May 25, 1928
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iron committee
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Mexican 3'gr
premium of
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Barber paid
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weevil damage.
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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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FRffiAY, JUNE 1, 1928.
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Cornwallis And
The Yadkin Road
Old Wheel Felloe Found at Mc-
Deed’s Creek Bridge
Excavation.
The contractors who are building
the new State road bridge at the Mc-
SCENE OF
delightful farewell party
C Ss evening, May 29,- Dante
gave a farewell party
and dance in honor of Miss Marion E.
Harkms, of the faculty of the South-
ero Pines High School. The bungalow
at the Venice Gardens was decorated
for the affair, and with the aid of a
small camp fire in front of the bunga-
Deed’s creek crossing of the road from guests had a nice time and
southern Pines to Pinehurst have dug the evening with pleasure,
ip some ancient things from deep Dancing was followed with refresh-
down in the mud at the creek bottom. | *«ents, until at mid night all said fare-
\n\ong the other things are frag-i^^I and departed for their homes,
ments of what was many years ago' ^he. guests were as follows: Misses
a substantially built vehicle, some of! Marion E. Harkins, guest of honor;
the felloes, spokes, etc., being in ex- i Hilhard, Ruth Davenport,
cellent state of preservation. Beams! ^mie L. Kimball, Ruth Field, Alice
I hut have been hewed before putting Stutz^, Mildred Marrow, Elise Chand-
down indicate careful and precise
work of construction in a bridge far
in the past, for the material taken up
is covered by the wash and the furth
er fill of road making on top of it.
For a long time men have been using
the old road and crossing at the place
where the new bridge some ten feet
hig’her will cross again in the near
future.
One almost complete felloe, which;
Rassie Wicker took with h*m to Pine- j
hurst shows that it was made of a{
good type of oak, accurately worked
into shape, and of a heavy character, Some of the Boys Have Had
I®/’ Montgomery, Mrs. R. S
Montgomery, Jr., and Miss Wally
Flacl^lander;; R. S. Montgomery,
Jr., Dante Montesanti, Clarence Ed-
son, William Fisher, Harold Dillehay,
btuart Cameron, Maitland Grover,
Geo. Richardson and Constantino
Montesanti.
Thrillers at The
Kiwanis Club
Lively Experience It
Seems,
John Clyde Fer^son
THREE NEW HOUSES 01
WEYMOUTH
New Achievement
In Home Making
Activity has been prevalent on
mouth Heights in Southern Pines dur-^ 4W«
ing the week. Louis Lachine sold to I .Siding to Fit the Surroundings
Mrs. Buchanan, of Norristown, Pa., and the Community
one of his new brick houses near the
Highland Pines Inn. Sam Richardson
immediately sold him another lot
close by and he will at once proceed
to build another house. Mr. Lachine
Development
BION H. BUTLER
Since the movement for new houses
about once a vear can be eonntiid on' Knollwood Heights began I have
aooui once a year can oe couniea on irifprPstiiH in watf»hini? th<» Hp-
Ahvayrhis‘‘reat?onfl,^l!;'dem^^^^^^^ throughout the Sandhills,
and I has done a lot to make Wey-1
Pl«“|JLrttog toTconsid^ dista^^^^
_ ; The new house Olmstead built at
Mason and Gardner, of Pinehurst, Knollwood started my observation
who are having a finger in all quar-. there, and when the five additional
ters, have sold the Pushee lot on; buildings were projected the novelty
Weymouth Heights to B. F. Kraffert ‘ of planning a community of homes
and George M. Henne, both of Titus- was sufficient to awaken my curios-
ville. Pa. The lot is large—200 feet! ity of planning a community of
by 440 on the ridge, and looking out I homes was sufficient to awaken my
toward Fort Bragg, and the buyers | curiosity and I had to nose into the
are making a survey of two fine new plans. One of the novelties in new
houses. They are close by the new
house that Lachine will build.
Rapid Work Moving
At Aberdeen Ice Plant
although indicating a wheel of prob
ably three feet in diameter. The old
story of Cornwallis and his cannons
That are said to have been sunk there;
at the swamp when he was on his re-i ^t the Kiwanis dinner W^ednesday
treat from his battle with Greene at ^t the Civic Club at Southern Pines,
Guilford Court House is revived John Bloxham called on some more
again, and many a spectator who has boys to tell thrilling stories,
heard the st^y and been down at the McKeithen started out to say
creek since the fragments were takez? something about Florida a year ago
the pieces as some- Uyi- ^hen he looked around the table
thing that Cornwallis left there, hadn’t the heart to bring up a sad
Whatever it may be it is interesting, subject. So he passed that up and
although conjecture at- mentioned what the doctor said to him
ta^es to the tind. ^ on a certain occasion when he asked
The old story runs that Cornwall’s him whether it was a boy or a girl.
came throu^ by the Yadkin road on doctor held up two fingers and .... . . i mere uruviumK tne lacmues inai i
h.s way to Fayetteville and Wilming-1 as proud of those two twins | extension circular Number! Another
ton, and Carthage has a mulberry gg anything else. Charlie 1 22 which may be secured free of i Dowdy & Butler, the Sanford well
John Clyde Ferguson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Ferguson, of Cameron,
a graduate of Cameron High School,
w 11 take his degree of Bachelor of
Science in Industrial Management at! , I ^ ,
N.H1. c.„„™ c.„.„ sVsss/S;
He is a member of the Sandhills j idly. The five tracks are pretty well
club, studied military work for four | graded, and the iron is down on near
years, was a member of the rifle I , Nearly five miles
of side track has been laid, and it is
in pretty fair shape for use. The
loading docks will soon begin to take
shape. On the side of the railroad
where the ice plant is to stand foun
dations are in for most of the big
structure, and the entire vicinity is
a busy hive. Telegraph wires are go-
— I ing up, telephone lines, electric light
Late information about how to con- and power connections, and the scene
trol the Mexican Bean Beetle is eon-'^?®''® I'ke an aray of electricians
I there providing the facilities that will
team, Michelson physics society, and
Pullen Literary society. He belongs
also to the business club. Scabbard
and Blade military fraternity, and
was in the national rifle matches in
1927.
tree stump that remains where a pj^quet followed, with a statement 1 charce from the State Colleee of Ac-
large tree was blown down a few| ©arthauake out in the Ca. . , college oi Ag-
years ago. It is told that Corawallis j Northwest which shook him | ^’^^^^ure.
the Street in a bath tub where!
retreat. ^ ere is au ^ sitting, dropped him in another'
doubt as to whether he ever came into
the territory that is at present Moore I ® f imf
countv. In Greene’s work on the # n in time for the
camnaie-ns of General Greene in North ' ^ ^he hard-
CaroUnl in the Revolution days,! ^*f^»ted that wh^^
printed by D. Appleton and Company I Settle next w^k he should
in 1893 a niap is shown of the move- there and inquire whether Char-
ments of Greene, Morgan, Cornwallis, ® yarn will hold water, but that
Lee and Rawdon over the Carolinas suggestion was not pressed. Dr. Mc-
and Virginia, and these maps are con-1 was asked for the moment of
firmed by narrative in Ashe’s history 1 ^is greatest emWassment, and he
of North Carolina, wherein the march that ^^en he came to America
of Cornwallis South from Gu4ford to'J;® a^^ved without any clothes on.
Fayetteville is outlined in detail from Shields Cameron went to bed one
point to point. It is indicated by both: n»&ht over in France m his tent at the
these authorities that Cornwallis fell ^ront. The rocks were too hard to
back from Gu=lford by way of Pitts-i make a comfortable bed on so he
boro and Lockville. He moved from! crawled out of the tent and moved
Guilford March 18, his remnant of an I away a few feet on the ground and
army in bad shape, and he made slow i slept until later in the night when a
progress. Ashe cites references in- i shell come along and cut off the top
eluding l.ee’s Memoirs, London’s His- of a tree, which fell on the tent and
tory of Chatham, State Records, Me-, smashed it flat. Because he didn’t
Ree’s history, and others, and they ap-1 like to sleep on a pile of rocks is whv
pear to agree that while Cornwallis Shield the next morning was not tell-
moved Southward on March 18, Greene, ing old Mr. Moses, Capt. Noah, Isaac
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THE TREES OF
BY J. McN. JOHNSON.
* MOORE COUNTY
Chapter IX.
“A tree is one of Nature’s words,
A word of peace to man,
A word that tells of central strength,
From whence all th’ngs began;
A word to preach tranquility,
To all our restless clan.”
—N. C. Arbor Day Manual.
houses is the plan Talbot Johnson
is about to start on the Swoope drive.
The feature about this that was most
striking is a place inside the walls
for some trees, which will give a
novel air to the building. But they
are placed with due regiard for all
the surroundings of the rooms that
look into the one with the trees, and
with the general design and detail
of the building they obtain a happy
effect. And that starts a train of
speculation as to the whole neigh
borhood over there. Every one of
the new buildings is studied with ref
erence to the location. The lots are
not selected simply as a sufficient
room to place a building. They are
considered with regard to position,
road contracts on all sides, outlook,
view over the whole area and over
the adjoining sites, trees and other
natural members of the vicinity, the
relation of the individual house to
the other houses of the section, the
direction of the compass needle, the
Inn close by, and all the things that
enter into the broader subject of
making a neighborhood rather than
providing a roof and some walls for
shelter.
Talbot’s architect has realized all
i the points, and the house will be a
I striking creation. Donald Ross is
fitting it with the group by placing
I across the drice from the Johnson
house another highly fitting plan that
1 will be in harmony with all around
it, and Yeomans is creating for 01m-
I stead the building that will carry out
j the design in mind when the first
j house was built. Richard Tufts has
I plans for the lot across from the
, Ross new house, but it is possible
some changes will be made before the
contract is let. As the drawings
stand the house is a novel adaptation
of the American farm house style,
thoroughly suited to the rural atmos
phere of the Knollwood slopes and
pine covered knobs. Dominant in this
as in all the others is the idea of mak
ing the most pleasant general effect
for the whole community, and the
architect has caught the possibility
of putting his name on something
that he will look back to with per-
BIRCH: ..Betula Nigra; Red Birch; i matchless canoes, which is claimed to j pride m days to come,
was not in shape to pursue until iand Jacob about how to get out of the j River Birth: The Pocket Manual of I be the h'ghest art the Indians ever' *
March 20, when he moved more rap-; army in France. Mose McDonald ex- North Carolina Forest Trees gives us mastered. f f u
^•dly, and by hesitating to cross to the j plained how in boyhood he never got | three Birch trees; but I have seen! The “Birchen Bark” canoe is sung, standard of the
south side of the Deep river at a i to be an orator and that he had been j only one in Moore County. Instead of | by Longfellow in his Hiawatha, and i otners, and anybody who knows the
point
: near the Carolina Coal Com- keeping up the same line of operation I clarifying our ideas, it seems to me j by Thomas More in his “Lake of the i im^ine that he is sure to
's minps. Grppno Inaf fiip r*hftnpp! avor- ein/*© is n anH! hnffln,‘sfs^ Latin names for the dif- Dismal Swamn”: but the sweetest out-' Create sometfiing there that will be
pany s mines, Greene lost the chance! ever since. Mose is a candidate, and
to jret in front of Cornwallis who was candidates don’t talk these days. Rog-
able to make a bridge at Ramsey’s j er Derby ran over a little e^erience
mills, where Lockville now is, and get | when he went treasure hunting down
over before Greene arrived. But Corn-j in the South sea. He thought a small
wallis was unable to destroy the | vessel was big enough to fetch back
bridge, and Greene was close on h'S treasure but instead of a treasure he
neels. At Ramsey’s Mills the records I ran into a four day hurricane. When
botan'sts' Latin names for the dif-1 Dismal Swamp”; but the sweetest out . -4-v. 4.1, ~
ferent Birch trees tend rather to con- burst of poetic effusion I remember to I” ^. the new proposition that
fuse us. They tell us this Red Birch
have seen on the Birch tree is found i |s governing the Knollwood awaken-
is Betula Nigra, while another tree (in Burns’ “Birks of Aberfeldy.” I J"®” the announcement
called the Black Birch is Betula [must quote a stanza of that .’mmacu- that George T. Vail and Herbert
Lenta; but, as stated, we have only, late ditty: are having plans made for a
the Red Birch in our good county— house on lot 415 at the sou^ side
unless perhaps a few Yellow Birch, I “The little birdies blythly sing, 1 the circle on Crest road. This is
be occupied by the builders it goes
say Greene decided' to Turn'we’st and i ^he hu7rica"ne”"gortiirough w^^ Betula Lutea,‘should be found in the! While o’er their heads the hazels‘a commanding location and as it will
cross to the Yadkin river, which he i vessel had no sails, no rudder, h/lly section of the western part of I hing.
did by ^
bim close by Carthage and West End,
^rid landed him near the mouth of
Rocky River in Stanly county. He
^ared to follow Cornwallis south to
rayeteville as the subsistence in the
^and barrens was so difficult that he
tioubted if both armies could find any-
thinjf to eat. Ashe thinks that if
'Ji'tene had been able to catch Com-
wauis at Ramsey’s Mills that would
jjave been a decisive battle of the war,
and Cornwallis’s army destroyed.
> rom this H would seem doubtful if
'-ornwallis ever came into Moore
a route that apparently took | plenty of holes, and after drifting as! Moore County ^
.. X Tn J helpless wreck he was finally taken! Janet Harvey Kdman describes the
off by a isteamer who came to help. Birch tree as: “T^e damtiest and
The raw part of this deal is that >"o|t fairey like of our forest ,
some other fellow had heard about his j and she says:
“Who would believe that the delicate
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! which look like fairy fretwork against
rArif? I the gray, wintery sky, could thnve
GOUGER-CAGLE. I where the sturdy oak tree dies?
I This is high praise, and if I had
Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at j g^ven the name of of its author,
the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. 1 good judges of literary form would
C. E. Swearingen, in Pinehurst, Miss ^ave known it to be a feminine pro-
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I^EATH OF MRS. BASS
NEAR SOUTHERN PINES.
Or lightly flit on wanton wing
In the Birks of Aberfeldy.”
without saying that home-making will
he the feature there. The Wood
house, across Fairway 18 from Rich-
I am quite proud to boast that I ard Tuft’s house, is now far enough
have had the good fortune to look | along to show that it is a pleasing
upon the riotous B’rch Trees the poet construction, and when it is sur-
had in mind when he penned these; rounded by its shrubbery and lawn
lines, at the Falls of Moness, near jit will be in keeping with the rest
Aberfeldy in Scotland, and I can of the work in that section,
vouch that their beauty and grandeur!
are enough to force even a dull soul
to shout poetry to the “babling air”,
to say nothing of the soul of Bums,
which was a song itself.
But the Birch Trees Burns sung of
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N. C. COTTON GROWERS
MET IN ROCKINGHAM.
Frank Bass died at her home
Southern Pines on Wednesday
atter a lingering illness. She was the
of Kenneth McCrimmon, one
the older inhabitants of Hoke
ifV^ty before Fort Bragg was estab-
snen. 'When the government took the
Tin land for military pur-
P ses the family moved across the
Moore county and settled in
^outhem Pines. She married Frank
bought a farm on
tit, where they hav® lived
J funeral was appointed for
pjj with burial at Bethesda
Nancy Lula Cagle and Robert Em
met Gouger were united in marriage
in the presence of the members of the
family and a few friends.
The house was tastefully decorated
with summer flowers, pink roses dom
inating. In the living room where the
vows were spoken, an improvised al
tar was erected of palms anjd ferns
and the room was lighted by cathedral
candles. Miss Cagle and Mr. Gouger
entered together as the bridal chorus
from Lohengrin was played by Miss
Bonnie Wallace, of Cartha^ Dur
ing the ceremony, perfoiroed by Rev.
William McLeod, the Melody of Love
was played softly. The bnde wore
a becoming costume of tan-beige wth
harmonixing accessories.
Following a wedding tnp ^ugh the
Shenandoah Valley to
and other points North, Mr-^d
Gouger will be at home in Pmenurst.
ductfon. But here is what another
lady. Miss Julia E. Rogers, has to say
about the Birch tree:
“Grace and gentility of appearance
are attributes of this most interest
ing, attractive and valuable family of
in Tam 0’ Shanter are now all gone, j ^
and the road all along the way from i ^ district convention of the N. C
Ayre to Alloway is now I'ned with an 1 Cotton (growers’ Association was held
avenue of the finest Beech Trees 11 at Rockingham on the 22nd for the
have ever seen. ' purpose of nominating a director to
i«o. oTrrm-L.v« , Our Red Birch thrives best in low, j represent this county and seven other
Rut neither of these good! moist lands, and grows more abund-1 counties representing this district. It
friends of the Birch tree .’S a North antly along the banks of creeks andjwjll of interest to tjie jnembership
Carolinian: More’s the pity; for our
own botanists have not been so gen-
^^^t, proud as I am that the Birch
tree is native in our county, I caniwt
suppress a sigh of regjret that the
species of the Birch tree that has
called forth such an outburst of
poetry from the human soul—the
Canoe Birch, .is not our tree, but is
tht Betula Papyrifera of the more
Northern climates. Tlmt is
tree that furnishes the “Vegetable
Rawhide” that the American Ind^
used in the manufacture of their
nvers. It has a shaggy bark, that
I^els off, not in perpendicular strips
like other trees, but in transverse
belts around the tree; and so far as I
know there is no other tree that sheds
its bark in th’s manner.
Like the Beech Tree, the Birch has
two kinds of blossoms. These flowers
are in the form of Catkins, and the
two kinds grow on the same tree. The
fruit is inconsiderable, in concif about
an inch long, and th.*ckly covered with
little heart-shaped winged nuts t^at
ripen in this latitude in early June,
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of this county that A. McEeachem, of
Laurinburg, who has been the choice
of this district for six years, was
again nominated without oposition.
Mr. McEachem is a conservative far
mer and business man, having farm
interests in Cumberland, Hoke and
Scotland’Counties. He has never been
too busy, however, to attend all meet
ings of the board, and holds the dis
tinction of being the only member of
the original board of directors now
serving.
A. D. ENNI!TT,
Dist. Supervisor.
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