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Page Eight THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Vass. North Carolina Friday, March I, 1929. TO ENJOY THE SHOW FILL UP WITH GAS AND OIL FIRST AT Max Filling Station Aberdeen, North Carolina Congratulations to The Dixie Theatre Spring Dresses NEW DIFFERENT DISTINCTIVE In our stock of new fashions for spring you will find the latest in dresses and ensembles. At unusually low prices- They are made for you—individually—^personally— nnd there are no two alike. In selecting your spring apparel at the Ladies' Style Shop you are assured of ^e utmost in quality, style and individuality at prices that will please. Ladies’ Style Shop Aberdeen, North Carolina We Congratulate The Dixie Thetare HOSS PLAY OUT CARTHAGE WAY About Jedge Gray’s Jurisdiction and How a Prisoner Locked the Sheriff Up In a Cell (By Herbert F. Seawell, Jr.) Judge Shaw held court at the “Capital” of the County recently. He is said by many to be the best Su perior Court Judge in North Caro lina. We are not learned enough in law to make a statement as to this, 'but with apoligies to General Motors •we feel safe in saying, when better .courts are held he’ll hold ’em. Several years ago a man by the name of Gray used to hold court in Carthage. About the same time, an old negro man used to attend court -regularly, sometimes as a witness but most of the time just as a specta tor. He never missed a session in twenty years. He was the first in the courthouse and the last to leave. He knew every judge that held court here. Judge Gray used to wear p. "high silk hat, grey pants with Prince Albert coat, apats, white vest, and he always carried a large gold headed cane. When he exhibited his dignity to the public you might think he owned the world and had half interest in the moon. Somebody ask- of ed the old negro one day who was I iridl dt the best Judge holding the courts i Dixie Theatre Today at Carthage. “Well,” he says, “jus' cceded to take the old man to jail. When he reached the jail, he said, “Sheriff, I’m skeered, it’s dark in thar.” Sheriff says, “Ah, it won’t hurt ya,’ look at me,” and stepped inside the cell. When he did the old man slammed the door, turned the key and walked on back to the court house. They say he walked up to the Judges desk, slapped the keys down in front of him, sort of braced him self and said, “Now, Jedge, ain’t I a hoss.” What the Judge said can’t be put in print, but in the words of Mark Twain’s famous Huckleberry, you can bet your bottom button, “he warnt none too well pleased.” Judge Shaw has made quite an im pression at Carthage and especially during criminal terms, at which time violators of the law “warnt none too well pleased” with his sentences. He takes care of all horse play, knows his jurisaiction, and when better courts are held at Carthage, he’ll hold ’em. to tell the financial truf,’ I don’ know who’s the bestes’ jedge, but it peahs to me lak old Jedge Gray is got the most jurisdicUon.” One of the largest and most tal ented casts ever assembled at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio was brought together when Monta Bell Carthage used to have eight stores: filmed “The Bellamy Trial,” which and sev€n of them were bar rooms. It i opens tonight at the Dixie Theatre probably accounts for this story. We i in Aberdeen. still have the eight stores but we, Leatrice Joy, making her debut as have done away with the bar rooms. Court was in session at Carthage. FiVerything was so quiet in the Court room you could hear a pin “drap.” A man about six feet six stepped in at the rear of the auditorium and said, Tm a hoss.” Everybody turned a freelance star, heads the cast of principal players as Sue Ives, the wo man on trial, her first appearance since she made “Blue Danube” with Cecil B. DeMille. George Barraud, distinguished British and American stage star, around to get a look and the old man | plays opposite Miss Joy as the hus- staggered up the aisle about middle j band whose faith is unshaken by the way of the court room and announced i murder accusation. Kenneth Thomp- again that he was a horse. The Judge asked for order in the court room and the old man stopped talking but he kept walking. When he reached the Judge’s desk he announced in a very loud voice, “Jedge, Fm a hoss.” The Judge figured heM had about enough horse play so he said, “Sher iff, take this horse and put him in the stable and curry him down with a five dollar fine.*’ So the sheriff pro- son, another product of the legitimate stage who was last seen as Ruth Chatterton’is leading man in **The Devil’s Plum Tree,” is the second murder defendant, husband of the slain woman. Four reels of the picture are in dialogue, through the new sound-pic- ture machine installed in the Dixie last week. Truly a promise of ex ceptional entertainment. Sound Pictures At the Dixie Theatre Aberdeen « Friday and Saturday Who KILLED MIMI BELLAM/ ? -ijoa'll find 'Jie ansiver in A Talking Picture with four reels of dialogue Monday and Tuesday Bert Lytell “THE LONE WOLF’S DAUGHTER” A Talking Picture and as an added attraction, a special Movietone Act, “VINCENT LOPEY” Himself at the piano Wednesday and Thursday Emil Jannings •* in “SINS OF THE FATHER” (Silent) and a special Movietone act Elinor Glynn in an address “WHAT IS IT” Hudson-Essex-Studebaker SALES AND SERVICE We Repair any Make Car—Open 7 A. M. to 6 P. M. Martin Motor Company Aberdeen, North Carolina We Congratulate The Dixie On Its Sound Movies Marion Shoppe Aberdeen’s Popular Priced Store Visit our new store, the Talk of the Town High Grade Merchandise at Popular Prices Ladies Full-fashioned hose, $2.00 value $1.00 Ladies $15.00 Dresses $9.85 New Spring Hats for Ladies, $5.00 Values $3.85 Harion Shoppe Aberdeen, North Carolinai We Congr<atiilate The Dixie 0 Its Sound Movies SPECIAL AT MELVIN’S THIS WEEK Ladies New Spring Hats, Coats and Dresses New Spring Line of Natural Bridge Shoes for Ladies The Famous Nationally Advertised Selz Shoe for Men. See us before you make your spring purchase. IVIelvin’s Aberdeen, North Carolina Congratulations On The Success Of The Talkies It is cheaper to have Accident Protection and not need it—than to need it and not have it. See Us In Time All Lines of Insurance Written Noore-Hoke Realty Co. Theo Berg, Mgr. Aberdeen, North Carolina We Hope You Will Enjoy The Talkies at The Dixie HOW MANY PINE CONES IS DOLLARS’ WORTH TEN Sandhills Women’s Exchange Has Serious Problem On Its Hands as Result of Big Order What is the value of a pine cone? Should they be sold by the dozen, | the peck or the yard? -j What is the freight rate ? Express rate? | Silly questons, you say, but the j strangest part of it is, they’ve got; to be answered. j Just before his train pulled out of > Southern Pines for New York the* other evening, William P. Willetts, a I young New York broker, thrust a I ten-dollar bill into the hand of the | gentleman seeing him off and said: I “Please ask the Woman’s Exchange! in Pinehurst to send me ten dollars’ | worth of ipine cones, express or, freight prepaid.” i Before the local resident could tell j him that in all probability ten dollars ! w^ould buy a carload of pine cones, the i train had pulled crt. i Now it’s up to the Women’s Ex-j change to figure the thing out. There! is no established market for pdne I cones here. The Exchange do3s put' some up in bags and sell them for ten cents a bag. People like them to start fiMs with. They make good kindling. And emit a pleasant aroma when burning. But ten cents goes into ten dollars one hundred times. The Women’s Exchange never had 100 bags of pine cones, and anyway, the cost of shipping, which must be prepaid out of the ten spot, precludes sending 100 bags. How many bags car be sent at ten cents a bag after payment of the transportation, is the problem. There is talk of calling in an ex pert accountant, Paul Dana or some one, but some hold that the ladies have no right to use any of the ten dollars in this way. They are au thorized to use it only for cones and transportation. A committee is be ing appointed to put the problem up to railroad officials, freight agents and express companies. And meanwhile, small boys are out gathering in the pine cones. BANNER YEAR LOOKED FOR , BY SEABOARD PRESIDENT (Continued Prom Page One.) motive power and equipment and an increased output in.. units repaired without increased expense In main tenance of equipment. Transportation expenses decreased $2,571,488 or an amount equal to 57 per cent of the decrease in gross rev enues. This decrease in transporta tion expenses includes substantial permanent savings as the result of the inauguration of improved operating methods and economies, and a sub stantial reduction in unproductive overhead expenses. The effect of the permanent savings inaugurated dur ing the year was not fully reflected in the results for 1928, for the reason that a material portion of the savings did not become operative during the early part of the year. Tre transpor- tatib-n ratio, as the result of lower transportation costs, was 37.02 in 1928 as compared with 38.46 in 1927, a decrease of 1.44. General expenses, traffic expenses and miscellaneous operations were re duced $611,645, which included sav ings of a permanent character not in fluenced by decreases in the volume of business handled. I Operating expenses are well under (Control and substantial n€t income may be expected from increased bus iness. The 1928-29 crop year in Florida is showing a largely increased pro duction of citrus and other fruits, and I vegetables over that of 1927-28. The I money returns from this increased 1 production should stimulate the pur- j chase of commodities that will result in added inbouwd freight traffic. Business conditions in other Sea board territory have improved. Ac tivities in manufacturing, in mining, in agriculture, and in general busi ness are pronounced. During the year more than 200 new industries and bus iness enterprises were located on the lines of the company. There has been a marked improve ment in tourist travel during the present season, but local passenger travel has shown a decrease for the reasons hereinbefore stated.
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