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MOORE COUNTY’S
leading NEWS
WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 11, NO. 36.
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SOUTHERN
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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
Aberdeen, North Carolina
.of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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Friday, August 7, 1931.
I n Mr I P5111 2,000 Hear Florida Newsboys in
J, y. lltLiCall Band Concert at Southern Pines
is Re-Elected
Tax Collector
;fficient County Official Also
Awarded Extra Pay for
This Year
PLANK ROAD REINSTATED
J. D. McLean, who for the past sev
eral years has served as tax collec
tor for Moore county and who has
made an enviable recrd during his
tenure of office, was on Monday re
flected for the year beginning October
1, 1931, by the Board of Commission
ers, at a salary of $2,000, payable
monthly. It was further ordered that
he be paid a salary of $200 per month
for July, August and September, 1931.
Previous to this Ml*. McLean was
elected to serve nine months of the
year at a salary of $250 per month,
but when the sale of land for taxes
was deferred as is the case this year,
it was necessary for him to work dur
ing the other three months in order
to complete the year’s work. This ac
counts for the salary ordered paid for
July, August and September.
It was moved and carried that the
commissioners recommend that the
county road leading from the old
Plank Road at Frank Garner’s store
near the Randolph county line to the
Montgomery county line be restored
to and placed on the State map. This
road serves twenty-five families and
is used as a United States rural free
delivery road.
Mrs. Isaac Sheffield was allowed
$10 for support of herself and children
for the month of August. Miss Black
of Carthage township was allowed
an additional $3.00 for support, mak
ing a total of $6.00. The allowance of
$15.00 to J. C. Maness was ordered
discontinued until further order of the
Board.
It w’as ordered that John Harper, a
disabled Spanish war veteran, be ex
empted from county pedler’s license
tax in this county.
Action on an application for license
for a pool room at Hemp was deferr
ed until the first Monday in Septem
ber.
The Board will meet at an early
date to take up the budget.
Electric Storms Play
Havoc in Sandhills
Lightning Strikes on Farm of
H. C. Vetterlein and Cripples
Peach Packing Equipment
Electric storms have been playing
havoc in the Sandhills towns during
the past week, keeping the repair
crews of the Carolina Power & Light
Company and the telephone companies
in Southern Pines and Aberdeen busy
day and night much of the time. A
Storm last Saturday did considerable
damage in Carthage, necessitating the
replacing of most of the street lights
and much rewiring and keeping the
lighting company men busy all day
Sunday.
During the storm Saturday evening,
Mrs. D. A. Smith of Vass was shock
ed by lightning. She was sitting in
the living room of her home at the
time, but was able to make her way
to another room where her sister and
Miss Agnes Smith were. The doctor
was called, and Mrs. Smith had com
pletely recovered by the next day,
■'vith the exception of numbness in one
hand. No damage was done to any
part of the house.
The worst storm in the Southern
Pines section occurred Tuesday even-
^*ng, a drenching rain following the
thunder and lightning and doing some
-amage. The only serious trouble re
ported was from the estate of H. C.
Vetterlein, mayor of Niagara, where
lightning struck near enough to crip
ple his transformer and put the tank
Iiouse out of business. The hot water
lieater was burned out. When Mr.
Vetterlein’s crew of peach packers
arrived Wednesday morning it was
^^ot possible to put them to work be
cause of the damage done.
Some of the peach orchards suffer
ed from the heavy rainfall.
Boy Soloist
HENRY BUNDE
Who scored a big hit with his per
formance with the Newsboys’
Band here on Monday night.
ALDO R. BALSAM
WEDS DAUGHTER
OF BURRELL WHITE
Prominent Members of Sandhills
Society United in Marriage
In New York
HONEYMOON IN EUROPE
Youngsters Give Pleasing Pro
gram of Martial Music Under
Trees in City Park
“The boys are good.”
That seemed to be the cofisensus
of opinion of the crowd of some two
thousand persons who gathered in the
City Park in Southern Pines Monday
evening to hear the Reporter-Star
Newsboys’ Band of Orlando, Florida,
here for the evening on its way to
play at the Canadian Nationr.I Expo
sition at Toronto, Canada.
The occasion was a most pleasant
one. The band arrived in two huge
busses on Monday afternoon, and the
boys were apportioned out to the res
idents of Southern Pines who had of
fered to take two or more each for
the night. There were fifty 'boys in
the band, and not enough to go around
to those who wanted' them at that.
They had supper at the various homes
and reported at the park at 7:30 to
be ih readiness for their 8:15 con
cert. - ' -
People came from all over the sec
tion for the music, and they heard a
real band. In the five years that Ed
gar A. Ball, the director, has had
the boys, he has made musicians of
merit out of them. It is no wonder
that they "were asked to play in pla-’e
of the renowned Sousa and his co
horts at Chautauqua this summer, to
play at the Canadian exposition, and
for President and Mrs. Hoover at
Washington.
Their stop here was the third on
a trip which runs into the middle of
September. They will play every night
in some city en route. They enter-
DIXIE THEATER TO
OPEN SOON WITH
1ST RUN MOVIES
Charlotte Men Buy Aberdeen
House; New Sound Equip
ment Ordered
FIVE CENTS
PLAN CHANGE OF NAME
Under a new name and with new
improved sound equipment, the Dixie
Theatre in Aberdeen will open for
the presentation of first run talking
pictures the latter part of this month.
A deal was consummated last week
whereby Ralph W. Page sold the
theatre to E. S. Hollerman and J. C.
White of Charlotte, 'both experienced
movie men.
According to Hollerman and White,
the theatre will be put in first class
condition at once. The new equipment
has already been ordered, and it is
expected that the first pictures will
be shown around August 24th. The
new management states that the ad
mission price will be reasonable, and
a class of pictures shown to appeal to
all.
Mr. Hollerman has been in the mov
ing picture industry for eight years,
during which time he has been con-
nectad with the Publix-Sanger Thea
tres of North Carolina, and with the
Paramount Publix Corporation. Mr.
White has been in the game for sev
en years, with Paramount Publix and
Pathe Exchange. They are young
men, and plan to move to Aberdeen
permanently, with the expectation of
building up their theatre into one of
Mrs. Ella Geneva White Webster,
daughter of Burrell G. White of Pine-
hurst, and Aldo Rudolph Balsam of
Pinehurst and New York, were mar
ried at the Savoy-Plaza in New York
city on Tuesday, August 4th, accord
ing to announcements just received by
friends in the Sandhills. The former
Mrs. Webster was granted a divorce
at Reno, Nevada, last month, and the
former Mrs. Balsam obtained a simi
lar decree within the fortnight.
Mr. and Mrs. Balsam are both well
known in Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, the former having spent the
past two winters in Pinehurst, last
winter purchasing an extensive estate
in the neighborhood of the Verner
Reed estate on Linden Road. He play
ed a prominent part in hunting and
polo circles, playing in most of the
important polo games held on the
Pinehurst fields last season, and hunt
ing regularly with Mr. Reed’s pack.
Mr. Balsam is a special partner of
Gammack & Co., New York brokerage
house with an office in Southern
Pines.
Mrs. Balsam has frequently visit
ed her father, Burrell White, at his
Knollw^ood home and has been a pop
ular members of Sandhills society.
The announcements state that Mr.
and Mrs. Balsam will be at home at
44 Gramercy Park, New York, after
October 1st. Friends here state that
they plan a European trip in the
meantime.
FAYETTEVILLE GOLFERS
BEAT SOUTHERN PINES
the popular amusement centers of the
tained Charleston, S. C., the night j Sandhills. They plan two-day runs.
giving three different programs each
week.
_ ^ . I The new managers stated when
The martial airs ofthe other day that they desired
to change the name of the theatre,
and would shortly announce a con
test, open to all, for the best name
submitted. Prizes will be offered,
prominent local citizens named as
before they played here.
A Real Program
soon had everyone forgetting the
price of peaches and the bad stock
market and the high mercury. The
band played under electric lights
strung up beside the City Adminis-
Duplicate *n Listing Chief
Reason fkeported Boost
in Sandhills Valuations
Dan’s Double Duties
Banker Gets Confused Be
tween His Sunday School
Class and Kiwanis Club
Dan McKeithen, genial cashier of
the Page Trust Company, teaches a
Sunday School class on Sundays,
presides at the Kiwanis Club meet
ings on Wednesdays when Presi
dent Richard Tufts isn’t around.
Sometimes in his modesty and em
barrassment, Dan forgets as he
rises to his feet just which he is
facing, his class or his club,
“This is the first Sunday of the
month,” he announced to the start
led members of the Kiwanis Club
Wednesday noon. When the laught
er had subsided, Dan announced
hhat hie meant it was the first meet
ing of the month.
Of $300,000 Raise in Valuation,
$170,000 Found to Be Dupli
cated on Books
UNLISTED TRACTS FOUND
SEABOARD MEN
PLAY GOLF HERE
SEPT. 5,6, AND 7
To Hold Fifth Annual Tourna
ment at Southern Pines Coun
try Club Next Month
PARKVIEW HEADQUARTERS
tration building with benches scat-
tered about the lawns for the early
This Southern Pines golf team, the
only team which has ever beaten Fay
etteville on Fayetteville’s own course,
tried in vain to repeat the perform
ance Wednesday, losing to the tune of
13 1-2 points to 7 1-2. Fourteen Sand-
hillians journeyed over to the neigh
bor city for the battle. The scores
were:
Johnson and Hasketh (F) defeated
Woodward and Frank Page Jr., 3-0;
Underwood and Richardson (F) de
feated Shepard and Clark, 2 1-2-1-2;
Tillinghast and Riggan (F) defeated
Dr. Daniels and Keith, 2-1; Montgom
ery and SSevens (SP) defeated Dye
and Slate, 3-0; Newberry and Can
ady (F) defeated Jordan and Davis,
3-0. Slocomb and Davis (F) defeated
V. B. Johnson and Morrison 3-0, and
Harris and Ferguson (SP) defeated
Clark and McAllister 3-0.
AT THE MOVIES
Thurs., Fri., Sat., August 6; 7, 8—
Charlie Ruggles in “The Girl Habit.”
Mon., Tues., Wed., Aug. 10, 11, 12—
‘^Sporting Blood.”
comers. The rest stood about or loll
ed on the grass or sat in their cars
nearby while Mr. Ball led his young
sters, all newsboys or ex-newsboys
of the Orlando paper—and all Boy
Scouts—through pieces which only
the best grown-up bands usually tac
kle. Then there were boy solosist and
good singing and lots of pep and the
best looking girl mascot who ever
stepped out of Florida. Her name was
Agnes something-or-other, we wish
we knew.
After the concert the program call
ed for street dancing on East Broad
street in front of where the band was
playing, but here came the disappoint
ment of the evening. It was discover
ed when the crowd moved out to the
“dance floor” you couldn’t hear the
band through the trees, and the band
couldn’t move out to the street be
cause of l^ck of lighting facilities. An
effort ’was made to dance on the lawn
near the band, and several couples,
led by Frank Buchan and his daught
er, accomplished the feat successful
ly. But others not as young and agile
as Frank found it difficult, and Di
rector Ball decided to let the boys off.
They’d arisen at 5 o’clock that morn
ing and ridden all day in the busses
and he thought they had had enough.
They Dance Till One
Most of them had. But a few de
cided after the official adjournment
that those who were insisting upon
a few dances on the well commealed
pavement should not be disappointed, [ tain.”
and they got out their instruments
again and played in the dark, by ear,
until one o’clock while a goodly sized
crowd danced, including most of the
other members of the band. They had
a grand time.
The two busses, with their load of
fifty some youths, Mr. and Mrs. Ball,
Agnes and J. C. Brozier, editor of the
Orlando Reporter-Star, who -Is manag
ing the trip, pulled out early Tuesday
morning for Raleigh where the band
entertained the populace Tuesday
afternoon.
Thanks are due the Chamber of
Commerce for a gala night in South
ern Pines and President S. B. Rich
ardson, who introduced the band. And
thanks are due others who aided in
the front of the theatre.
Kiwanis Enjoys
Musical Program
Mrs. Reid Page, Mrs. D. I. Mc
Keithen, “Bob” Page Enter
tain at Weekly Meeting
Mrs. Reid Page sang, Mrs. Dan I.
McKeithen played the piano and
“Bob” Page played his guitar and
sang at the weekly Kiwanis Club
meeting held Wednesday in the Com
munity Church at Pinehurst, and be
cause it was an impromptu program,
it went over with a bang. Everything
went smoothly except the piano, which
took on a fit of temperment or weath
er or something and refused to re
spond in toto when called upon by
Mrs. McKeithen. Some of the notes
just couldn’t be discounted.
Jerry Healy, chairman of the music
committee, arranged the program
when at the last minute before the
meeting it was discovered there was
no speaker. Mrs. Page sang several
pleasing solos, to Mrs. McKeithen’s
accompaniment. Mrs. McKeithen play
ed a piano solo on such notes ,as
would respond. “Bob” sang some of
his topical tropical, songs which went
big. The Kiwanis quintet of Messrs.
Buchan, Picquet, Dunlop, Cameron
and McBrayer did a fine piece of
work with “Climbing Up the Moun-
TWO HURT AT PINEHURST
IN COLLISION OF AUTOS
(Please turn to Page 8)
J. E. Jackson, a_West End peach
grower, and James Walden, colored,
a truck driver of West End, were
hurt in a collision of a truck and a
Ford roadster driven by a negro on
the curve in the road leading out of
Pinehurst toward West End Wednes
day evening. Both were taken to the
Moore County Hospital, where Jack
son’s injuries were found to be slight.
Walden, however, was badly hurt
about the head and his" condition is
serious. The negro in the roadster es
caped unhurt.
Jackson and Walden were returning
from Dunn where they delivered a
truck load of peaches.
The Seaboard Air Line golfers are
coming back to Southern Pines for
their annual outing on Saturday, Sep
tember 5th, taking possession of the
Park View and Belvedere hotels and
the Southern Pines Country Club for
three days. During this time they will
hold their fifth annual tournament.
The schedule of events calls for the
qualifying round to start at 8 o’clock
Saturday morning, the 5th, but the
members may qualify on Friday if
they arrive that early. The first round
starts Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock.
On Sunday the tournament contin
ues with second round flights and
consolation matches. At 2 o’clock the
boys are going to have their picture
taken, and at 3 a putting and driving
contest is scheduled.
Third round flights start early
Monday morning, with the final
rounds in the various divisions sche
duled for 1 o’clock that afternoon. At
4 o’clock the annual meeting for elec
tion of officers and the award of
prizes will be held.
Special Pullmans
It is understood that the Park View
Hotel will, as usual, be the head
quarters for the association of golf
ers, with the Belvedere as an adjunct.
Special Pullmans will bring the rail
road officials here and be parked on
the sidings during their stay.
At present the presidency of the
Seaboard Air Line Golf Association
is vacant. E. C. Bagwell is vice-pres
ident, R. T. Etheridge secretary and
treasurer. J. C. Wroton is chairman of
the tournament committee, C. H. Gat-
tis of the committee on transporta
tion and W. L. Darden of the mem
bership coipmittee. Mr. Bagwell heads
the organization’s executive commit
tee.
Railroad officials were here this
week to discuss plans for the enter
tainment of the crowd with Mayor D.
G. Stutts of Southern Pines, local
Seaboard agent.
SANDHILLS PEACHES FOR
GRANDFATHER ORPHANS
The orphans at Grandfather Or
phans’ Home at Banner Elk are
munching delicious peaches. Through
the kindness of the Rev. Murdoch
McLeod of Pinehurst and Moses A.
McDonald of West End, a truckload of
the Sandhills fruit was donated to the
youngsters this week. The boys from
the orphanage went down to West
End, loaded up a truck and returned.
What they didn’t want for immediate
use the girls of the institution set to
work canning. There are 90 boys and
girls at Grandfather Home.
Duplications in the listing of prop
erties in Sandhills township, the dis
covery of a few tracts of land pre
viously unlisted for taxes, and im
provements in the Southern Pines sec
tor were in part responsible
for the reported increase in valuation
of some $300,000 over the previous
year, according to the findings of the
committee appointed two weeks ago
to review the property assessments
fixed by the tax listers for this town
ship.
It is learned that some $170,000 of
this $300,000 increase was du^ to du
plicate sheets, the same property be
ing listed more than once on the books
and not previously discovered because
the books were called for at Carthage
before the local assessors had time to
recheck their figures.
The committee of review has been
in session for several days this week
in Aberdeen, has heard numerous
complaints and gone carefully into
the situation with a view to placing
valuations in Sandhills township in
line with those of other townships of
the county. They have adjusted some
assessments that appeared to be out
of line, some upwards but more down
wards, and the net result is as yet
unknown and will be until the figures
have been tabulated at Carthage. But
with the discovery of the approxi
mately $170,000 in duplication and a
reported net reduction in the valua
tions set by the assessors, the re
ported $300,000 increase which start
ed pandemonium among the residents
of Sandhills when the figures were re
ported will be nothing like that
amount and will not, it is said, be out
of line with other townships of the
county.
Among the land not previously list
ed, at least not for some years, was
one tract of 1,000 acres, it is said.
The complaint against Sandhills
township valuations was mostly due
to the fact that an increase of some
$300,000 showed for this tov^mship
whereas other townships in the county
showed reductions or but slight in
creases. On Protest Day at Carthage
two weeks ago a plea was made by
Senator M. M. Johnson on behalf of
Sandhills property owners for a re
view of the figures for this town
ship, and J. R. Page, T. McLean
and Levi Packard were named to go
over the books with the present board
of assessors, J. W. Pickier, A. A. Mc-»
Keithen and James O’Quinn.
Leaf Prices Low as
Border Markets Open
Sales Light in Volume and Av
erage Return Runs Be-^
tween 7 and 8 Cents
The tobacco markets of the North
Carolina border belt opened Tuesday
with sales surprisingly light in vol
ume and estimated prices generally
averaging lower than at last year’s
opening.
The growers, however, were report
ed as showing less dissatisfaction with
prices than they did a year ago, few
of them turning in tickets rejecting
the prices offered.
Although the prices on the basis of
estimated and unofficial figures aver
aged lower than in 1930, good grades
of tobacco were said to be in jieavy
demand and to have sold at a better
figure.
Sales at Lumberton and Fairmont,
two of the larger markets, were less
than half the volume of a year ago,
and trading was lighter as a rule at
the other markets. Warehousemen at
tributed this in part to a lateness in
baming and curing of the crop.
Averaged prices reported from va
rious markets on the opening day
were:
Chadbourn—$7.10.
Lumberton—$7.85.
Fair Bluff—$8.24.
Fairmont—$8.40.
Dillon, S. C.—$7.85.
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