MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY JL A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 11, NO. 50. >^CAATHA0E ^ &AOi.e SPRIHC3 VASS EVieW MAHCEV JACKSOH SPRIhOS SOUTHCRiM PIM6S ASHUEY ABERDC-Oi Ml ■ HK*GHTS ^pineblufp PILOT SOUTHERN PINES ANNUAL RESORT NUMBER of the Sandhill Territory of North Cat'olina Aberdeen and Southern IMnes, North Car(»lina, Friday November 20, 19.‘U. FIVE CENTS ONCOUNTRY CLUB A Battle of Champions At Southern Pines Busy Season of Golf Events,! Teas and Dances Arranged at Southern Pines FIRST TOURNEY DEC. 5TH With its two 18-hoIe golf couvses in fiiw condition, the Southern Pines (Country Club is planning its most ac tive season in history. Numerouf. \ournaments for all ages and sizes and degrees of skill with woiods and irons are scheduled for the winter months. The clubhouse has been made more attractive than ever ,and will be the usual social as well as golf center in Southern Pines during the season. That those availing themselves of the Country Club wi" be well looked after this winter is assured by the staff which the cUib’s directors have “signed up” to run things. Richard Wilson has been named sports secre- tarj' and will have charge of the var ious tournaments and special matches. Miss Birdilia Bair is the new golf hostess, and will see that women’s events are run off in efficient man ner. Miss Florence Campbell will act as social hostess and Mrs. Clara Pu- shee has been appointed social mem bership secretary. Card parties, teas and dances will play a leading part in the winter’s social events at the club house, and the new staff will see that strangers desiring to meet people at the club are introduced, will aid in arranging twosomes and foursomes and making everyone feel at home generally. Weekly sports and social features arc t(r be arranged in addi tion to the regular tournaments, and programs of these informal events will be available at the club office. Tournament Schedule The tournament schedule was an nounced by the sports secretary this week, and will include the following: Saturday, Dec. 5th—Opening Sweep stakes. Handicaps, medal play, 18 holes. Saturday, Jam. 9th—New Years Handicap. Handicaps, medal play, 18 holes. Tuesday, Feb. 2, 3, 4, 5, G—Mid season Match Play. Saturday, Feb. 13th—St. Valen tine’s Sweepstakes. 18 holes medal play with handicap. Saturday, Feb. 20—Leap Year Scotch Foursome. Ladies choose part ners, 18 holes. Saturday, Feb. 27th — February Sweepstakes. 18-hole match play against par, handicap. Saturday, Mar. 5th—Spring Sweep stakes. Kicker’s handicap medal play. Saturday, Mar. 12th—March Sweep stakes. 18 holes medal play, handi caps. Tuesday, March 15th-19th—Annual Club Championship. Wednesday and Thursday, March 22nd, 23rd—Fourth Annual Women’s Mid-South Championship. 36 holes medal play. Tuesday, April l^th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th—Annual Sandpipers tour ney. Suitable prizes will be awarded to winners of all events. The Sandpipers The Sandpipers, an organization of men golfers of the Country Club, have an active season in prospect. They have announced the following schedule, of events, starting ,on November 28th: Nov, 28—Medal play. Prize for low net score. Thanksgiving Handicap In vitation. Dec. 5—Against par, best ball of pair. Dec. 12—Best selected twelve holes, six in each nine. Dec. 19—Match play agairtst par. Dec. 26—Medal play, best ball of pair. \ Jan. 2—Medal play, all four part ners. Jan. 9—Match play for pairs against par (double), each ball count ing separately against par, Jan, 16j-Swatfest. Jan. 23—Medal play, best ball of pair. Jan. 30—Against par, all four part ners. Feb, 6—Medal play, twelve select- T* Climate, Accessibility, and Friendliness Responsible for Growth of Southern Pines Picturesque Villaj^e Attracts Hundreds Seeking Escapc from Northern Winters Among Ideal Surroundings and Healthful Conditions ALL FACILITIES FOR ENJOYMENT A Golf Match at the Southern Pines Country Club with the former Women’s National Champion, Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, pitted against the pre-ieiit chfim])ioii. Miss Hekjn Hicks. Mrs. Vare is putting. On the green at the left is Emmett French, former Captain of the American Ryder Cup team which invaded England, now professional at the Southern Pines club. It’s the Folks That Make a Town They’ve Come From P^verywhere, Cordial, Carefree Citizens, To Furnish Southern Pines With Its Most Valuable As.set SOUTHERN PINES WAS WELL LAID Hy IJion H. Butler Cui'ious tha'; an'.ong thf things fre- (|Ui-ntly cited as attractions in South ern Pines the one main thing is over- anywhere lOr for to Tennessee ^ anything, or to stay forever. They j " J«hn^,T. J^atnck^C OU^^^^ come to find a bit of sunshine and I luiliday and expect to mingle with Now He Would Marvel at His Handiwork MODEL VILLAGE RESULT (Please turn to P»je 8) othei's on similar errand, so sun-1 looked, and that is the tolks. Lver shine is ithe basic idea, and the think about Kobinson Crusoe? His pi’ompting is freedom from care and t u m n . trouble was the lack of neighbors. He an overflow* of cordiality and good - jO n . atm t c oun( ei o had his cat and dog and goat and fellowship. That’s the characteristic ?’Outho’'n P>nes, could look back and scenery, and a big farm and the sea of the Southern Pines i>eople, and it see what has come from the move- and the hills and the trees, and a is. the most valuable asset of the nient he originated he would probably good climate, and plenty of time to town. marvel, for no one knew the place go di'nvn to the beach or over to the You go down street and Doc Me- in its incipiency had the audacity or garden, but as he went down the Brayer has a smile on his face that the vision to suspect that the present path to the spring or over to the makes you glad you came to town, would find here what has Ciome to othei' side of the island nobody came Hugh Betterley bubbles pver with good pass. The fact is that in Patrick’s day around the corner to say hello to nature. The gang in the postoffice is invention and discovery had not made him and ask him how the wife and still the same human type you knew possible what has been accomplished, the kids were coming lOn. in your country village in boyhood. The use of electricity, the automobile His ci-ops grew famously. He had a Up at Andy Creamer’s tavern men and the good roads, the flying ma- number of houses, one at one pont, in pants that come to their knees and chine that puts us within four hours another at another point. He could stockings of the old dominick chicken pf New Yoi'k, the many big and little make himself all the new fur coats pattern sit in the lobby or come and things that hang on the general pro be wanted, and a little home brew , g,). Women with low heeled shoes gress of the world along with the in- and fried chicken and he could stay and clothes that don’t tell whether creasing population and the utilization up until midnight and sleep until the wearer is the wife of a millionaire of natural resources would all have ten o’clock if that affiorded any sat- or a clerk in the grocery, men and been a pleasant dream to Patrick, but isfaction, but he had nobody to tell women who are leaders in govern- not a thing that he would suspect how he caught a fish that kept him ment, in business, in education, mix- could be realized, busy all forenoon landing it, or how ing with men and women who are Southern Pines has profited by all he dropped his eye in the sights and leaders in the simpler and basic lines the many factors that have been avail- held his gun on the deer that was ■ of life, all mingling in a common able, with the result that the town is edging its way out of the thicker,: contact, and more first names than one of the most delightful villages in and pulled the trigger just as it came y^)u can find in the telephone direc- the country, enjoying the modern out of the tangle and into the open, tory. John is John and Alice is Alice things, close enough to everywhere to when he let it have hoth barrels, and and even the girls don’t call the boys be in a good location, yet far enough bam, it jumped forty feet into ,the “mister.” from every place to be free from air and keeled over dead, and so on. i Dickie Brown comes up street with many of the annoyances of other com- No folks to play a little game of the “good morning, good morning,” munities that might be found. Facili- penny ante with, and no neighbors to that has greeted the community for ties for carrying on about evei'ything talk to or about? Nice place Robin- thirty years. Baker at the meat shop that is desirable, schools, churches, son had, but nobody around the post- | cuts off f^r you a piece of tough stores, theatre, homes that bow to office to tip you off that sambuke | steak with such a persuasive good hu- nothing, sumounding country, health. Bilks was drunk again last night and shot up the lower end of his street and is resting comfortably this n^orn- ing in the hoosegow until the cop can get time to take him to jail, or that Buddy Whoopee married that little Sinkle girl and howinthunder are they going to live, and all the rest of the current information. They Come from Everywhere Southern Pines has a lot of people Hn proportion to the number, and they are selects. Come from all over the country, Maine, New Jersey, Arfica, Wyoming, some Canucks, home-grown Scotch, oome to live here, come to play, come to rest, come to run a beauty shoppe and sell you paint for your eye brows, and chewing gum and ornaments, come to get away from the cold winter, come to the tournaments, or just come fo ra ride and going back tomorrow or on South or over mor that the darn stuff hasn’t the ' fat pine to light the fires, three good heart to be tough when you get it in i newspapers. The Citizen, The Pilot the pan. Parson Searles shakes your and The Sandhills Daily News, the hand with a cordiality that you never , latter a member of the Associated forget. Th^ girls in the telephone of-: Press bringing the telepraphic story fice thank you when you ask for a | of the world’s events every morning, number, the wiomen fnm Nob Hill as i Modesty prevents any comparison they ride by rein in their horses i among these three publications, but long enough to register the vote that! The Pilot will gw far enough to say it is a nice day, and clinch it with a j that it has excellent company in the kindly nod. Big men from everywhere i newspaper field, talk to the Kiwanis club. Men in The last year or two has seen the touch with world affairs in every i extension of a decorative principle in quarter run in to Southern Pines and | the community, and Southern Pines stop long ervough at the street cor-1 is known up and down the line as one ners or at the grocery or the filling ' of the neatest, trimmest, homey spots station to tell you about the price of between New York and Florida. A oats, or the German moratorium or | quiet, restful picturesque villagre in the strange pickup by somebody's new i the novel hill country, which is a pe- radiio that has been gathering curious and unknown languages from the air (Please turn to page 8) culiarity of the location, and almost without imitators in the country, (Please turn to p«c« 6) By Howard F. Burn,s Southern Pines, located in ,the heart of the long leaf«pine country of North Carolina ,on Federal Highway No. 1, the all-paved short route from the north to the south, enjoys a cli mate that is, unsurpassed. Thousands of tourists pass the winter months here where the climate is as nearly equable as any spot on earth. Here it is neither too hot nor too cold. The air is dry and invigorating the year around. From November to June hun dreds enjoy the warmth of sunshine undisturbed by the gyrations of the Stock Exchange or by the icy winds of the north. Southern Pines is the place where people meet to renew ac quaintances, to regain bodily vigor and mental poise to fit themselves for the problems back h^me. Southern Pinos enjoys a patronage of winter visitors who return each season. It is a village of culture where men meet associates of their kind. The residents include many of the na tion’s most prominent auth/irs and writers who own estaten of many aci'es and spacious homes. Southern Tines is attributed to ie one of the beautiful towns of the south, is proud of its clean streets and ))ictur- esque paikways of fi'reen grass and abundant shrubbeo'. Hundreds ,of vis itors drive from distant towns and cities to admire the springtime. The autumn season is rich with the lure of ladiant colors of the I'olling wood lands of the resort. The dogwood of springtime can lie compared in bril liance only with the cherry blossoms of Washington. The winding ti'ails of Weymouth Heights are bordered by fi'agrant blossoms of dogwood and scented long leaf pines that tower graoefully at’ove the hills. Tl ere are large forests of virgin pine within the municijial limits free from the lumber men that have devastated many of the stately pine forests ,of the south. Here natui'e is in its splendor and lovers of the great outdoors enjoy the beauty of the woodlands and the singing of the birds. The Haven of Golfers Southern Pines does -not consider itself entirely a resort but a village made up ,of country places where a friendly welcome awaits the vi.s.itor. Ilere in the mid south are-to be found the finest of resort hotels, luxurious ly furnished, yet moderate in price. Things here tend to moderation. Even winter has just enough tang to make golf and other sports enjoyable. The mid south pos&rF«cs llie finest of golf courses. Here within five miles radius are to be found nine of the prettiest courses in America, and three spa cious country clubs. The clubs are the central gathering points of many of the nation’s prominent people. In the Sandhill resort section many of the country’s leading golfers meet on the tricky courses to defend their ti tles. The horse takes no small part in the resort life of the mid south. Here fox hunting over the rolling hills is a popular pastime and horseback rid ing along the scenic paths, bordered by the old fashioned rail fence, is at its ^est. There is an abundance of quail offering thrills for the sports man, and turkey and deer are plenti ful during the season. Many nation ally famous tennis stars meet on Uie sand courts in the springtime. Ar chery is taking a prominent plac® on the sport calendar and polo, yet in its infancy, attra''ts large galleries to the Sandhill contests. Millionaires and men of moderate means find the pastimes that meet their require ments. Twelve hundred miles of fine roads, free from the congested traffic of the thickly populated centers, add to the pleasure of motoring. Scenic drives over good saml clay roads offer a change from the monotonous glare of pavements. Southei'n Pines is rich in historical lure. Sherman’s army de vastated the country of the mid south in his march to the sea. An hour’s drive from Southern Pines is the old slave market at Fayetteville, another point of interest to the motorist. The tomb of Walter Hines Page, Ambas sador to England, lies just beyond the municipal limits of Southern Pines. Another point of much inter est is a quaint' old pottery plant where odd clay products are modeled by hand and sold on Fifth Avenue. Within ('ommuting Distance Southern Pines, locat