FIRST IN
NEWS AND
advertising
THE
PILOT
AN
INDEPENDENT
WEEKLY.
VOL. 9, NO. 1
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Carolina
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928
BETTER UW
ABIDANCE, SAYS
POUCECHIE
Fewer Arrests for Drankeness
and Not Many for
Speeding
BION BUTLER’S CUB REPORTER
WITH WALES IN AFRICA
Percy of Pittsburgh Times Now Sir Percival Philips, of Lon
don Mail, Close Friend of Heir to British Throne
FOUR TEAMS TO
COMPETE IN
POLO TOlIRN'iT
MODERN LIQUOR FEARED
It is pretty evident to observers in
the Sandhills region that John Bar
leycorn is doing: less business in this
section than in the past. Anyone who
A few years ago we won’t say how, his friend, counsel and adviser, one
many except that we do know he’s | day in the Pittsburgh Times office} Two Fort Bragfg
and said he was going over to Lon-' Teams and Sandhills in
been down here over thirty years,
Bion H. Butler, Sage of the Sand-
don and try to get a job. Percy
. j j „ hooked on with the London Mail. His
h.lls and dean of its Fourth Estate, assignments grew .more and mone
had a desk in the editorial depart- important as he more and more im-
ment of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Times, pressed his editors with his ability,! The Fall Polo tournament, first of
Battle.
OPENING GAME DEC. IITH.
At another desk nearby sat a rising
young reporter, freshly embarked
and he soon found himself one of
the Mail’s foreign correspondents.
Percy was sent hither and yon on
special details, and played an impor-
the seasons series of serious en
counters on Pinehurst fields, gets un
der way next Tuesday, December 11,
with almost daily games through the
18th Fort Bragg is sending two
the World War. So important, in j teams, the Reds and the Whites, and
fact, that one day Percy, the cub Winston-Salem is sending its crack
is on the /itreets any time can see | chosen field of . iwrnalism.
this for himself, but along with his I started in at the bottom most,
own judgment comes that of Chief * calling up the undertakers for tant part in the Mail’s coverage of
of Police J. C. Kelly, of Southern j notices and the hospitals for : ^^
Pines, who says that arrests cases.
drunkeness or for having liquor are j youn^ fellow thought | reporter of the Pittsburgh Times, | four, which, with the Sandhills Polo
dwindling almost to the vanishing!®^ climb in his | found himself Sir Percival Philips, | Club team completes the entries,
point. When he came to the South-1 Profession no one knows. But his; knighted by the King. i Sandhills meets the Port Bragg
em Pines police force it was a com-j®^®^^ worth while. \Ve wish we Today Dean Butler’s young pal is j opening game,
mon occurrence to be called out to i more of it to record. ^ of the foremost correspondents in i Fort Bragg teams are sending i ~ ~ ~
some of the country east of town to| been reading the stories , London, and at the request of the I Sunday, and Winston- StrUtheiS Burt TellS
pull a still or pick up a blind tiger, Prince of Wales prince of Wales, was sent on the string of 18 ponies are ex- n
in Africa, as vividly told in the Char- present trip through Africa with his
lotte Observer of late, you may or | Royal Highness. The Prince counts
but of late he has had but little in
dication of home-made liquor, and
not so much of the imported stuff.
The chief, in talking about West
Southern Pines, said that at the
present time he can go over there
without notice to any sort of a so
cial gathering and rarely see a
pected the latter part of this week.
The liift up for the four teams with
VASS, N. C.
RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN
COUNTY COMMISSIONBl
lAUGHLIN IS
CHAIRMAN FOR
ANOTHER YEAR
i Board of County Commissioners
I Effects Organization at
j Monday Meeting
HINT AT INNOVATIONS
DAN C. McLAUCHLIN
ithers Burt Tells
Kiwanis of Beauties
of Yellowstone Park
may not have noted that they are gjr Percival as a tried and true*^^®^** Positions and handicaps, follow:,
written and despatched to a chain friend, and in the event of Edward’s Sandhills Polo Club. ' Government is Conserving Wild
of American newspapers by one Sir ascension to the throne of England,
Percival Philips. there is little likelihood but that the
Tries Luck in London former American reporter will be-
No. 1 J. A. Tufts 1
No. 2 Harry Maxwell 0
No. 3 H. WSlocock 3
Life Easily Accessible to
Touring Public.
Sir Percival Philips, just Percy come a man of considerable import- No. 4 James Raymond 0
BEAR, BUFFALO PLENTIFUL
“drunk”. In the older days “drunks” j then, bade farewell to Bion Butler, ance in the affairs of Great Britain,
were plentiful there as they were in
Southern Pines. Now they are few,
and a fair proportion of those he
encounters in town are persons who
are passing through, or who have
come in from other sections. The li-
Tireless Reporter
Has Trouble With
Kirkover Interview.
Col. Hawes Named
to Supervise Vork
on New Hospital
j Fort Bragg Whites ! Struthers Burt interested the Ki-
No. 1 Lt. Jacoby 3 ■ wanis Club at Wednesday’s dinner at
I No. 2 Warrant Officer Odle 2 j the Pinehurst Country Club. He talked
I No. 3 Capt. Kielsmeyer l| about Yellowstone Park, and as his
I No. 4 Major Paine 01 ranch in Wyoming is but 40 miles
^ I Bragg Reds. ! from the park he is familiar with his
No. 1 Capt. O’Keefe 0, theme. Moreover he knows how to
At a meeting of the Board of
County Commissiones at the Court
house Monday an organization of the
board was effected, with D. A. Mc-
Lauchlin as chairman. Not much
further definite action was taken in
the way of establishing the county
government for the coming adminis
tration, except that all of the present
1 employes of the departments were
I notified that the administrative pe-
j riod ends with the end of the present
^ calendar year, and that it is possible
I changes in the forces will be made.
Two or three resifnations on the road
commission have been tendered, and
this means some changes in that or
ganization, and some discussion of
other groups took place but without
any action, as the Board of Commis
sioners desires to get the expression
of public sentiment on the operation
of county affairs for the future be
fore taking any positive steps.
Under the new budget system, and
with the authority of the new state
laws governing county administration
it is assumed that the new board,
which is the old board with the ex
ception that Mr. Mattheson has suc
ceeded Mr. Shaw, will be able to bring
county administration to a more defi-
quor that comes to Southern Pines j Noted Sportsman, “Once News-i Retired Army Officer Appointed*^®* ^ Wakefield Ojtell his story, and with a large num-j . A 4. 1
^ ® . J ^o xxi HI J iKn ^ Tf I'l 1 i. j Hite basis, and that personal respon-
io lacc amniinf nnn I n*inAv* Man MimaolT ” Khvg i Inano^Ttnar FlnorilKkAr m inA )i>0. o Lti. JlililOl. 1 oer of photographS that he paSSed 1
^ sibihty will rest on the mdividual
members' of the board, and more on
now IS much less in amount, and ^
hails largely from South Carolina orj
from the mountain section.
Driving Improving
Neither does the chief find as much
reckless or fast driving on the
streets. While mjany drive up to
the speed limit, whatever that is
they drive with more care, and are
more disposed to 'be amenable to the
law. The drivers use more caution
in keeping on their own side of the
road, and in rounding turns and in
making street crossings. He used
to encounter much difficnity at the
school house corner but of late he
paper Man Himself,” Says
He’s Poor Copy.
Inspecting Engineer of the
New Building.
HE KNOWS HIS SANDHILLS.
Unfortunately, some one told Harry
Kirkover that we wanted an interview
from him so when we finally cornered
nim in the’Cai^olina late Monday af
ternoon he had thoroughly made up
him minii iall ua vmihintf about him
self. However, by piecing together
details dropped here and there in the
conversation, we have managed to get
an idea of the man which, although
very imperfect, makes us eager to
know more of him. First of all, Mr.
RUNS TERHUNE
' No. 4 Lt. Stober 0
! Winston-Salem Polo Club.
KENNELS No. 1 R. M. Hanes 1
' No. 2 Thurmond Natham 21 enough and winter was not so close
of Pine- i^jo. 3 J. Hanes 1 Burt would have started that outfit
around among the members he raised
the enthusiasm of the bunch until if
i they knew where to get gas and oil
has had little complaint to make ^ sportsman. His main
driving in that neighborhood. Take
it all around he says conditions on the
roads are decidedly better, and that
the annoyance of whisky in his jur
isdiction is materially reduced.
This experience Is borne out by the
testimony of Dave Knight, who has
had probably longer experience in
dealing with lawlessness in the Sand
hills than any man who has had po
lice authority in this part of the
state. Chief Knight says whisky has
the plain letter of the law. More
definite restrictions and more posi
tive requirements are laid down now
than under the old laws and practices,
^ and it is the intention of the com-
Mr. Burt suj:g,;sted a ^^l•ip to tte j miggioners turn over’^a new leaf and
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RECORD PRICE PAID FOR
FILLING STATION SITE.
irterest is horses and dogs. He keeps
about 30 bird dogs at the Pinehurst
kennels and hunts at Camden a large
part of the winter. From other sources
we leam that he used to be a fine
tennis player, once champion of West
ern New York Stat^
Hobbies lend common ^und for a
wide acquaintance among all ports of
people. People themselves, we imag
ine, are another of Mr. Kirkover’s
specialties. He has the happy facul
ty of making friends wherever he
goes, because he can talk with al
most any one upon that person’s own
particular subject. Of particular in
terest to people of this neighborhood
is his knowledge of the Carolinas. He
first came through here trver 30 years
ago, shooting specimens in the inter
est of natural science. At that time
there were no hotels, no golf courses,
no velvet-smooth roads, only great
tracts of pine forests and sand. A
few minutes talk wlTl show that he
knows the country thoroughly from
Blue’s bridge, famous battle-field, to
th® place not so far away, but little
known, where 12 British officers are
buried. He has many odd acquaint-
land property. It is not so long agoLj^^^gg here, people who look upon the
that these tracts were plotted 200 Sandhills as a means of existence
feet front and 1,000 feet deep from I ^^ther than as a place in which to
the road. The original price was $1,-1 pi^y golf. There is the one-eyed fel-
500, while sales during the summer Lumbee swamp who has
further out toward Knollwood are | been hunting turkey so long that he
noted at $2,500 for the full 200 feet | come to look like one himself,
front. This sale at $2,500 for 75 feet j old farmer whose family have
front marks an advance in values that I living in the same house for
shows what the growing development j several generations. The place is ap-
along the road is doing. Knowing' proached by a driveway of cedars and
ones predict that much of the Mid-iy^Qj||gg ^iiich is only one of the many
Col. (leorge Hawes, Jr
hurst, has been appointed inspecting j No. 4 E. A. Darr oiwest before the’end of the week"
engineer of the new county hospital! i _
jot now tjlider ^.ay. Col. HaUs re‘- ^
cently went on the retired list of SAMUEL W. ADAMS, 15, paiks of Wyoming and Utah, and i to get the county on a still more defi-
the army, having been in service at DIES IN SOUTHERN PINES Picked Salt Lake City as the end ofj„ite business basis.
Fort Bragg prior to coming to Pine-i ^ proposed automobile tnp from thCj Innovations in Air
hurst to build a home on the Midland | Samuel W. Af^ams, Son of A. L. j^ast. At Salt Lake he figures a railj Much speculation has been indulged
road, where he busies himself with!-^^ams of Southern Pines died Tue 3-1 Journey to the Yellowstone Park, asjjj^ by those about the court house and
such engineering work as his army J day evening at 8:30 P. M. at his home: is not far, can be made in a nigrht, .hroughout the county, as a feeling
training and his inclination leads him 1 there. The boy was fifteen years of 1-aving the car at Salt Lake for a^g^grj^g ^o exist that some innovations
to take up. He is an active member I age and was born in Concord, New iGsumption of the journey to the Utah < ^re ahead. But the commissioners de-
of the riding circles, keeping horses Hampshire. j parks a Lttle later. His story was ^o talk any fuither than to say
trained under his own hands. He is Death was due to septic poison-1 narrative of the amazing next meet.ng* which coines
also the owner of the Pinehurst Col-|^^S and p.ieumonia. He had been ill i'--^nery of Yellowstone Park, the gey-! on seventh of January a plan of
lie kennels, where are kept and bred the past three weeks, and last; sers, the mountains, the accommoda- operation for the new year would be
the famous Sunnybank Collies, that! week was reported to be slightly im- tion for travelers, from the high class | outlined, and decisions as to all mat-
stock that has its origin in Albert j improved, but a relapse Sunday was
Payson Terhiins’s Sunnybank kennels j followed by death,
in New Je.sey. The dogs at Col.j The deceased was a member of the
Hawes’ kcnnols are from Terhune’s Baptist Church, of the Christian Er
This week Thomas Proctor bought
a part of the lot -alongside the Thomas
Stables on the Midland Road east of
Pmehnrst. For 75 feet frontage he
paid $2,500 on which he will build a
filling station, repair and supply shop.
Mr. Proctor is a recognized efficiency
man when it comes to looking after
cars, and will have an establishment
suited to the neighborhood.
The striking feature about this sale
is that it sets a new price for Mid
establishment, and are famed the
country over as the heroes of some
of the most interesting dog stories
deavor Society and the Boy Scouts
of Southern Pines.
He was a student in the Fire I)c-
ever printed in the magazines. Col. | Partment and the Alpha Lodge 182
Hawes is also the engineer in charge j 0*
hotel w.th a comparatively low class' fgj-g would then be handled. The sub-
late to the automobile ca--ps, all ofl gtantial vote by which all the new-
them under government jurisdiction, j board was elected gives ground for
He told of the growing abundance those who say the people are solidly-
of wJd life, of bears that are so tame, behind the new board, and the opin-.
they come out on the road and hold ion is uttered here and there that the
up travelers in hope of something to
I eat, of the herds of buffalo that are
business character of the board will
warrant them to go as far as the law
increasing until the government is i directs in making Moors county as
of the work at the Vemer Reed de-1 Sixty cars made up the funeral giving away animals to park5 and! nearly a model of county government
iprocession to Mount Hope cemetery, others who will take the creatures! as can be cone. ‘
I where the interment took place. Taps' ?-nd cartf or them. He remarked fhat j xhe Recorder’s court remains the
velopment.
FOX AND DRAG HUNTING
STARTS AT SO. PINES
The hunting season officially opens
in Southern Pines on Satuday of this
week, when the Moore County Hounds,
James and Jackson Boyd, joint mas
ters, will lead the field over a drag
were sounded at the grave by Mr.
Moore. The boy is survived by his
father and two younger sisters, Elea
nor and Alberta. The sympathy of
deer were so plentiful that it was i same. The Clerk of Court and the
possible to count dozens and hundreds! Register’s office have indicated no
at a time in a day's journey. He said ^ changes. Charlie McDonald has not
^erythmg thrived out there except; been very noisy, about what his poli-
the entire comunity is extended to j Democrats. deswillbe. However much is expect-
the boy’s family in their bereave- The educational value of the Na-1 ed of him as an officer. Whether new
tional parks appealed to Mr Burt. | deputies and rural police will he re-
They are saving the story of the | appointed is unknown although the
line laid through the open country | HARRY KIRKOVER’S ENTRY creation for the coming generation, present officers have been appraised
ment.
land Road will see marked changes be
tween this and the coming summer.
appeal FOR TOYS
Toys which the children of Southern
lOPines families have discarded are be-
s9ing requested for distribution to less
V>fortunate children of the community
"'through the good offices of the
County Health and Welfare associa
tion. It is requested that they be left
at the office of S. B. Richardson.
Other communities are also asked
aid, getting in touch with Miss Eifort
if they have articles which may aid
in filling Christmas stockings for the
poor.
out-of-the-way beauty spots of this
section.
Through Mr. Kirkover the Carolinas
take on a romantic haze of historical
events and odd personalities. “I could
tell you stories all night,” he said,
“but you don’t want to hear about
me. I’m not good copy.” So our in
terview ended with a few words of
advice on newspaper reporting, for
that also has been one of his pur
suits.
east of town. Hunting with this pack
is by invitation only. The card for
the season calls for drags on Wed-
WINS IN FIELD TRIALS, a few days spent out there will ^ that their term of office expires with
give a broader conception of what the retirement of their old superiors
For the third successive year Kirk’s; earth is than many months of I in office. This may be official notl-
nesday and Saturday afternoons and j Frolic, owned and handled by Harry j I'^ading from books. He told of Guf-1 fication of the end of the term, or it
a fox hunt every Monday morning. I D. Kirkover of Buffalo, N. Y., woni^alo stampedes, of many antics of : may mean that the end is final. The
' I the all age members’ stakes of the! g^rizzlies and more modest bears, and j commissioners decline to talk.
Continental Field Trial club, *n which I ®ne day being within 100 feet of j
20 dogs competed Monday and Tues- bears that had come to visit YALE GLEE CLUB COMES TO
day over the grounds of the club atj^^® camp. Then he took the expedi-j PINEHURST CHRISTMAS EVE
Pinehurst. , down to Utah and to the mar-'
Hawke’s Lady Momoney, owned and j velous canyons of the Colorado and | It goes without saying that
handled by Udo M. Fleischmann, of!its tributaries, where the gulches are|the conc-rt of the Yale Glee Club at
Fairfield, Conn., won second prize. deep that at the bottom, looking the Pinehurst Theatre, on Christmas
Vemer Z. Reed, of Pinehurst, who
suffered injuries to his arm in polo
recently, is rapidly improving but
will be unable to participate in next
week’s tournament.
GOLF BALL IN FLIGHT
LOCATES LOST CASE
CONTAINING $175
What do you know! writes H. B.
Emery, of Pinehurst. The steward
)f the Pinehurst Country Club in
ivalking to No. 1 tee on No. 1
jourse yesterday hit with a golf
;lub what he thought was an
>,mpty cigarette case but when the
Igure showed on the bottom of the
package when it overturned he,
even as you or 1, picked up the ar
ticle and found it to be a roll con
taining $17^ That is not so
strange perhaps but the strangest
part was that the steward should
have called up a man whose iden
tification card was enclosed in the
bills and returned the money to
him, and it is still stranger, not
as you and I, that the man who
did lose the money did not know
of his loss until the steward told
him. Can you imagine such a
thing ?
Third prize went to Doone’s Fred,
owned by Mrs. Harry Cutting, of New
i York, and handled by Udo M. Fleisch- one section are probably 24,000 deer,
' mann. i and much of the country is wholly in-
The Continental Club’s Derby, for 1 accessible to. men except as an air-
dogs whelped since January 1, 1927, | plane flies over it Mr. Burt's story
was completed Tuesday, the winner! was one of the most fascinating that
being Rumson Farms Marex, owned} been told to the Kiwanis Club,
and handled by Raymond Hoagland,; and as the introducer said, to get
Jr., Red Bank, N. J.
up, stars are visible in the day time. Eve, December 24th., will be the
On the rim of the Grand canyon at j musical event of the season.
Their appearance this year will be
Caesar’s Ben Boaz, owned and han
dled by Dr. A. Schuyler Clark, of New
I York, took second prize, and Rumson
I Farms Queen, owned and handled by
(Raymond Hoagland, won third prize.
The weather for the two days of
the trials was excellent and large at
tendances of spectators on horses and
in automobiles followed the dogs
across the hunting preserve of the
club. The trials were very success
ful in every way.
I
this amount of information from one
of Mr. Burt’s books would cOst about
two dollars, but there at the club
he gave it all verbally just l^ecause
he had been inveigled into talking to
the assembled club. He was highly
appreciated.
The Sandshills Sports Daily is now
appearing each morning except Sun
day to replace “What to Do and See
Daily in Pinehurst,” published last
year.
of unusual interest inasmuch as they
have toured through Europe with
marked success since their last visit
to Pinehurst two years ago, and are
coming with the same organization.
The Yale Glee Club seems always
to have the happy faculty of com
bining the popular with the more
ambitious musical ©elections which
makes a well rounded out program
for all.
A crowded house is sure to greet
the Yale boys, and an early.se-
location of seats will be the better
part of wisdom.
Seats will go on sale at the Caro
lina Hotel and Carolina Pharmacy
Monday morning at pVices w*Ithin
reach of all.