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une 8, 1928. ng of a king, -these ar# ng3 that em. st and most e screen. T : oman Novar- y Cummings e King of lly, Alberta , will be suf- onderful pia« s.” rmmmnmtj ES AY mit Oc- States. nd San h direc- ay each outhern 31.60. ight of outhern Beach on any OLIIN AL.m tsmmmrnnm les 9th. ee tes 12th. 5 muttsssssssssssst VOLUME 8 THE PIl NUMBER 28 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Te'^$’<><^v of North Carolina Address all commimicatioDS to THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N C. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1928. <? ♦ SUBSCRIPTION S2.00 Pinehurst Takes Statewide Range Famous Winter Resort Extends Its Influence to Mountains and Seashore. BION H. BUTLER. After considerable deliberation Pinehurst, Incorporated, announces what is one of the most important transactions that have involved this section in a long time. This involves the management and operation of th« new Morehead Villa, at Morehead City, on the Bogue Sound, with one of the finest beaches along the At- iantic Coast, and with surroundings that make Morehead one of the sea side resorts of the South as it has been for generations. The hotel is a new one, on a location chosen for its fitness and was built with modern con ceptions of what is required in a sum mer resort of a high character. Pinehurst has for years been grow ing familiar with how to interest guests who are in search of rest and recreation. At Pinehurst has grown up the most widely known and popu lar institution of its kind. Pinehurst has been accepted as the heart and culmination of golf in its broadest interpretation, and the management and operation of Pinehurst has es tablished new ideals along the lines of recreational and vacatlonal enter tainment. But Pinehurst has an off day in mid-summer, and that leaves its organization for a portion of the year with an idle period. This was remedied two or three years ago when Mr. Tufts arranged with some associates to build and operate the plant at Roaring Gap, which is one of the most ideal mountain resorts in the United States. There on the summit of the mountain range, and almost on the verge of the uplift that separates mountain from foothill is built a hotel that has already become famous with its growing village of surrounding cottagers, its golf course, and various other entertaining fea tures, and Pinehurst now has a moun tain summer occupation on its hands along with its winter season in the Sandhills. So to the mountains in summer go a portion of the Pinehurst organization, the Pinehurst skilled management, skilled operators, skill ed hotel folks, Pinehurst cattle to feed on the magnificent pastures and provide milk and butter for the ta bles, Pinehurst golf specialists to f Please turr. to page 8) Improvements At Lakeview Resort Barber Project Big Development Handsome Club House About Completed and New Lake Underway. One of the finest things in the re cent architectural construction in the Sandhills is the new club house at the Barber golf course on the upper Mill Creek valley, where James Barber be fore his death had commenced the creation of a private club for the use of himself and his friends, and which Edward Barber is continuing, even more elaborately than his father had proposed at the beginning. The club house is built wholly of native stone, and Joe Fuller, the ingenious army engineer who has had charge of Mr. Barber s building and developments for several years, has secured results that will make the ho’ise one of the attractions of the region. Mr. Fuller has hunted out a variety of stone, some red sands, some picturesque con glomerates, some metamorphic rocks of interesting types, for Moore coun ty has a wide variety, and he has combined them with a view of the ar tistic, and he has secured striking ef fects. The building stands on the hillside looking down the creek, and not far below is the dam which supplies Southern Pines, Mid Pines, Pine Needles and the neighborhood with water. Just above the Kead of the water works reservoir Mr. Fuller is building a second dam for the Bar ber property, which is now almost ready to close in and raise the water. Above it is still another which Is al ready completed and full of water. Both these dams have had the vegeta tion removed from the ground, and when the lower dam has been filled both will contain wholesome drinking water, which can be turned into the (Please turn to page 8) Ice Factory To Run All Year SIXTY-EIGHT HANDS ON NEW AIRPORT Clearing to Be Finished This Week and Planting to Follow Immediately. BION H. BUTLER. On Tuesday Frank Maples set a force of men to clearing ground for the new air port for the Sandhills, and on Wednesday afternoon he had 68 hands at work, and they had mowed a hole in the forest that looked like a summer’s accomplishment. By the end of the week they will have a clearing cut out that will be nearly a mile long and wide enough for mosv of the needs of the flyers. The loca tion is on the Southern Pines-Carth- age road, a mile from the Southern Pines water works plant, and on lands belonging to North Knollwood, James Barber, I. F. Chandler, and the old Cook orchard on the Seals road to ward Lakeview. It is an ideal loca tion and was chosen after everything in reach of the Sandhills villages had been studied by experienced flying men, and it was picked because of its desirability for the purpose. A glimpse at the mr.p shows that it is convenient to Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Pine Needles and the adjacent territory, with roads that cover the distance easily, and it has the ad vantage of a ridge that runs in the right direction for the flyers to light or take off in harmony with the pre vailing winds of this section of coun try. It has sufficient level ground to give a long run, room enough all around for all clearance, and in every way it is a model field for the pur pose. The scheme Has been in soak for some little time, but difficulty was encountered in finding the right place, but gradually the proposed sites have sifted dow^ to this one, and when finally an agreement was made for the last piece of ground needed the thing was closed and men set to work at once to be ready for fall. By Saturday the ground will be in shape to start putting down Bermuda grass to make a sod, and by the middle of next week the whole face of the ground in that section will be revo lutionized. It will be one of the big flying fields of the South, and the movement is backed by one of the biggest concerns in this respect in the country. The Sandhills will be on the line of a conspicuous air transporta tion system, and another decisive step forward will be taken. THE TREES OF BY J. McN. JOHNSON. MOORE COUNTY Capacity a Hundred Tons of Ice Daily From January to December., Warm Weather Brings Many Pleased Visitors This Season. The park at Lakeview was filled with bathers and pleasure seekers Sunday—for which good weather de serves much of the credit. The days have been cool and swimming has not been so popular, but Sunday afternoon was warm and many came to take a dip. The verandas were well filled, as well as the driveway outside, in which several prefered to sit in cars raither than go inside the gate. The management at Lakeview this year has made some improvements worth especial mention. The new electric hair dryer has been installed in the bath house and for a few cents one can have the hair dried quickly by hot air. The long haired lassies will approve of this. Up in the ve randa an electric reproducer has been placed for the Victrola which is inside the grill. Music may be heard from any part within a mile of the lake as clearly as if one were playing the Victrola or listening to the radio. Recently two successful dances have been held in the dining room and to make more room for such func tions the partition separating the grill from the dining room is being removed. A new grill will be added. Improvements of this kind will at tract the people this way—and that’s ^hat Lloyd Gardner and his crew wants. ■ The ice plant now under construc tion at Aberdeen is one of the big things of this section, and it will run every day in the year except Sundays and at a uniform rate of production. Its capacity, according to Mr. Lud wig, the superintendent in charge of construction, will be 100 tons of ice every day, which will be stored from day to day for the summer’s use for icing cars in this section when the fruit movement is on. The big plant will be composed of two large build ings, the main structure being 160 feet long by 120 wide, and 80 feet high. The one end of this large struc ture will be a storage apartment 120 feet square and 80 feet high, and the other end will be 120 by ^0 feet for the daily storage. Adjoining this will be the engine room 100 feet by 40 and 35 feet high, containing the machin ery. The plant will contain one large ice machine, and another one somewhat smaller. The structure will be brick, concrete and tile. It will ^and on one of the most substantial founda tions in Moore county. Already the brick walls are rising for the engine room, and foundations are laid for much of the rest of the big building. Steam shovels are doing the excava tion, and a big derrick stands on the ground to handle the construction work. Across the railroad from the plant a big loading dock that can care for a train of cars at a time is lift ing its long length to a height that will permit icing the cars from their tops. A bridge will cross the railroad from the plant to carry the loads of ice across for distribution up and down the whole length of the docks. The yard at the plant will be seven tracks wide. This institution belongs to the CHAPTER XI “Who loves a tree, he loves the life That springs in star and clod. He loves the love that glids the cloud And greens the April sod; He loves the life Beneficence; His soul takes hold of God.” N. C. Arbor Day ManuaL (Pkfrae turn to jmge 5) SASSAFRAS: Sassafras Offici nale. The Sassafras is distinctively a North American Tree, and its name. Sassafras Is the name given is by the Indians. When the Spaniards first landed in Florida, the Indians show ed them this tree, as one of their j greatest blessings. The regarded it as a sovereign cure for all the ills humanity is heir to, as a medicine. The report of the high estimate the Florida Indians placed on this tree for its medicinal properties was quickly carried up to coast to the earliest English Colonies, and the very first English ship that returned from America carried quite a cargo of Sassafras roots as a medicine to be added to the English Pharma- copea. But while we still find Sassa fras root tea listed in the Farriers’ Books as a horse medicine, still we must admit it has markedly declined in recent times from the high posi tion it was once held as a medicine. I have said the Sassafras Tree is distinctly North American in its habitat. This was once thought to be strictly true, but scientists have recently promulgated a new history of the Sassafras. They now tell us that the Sassafras found in America is but the fag end of a decaying race of trees that once grew in great for ests, and tD enormous size. Not only in North America, but in other coun tries as well, they cite fossil remains of great sassafras trees all the way from the Arctic Circle down the ridge of the Rocky Mountain Chain into Mexico, and all over Siberia, as well as in Europe and they have actually found a surviving tree of the species in Northern China. The Sassafras Tree grows all over Moore County, and while it is a small tree, I believe I have seen lar- Sassafras Trees in Moore County than any other County I know of. This is one tree that cannot bear cultivation. True, it grows faster on lands that have been cultivated, but as soon as you begin to “potter” around a Sassafras Tree it prompt ly turns up its toes and dies. It is the first tree—except the short-leaf Pine, to pre-empt an old field that has been “burned out,” and these numerous Sassafras sprouts come from seeds dropped by birds; but if you notice these fast grow ing switches very rarely live to make sizable trees. Like the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of the Sassafras are of many varied shapes, and the same tree has many shaped leaves. Some will be oval, some mitten shaped, and some double mitten shaped, that is, like a mitten with thumb-stall on both sides. The Sassafras is the first tree to show its flowers in Spring. I have seen the trees in full yellow blossom by the middle of February. The wood, of the Sassafras, while soft, is re markable for its lasting qualities, and when the Tree grows large enough, the farmer delights to split the logs into rails, for he knows the Sassafras rails last a long life-time, and the tree splits so easily it is a joy to make the rails. When I was a boy we hunted the woods over to find a Sassafras Tree the right shape and size to ipake an Ox Yoke—^for no other tree''made so good a yoke. It has all the requirements of lightness, lasting qualities and smoothness in wearing so as to insure ease and comfort to the Oxen’s necks. The bark of the root of the Sass afras is rich in a volatile oil, which has a pleasant and pungent taste and smell, much used in flavoring can- Benfields Get Water Contract. Raleigh Concern Will Begin in a Short Time to Put Down Pipe. On Tuesday the contract for laying the water lines for the town of Vass was awarded to Benfield Brothers, of Raleigh, and as soon as the prelimi naries can be arranged the contrac tors will begin the work of laying the pipes for a local water supply serv ice. The well has already been drilled by Dowdy & Butler and an excellent supply of water from deep in the rock now awaits the distribution sys tem which will be pushed forward as fast as conditions permit, and Vass will not be long without a satisfactory supply of water. It is coming just at the right time, for after a long period of low water in the wells the recent rains have saturated the ground and most of the wells have filled again, surface water in most of them affording much or little of the supply. Care in using water or in having it examined by proper author ities would not be a bad plan, for it is just such occasions as this that encourage typhoid fever. It has been a long struggle to get a good water supply for Vass, and The Pilot has been doing what , it could in its way to encourage this step. For several years the effort has been persistently carried on, and with the awarding of the contract that job is now as good as complet^^ At times criticism has come this way from those who have not been as fa vorable to a good water supply as might have been, but the outcome dis poses of all criticism, for the water is now in sight, and that settles that. Water that is above reproach is an essential in these days of sanitarv uses, and Vass as soon as the pumips are installed and water turned in tie mains, will be on the same safe basis as any other progressive local gov ernment in the State, and sanitary and safe conditions will prevail in the houses that connect with th.e mains. Public uses will be cared for, protection against fire will follow, and the village government responsible for this forward step will be ranked among the benefactors of the com munity. The project calls for a tank and tower to which water will he pumped (Please turn to pare Dr. Opie Talks On Consolidation Thinks Fewer Churches and More Christian Doctrine Would Be Wholesome. At the Kiwanis Club dinner at the Community House Wednesday at Pinehurst, Dr. T. F. Opie, of Burling ton, who had been a delegate to the conference of religious organizations at their Switzerland meeting, ad dressed the club on the subject of church unity. Dr. Opie says other lines of human effort are consolidat ing, and that from solidarity comes greater efficiency, and greater econ omy. In his town of Burlington prob ably a hundred thousand dollars is required to pay the salaries of the clergymen who operate in churches that represent an outlay of a million dollars, but he thinks a smaller num ber of preachers in a smaller num ber of churches could serve the pur pose and possibly better, if the churches were consolidated, and more Christianity preached and less dogma and creed and denominational differ ences. ' He says the denominations are all attempting to be Christians, but that too many are denominationalists, and thjat denomination is not necessary to be a Christian. He deplores the |ick of Christian leaders, as most of ^the big men are busy leading denomina tions, and in doing that the chilrch is ignoring many of the thingi it should be taking a hand in. * to
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