of travel. Three ’ ing, camps, officers to train men, ar- „w M- Phiir hr • f \ to move them, no subsist- any car involved in an accident was jbelongings of the t achers and the j ^ ^^^^^‘^ the road will be nearing its close, ence, nothing but men and courage, .‘suffering from any kind of apparent rooming in the building. ‘ e le ed m progre^ . e was construction gangs will be But courage can do little without physical defect. Second. The report Quarters were immediately made f h arriving. That means another busy equipment and training, and it was -hows that all forty of the fatal acci- available so that the school can con- ' ^ ® summer all along the highway from ' only because France and Great Bri- dents occurred on roads reported to be ^inue without interruption to the endi® ^ tov^n. e was e nrst man to Southern Pines. 'tain could provide more or less of On Saturday afternoon the build ing at Farm Life School devoteil to the dormitory uses for girls was, . . . tt 1 . , -r 1 £ -ij- viving are tw© sons, Hubert and Jack The Report of the Revenue Depart-,^holly d- stroyed by fire includmg daughters, Mrs. Har- ment reveals the fact that there were!‘he entire contents, ^he building and Portsmouth, Va.; Mrs. forty deaths occurring on account of ;«qu'Pment represented a loss of $‘25,- ^^^^ Cameron and Mrs. Willie Gray- autoniobile accidents during the month 000 or more, with an insurance of ^ . , r pmon Snrinirs anH eieht of .-August. In the first place, the re-i $17,000, which did not apply to the " hildrr port makes it clear that no driver of | personal property, clothing and other in good condition. Third. Twenty of the current term introduce the dewberry industry. He j This week, Saturday, the Pine ' equipment that our army was able to he fatal accidenis occurred on a state ' The M?ronn 11 buildinK is now T’"j;j~V" . ' 0j«=ns for business. This ' accomplish anything for a long time highway and on a perfectly straight dormitory and mess hall, !ig an event that has been a dream for Rafter our entry in the war bagbn. Our won out he did not crow, if his com- voad. Twenty-one of the forty fatal a'»<l departments which were housed J ®®*’®'- before the I national defense was utterly neglect- accidents occurred duning fair wath-: >n the building before the fire, are ^ ® llv'l'!*''an'l^'^!’orl,^eat we are not paying much more er, and twentv-five of the forty acci-' operation in the Eureka . , t.:„ u«mp our house schemes were pro- attention to it now. Major Jahies the daytime. Eleven Presbyterian church, th._. school audi- I; ^ ,L<f *“ ^commended the Rt^serve Officers’ loundings. rle was industiiou'*, and rpi m i i As ... . . . .... The neu house is now accomplished, Training Corps, and the summer army dents occurred in of the forty fatal accidents were caus- torium, and some outbuildings as usual, this seems to be the most ed by automboiles running over pe- j the pupils are placed and at work _ Kind hpartprl fhnritahio ^ much better hotel than the most camps for citizen soldiers, and that distrains »s usual, this seems to be the most ‘ ‘ hopeful had anticipated, and it has a all citizens back the movement to tret In the opinion of the writer of this succes.sful year the school has had \ ^ ^ •• good list for the entire season as soon our country in a decidedly safer po- article, the following tells the storySpeaking personally, I knew him it gets fairly under way. Any- sition than it is now for a possible Eight of the fatal accidents were * the meantime the futuiv of the many years when he was a young ^ho has not been in the Pine war should one come, produced by the drivers of the death school will be dis(Jussed and plans man at Union Home school. A gentle- Needles neighborhood should get Th.^ Seaboard is to begin at once cars exceeding the speed limit. , made for the next season. Until the, man m every respect, a friend in around there and see the positive to put crossing signals at the high- Four people were killed on account last session of the legislature the ' need, fair and square in business transformation that has taken place way crossings at Aberdeen, the com- of the drivers of the death cars carried on by private in-|<^6als. I shall miss him. within the year, and look ahead a bit mittee on this matter announced. - ing on the wrong side of the road. | dividuals working along with the Eu-' One brother and one sister survive and comprehend the gr. at prosperity The committee on planting trees Four of them died on account of the school district, as the school him, Mrs. W. T. Loyd, of Jonesboro, that is ahead for the coming years. along the highways is having success driver trying to take the right-of-way ^‘ared for the district school. The and William Phillips, of Tramway. During the week Mason & Gardner, in interesting peopl,. in planting pines when he did not have it. legislature arranged that the Farm The funeral services were conducted of Pinehurst. who have been interest- and hopes for a lot of trees in the Five were killed by the fool, known i Life school should be taken over by by Rev. M. D. McNeill from the Pres- ed in the Knollwood region for a good next year or two. to all motor drivers, who is eternal-! the county and become a part of the byterian church, interment in Came- whil , negotiated a sale that gave to The annual benefit dance will be ly cuttini; in ahead of another car | county system and at the time of the ron cemotery. The pall bearers were H. A. Harper, of Boston, two well- held before long, the date to b . an- Four people were killed by thecar'fire the school was operated by the M. D McLean, G. S. Cole 1) Me- located lot.. No. 4.i0 and .514. One nounced later. trying to p^s on the wrong side. -ounty as a training school, high Donald, C. C Jones and W. M. Woot- of these adorns the Olmstead group Three of them met death on account! school and district school, but the en. Four of his nieces took charge on wh.ch the first house on the d.vis- «f the morons who were driving the: P>'0P<'- ty had not been transferred ; of the lovely floral offerings. The ion is now arismg, and the other is cars, undertaking to pass another car 'f*om the private ownership to the | church was fi led to overflowing and farther towanl the Midland road on cominff UD hill or on a curve ownership of the county. many did not get mside. Quite a the Fairway Grove drive. Mason & , 1 -ii J u Sandhill Farm Life School has been inumber from Carthage, Sanford, Vass, Gardner w re instrumental in selling i ine peop e were 1 eye great value to Moore county from ; Jonesboro pocket and other towns and the Barber house and the Bishop An- "^^T^e^^re^rt d^oeTnot say but it is its beginning. Far back in 1915 whc n i communities. Many colored people derson log cabin on Midland road presumed that the most of’them m f.lthe school opened its doors it was the (Please turn to f>age : MA^EETING ' AT FARM im death by the c^s not being under,only State accredited school in Moore control, or running at such an excess- county. ive rate of speed that a curve could ^ The school from its establishment not be taken. several years ago had as its aim the Just about the time the Revenue chance for boys and girls of rnodest Bureau reported its findings the New means and of limited opportunity to York Times published a description of | secure vocational training, and it had the proposed drastic new automobile | reached a point where its graduates traffic law in Italy. Some of the high , found ready employment as teahers, lights of that law should at least; stenographers, and in other occupa- prove interesting to our people. In | tions, and many young folks from t e the first place, they propose to limit, farms of Moore and some from ot tr the speed to a maximum of nine miles adjacent counties have been per hour. Thig at least indicates that! to advantage to themselves an ^ o Received at The Pilot Office also were present. “The old, old fash- close by, and their last transaction ^ ion—Death! Oh, thank God all who ^ brings another good neighbor to the The F(^!owing Letter Has Been see it, for that older fashion yet—of community of owners in Knollwood. Immortality.” Mrs. Francis Keating hag approved Rev. Mr. Buffalo filled his regular the preliminary plans for her house, appointment at the Methodist church : ‘hat she is preparing to build near the Dear Sir;— . ^ ^ , „ Sunday morning. He and Mrs. Buffalo Olmstead house .and No. 18 Fairway, It has been suggested that I call a were dinner guests of Mrs. Janie and she expects the final plans in a mass meeting at Farm Life School on Muse and family. Rev. M. D. McNeill, accompanied by Mrs. McNeill, filled his regular ap- the Italians know abocit where to lay their hands on the chief trouble in automobile fatalities. They propose in the case of an accident to hold the responsible driver of the car guilty until he proves his innocence. The their employes. But the school had been growing to such exti nt that the individuals who established it could no longer carry it on, and the excel lence of its work and the low cost of its operation led the tSate to adkl it few days, when she will be ready to Friday ni&ht, January 27, ^t 7:30 for commence the new job. This will be the purpose of discus.=»ing the future the second house on the hill above the of the school. Since the disastrous fire Inn, and is in an excellent location, of last Saturday, it is necessary to pointment at Manley Sunday. They ^^^1^ valley for miles, t formulate plans for th.^ school’s fu- mere fact of proof that a driver has | to the county scheme o sc oo exceeded the speed limits subjects him j The low operation w^ ai to a minimum sentence of one year in the manner in in prison. When a pedestrian is kill- died. Boys and girls rom e ed on account of reckless or careless | brought with them farm us driving of a car, the driver of the au-jpay their bills, and ^ turned over at farm prices, makmg the subsistence cost low as the girls tomobile will meet with the minimum sentence of ten years and the maxi mum of twenty years in the peniten tiary. In the case of an accident in (Please turn to page 2) were dinner guests of W. L. Parker and daughter, Mrs. Carrie Weatherly. Rev. O. A. Keller filled his appoint ment at the Baptist church Sunday night. The John McNeill Society met last week with Mrs. J. D. McLean. Pro gram in charge of L. B. McKeithen, j ^ building, and the rest afterwards new officers eleceted were i rapidly rising. The first ar president, Miss Margaret Gilchrist; | vice president. Miss Mary McDonald; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. J. D. McLean. N«xt meeting vdll be with Mrs. Jewel Hemphill. Miss Gertrude Rogers, of Winston- Salem, is home on a visit. Miss Beulah Thomas, of Broadway, spent the week end at home. She The several hundred feet from the ture. house to the Inn will b^ a big park,' Knowing you to be a friend and and already the landscape work about | well-wisher of Farm Life, and feel- the Inn has improved the bulk of the j ing that you are interested in the intervening ground and the picture is! type of service which the school has unusually interesting. been offering, I am taking the liberty The Olmstead house has the roof to write you personally and urge you to be present at this meeting Friday evening. We do not know what will happen at this meeting, but I am extremely rivals of the Inn will see building ac tivity enough to let them know things are moving, for this house is only a | anxioug for those who appreciate the stone throw from the 18th hole, and j school’s best performance to be pres- sitting on the knob above the Fair way, it dannot be missed. Shields Cameron has begun the sale (Please turn to pag« 2) ent to enter into the discussions. Hoping to see you Friday night, I am. Respectfully yours, R. G. HUTCHESON. Supt.
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