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FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING THE PILOT SECOND SECTION 8 PAGES VOL. 8. NO. 46 is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 VASS, N. C. UNPRECEDENTED VOTE FORECAST NEXT TUESDAY (Continued from Page 1) RIVAL GUBERNATORIAL CANDli ATES willing to concede an outside chance to their opponent. The result in North Carolina, which this year is one,of the pivotal and doubtful states, will be watched with particular inter est, both parties claiming it safely in their columns. Local Elections. There is a great deal of interest! ;n local elections, some feeling that | a particularly heavy turnover in the ' balloting in this State might sweep present county incumbents out of of fice. Supporters of Herbert F. Sea- well of Carthage for Governor are pinning their hopes for his election on such a premise, and claiming that he has an excellent chance to upset the usual large Democratic plurality. His opponent, O. Max Gardner, is confi dent, however, of his election to suc ceed Governor McLean. Record Registration. Following is the registration states, compared with the vote 1924: Registra- State— tion ^28 Vote ’24 Alabama 300,000 166,593 Arizona 105,388 73,961 Arkansas 343,553 139,532 California 2,313,816 1,281,778 Colorado 375,000 342,260 Connecticut 623,973 400,295 Delaware 120,088 90,865 Florida 250,000 109,154 Georgia 495,269 166,577 Idaho 185,000 148,295 O. MAX GARDNER. creation of such a community as is in j mind. Then Knollwood has been one of the big employers of labor all this summer, as has been the case in that vicinity for several years, and the amount of money that has filtered out into the community from that source in the days since the first clearing w^as made for the Mid-Pines Club ouse has been a tremendous contribu tor in the prosperity that has pre vailed in the three townships, and to considerable extent in all this section for twenty or thirty miles around us. “Craig’s Wife” on More Horses Arrive for Polo and Hunting Biggest Equestrian Season Sandhills’ History is Predicted. I appearance of the grand old man of 1* ^ U’ll screen, Theodore Roberts, after a V^ftrOlinS. S olll* I long absence on account of illness. The special production, “Annapolis,” will be presented on Wednesday and Thursday. This production was made at the Naval Academy with the as sistance of the U. S. Navy and is an American epic of loyalty, courage and clean love. in Horses of all colors and conforma tion, polo ponies, hunters, hacks and And every husband in town, who doesn’t take his wife to see her, is missing an opportunity of a life time. There are many women in the world just like “Craig’s Wife,” and, of course, there are just as many who are different but she is a mighty in teresting wife for all men and women to know about and, after screening this splendid picture, the Carolina Theatres manager highly recommends it to all husbands and wives, past, HERBERT F. SEAWELI by in Three Amendments Before State Voters Proposed Changes in Constitu tion Affect Legislative Pay, Judges and Taxation. Voters will express their will as to whether or not the State Constitution will be altered in three respects when they go to the polls in the general election of November 6. The changes would provide: 1—In creased pay for members of the Gen eral Assembly. 2—SoLcitorial dis- Illinois 3,260,000 2,470;067 |distinct from ju- dicial districts. 3—Authorization to Indiana 1,465,000 1,272,390 976,960 Mrs. Keating Again Buys on Knollwood Adds Two More Lots Original Purchased- Now 107. to Two -Total 662,451 815,332 121,951 192,192 358,630 the Legislature to classify intangible property for taxation on a basis in dependent of the real property scale. The proposed amendments all were passed by the 1927 General Assembly and will be submitted to the voters in due procedure of changing the Constitution. The first proposal, to increase pay Mississippi 300,000 112,515 I legislators, has been defeated more Missouri 1,504,000 1,307,9851 times than one by the legislators Montana 241,000 174,423 | ^^emselves. The constitution provides Nebraska 750,000 464 169 i members of the General Assem- Nevada 43,500 26^,9211 may not increase their own pay New Hampshire.... 230,000 164,769 must submit the matter to the New Jersey 1,771,000 1,088,054 : People in a vote on the constitutional New Mexico 130,000 112,8301 amendment. Present pay of legjsla- New York 4,874,721 3,256,319 tors is $4 a day, or $240 a term. Iowa 1,000,000 Kansas 750,000 Kentucky 850,000 Louisiana 370,000 Maine 307,000 Maryland 663,732 ]\£assachusetts .... 1,720,778 1,129,909 Michigan 2,000,000 1,160,290 Minnesota 1,250,000 822,146 show horses, continue to pile into j present and future Pinehurst and Southern Pines prepar- j it is a picture of every day life, atory to what bids fair to be the big-. hokum. A picture gest equestrian year in the history of | really appeals to the intelligence the Sandhills. , same time, makes splen- A carload of Pinehurst, Inc., sad-1 entertainment. The unexpected die horses and polo ponies arrived; eijniax is a smash and places this last week from Roaring Gap for Mr. | ^ ate s stables. A shipment of fine, i^ene Rich as the wife and Warner “Wings” is Attraction at Aberdeen’s Dixie looking ponies came all the way from Texas for Mr. Slocock, ponies which will soon be seen in action on the Pinehurst polo fields. They made the trip without a scratch and arrived fit as fiddles. Baxter as the adoring husband who ultimately is disillusioned, are splen did in their most arduous roles. There are no “eternal triangles” in this pic ture. It’s genuine entertainment of “Wings” which lifted its intense in terest high on movie annals by Broad way vote comes to the Dixie Theatre at Aberdeen with a host of the dis cerning counting on packing the house, a number of them having to see the picture twice to satisfy them selves. The striking features of “Wings” as shown by a check of Broadway, New York, houses is the rebound re action which draws folks twice to the show, for it has an epic of American drama to unfold which can not be grasped in a first attendance. The have arrived and opened their stables on the double road near Pinehurst, bringing their hunters and saddle Saturday, horses for use of Pinehurst, Knoll-j Monday and Tuesday, the fiery, wood and Southern Pines clientele ^ romantic King of the screen, John during- the riding and hunting sea son. The Boyd hounds are out for daily exercise preparatory to the opening ^ j^^sks of the Devil,” which is a very of the fox and drag hunting season at unusual story of a man without a Southern Pines and already the early conscience about women, regenerated incursion of polo players are out ex- j jjy pure love. Of unusual in- ercising their ponies at Pinehurst. terest to Sandhill folks will be the re-1 will soon be again complete. RADIO ELECTION RETURNS AT CAROLINA, So. PINES. North Carolina .... 700,000 482,687 North Dakota 257,000 199,081 Ohio 2,750,000 2,016,237 Oklahoma 600,000 528,415 Oregon 427,446 279,488 Should the amendment pass it will be ?600 a term of 60 days or |10 a day. The second amendment is designed to allow the legislature to increase the number of judges without a cor- Pennsylvania 3,943,000 2,144,852 I responding increase in the number of Rhode Island 269,860 South Carolina .... 200,000 South Dakota 250,000 Tennessee 420,000 Texas 1,500,000 Utah 170,000 Vermont 175,000 Virginia 300,000 Washington 550,000 West Virginia 853,133 Wisconsin 1,000,000 Wyoming 100,000 The sale of an additional two lots at Knollwood Heights to Mrs. Keat ing, who was already the owner of two lots, is one of the best indications of what Knollwood, and with it all the rest of the country around about, is doing and is certain to do. When a buyer is well enough satisfied with a purchase to repeat the order it is evidence that the buyer sees in what has been obtained a value that is worth considering. This last sale brings the total number of Knollwood lots sold to 107. Were this merely a singje case it might not count for so much, but other instances are available that tell of buyers at Knollwood selling their first | purchases and buying again with the | hrough the courtesy of Gregory & | money, to their profit. Yet even this | Bushby, dealers in radio equipment at does not tell the story, for buying a Southern Pines, the election returns . home site at Knollwood, or in any broadcasted at the Carolina j other Sandhills community is more Theatre, Southern Pines, on Tuesday than securing possession of a bit of This service will be given in property. It may involve an invest- connection with the regular program' ment, or a home-making project, but i extra charge. | back of all is the desire to be in with management will depart from ^ a community that is day by day ad- * *ts regular program procedure by. vancing toward that ideal which has j showing the feature, “The Masks of ^ been set as the aim of the Sandhills I the Devil” first and filling in the in- i as a community in which to live, and | tervals between returns with short | of which to make the most pleasant' screen subjects and music. | place possible. | The feature will start promptly at i Mrs. Keating was one of the first 8:15 and the theatre will remain open J. C. Thomas and Corbett Alexander domestic duplicity, we recommend the right kind. Even at the risk of second time is when the finer points are broug^it out Mr. Rosser, manager of the Dixie Theatre, will announce the election returns Tuesday night at the Dixie, beginning about 10 o’clock. your seeing “Craig’s Wife,” and tak ing yours with you on Friday and Gilbert, supported by the new Vien nese screen find, Eva von Berne, will appear in his newest production, “The The New York Style Shop is re covering from its recent robbery and getting in a new stock as quickly as possible. A new line of lingerie and Coolie coats has just come in and Mrs. Stedman says that the stock buyers when Mid-Pines stimulated the project of creating a village at Knoll wood. Her example was followed by others, and out of that beginning came the cluster of houses that now dots the hill above the Mid-Pines Club 210,1151 solicitors. There was a fight in the 50,71511927 assembly on increasing the num- 203,943 I ber of judicial districts in the State 300,2751 and a compromise measure authoriz- 657,509 I ing the governor to name four emerg- 156,9901 ency judges was passed pending ac-'house. Always the principal features 102,912 j tion on the amendment. I of Knollwood Heights have been there 223,726 No particular opposition has been awaiting the touch of the hand of 421,549 j noted to these two proposed amend- | man. The* thing needed to bring about 583,6621 ments, but to the third one there has! what is coming now was merely the until the returns are all in or until' there is no doubt about the election. FRESH BAKED GOODS BREAD ROLLS CAKES PIES Baked Fresh Every Day French Pastries, Patti Shells and Small Cakes for Parties. Note—We do not distribute pastry to the stores in Souther'n Pines. ..All our pastry is made by white bakers in our own bakery and sold only in our own store. SCHAFER’S HONE BAKERY “The Wife-Saving Station.” Southern Pines, North Carolina. THE PINEHURST 840,7791 been. It proposes that the present 79,900 j uniform basis of taxation for real and intangible be changed to provide for knowledge of what can be done with that series of Knobs about the Pine Needles Inn and the Mid-Pines Club. Totals 43,084,257 29,091,4921 the rate on intangibles to be fixed by People are now realizing the situation Ithe General Assembly. The change and are securing sites for their use COMMANDING LEAD FOR | would not affect the present uniform I in the future, in many cases the near HOOVER IN DIGEST POLL. | basis of taxing i*eal and tangible per-1 future, and as they begin to improve j I sonal property- their places the wave sweeps wider. The object behind the proposed Further Development, amendment was stated by some mem- j Knollwood now, and Knollwood bers in the last assembly as to bring' when Mrs. Keating bought her first intangibles “out of hiding” by plac-1 lots on the south side of the Midland ing the tax rate on them at a point Road are wholly different, but merely low enough to get owners to list their i because more people have found the solvent credits, bonds, etc., coming un-!chavms of the ridges, and are laying der the intangible classification. It! their plans to help carry the develop- With a total of 2,767,263 votes cast up to October 24th, the Literary Di gest Presidential poll concludes in this week’s issue, the figures still giving a commanding lead to Mr. Hoover. In the nation, the Republican candi date leads, 1,750,584 to 987,795 for Smith. Among other figures we find: believed generally that large sums'ment still further that their prospec- in intangibles are being kept off the tive homes may command all the ad- tax books because the tax rate ap-1 vantages Nature has put at the dis- proaches income in some instances. i posal of man. Fortunately the man- Hoover, 21,961; CAROLINA THEATRES SOUTHERN PINES PRESENT North Carolina, Smith, 15.608. Georgia, Hoover, 10,507; Smith, 12,- 023. South Carolina, Hoover, 3,442; Smith, 8,936. Virginia, Hoover, 24,019; Smith, 15,870. New York State, Hoover, 218,920; Smith, 185,659. New York City, Hoover, 105,864; Smith, 140,770. Chicago, Hoover, 99,916; Smith, 71,- 810. Philadelphia, Hoover, 69,704; Smith, 28,981. The poll continues to show a mark- t^d trend in party switching, 360,447 of the Smith grand total being sup porters of Mr. Coolidg'e in 1924 and 264,483 of the Hoover total having voted for Mr. Davis in 1924. j .agement of Knollwood has been in- SOAP MESSAGES GREET telligent enough to see that the one ALL AFTER HALLOWE’EN j big thing is to create there the most [interesting spot possible rather than Business places of every Sandhills | simply to sell blocks of groud. So and town were the targets Knollwood village of small boys with cakes of soap on Hallowe’en and merchants found their plate glass windows covered with scribbled messages when they opened up yesterday morning. Most of the messages were of a polit ical nature. Hoover supporters find ing their glass fronts advertising A1 Smith in soap letters, and Smith supporters suddenly boosting Mr. Hoover. The general comment was that “ Boys will be boys.” is putting back into the property a big portion of the money that comes from every sale, and the buyer shares in this substantial divi dend, although Knollwood in itself has never had a dividend from the start. But Knollwood, like the other big movements in the region, is a build er, and the underlying aim to make this the home section it is rapidly be coming will some day pay for the work and trouble, if in nothing more than the satisfaction that follows the tRAI(*S WIFE' WITH IRENi RICH and WARNER BAXTIR At Pinehurst Friday, Nav. 2nd- At Southern Pines Saturday, Nov. 3rd. 8:15 The King of Romance, with John Gilbert Eva Von Berne and Theodore Roberts in ''The Masks of The Devil” A dashing, romantic picture —love scenes more thrilling than any in years—Gilbert more brilliant than in “Love'" and “Flesh and the Devil.^* Elections Returns at South ern Pines Tuesday night. At Pinehurst Monday, Nov. 5th. At Southern Pines Tuesday, Nov. 6th. 8:15 1 PATHC firtitnts ANNAPOUS JlANITff Rith^^Bcture n *• -it At Pinehurst Wednesday, Nov, 7th. At Southern Pines Thursday, Nov. 8th. 8:15
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