VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
14
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territo^^of North Carolina
Address all commuaications to
thk pilot printing company. VASS. N C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
COUNTY C. E. MEETING liyi/\/>nri UK k HT
AT JACKSON SPRINGS MOORE MAN
PROSPECT OF BIG
PPArH fROP fiOOni Chrisitan Endeavors have an
1 ijimvH vllvl \IvA/jLr interesting program for a rally of
(young people on March eleventh at
- 1 Jackson Springs as follows:
Weather Never More Satisfac-; 2:30 Registration of Delegates,
tory ill History of Indus- Song Sendee, leader, Herbert
try in Sandhills |3..ib OpS'Prayer and Welcome,
Rev. W. G. Matheson.
POULTRY CAR TO STOP A
11 A Q U IT'l If'O i In co-operation with the State
llil.l5 ttlllljlViJ Division of Markets,
i poultry car will stop at Vass, Tues
day of next week. The loading hours
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
NSANDHILLS
Displays Valuable Mj|nuscripts will be from 8 a. m. until 2 p m. If Tells the Kiwanis Folks That
and Relics In Birmingham
Public Library
W. N. Hutt, who has been watching,3:30 “A Message from the District” _
the peach crop for many years, says j Resident Warlick. Solo, Mrs. * scriber to The Pilot in this letter.
you are interested in getting off any
of your surplus poultry it will pay
j you to try to get there during these
^ ! hours. Prices on poultry for the week
I am pleased to enroll a new sub- are as follows:
The World Is Ours If We Go
After It and Get It
he can not recall a winter that was
Reid Pleasant.
George C. Browder, of Dadeville, Ala.
as favorable for a good crop of peach 3:45 Intermediate Work, Mi-s. C. L.:Mr. BroWder is a native of Mwre
blossoms as is indicated now. The
weather has been cold enough all
through the season to keep the trees
thoroughly dormant, and at the pres
ent the buds have shown no sign of
At the Kiwanis Club dinner Wed
Colored hens 20c lb i 9“^ buiWing in
i-fin I (County. He was born and reared!
4.U0 Junior Program, Jackson near Cameron, and the place longi
i iK M j known as the Browder plantation, and I
4.45 Monthly Service Program, Miss now called Yadkin Hill. |
opening. The ground has never warm-15:00 Address, Rev. a!“ Tu'ik. I is a" CamXu™ d trS^’^the i
ed up at any time, although the | . Offering for County Work, j CampbelTSly from^he Sv davt'
weather has not been severe, but the 5=30 Basket Lunch. !j„ Scotland b»4 as far as Hip tW
nights have been cold enough to hold! Program Uf Robert Bruce, and were pUying
everythmg back. | . 5 C. E. by ^ important part in the affairs of the'
It is believed that we have had j ^ ® Con- country in that day.
more than the normal share of frosty gregational Church.
nights, and although the days have
been warm and sunshiny the cold
7:30 Song Service followed by Re
ports.
nights have discouraged the trees j ' t*
from advancing. That leaves the | ^ Nilta Wimber-
blossom buds back as compared with j
pivvious years at this date, and as it
takes three or four weeks for the I(MAI I
blossoms to come out after they have IlillvljLiff vA/li u£i£i|j
made up their minds to start, it is |
now thought that April will be along
before the peach bloom show will be
on.
FIERCE ACTIVITY
Before her marriage, Mr. Browser’s
mother was Miss Flora Ann Camp
bell, of this community; a woman
noted for her culture, refinement and
intellectual attainments. A popular
school teacher in her day.
The Birmingham News gives the
following bit of interesting history of
Mr. Browder’s family, the Campbells,
whose ancestral home was a few miles
north of Cameron.
“G. C. Browder, of Dadeville, Ala.,
who spends part of his time in Birm-
Leghom hens 17c lb
Colored broilers 38c lb
Leghorn broilers 30c lb
Leghorn chicks 20c lb
Stags 15c lb
Roosters 10c Ih
Capons, 7 lbs and up 28c lb
Capons under 7 lbs 23c lb
Ducks and Greese 13c lb
Young turkeys ’ 25c
Old toms 20c lb
Guineas 30c each
Place: Vass, N. C.
"Rme: March 13th.
Hours: 8 a. m.-2 p. m.
E. H. Garrison, Jr.,
Southern Pines, A. I. Creamer, of the
Highland Pines Inn, told the members
that the Sandhills country has the
world by the heels if we go after it.
Mr. Creamer said that once food,
clothes and shelter were the chief
wants of men, and that the hotels
were called on to supply those needs.
Now visitors to hotels want something
more, and in the Sandhills food, music
and a perfect bed are among the re
quirements, while on the side are
many other things that the visitors
expect, and which the hotel men are
providing for them. In this respect
the Sandhill hotel men are doing good
work, but Mr. Creamer thinks we need
County Agent, to join as a community and everybody
.help the hotels to satisfy the strang-
fllTllTiri within the gates and make them
r K riPi I n came here that they will
* KJ come in greater numbers, earlier in
mr^A\TTUCnn season and stay longer.
I jlll 1 I I referred to the remarkable skill
of Donald Ross, who he says has a
technic in golf construction that is
What may happen from now on
is of course conjecture, but with the' , ~ ^ lingham trading in real estate, h^ a Pri7e<$ Offered hv Cotton Orow- not equalled by that of any other man
buds where they are and the spring Big Men in Financial World Se-1 collection of manuscripts and relics Ulierea oy t^oiion urow „ __
now advancing it is expected that the | cure Building Sites Near I that date back to the early part of
Pine Needles I eighteenth century when his fore-
, fathers migrated from Scotland to
America. Recently he brought a few
crop of finiit is likely to be one of
the biggest every harvested here.
This does not mean that new trees ‘
will contribute to the supply, for
wm vv/ . K^^^Jlwood IS makiug some records specimens to Birmingham and exhib-
orchard men say that the new trees' if ^ / these days, Jted them at the public library,
that will come in bearing for the first Jj® prospect that spring will j Among the relics handed (down
ers Ass’n. and American
Cotton Growers Exchange
in that line in this country. He re
ferred to the monuments Ross is rais
ing to himself over the United States
wherever golf is played, and he pre-
Two free trips to Raleigh, a free diets that golf and the other attrac-
trip to Memphis, Tenn., a beautiful tions here are destined to steadily in
medal and a total of $325.00 in cash crease the business of the Sandhills,
are some of the awards which are Mr. Creamer approved of the work
time this spring will he offset, by theif®®, f. Portion of the available through several generations to Mr. ;to be contested for by farm girls and the real estate men are doing, and
number of trees that are dropping ^ ^ome-made pocketbook, boys of North Carolina during the pointed out some ways they can do
out. The last three or four years has development of that or bill book, made of tanned sheep-
not seen many new trees set, so the ^2^ 5k-n oppor- skm and thought to this country from
incrcasG frorn that sourc© is not tnc Sandhills. Scotla^nd Jbcforc ^hc Revolutionary
next eight weeks. These awards have more, and also he mentioned the tasks
been offered jointly by the North that are cut out for the farmer, the
^ u n ij ^ 1- „ * 1 . ' Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative merchant, the doctor, the lawyer, the
thought great. Information from Dunng the past week Miss Glenna I War by Donald Campbell, father-m- Association and the American Cotton newspaper, the preacher and all the
Georgia is to the effect that the crop Collett has closed the sale of Nos. 416, |aw of M:r Jrowder s grandfather. It Growers Exchange t the girls and rest. He insists that the Sandhill
there will probably be around 12,000j417 and 418 to H. C. Sylvester, Jr., in good conditton. / It shows but;boys of school age who write the section is the best in the world, and
cars, as a great many trees have been president of the NaUonal Ci^ A I the reception the club gave him shows
falling out there and not many new ^ New \ork, and (fester H. ®Marketing As It Affects The, that he started a line of thought that
trees have been set. In Georgia and i Braselton, president of the Monogram! was brought over about the same Cotton Farmer.” iwill be beneficiai The club was
Bi7yaildhMls~'bot)r a” con=iderabi&lLens of ^ -
nroDortion of the trees have been 'Vorld’s Asbestos corporation of Pat-| Old Drinking Cup.
treated with indifference for various erson, N. J., the Indu^strial Research He also has a drinking cup made
causes and this will have its influence I Company, of Toledo, the Arcturus Ra- of a section of horn, the kind in com-
on the number of trees that will
bring a quality crop.
The roduction of the freight rates
dio Company, the Sirian Lamp Com- mon use In Scotland before the man-
The c'ontesl fn Hort Caroimit is a 'irnpi-esaed tiJat the 'program commit-
I<art of the south-wide essay contest tee was instructed to arrange for a
begun by the American Cotton Grow
ers Exchange which is the parent or-
iganization of the cotton cooperatives
date on which Mr. Creamer could hold
a round table discussion with the
members and thresh out all the ideas
pany and the Sirian Wire and Con- ufacture of glassware began. The^n fourteen states. The Exchange! in the respect that can be brought up,
tact Company, all of Newark, and bottom of the cup dropped out and has will give an educational trip to Mem- and that meeting will have a large
secretary of the Knight American be^n lost. ^ 1 phis, Tenn., to the writer of the prize | number of invited guests to take part.
id which Mr. Maxwell talked to patents Company which owns a bunch! Other relics are a library table ^essav in each of the fourteen States w
Kiwams dub last week, will give the ^ uLd bv the Knight group made in Scotland before the Revolu-' fSing North Carolina ^ The tree planting committee report-
shippers a fair inside on prices as - tVio tionarv War* a conch shell the kind * ^ T iNortn oaroiina. | ed that much of the rr
compared with last year, or accord-1 york is one of the | used to sound the alarm in Scotland and”thf beautiful medai‘’to\“lwS£^
?n?e wilfbe ab^utT4ra clr® Whlu institutions of its ki^ on the when trouble arose; set of fire dogs champion in each state, the
this irliot as i a barn'door iti^'®*’®’ i American Cotton Growers Exchange
will heln materiflirin a dk»se mar- ‘"‘y- hXfe ,hnrt1v a'^o ^^e first, second and third
ket and whtt is of the matest im- ^hese men are men of the Rev- ^ jg,, qq ^25.00 to
T* ?! 1“ pie means^ . and they are enthusiastic, ol«tionary War south-wide contest.
compared with last year, or accord-1 to sound the alarm in Scotland a„d\hrberuti?urmyai‘’to"brrward° i
ing to g'ood information, th© differ- i • i t-fcs fVioJwhen trouble arose* set of fire snu tne Deauiiiui rnGQai to d6 awaro
ence will be about $45 a’car. While
this is not as big as a barn door, itlg“fV?S‘*asse"s o^^cf^si to a bXn were brought
of patents used by the Knigiit group *,v,,w.«_mt.iuaing xNortn oaroium. road between Ab-
Pines has been
planted and that interest in this work
is growing.
The Master Farmer contest for
1928 will be bigger by a wide margin
than that of 1927. Eighteen farmers
are entered this year instead of nine
as of last year. The farms and far-
XKJM. ow.i.c wtuci u.i ic taken as a whole are better qual-
the marvelous growth of the whole | to Donald Bm^ from North Carolina, the N. C. |
neighborhood and is in hopes of hav-1 ^ ifCotton Growers Cooperative Assocva-1 to the effects of 1st
ing a home shortly on the Knollwood t nt s go ernor f North offers tw sets of prizes of $50.00, contest.
• 4- u- 1- 1- 1. -X -J locatin. It is pposite Judge Way's '^aroiina. $25.00 and $12.50 each. One set of i The following men have been signed
Its Ideas MiSands Roal in the' Browde^ ^^^es will be awarded to the three up for the 1928 contest:
p 1 g on 1 ions an triangle back of the little park. tfonary Wa?VereTA‘tL members of North j Mineral Springs Township: A. C.
The sale of those three locations ^ crown but took no part in the Revo-! Garter and Ollie Curry.
was scarcely completed until Richard lutionary War. Their male descend- (Please turn to page 2) ' Sandhills Township: D. P. Trout-
Tufts, of Pinehurst, and also a direc- g,^ts served in the Confederate Army j j man and J. Lane Kirk.
tor in Knollwood, concluded that he during the War Between the States, vvtvv w n/\/i¥lFin Bensalem Township: Oscar Monroe
would hke the His uncle,_ Alexander Campbell and|Wjl I l<f U.M k V 1 and Fuller Monroe.
SrSower a^le^en^thus'iafm® and o^r'^rhe'Pi;rN;;dles“secti;nrM I Among the manuscript is a patent; 7i"''"i^;VTrom“eTch TtsTt^'^^n
p cfi growd a ncAv^ ©ntnusiasniy ano uutIia Vmci Tifi't' nt I to a Xi/O^scre tract of land in ^ ^noVt
that is worth something. The gen- time County, North Carolina, I° ‘h «elect^^^^
eral sentiment regarding peaches in for some time, is pieaseq In order to select th© representa-
the Sandhills is better than in a long
while, and incidentally a lot of credit
must be given the Peach Growers’ As-
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ELISE SCHOOL
house on top of the hill just above Capt. W. H. H. Lawhan, he says, were
IkM k 171^0 A FIFIl^ AY 1 these sales and he bought No. 206-B. the only survivors of the original en-
llAKriN ^ more active hand Hstments in Company D, Forty-Eighth
iiMX EEEUftJ 1X1 A MM. MMJ • creation of what has been done North Carolina troops, at the surrend-
er at Appomattox in 1865.
Belief in Jesus.
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COMING HERE
Boys Quarters Destroyed by
Fire. Loss Was Great. Are
In Dire Need of Funds.
Hemp, March 6, 1928.
To the Friends of Elise High School.
Greetings:
pur Boys* Dormitory and Domestic
Science Cottage were burned last
liight between the hours of 12 and 2
P- m. The furniture in the dormitory
was lost-~the equipment of the
science building was saved. All the
hoys escaped without injury, but most
of them lost their personal property,
such as clothes, bed clothes, books,
6tc. Owing to the type of building,
method of heating and lack of ade
quate water supply, insurance rates
high on the property and so only
a small insurance was carried.
Prof. West and his faculty have se-
^i*€d temporary quarters for the
wys and school opened on schedule
time this morning. There will be no
weak in the school work.
Our distress moves us to appeal to
you—our friends—for help. We need
emergency fund to assist
of boys in providing clothes, books,
no J clothes could be
used to good advantage.
need, however, is
Wij® replace t^ building. The new
uiiamg should be modem in strnc-
y® brick, which would cost
Hiclijiing furniture—around $25,-
How much of this amount will
you, or your society, or your church
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Mr. Browder has a letter written j Humorist Who Tickles the Ribs
— — from Culpepper Courthouse, Va., Oct. i of Two Continents Here
MOORE COUNTY CHRISTIAN 23. 1863, by D. W. Campbell, to Geo.] ^or One Niffht
ENDEAVOR RALLY, ioampbell, telling of the serious ror une
wounfling in battle of the latter’sl . ~
The Moore County Christian En- son, George, who died shortly there-1 Will Roge^, who will appear here
deavor Union will hold its second an-
after. One of the sentences in the on Friday, March 23rd, at the Caro-
letter reads:
‘I would just mention for your con-
nual rally in the First Presbytenan
church at Jackson Springs next Sun
day afternoon, March 11. The pro-
firram starts at 2:30 p. m. At 6 o clock
picnic supper. At 6:45 Christian En-j Mr. Browder’s father, Goodwyn E.
deavor meeting conducted by the en-1 Browder, was a member of the Pet-
deavorers of the Congregational ersburg Light Infai^ry which was on
church of Southern Pines. At 7:30 duty at Harper’s Ferry when John
song service, led by Mr. Herbert W^-
lina Theatre, Pinehurst, for one night
only, has been the subject of heated
solation that he says he has strong i controversy which has raged for May^ once in August and again in
hope in Jesus.* years and it all revolves about those j October.
- “ ~ - . - ., ^ would tell their stones of I
Ritter’s Township: L. R. Reynolds
and 0. T. Maness.
Carthage Township: Cleve Cagle
and M. F. Connell.
Sheffield Township: D. A. Dunlap
ahd Spencer L. Brown.
Deep River Township: W. A. Tyson
and Will Cole.
Greenwood Township: A. L. Keith
and N. A. Graham.
McNeill Township: J. M. Davis and
Walter McCaskill.
The judges will visit the farms once
lick, of Monroe. At 8 o'clock the
convention sermon will be delivered
Brown was hanged.
A permit for a slave to pass
through the lines of his owner's
exhibited by
by Rev. Worth of the Presbyterian guarded
church, of Carthage. .An orchestra Mr Browdw.
S* il.- .V. .«
Springs, pastor of th6 convention Campbell,
church; Rev. Edward A. Tucks, pas
tor of the First Bapti^ church of
Southern Pines. Among ^e endeay-
orers rendering vocal and i^trument-
al musical selections are
Adams, Miss Marian Harloe, l^als La
Nilta Wimberley, Mrs. Geo. Arnold,
Mr. (ieorge Richardson aiHd Mr. My
ron Adams. ^ ^ .. x
Rev. Murdoch McLeod, president of
the Moore County C. E.
ises enjoyment, encouragement
inspiration to eveiyon«
to attend this meeting in ^hni^An
fellowship of the young of
denominatioKs off Moo#® Ana
ing counties. Come and welcome.
knew him when.”.
The most formidable claimant for
the distinction of having recognized
Roger’s latent talents is Col. Zack
Mulhall who saw Rogers first some
twenty years ago when he was brush
ing up for his first trip to New
York.
According to Mulhall, Rogers, then
a cow puncher, had attracted consid
erable attention locally in Oklahoma.
He had nut on amateur performances
occasionally and was considerable of
— ! a hit.
FORMER MOORE COUNTY I Mulhall who had outgrown his cow-
MAN DIES IN FLORIDA boy days and had ambitions to out
rival his old side partner. Pawnee
Bill as a showman, decided to organ
ize a rodeo and stage its first per
formance in the effete East* at Madi
son Square Garden in New York.
Will was engaged as one of the per
formers at m salary a month which
does not approximate what he now
makes in fifteen minutes. Th© Mul
hall rodeo at Madiion Square Gar
den was a great success and so was
Donald E. Mclver, of Ocala, Flor
ida, died in a hospital at Jackson
ville on March 21. He was bom at
Sanford on February 28, 1860 and
went to ^orida about 45 years ago.
He had been quite prowpmctmM In his
business affairs and accumulated la
ter a good estate.
His last wife was Miss Tina Mc
Intosh who was also of Moore County
He wm burte4 in IlM umalm at
Ocala.
TO MEET IN PINEHURST.
The March meeting of the Moore
County Health and Welfare Associa
tion and the Moore County Chapter
of the American Red Cross will be
held on Tuesday afternoon, March 18,
at 2:30 at the Pinehurst Community
Club House.
M. H. HASKELL,
Corresponding Secy.
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Ten different farmers of Pitt
CJounty are feeding hog* according to
the Snay method and it is estimated
that about eight cars of well-fed hogs
will he shippi^ from the county this
spring.
Tom Tarheel says the $200 that
he got the other day when w coonty
agent shipped m car of poultry comes
in riglit handy at this Mme.
Four ears of Emestone were oi4ev-
ed recentij^ by-a group of farmers in
Granville Coimty.