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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL, 11, NO. 46,
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LAKEVieW
PILOT
SELL YOUR
TOBACCO ON THE
ABERDEEN MARKET
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 16, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
County Fair is
Opened to Tune
of Heavy Guns
Wide Variety of Exhibits and
Amusement Features Enter
tain Crowds at Carthage
almost doubled IN SIZE
With the firing* of the big 155 milli
meter gun and its smaller satellite
which rides perched upon the barrel
of the large piec^ of artillery, the
Moore County Fair for 1931 opened
Tuesday, riot only with a bang but
with a succession of them. The guns
were manned by an artillery company
of the National Guard from San
ford under the command of Capt. Dan
B. King.
The numerous exhibits, housed in
a tent which has been almost doubled
in size over that used in fjormer years,
made a most creditable showing of the
industrial and agricultural attain
ments of Moore county. The farm
products, displayed under the able
direction of County Agent E. H. Gar
rison, Jr., demonstrated the versatili
ty of the soil in this secti,on as well
as what may be accomplished by the
adoption of scientific farming meth
ods. Naturally the old standbys, cot
ton and tobacco, were on exhibition,
but they were greatly over-shadowed
by the displays of food and feed-
stuffs, showing that Governor Gard
ner’s “live-at-home” program is be
ing closely practiced in Moiore county.
Of special interest to those engaged in
live-stock raising, was the various
kinds of hay shown, including pea
vine, soy bean, alfalfa and lespedeza.
Grain crops were well represented,
particularly corn, white, yellow and
pop, being shown in attractive dis
plays, while the varieties of the veg
etable kingdom ,on exhibition included
every practical kind known to this
section from the smallest peas to im
mense pumpkins, which would glad
den the heart of any child if made
into a Hallow-e’en Jack o’ lantern or
later into a pumpkin pie.
Canned Goods Display
Canned go,ods and preserves that
made the spectators long for a boun-
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Jeffress Promises Aid
in Planting- Midland Rd.
State Highway Chairman Will
Furnish Labor To Aid in
Beautification
Chairman E. B. Jeffress of the
State Highway Commission promises
to furnish the labor from men of his
departnient if the Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen will provide the seeds and
plants wanted for further beautifi
cation of the double road between
Southern Pines and Pinehurst, J. Tal-
t)ot Johnson of the club’s planting
committee reported at Wednesday’s
meeting of the club held at the Civic
Club in Southern Pines. Mr. Johnson
had a conference with Chairman Jef-
fress in Raleigh last week. It is un-.
derstood that arrangements will be
promptly*made with the Highway de
partment ^r the planting.
Mr. Johnson also reported that
Captain Charles D. Farmer, head of
the State Highway Patrol, had prom
ised to send five motorcycle patrol
men here to assist with traffic and
guarding of cars during next
''"eek’s Kiwanis convention at Pine-
liurst.
Wednesday’s meeting (of the Ki-
^anis club was given over the final
planning for the big convention which
opens next Wednesday. All chairmen
of convention committees reported on
their activities.
The Rev. Craighill Brown was offi
cially welcomed into the club by Hir
am Westbrook, his sponsor, and Pres
ident Richard Tufts. Robert N. Page
Reported that the Raleigh Kiwanis
Club was planning to attend next
Peek’s convention almost 100 per
cent. Among other clubs expected to
come here en masse are San^rd and
Fayetteville, while Wilmington and
Pthers promise large delegations.
Majestic Old Bethesda on Her 141st Birthday
•
Sandhills tc Entertain Two
iwanis Clubs
^ext Week
Governoi S
Old Bethesda to Welcome Her j WILLIAM CALLERY
Sons and Daughters Next Sunday pjgc gy
Morning Preacher
To Celebrate 141st Anniversary
of Founding of Church on
Home-Coming Day
AT PITTSBURGH
By Bion H. Butler
Old Bethesda will celebrate Home
Coming cay next Sunday, and with it
the 141st anniversary ,of the founding
of the church. Old friends of the
church, former members, sons and
daughters, grandsons and grand-
Winter Resident of Southern
Pines Victim of 111 Health and
Financial Reverses
of Two Sta
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Convention Features
Wednesday, Oct. 21
2:30 P. M.—Golf Tournament,
Country Club.
8:30 P. M.—Get-Together Party,
Carolina.
9.<30 P,. M.—Dance, Carolina.
Thursday, Oct. 22
12:45 P. M.—Luncheon, Carolina.
2:30 P. M.—Archery Exhibition,
Country Club.
4:00 P. M.—Military Guard
Mount, Boxing Exhibition.
7:30 P. M,—Banquet, Carolina.
10:00 P. M.—Ball, Qountry Club.
Friday, Oct. 23
10.55 A. M.—Election of Offi
cers.
Hu*
For
^ . :pected at Pinehurst
' *ual Convention of
C iTolinas District
BOXING BOUTS A FEATURE
Public Invited to Scraps at Race
Track Thursday.—Gov. Gard
ner and Gov. Blackwood to
Speak at Banquet.—Golf Tour
ney Wednesday.
LEAVES WIFE AND FAMILY
The Sandhills was shocked on Wed
nesday to leam of the death by sui-
daughters, great grandsons and great ’ ^ide of William Gallery, 38 years old,
granddaughters of former members occasional winter resident of South-
DR. HENRY LOUIS SMITH
COUNTY HOSPITAL
RATED CLA^ A BY
SURGEONS’COLLEGE
Unconditionally Approved as
Meeting All Requirements of
American Society
CAUSE FOR GRATIFICATION
The Moore County H,ospital at Pine
hurst was unconditionally approved
as a Class A hospital by the Amer
ican College of Surgeons at its meet
ing in New York this week. Word to
this effect pas received on Wednesday
morning by Dr. Clements Munroe.
Only about 65 per cent of the hos
pitals of the country are uncondition
ally approved by the College of Sur
geons, and for the local institution to
win the c,oveted distinction in its brief
career is a distinct cause for gratifi
cation on the part of those responsi
ble for the county’s new hospital, and
for congratulation for the physicians
of the county, the hospit^ staff and
Dr. Munroe.
The addition of the Moore County
Hospital to the list means that the in-
stituti,on has met with the rigid re
quirements of the College of Sur
geons, these requirements having
principally to do with thoroughness in
the treatment of patients rather than
with physical equipment. The inspec
tor who visited the local hospital spent
most of his time here locking over the
records of cases rather than the hos
pital itself, observing the complete
ness of case histories, of laboratory
work, of analyses, the record (of suc
cessful operations and treatments, the
death rate, etc. That he found the
hospital staff was doing its work 100
per cent is apparent from the recog
nition given the institution this week.
will gather with their picnic baskets
to make a day of it in the historic
churchyard.
Dr. Henvy Louis Smith, president-
emeritus of Davidson College and of
Washington and Lee University, will
preach in the morning. In the after
noon a son of the church. Judge
Thomas J. Shaw of Greensboro, broth
er of Mrs. Robert N. Page of Aber
deen, will be the speaker. The Rev.
E. L, Barber, pastor of the Bethesda
Presbyterian Church, will offer pray
ers, (Other Sandhills pastors join in
the celebration of the occasion, and
special music will play a part in the
program. All are cordially invited to
the service and to bring their basket
luncheons for a Home Coming long
to be remembered.
The old Bethesda church, ,on the al-
ern Pines and son rof Mr. and Mrs.
J. Dawson Callery, who have made
their home here for several winters.
A special despatch to The Pilot from
Pittsburgh, Pa., received on Wednes
day says:
“William Callery, wealthy Sewickley
Valley clubman, ended his life early
yesterday morning with a shotgun
while sitting in his fashionable sur-
burban home in Maple Lane, Shields.
Attaching a string t,o the trigger of
a shotgun and then wrapping it about
his hand, Callery seated himself in a
chair and placing the shotgun against
his chest, ended his life.
‘‘A note asking his wife, the former
Irene A. Daly, of Baltimore, Mary*^
land, to forgive him was found at
his side. The note, which was writ-
Charlie Picquet denies that as an
added attraction to the boxing bouts
next Thursday at the Pinehurst race
track he is going to put Maxey Gard
ner and Ibra Blackwood in the ring.
He says folks are getting the Kiwanis
program confused.
It’s true that Max Gardner, who is
Governor of North Carolina, and Ibra
C. Blackwood, who is Governor of
South Carolina are going to be here
next Thursday, and that they are giO-
ing to tell each other what they’d
like to say to each other, but it is of
ficially denied that any blows will be
struck.
It looks like a big week in Pine
hurst. T« get to the story, the annual
convention of the Carolinas district of
Kiwanis International is to be held
at the Carolina Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. This means a lot to the
Kiwanians here who are spreading
themselves to welcome the delegates
and guests from eighty other clubs in
the two Carolinas. But what means
A boom hit the Aberdeen market | most to the Sandhills public is the.
this week and everyone is feeling bet- ; boxing exhibition at 4 o’clock Thurs-
ter. Quantities of good leaf came t(0 j day afternoon, for this is one feature
the floors of both warehouses here, j of the convention to which the public
and prices jumped away up. As | is invited,
against the September average of j Boxing Bouts
$9.52 a hundred for the Old Bright I ^eu^ns, 151-pound pride of
TOBACCO PRICES
JUMP AND MAKE
EVERYONE HAPPY
Monday’s Big Market Started
Week Off With a Bang.—Av
erage Over 12 Cents
N. C. §ALES BELOW 1930
Belt, Monday’s average here was
above $12.00, and the warehouses en
joyed another big day Wednesday.
With better prices f,or the farmers
came better business for Aberdeen, so
that everybody was happy.
The report of the State-Federal De
partments of Agriculture for the
month of September showed total
Fort Bragg, is slated to tackle Mickey
Cummings, an Air Corps fisticuffer of
the same weight, in the main bout—
“ten rounds of boxing, gentlemen, for
the middleweight championship of the
Kiwanis Cionvention.” These boys are
good, if you can believe Col. G. P.
Hawes, who used to be in the army
himself and who carded the bouts for
producers’ sales in Aberdeen of 285,- j pijiej^^rst.
992 fK)unds at an average price of semi-final, Don King of the
of Aberdeen, holds an uncommon in
terest among the people of the Sand
hills, for it is not only a factjor in
the present day story, but it marks
one ofvthe fundamentals in the crea
tion of the community. The beginning
, - 1 1 • ^ J. ten on stationery bearing the address,
T*!. ‘Southern Pines, N. C.’ said he had
only $25,000 life insurance, fn it he
asked his wife t|0 try and hold the
I stone business which he owned. The
I letter bore no signature and ended by
I bidding his wife good night.
1 “Relatives blame ill health ahd fi-
of the history of Moore county is i . , .i. i. tt •
I nancial reverses for the act. He is
based on the grant to Henry McCul-
loh about two hundred years ago of a
dozen tracts of land on the upper
Cape Fepr and Peedee rivers, each
tract including over 100,000 acres.
Pioneer Days
McCulloh interested settlers on the
lower end of the rivers and foll^owing
them arrivals from Scotland about
1735 pushed farther up the stream. A
little later came Neal McNeal with
three or four hundred of the disap
pointed followers of the Stuart prince-
and CampbelltFown at Cross Creek
laid the foundations of the city of Fay
etteville. From there three or four
streams of pioneering extended north
ward, one in the territory of Harnett
and eastern Moore, one up through
the Longstreat country and (Over this
way, and then another by way of An
tioch and Drowning Creek farther to
the west. For many a year Graham’s
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FIRST SERVICES SUNDAY
AT THE VILLAGE CHAPEL
The first services of the season will
bib h6ld at the Pinehurst Chapel Sun
day morning, with the Rev. T. A.
Cheatham, rect<or, officiating, ^r.
Cheatham returned to the Sandhills
this week after slt^ interestin.? sum
mer spent in hospital work in New
York.
the son of J. Dawson Callery, promi
nent Pittsburgh banker. He was a
member of the Pittsburgh Athletic
Club, Alleghany Country Culb and the
Edgeworth Club, and a graduate of
Princet^on University.”
When in Southern Pines William
Callery occupied the Louis Lachine
house opposite the Highland Pines Inn
on Weymouth Heights, which had been
previously occupied by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Callery. During
the past two seasons the latter have
leased and occupied the residence of
the late Mrs. James Y. Bjoyd.
Deep regret was expressed by
friends of the two families here when
the news spread about on Wednesday.
The Callerys have been unusually pop
ular members of the Sandhills winter
colony for the past few years.' Mr.
Callery senior has stabled his race
horses at the ‘Pinehurst track for
several seasons and taken a keen in
terest in the affairs of the Pinehurst
Jiockey Club. His son spent vacation
periods here during several winters.
Besides his wife and parents, the de
ceased leaves several children and one
brother and sister.
His brother, George L. Callery ac
quired considerable Sandhills acre
age on the heights back of The Pad
dock property two years ago, which
he improved by clearing off the
scrub oak and damning a stream ^r
an attractive lake.
$9.48 a hundred. Carthage s,old 274,-
816 pounds at an average of $9.54. The
average for all the markets on the
New Bright Belt was $8.68.
September tobacco prices in North
Carolina averaged $9.56 per hundred
pounds, $2.28 below the average price
for September 1930 and $2.88 ,below
the $1^44 averag”e which was main
tained on tKe South Carolina belt at
the opening of the 1931 season during
August.
Sales Below 1930
Figures made public by the State-
Federal crop reporting service, sh,ow
that September sales this year,
amounting to 93,355,542 pounds were
16.5 per cent less than the 111,800,-
168 pounds sold during? September of
last year. Total production for the
state is forecast at 496,760,000, a 15
per cent reduction from last year’s
crop.
' The Old Bright belt, in which
Aberdeen is located, with sales of
7,671,519 shewed an, average price of
$9.52 as compared with $11.63 last
year.
“Conditions in the tobacco produc
ing counties have been somewhat more
favorable for crop production this
seasfon than was the case last year,”
the report' stated. “By September 1st,
the majority of the crop had been
harvested. This was especially true
in the eastern section and in the
5th Field Artillery takes on Speed
Webb of the 16th Field Artillery for
six rounds at 'abput 137 pounds. The
preliminary stacks A1 Shaw of the
5th F. A. up against Soldier Kimery
of the sam^putfit, and the rumor is
that these boys have it in for each
other. In fact, so much rivalry has de
veloped over there at the Fort during
the past month’s training period that
svome real bouts are looked for next
Thursday.
Before the scraps start, a detach
ment from Fort Bragg will stage a
guard mount, and the U. S. Army
band from the Fort will give a con
cert. All this open to the public for
the price of One Dollar, cash in hand
paid, unless perchance you want a
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COMMISSIONERS ADOPT
BUDGET, FIX TAX RATE
At a meeting of the County Com
missioners on Wednesday the board
adfopted the budget for the year and
approved the tax rate of 72 cents an
nounced several weeks ago in The Pi
lot.
former ABERDEEl^ MAN
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
Chief of Police H. C. Bethea, of
St. Pauls, formerly of Aberdeen, is
on trial in Lumberton for sh^ooting to
death last April HE. Judson Dean.
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Am. Legion To Install
New Officers Tuesday
Sandhills Post to Honor O'Calla-
ghan, Dana, Backer and
Others at Meeting
Sandhill P,ost, American Legion will
install its new officers at a meeting
at the Civic Club, Southern Pines,
next Tuesday evening, at which time
Tom Black will retire as post com
mander and turn the reins over to L.
V. O’Callaghan.
The meeting will also be in the na
ture of a celebration for recognition
given the Sandhill post by the State
Department of the legiion, which
chosjB Paul Dana of Pinehurst de
partment vice commander and Max
Backer alternate district committee
man at the last State Convention.
Honor also will be paid to Bill Luck
of Hamlet, district commander, who
will be present at the meeting. John
Stedman, (of Raleigh, of the State
Department Executive committee, wUl
also be at the meeting. All veterans
of the World War in this se^ion are
urged to attend the installation exer
cises.
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