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: PILOT, |2.oa
ADVANCE
NOTICE.
executor of
, late of Moore
a, this is to
tiaving claims
: the said de-
i to the under-
le 23rd day of
otice will be
r recovery. All
aid estate will
« payment.
, 1928.
GARNER,
Executor.
10, 17.
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VOLUnE
8
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address ail communications to
the pilot printing company. VASS. N C.
Knollwood Sales
Nearing Hundred
The Total Figure This Week
Has Arrived at
Ninety-Seven
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1928
HOW THE BREWERS INTERPRET
the election PR0|S(PECTS
The following is a dispatch cut
from one of the Sunday papers:
Washington, Aug. 9 (UP)—A se-.
cret meeting of the brewers of the
country has been called for Chicago
on September 6 “for the rewial of
the brewery industry,” Ernest H.
education
bion h. butler
The apple of Knollwood lojts in
the period of less than ten months' Cherrington, director of
since the first one was sold last fall | for the anti-saloon league said in a
to John Bloxham now totals 97, and i statement today.
( thers are in negotiation, indicating' He said Hugh F. Fox, of New York
that the hundred mark will be pass- | former secretary of the United
ed before the first year has elapsed. | States Brewers" Association, had
This is the most surprising bit of called the meeting.
community development that has j —
laken place in this section since theiy^gg \yater Svstem
Sandhills were opened to settlement, itir i • Tfc
and surprising in many ways. The | MflKlIlg PrOgT6SS
number of sales is not the biggest ^
thing, for the character and type of, Sixty Days Will See Plant Well
buyers is probably more surprising. Toward a Final Com-
Big men of all sections and in all pletion
Tines of business have joined the col- ^
ony of Knollwood buyers, showing a expect^ by the authorities
faith in the future of the neighbor- another sixty days will see the
hood that is of uncommon interest water-plant well toward its fi
and of decidedly prophetic force.
nal finish. The contractors have been
hurrying the work along, and with
out a great deal of disturbance of
the streets or of local travel, and
No. 97 goes to Dr. Mudgett, a
man whose judgment is regarded as
excellent and as he had been familiar
. , o ju n are gettmg down much of the
with the conditions in the Sandhills ...
, . I I j j big pipe. During the week the mam
for vears he is looked on as a des- , , . T ,
. , . . ^ ^ , has been carried under the railroad
Wicker Answers Dr.
McBrayer’s Article
Pinehurst Man Writes On The
Political Situation of iviarKea v^nanges
The Day
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
Vass Vocational
School Provided
Local Board Arranges to Trans
fer Farm Life Activities
to This Location
Editor The Pilot,
Vass, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Being one of the many
Democrats” to be found
Carolina Hotel
Building and Grounds Remodel
ed at Cost of Many
Thousands
in
“Hoover
Moore
One of the most progressive things
done recently for the welfare of the
community is the scheme backed by
local men whereby the school board
is able to transber to Vass the vo
cational agriculture department
When the folks begin to come back j which has been discontinued at the
County, I cannot let Dr. McBrayer’s | to Pinehurst in a couple of months Eureka school because of the clos-
letter in last week’s Pilot go unchal-1 they will have to look twice to recog- ing of that institution. Citizens of
lenged. jnize much of anything. The biggest | the Vass neighborhood realized the
I do not pretend to debate one of | change is at the Carolina where the' great benefit that Eureka had been
the Doctor’s calibre, but I beliieve his j first thing to catch the eye is the conferring on the county, and in or-
conclusions are illogical, if we grant j entire remodeling of the ground. New
the premises upon which they are i roads have been constructed, a big
based.
One—we may suppose
der that that benefit might not be
stopped a plan was devised to move
the agriculture department to the
lawn in front of the entrance with
from his commanding gateways, and walks and | new school at Vass, and H. L. Sea-
statements—is, that liquor is physi- shrubbery are provided and the scene I grove who has so successfully car-
cally and morally injurious to the entirely changed to the advantage | ried it on at Eureka will come to
human race. The other; that reli
gious persecution is incompiatiable
creet man in his investments. And
there is another thing to give prom
inence to the Knollwood movement.
The entire bunch of investors in
from the well to the east side of the
village, and the main has been laid
down as far as the cotton mill on
, .V 1 ^ i the west side, and on several of the
building sites there are people of that ., , . „
® . 1 side streets. Foundation for the big
class that depend on their own val-
out the outlook. The approach to,Vass as the head of the department,
the house makes it one of the most j Smce the enlarged school has be-
with a free and Democratic govern- pleasing pictures in the Sandhills, j come a fact in Vass it has been grow-
ment. The whole scheme outside is hand-1 jng along substantial lines as it was
While the Federal government pleasing manner, and the min- intended, and with the vocational de
makes it a crime to manufacture or i ^te the guest arrives inside the build-1 partment it will offer training to the
sell spirituous liquors, and while the | perceives that the same touch j rural children along the lines of farm
responsibility of the enforcement of | been griven the whole structure, j operation and work, the farm at home
this law has been to a great extent wood floors are laid all j affording the opportunity to apply
in the hands of the Republican Party; j over the building, and a large pro- j the theoretical training offered in the
yet our own state has been trying portion of the rooms have been re- j school. Vass is in a good farm sec-
furnished in the most modem designs
and convenient form. The effect is
to make the house seem like a new
creation. The Carolina, known from
with Democcatic officers, to enforce
similar laws for the past twenty
years, and since the inception of the
Volstead Act, they have been jointly
« , . M f 11 • # tower and tank are built, and pres-1 responsible with the Federal officers. North to South and East to West as
ua ion 0 ^ owing o on the tower about 100 for its enforcement, who can say the most prominent golf haven in the
the crowd has been observable ^n , . » u ...
,. u u V. • J ^eet high will be moving
tion, and is also close enough to
Eureka to permit the Eureka students
who have not yet complete their
work to go on with it here.
Farming will be the chief feature
1 .. iiiKfi »»1*1 i-'v. Tests of
some of the lines laid have shown
that the job will stand a pressure of
150 pounds pressure to the square
inch, which is more than it will ever
have. Fire hydrants haye been plac
ed at different street comers as the
mains have been laid, and on the day
the situation for himself, and on the
strength of his own opinion of the
prospects of Knollwood and the
whole Sandhills has secured his lo
cation.
Then the character of the man be-
hind the principal forces has to do ^hen enough pipes are down and the
w-ith the record of 97 over at Knoll- ^ater is in the tank to afford a sup
,, ,, ^ 1®^ the vocational work at the Vass
which has been more diligent? , world, vnll greet the older guests 1j,. intention to
But why single out the Prohibition » pleasiWg surprise, and receive ^^e the new work apply to the
laws? We have automobile laws, and t^e new ones wth a gratifying ^^an to the other industrial
reasonable ones at that; our maximum comforts that wll supplement a local
speed limit being the highest of any, further to its popularity Arrangemfcnll^ wilj be maide
of the states, yet; were we to strict-1growing patronage that in- outside students where-
ly enforce them;'p»lctically the en- «'^ery year. ; ^
tire population would be subject to, ® ® P matters along the No. 51 movement is established what is t«
prosecution. Yet I believe the au- eft course will be ready for more,f^u^^ expansions wiU
tomobiles inflict more fatalities than Players, thus expanding the capacity | determined. Walter Graham in
wodo. The Pine Needles Inn is piy the fire system will be ready for | does alcohol. of the golf field by about 25 percent, speaking of the movement said that
hacked by men who have the extra- the safety of the village. ! Would the gentleman say that this links are in good shape, the Eureka has gained so many results
ordinary confidence of everybody who Much commenation has been heard | attempt at enforcement by our Dem- variepted weather of the summer seemed like
is familiar with the name and man- of the business attitude of the engi- ocratic officers was a failure, and Permitting building and also sthnulat- throwing away a good opportunity to
agement of Pinehurst. The substan- neer in charge and of the contractors j that we should elect Republicans, who growth of grass on the fair- department die, and as Vass is
tial type of building at Pine Needles ^ho are doing the job, and with the | had promised to “point out a way” ways. With the new course and the located much like Eureka it was de-
gave assurance that whatever is done amply supply of water in the well | by which every man could drive as Needles course of last winter termined to bring the school here.
in that vicinity will be done on a all thin.^ now point to a different! he D please? capital condition. Pinehurst | there
durable and conscientious basis. The situation in Vass than that which pre- j Does not the gentleman realize courses for the winter,
so helpful to the farmers
t oroughly modern and efficient vailed up to the present. In two or j that, an experiment of this magnitude o ^ ^ buying, marketing, production,
oundation of everything at Pine three months more the community cannot be completed in ten or twenty . * ^ mes, so it several thousand dollars of
Needles from inn to golf course and will have plenty of water for home I years? Even a revolution, which ap- assumed that golf this coming sea- ^ Eureksi through
public utilities created the fullest con- uses and for fire protection, and com-i patently spreads like wild-fire, has a new pace an a v.ie influences of the school, and
fidence. It attracted the men who fort, safety and probably reduced in-, smouldered in the minds of past gen- ^ ayers wi ar excee t e ^jj^ge influences will continue in Vass.
are taking hold at Knollwood. Also surance rates are in sight. : erations, and the visible indications
the plan of things at Knollwood had it is satisfactory to note that the are only the culmination of the phil-* . ® ® new buildings that tells jyjATTHEWS ADDS FINF Rlfi
the same effect. Roads, water lines, whole project has been based on the ! osphy and wisdom of past genera- the Progress of the community is the HIU
sewers, the type of buildings, the at- most efficient scale. The well is
tention to placing of buildings with large, with a capacity of nearly 100,-
relation to each other and to sur- ooo gallons a day. The mains are
roundings, all work together to ad- big to carry the supply, the water
Vance faith in the desirability of the comes from far down in the rocks,
project, and with that the type of giving the most wholesome quality
men who are interested added its that can be procured, and of perfect
powers. safety for domestic use, the hydrants
From now on the fate of Knollwood are large and numerous, the lines are
is settled beyond any fear. Too many extended as far as they are needed
big men have their interests concen- ^nd can be carried farther at any
trated in that neighborhood to allow time, and the whole system is excel- I
it to hesitate. But what is more, the lent. Vass has today a different i
attractions that have interested these standing among towns of the i Was
^en are still there and increasing, so
tions; silently but surely solidified in
a final day of action.
If our prohibition laws will influ- , -
J. if IX* become one of the leading
ence one percent of our population ^
addition to the school house. This
will greatly increase the capacity of
the village schools, which now have
public
LIBRARY TO HIS OFFICE
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that Knollwood will steadily be grow- hand in further improvement that in-
Jng into greater popularity, and with creases the charm and gives the Sand-
its popularity into greater attractive- j^iHs further interest to the man who —
iiess as a place to make a home. is looking for his vacation spot. I The Seventh Annual Reunion of
There was some doubt as to how Southern Pines has commenced to j the Muse family was held at Lake-
fast building would be carried on at talk about that park at the Manly j view August 9th.
Knollwood, but that doubt has van- spring. It looks as if something will j Arthur Muse, of Ham et,
ished, for no place in Central North come of that, and if it does another “Master of Ceremonies.
Carolina, especially in rural regions, impetus will be given the whole range
witnessing so many houses of the of country along the whole Midland
W. D. Matthews, local limb of the
law, may not have in his head all the
law in the world, but he comes mighty
near having it in his office, for among
recent additions to his law library he
has added about a hundred volumes
of a new law encyclopedia, with a
latin name, that contains about all
that has been dug up about laws and
Attended By Large Crowd—Held At practice and decis-
j ions since Moses was tried for kill
ing the Egyptian. Practically every
subject that is handled in law is
Muse Clan Hold Their
7th Annual Reunion
Lakeview. Arthur Muse of Hamlet
Master of Ceremonies
treated, and with the normal text goes
to the report of hundreds of thousands
I of cases, the comment on court
drew Shields, by Mrs. Jim Muse;
George Muse, by Mrs. Morgan.
An elegant dinner was served. , , • - •
was I June Mclver HemphilFs reading at i various states and in foreign
Miss June;the Muse Reunion, which was com- wherever such applies, and
Mclver Hemphill gave a reading en- posed by Mrs. Mitchell Guthrie, of doubtful if such another com-
titled, “A Tribute To The Muse Cameron. authority is anywhere else
expensive de'siCTs'that areTow'under ™ai'"knollwood is not going to see Clan,” which was enthusiastij^lly en-1 bound m covers. Mr. Matthews also
"ay at Knollwood and also at the, the record stand long at 97, Md' cored, and she responded with e , loygiy month of August
other villages and settlements in the neither is any place in the Sandhills. | Little Maid and the Lawyer. j Each and every year, . .^at inclines toward law and
surrounding country of which all are The whole region is climbing every day, Mrs. Lula Muse rea^d an hist^cal Moore County sees a gathering j ^ without full
Mits in this big Sandhill development, to a new horizon. paper of the Muse CUn, entertain-1 ^ ^ ^ he ever goes into court without full
treatment of them, the practices in
has a large collection of other legal
volumes, as well as of general liter-
does not matter that Reed is
building his house six miles to the
ingly written by her distinguished
Quality tobacco is being produced sister, Mrs.* J. A. Brown, of Chad-
^est, or that Wadsworth has bought where the new fertilizer mixtures | bourn, N. C., this was read with Mrs.
^ tract of land three miles or so to were used, dolomitic limestone applied j Muse' usual fine expr^sion and was
and the ridge method of cultivation thoroughly enjoyed. Mrs. Muse was
also chairman of the memorial com
mittee.
‘he east, or that some one else is do-
something in another quarter. The
^f^asons these men are putting big
^^ms of money into Sandhills invest-
are the same—^the attractive-
of the varjring and many influ-
that bring them to the com-
^unity. And as newcomers lend a
followed this year.
Poultry growters of Alamance
County have ordered another car of
fish meal to use in preparing their
mash feed. The order made by co
operative action.
The following personal tributes were
given to Mrs. Alex Muse, by Mrs.
Flora Black, to Mrs. Joseph Womble,
by Miss Mattie Kate Shaw; to A. K.
Muse, by Miss Boniiie Muse: to An-
information as to the relation of his
case to the law it will not be for want
’Tis then the mighty clan of Muse j plenty of complete information on
Meets together once again | the subject in his office. It is doubt-
Coming from the hill and mountain, j f^i ^ny other subject is so fully
From the valley and the glen.
And such joy in this assembling,
Such fond greetings fill the air,
covered by printed information in any
office in this state as law is covered
by the encyclopedia of law in Mr.
Matthews* office. If he would read
How it strengthens ties of friendship ten pages a day of it he couM not
cover the whole list of books In ten
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years.