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if measles, the public } :/^e!s AD Hfdtn ■ANY zl” A 9 J VOLUME 8 THE NUMBER 11 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all commuaications to the pilot printing company, VASS. N C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 funeral of MASON BORST Was Very Prominent Business Man of WilmingtMi, N. C. All that was mortal of Mason C. Borst, prominent business man of Wilmington, whose tragic death from an airplane at Wilmington, was chron icled in the leading State papers this week, was brought Saturday night to Cameron, the home of his birth, child hood, and early manhood and interred by the side of his father who passed away some four months ago. As a child, Mason was sweet and modest. As a young man he was courteous, manly, and loveable. A devoted son and brother, and since the recent death of his father, seemed to do<uble his exertions in kindness, care and tender love in comforting and provid ing for his mother and sisters. Each week end he came up from Wilming ton to be with his home folks. His courteous manner and winning ways made him a favorite of all who knew him. Never before have I seen so many men weeping. Young men, strong men, men in the prime of life. His friends from Wilmington (and they were many) Rocky Mount and other towns, and his boyhood friends in Cameron. A long line of colored people, from age to youth, came to the home and asked permission to view the body—which was readily granted. Mason Borst was a World War vet eran, Naval aviator. His war serv GLENNA COLLETT IN ACTION AGAIN Continues to Sell Knollwood Heights Building Lo- cations Things around Pine Needles seem to go with a whirl this week. Glenna Collett, who brought the new golf course, with Virginia Van Wie's help, to the attention of the world, contin ues to attract attention by her enthus iasm over the new course and the de lightful surroundings of the Inn as a place for winter homes for the lovers of the game. This week she has add ed to the owners of buildings sites there Senator Wallace R. Pierson, of Cromwell, Connecticut, a golfer who has been at the Carolina and at Pine Needles for a month or more and who appreciates the advantages he finds in the Sandhills. Senator Pierson is believed to have the biggest green house in the world with 25 acres of roses under glass. He cuts over ten million roses a year. He says be has never been as much pleased with any place as with the Sandhills and espec ially in the neighborhood of that fine Pine Needles development, and the wonderful new golf layout that Donald Ross has made, and which Miss Col lett has demonstrated to be one of the great factors in permitting a player to develop the highest skill possible in playing the game. Miss Collett says she is going to undertake to add to the community around Pine Nee dles as many good golfers as she can. KNOLLWOOD SEES iCHANGES AT BLUE MORE EXPANSION FERTILIZER MILL I I Extensive Improvements of the E. H. Pringle Comes Up From Southern Pines Side of the Creek Charleston Factory to Lend a Hand ice certificate, U. S. Navy, certifies ! wants to make there the best that he performed honorable, active of congenial golf players that service in the U. S. Navy from Sept. * 29, 1917, to March 10, 1919, on board the following ships and stations: U. S Navy Areonautic Station: R. S. at Philadelphia; U. S. N. Air Station, Queenstown, Ireland; U. S. N. Air Station, Lough Foyle, Ireland; Pelham Bay Park. He received an honorable discharge at expiration of enrollment The purchase of lot No. 456 by Senator Pierson was hardly announc ed until it was followed by the pur chase of lot No. 443 by Andrew I. Creamer and Mrs. Lillian W. Creamer, of the Highland Pines Inn. Nothing could give more emphasis to the sig nificance of Knollwood than this pur- and was recommended for enrollment Creamers are familiar with hotel prospects in this section, 30th of April, 1921, at Hampton Roads, Va. He joined the Cameron Presbyter ian church when a youth and later moved his membership to the First Presbyterian church at Wilmington. with good golf course, with general possibilities of the Sandhills, and they have been winners in ‘every venture they have undertaken in the neighbor hood. The seal of such folks is the highest approval that could be asked. The funeral services were conduct- Creamer knows from his own ex- ed by Rev. M. D. McNeill from Came ron Presbyterian church. The hymns used were “No Night There,” “Some Time We’ll Understand,” “Asleep In Jesus,” “Abide With Me.’^ Dr. M. L. Matthews, of Sanford, sang a solo, “That Beautiful Home on High.” Leon Andrews, undertaker from Wil- perience that the Pine Needles Inn is a winner, and that a home location on that neighborhood is worth having. DEATH OF WORTHY COLORED CITIZEN. The following tribute of respect is Mr. H. A. Gunter, of Aberdeen, one of Moore County’s prominent citizens, who with Mrs. Gunter and children are spending a month in Florida, visiting his brother, Messrs. John A. and Alonzo Gunter. Mr. Gunter is also accompanied by his father and sister-in-law, Mrs. Floyd Gunter, of Richmond, Va. Longrleaf Pine Given Added Protection In the Sandhills. . ^ , , , . , , , i paid to Ben Leslie, colored, by Messrs. mmgton, had charge of the handsome, c^amer and Turner, owners of High- casket that was covered with the U. S'. Flag. Members of the employes of the M. C. Borst Company acted as pall bearers. The Young Ladies’ Aux iliary Circle No. 2, of Cameron, took charge of the floral offerings. The largest and handsomest display of floral offerings ever seen in Cameron. There were over 50 magnificent de signs at the church altar and others carried to the grave and others to come. Friends and relatives who were present, bringing floral offerings, came from Wilmington, Rocky Mount, Clarkton, Bladenboro, Raleigh, Ham let, Charlotte, Atlanta, Wilson, Vass, Sanford, Carthage, Raeford, Rocking ham, Pinehurst and Cameron. An of fering from the American Legion Post No. 10 and Auxiliary, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Sprunt, W^. H., J. D., Alec and Walter Sprunt. The Wilmington Star, Scottish Rites, Shriners, motor companies from Wilmington, Wilson, Raleigh and Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Murchison, of the Borst family, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Cavin, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Daughtrige, Miss Nannie Daughtrige, of Rocky Mount. A friend of Mason Borst from Wilmington, who was at the funeral Sunday, told of hearing Mason speak of the won derful sermon he heard preached by I^ev. M. D. McNeill Sunday morning a week from last Sunday; that Mason mentioned it several times during the (Please turn to page 8) land Pines Hotel, at Southern Pines: “The passing of Benjamin J. Leslie, colored, occurred at 9 o’clock Sunday night at his home. He had been ill of pneumonia for a week. Ben Leslie was born in Moore coun ty October 30, 1869, which made him 58 years old. His first work down here, which gave him a wide acquaint ance with the people, was in the na ture of hotel work and he became an expert in the line of butler and porter work along with other occupations leading up to the time he began to raise his family which consisted of 14 children. He purchased and settled on a farm, raising his large family along the lines of education and re ligion. He was considered a most prosperous farmer. In addition to operating his extensive farm, he took on other duties, principally the entire work and care of the grounds of the Highland Pines Inn. His handiwork then extended to the village of South ern Pines. Whatever Ben Leslie did it was known to be in that fine char acter which thought and physical ex ertion could produce. Ben Leslie will long be remember ed as one of the leading spirits of the colored people in the South. Not only will he be remembered by his own race, but by the great number of white people who knew him and learn ed about his fine chai«ctet and wotk He was devoted to hi* family home and his friendship hoops of itfefel. The stately and destinctive long- leaf pine of the Sandhills of Moore County has been given an added pro tection to prevent its destruction by fire. When the landowners of this sec tion formed themselves into an As sociation in October to provide means for protecting these l^autiful for ests, additional assistance was vouchsafed. Prom the dome the 6i«^!!na Hotel at Pinehurst, over 200,000 acres of fields and forests^ ail^ un folded like a giant picture fed over this the careful eye of a loolmt scans from morning to night to ^llct 'the tell-tale whisp of smoke—the fore runner of destruction. To Cameron, Vass, Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Pinebluff, West End, Jack son Springs, Carthage and ohter points, the network of a telephone system spreads to carry the message of fire. Over 100 men, public spirited and with a thought for the preservation of forests of this section, have pledged their assistance and stand ready for duty when the occasion de mands. They know the Sandhills of Moore County and how to handle fire. With the number of winter visi tors to this area at its height, the menace of forest fires increases ac cordingly and necessary vigilance is necessary to keep the fire problem in command. The agencies of the State and Fed eral Governments are continually as sisting to eliminate the forest fire danger and the uses of tHe forest gradually becoming more careful with fire, is helping to again bbring back the longleaf pine to its rightful place in the Sandhills of Moore County. Everybody realizes that the big ef- The Blue Fertilizer factory, which fort this winter in the way of mater- has made a name in this section as ial development of the Sandhills is the factory that makes the crops that centering along the line of Midlands make the records in Sandhill farming road, and that the tremendous impe- operation, some time ago passed un- tus given by the Pine Needles Inn der the management of the Merchants is the basis of the expansion. But it Fertilizer Company, of Charleston, S. has not been generally known that C., one of the big concerns of the the municipal lines of Southern Pines South, with factoi^es at Charleston, have in the recent past been extend- Charlotte, Pensacola, Dunn, and other ed to take in the territory down to places, and the prospects for the fac- the McLeod’s creek crossing, and up tory at Aberdeen are extremely good, the Yadkin road from the creek half ,E. H. Pringle, of Charleston, vice way to Manly station. president of the big organization, has Lately the Knollwood corporation up to Aberdeen from Charleston, has put a force of men on the ground ®^d will give a considerable portion from the creek up toward Southern time to the factory there, as Pines and Manley to clear out under- company wants to lend a hand in brush and expose the topography of developing the Sandhills types of ag- the country, with the result that a! riculture along the lines that their maginificent bit of ridge land has | experience in manufacturing special been uncovered. ' From the Davis log - types of fertilizer has shown to be house on top of the hill a succession, lo^cal. of hills and coves extend all the way I Pringle's factories have an en- to the creek, with such devious wind- joy^hle standing in the fertilizer ing in the highway that a pronounc- world. In the recent bulletin from ed impression has been made on ev-, Clemson College, the agrictdtural col- erybody who drives that way. A South Carolina, are records of considerable number of building j of analysis of fertilizers sites have been sold from time to time on the west side of the high way, the latest sales being some lo cations in the tract owned by Jerry Healy, sold not long ago by Shields Cameron. But on the east side of the highway little has changed hands from the Davis, log house to the creek. The corporation has not yet announced any plans for this sec- tttm of the Knollwood property, but the interest that is manifested over on the Pine Needles side, and the at- from all the concerns that offer goods to the South Carolina farmers. While some of the big companies have been picked up on some of their mixtures which have fallen below the figures on the tag on the sack, in all the long list of tests shown in the Clemson bulletin the Merchants company is not once shown in the black type that tells of a failure to put in the siu!k the ggoda claim^ on the tag. This IS an unusual record, but Mr. Pringle says that is the way his, company un- tractiv^ess of the ground that is' dertakes to help the farmer make his showing up under the work that isi^^rops. His fertilizers deliver what being done is pretty good indication I the farmer buys and pays for. His that it will not be long until some-1 a large proportion of the body- will be wanting one of South Carolina, and the luring hill tops, and once started | although in Charleston are 16 fac- the movement will not be slow to i <^ories and in Savannah about ,10, the catch the eye of buyers. From the day that Manning and Deaton planned the main road from Pinehurst to Southern Pines, with the Southern Pines terminal at- the Highland Pines Inn there has been no doubt of the final following of the Merchants company sells more than half the large supply of fertilizer used by the vast trucking interests in Charleston and Beaufort truck sec tions. A feature of the output of Mr. Pringle’s company is special mixtures plan. The reconstruction of the road '^o^ different crops. Especial at- by the Highway commission this | Mention is given to peach mixtures, as summer is the first step in the pres- tobacco and cotton. Far- ent movement forward, and the defi- j ^ho want their own particular nite work by the Knollwood folks is 1 combination or particular percentages the next. Then comes the positive j of ingredients can have whatevery the plan for village construction which ■ fi*^d suits their crop and soil best. Mr. will shape itself in due season, andlPrii^gle says he hopes to be able to PAGE JUDGE LINDSEY! was and like A distinguished member of the French embassy was a guest at the silver wedding celebration of an emi nent bishop. Leaning over to his neighbor, the Frenchman asked, sotto voice: “Tell me, moncher wat ess thees vilvaire wedding which we celebrate? I do not understand.” “Oh, replied his neighbor (the bish op’s nephew), “don^t you know? Why, my uncle, the bishop, and my aunt have lived together for 25 years with out having separated, and without having any quarrels in that time.” “Ah!” exclaimed the diplomat, heartily, a light breaking upon him. “And, now, he marry her? Bravo! Bravo! Never salt meat before cooking it, for it will harden the tisiiies. Season when it is on the platter an)d ready for use. from then on the connection of Pine hurst and Southern Pines along the route of the entire road will take care of itself. The arrivals at the Pine Needles Inn are fully up to expectation, the passengers at the Southern Pines station bound that way each morn ing showing a marked scene of ac tivity. The inn has also shown it self a popular place for dinner and visiting parties from the other vil lages. Much talk is current among people on all hands as to the im portance of the new development at Pine Needles and a high appreciation of the future of the vicinity marks much of the discussiom Men are be ginning to inquire into the advisabil ity of building sites at Knollwood in the model community neighborhood of which" the Olmstead htise is the be ginning, and all doubt as to the out come of that venture is a thing of the past.. Over across the highway at Knoll wood things are moving. Mason & Gardner have sold to Major Nettle- ton and Mrs. Nettleton another site adjoining the one on which their house is built, giving to them a frontage of nearly 200 feet on the fairway below their house. Mr. Buike has also secur ed a second lot there with similar frontage on the fairway. These homes have the fairway okitlook afljt! th6 (fUdm tmm to piie 8) double the output of the Aberdeen factory before long, and that in addi tion to the output of the local factory the Charlotte and Charleston factories can be drawn on for supplies of any kind at any time such a step is neces sary. The Aberdeen mill is now a link in one of the biggest group of fertilizer mills in the South, and Mr. Pringle, who knows fertilizer from beginning to end, says it is to be an important source of the supply of this section. He is right enthusiastic over the three strong agricultural possibilities of the Sandhills, peaches, tobacco and cotton, and also of the trucking pros pect that is in sight, and his folks want to have a hand in the bigger de velopment of what he looks on as a great field foi* farm expansion and the production of a high type of sta ple products. “SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS.” An electric street car now bears the honored , name “Spirit of St. Louis.*' It operates every day in Grand Rap ids, Mich., where cars are named af ter various citizens and events and it was christened out of the shops in June to be dedicated in the midst of huch hubbub of aviation flavor. Did all you folks hear about the s^ sick passenger who put glue in his soup to keep it donmt
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