dUL 3 1 1931
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
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JACK SOM
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SOUTH6RN
PINES
PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL.It. no. southern Pines and Aberdeen, ^or<h Cardinal July 30. 1937.
HENRY P. BILYEll,
FRUIT PIONEER IN
SANDHILLS. DIES
Retires Sunday
Came to Southern Pines in 1888
and Developed Many Or
chards and Vineyards
ORIGINATOR-OF DEWBERRY
Henry Paul Bilyeu, a pioneer of
grape culture in the Sandhills and
long noted as the originator of the
famous Lucretia dewberry, died at
his home, No. 1506 Grove street in
Greensboro last Saturday night.
Born at Hightstown, N. J., March
26, 1849, the son of H. P. Bilyeu, a
prominent peach grower of that state,
the boy absorbed orchard culture and
at the early age of 25 years struck
out for himself locating at Ridge
way, N. C., where he became a suc
cessful fruit grower. Impressed witn
the possibilities of the Sandhills hs
came to Southern Pines in 1888 and
ir the following years developed many
orchards and vineyards. His one time
home became the first club house of
the Southern Pines Country Club,
and from this site he moved to the
famous Pine Knot farm located nortn
of the Midland Road steeplechase
course. To this dean of horticulturists
of North Carolina was due the suc»
cess of many commercial peach or
chards and vineyards in the vicinity
of Southern Pines, and the spread of
the far-reaching dewberry fieldb
through the origin and cultivation of
the original Lucretia plants.
In 1892 Mr. Bilyeu married Miss
Carry Lee Poe, daughter of Walter
Poe, and a sister of Mrs. Alex Fields
and Mrs. Mollie Burgess. Beside the
widow five of the six children sur
vive Mr. Bilyeu; Mrs. Wade Stevick
of Southern Pines, Walter J., residing
near the old farm; Henry P., Jr., and
Helen C., of Greensboro, and Mrs.
James Carl Patrick of Colorado.
Funeral services were held at 3
o’clock Monday afternoon at the
Florida Street Baptist Church,
DR. C. IlEXFOKD R.W’MOXD
WIDE FELLOWSHIP
CHURCH RECEIVES
GIFT OF $2,000.00
Generositj’ of Mrs. Vittum An
nounced by Dr. Raymond, Re
tiring as Pastor This Sunday
RECEPTION ON MONDAY
of the Sandhill Territr^^*^2f North Carolina
V
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FIVE CENTS
Speakers Today at Sandhills Project Opening
DR. C. A. BOSEMAN
OF SANATORIUM AT
PINEBLUFF PASSES
Specialist in Mental Diseases
Came Here With Dr. M. D.
Kemp Early in 1936
WORLD WAR VETERAN
The passing of Dr. Claude A. Bose-
man, one of the partners operating
Pincbluff Sanatorium at Pinebluff,
who died suddenly at Moore County
Hospital last Friday morning follow
ing a heart attack, has removed a
talented physician from the commun
ity. He was 43 years old.
A graduate of the University of
North,Carolina, Dr. Boseman took his
medical degree at the University ot
Pennsylvania and then spent several
years in Philadelphia, New York,
Baltimore and Washington hospitals
specializing in the treatment of ner
vous and mental conditions. In Jan
uary, 1936, he returned to North Car-
Greensboro, with the pastor, the Rev. olina and. with Dr. Malcolm D. Kemp.
B. G. Whitley and the Rev. J. T.
Barham, pastor of the Glenwood
Presbyterian Church officiating. In
terment was in Green Hill cemetery
with Louis Berry, C. P. Williams. G.
C. Collins, Birders Spivey, J. S. V^al-
lace and J. D. Rumbley acting as
bearers.
Many relatives and old friends
from the Sandhills attended the fun
eral.
Walter Blue, Jr. Second
in Soap Box Derby Heat
Southern Pines Entry at Raleigh
One of Best Looking But
Not Fast Enough
established Pinebluff Sanatorium, a
private institution for the treatment
of nervous and mental conditions that
has gained considerable renow’n
throughout the South and which has
prospered rapidly since its founda
tion.
Dr. Boseman was a member of the
Episcopal Church, the Masonic Or
der, Phi Beta Kappa honorary fra
ternity, Phi Chi medical fraternity,
an officer in the North Carolina Med-
(Please turn to page eight)
Walter Blue, Jr., the Sandhills lone
entry in the Raleigh News and Ob-
server-Chevrolet Motor Company
Soap Box Derby trials on Wednesday
afternoon, returned to Southern
Pines Wednesday night in a philoso
phical frame of mind after having
been eliminated in the preliminary
heats when he ran second to the win
ner of his heat.
Last year Walter had the same ex
perience and this year he spent a
great amount of time and effort ti-
produce a car that he felt certain
would take him further in the event
but, although his was one of the best
looking entries in the field, it just
wouldn’t go fast enough to take him
over the finish line in front.
The winner and runner-up of the
Raleigh Derby were brothers, Wiley
and Hal Thompson of Raleigh, aged
9 and 13 respectively, who spent a
total of 20 cents on their two cars
that going for two cans of paint with
which to cover the bare wood frames.
Asked what was wrong that he
didn’t go further in the elimination,
Walter shrugged and answered, "I
dunno.”
The Church of Wide Fellowship on
last Sunday morning was again hap
pily surprised by the announcement
of another generous gift to retire
bonds issued when the new building
was erected. The pastor, Dr. C. Rex- ,
ford Raymond, read from a letter'
from Mr.s, Albert Vittum addressed to |
Mrs. H. S. Knowles, treasurer of the
Woman's Society of the Church, an-
noimcing a gift of $2,000 to pay in
terest and principal in full on two
bonds held by Mrs, Vittum.
Though Mrs. Vittum has removed
from Southern Pines to make her
home in California, this is a material
token which shows that her interest
still lives in the church to which she
and her late husband gave so gen
erously in past years.
Dr. Raymond will preach his fin .1
sermon as active pastor of the
r hurch of Wide Fellow’ship this com
ing Sunday morning, after 40 years
of service in the ministry. Upon his
retirement he becomes the church's
pastor emeritus. His resignation from
active pastoral duty was accepted bj'
the congregation several weeks ago.
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond will be honor
ed by a supper and reception in th"
church garden next Monday, August
2d at 6:30 o'clock. The following day
the Raymonds leave for a vacation at
Chautauqua Lake. New York, to re
turn to Southern Pines in Septem
ber.
Services at Wide Fellowship during
August will be in charge of Albert
Buchanan, a senior at Oberlin College.
(JOVEKXOK CLVOE R. HOFA'
KKF. HAROLD D. COOLEV
No Injunction For
Slot Machine Makers
Hemp Has Gala Celebration of
New Water Works and City Hall
Checks For Needy
County’s Blind and “Outside
Poor” To Receive Finan
cial Aid Next Week
Checks for the blind and those
who are now on the county’s “out
ride poor" list will be sent out
July 31. according to a statement
made Tuesday by Mrs. W. G.
Brown, welfare chairman. Aid foi
dependent chiiuicn and the need
iest of the old age group will be
provided next month, she said.
The entire welfare office force
is working hard to get the Social
Security line-up in the county com
pleted.
Crowds Enjoy All-Day Program
To Commemorate Completion
of Civic Projects
TO PREVENT FLOODING
The Board of Commissioners of
Southern Pines has arranged for the
inspection of the catch basins in the
city’s storm sewer system with a
view to remedying flood condition*
now frequently prevalent on Broad
and other streets.
Betsy Jean Johnson
Kiwanis Speaker
“Pinch Hitting” For Dad, She
Tells Club of Bar and Press
Cruise to Bermuda
When speakers fall down at tlie last
moment and leave the Sandhills Ki
wanis Club stranded for its Wednes
day meetings, there's always a mad
scramble on the part of the Program
Committee to get a "pinch hitter.”
Sometimes on these occasions they
get a good one. They never had a
better one—nor a prettier one—than
they had this week.
Attorney J. Talbot Johnson of
Aberdeen was scheduled to speak at
this week’s meeting. Called suddenly
to New York he telephoned his daugh
ter Betsy Jean, still in her teens,
told her to go to the meeting and
make a calk on the recent trip she,
her father and her sister Miriam took
W’ith the State Bar Association and
the North Carolina Press Associa
tion to Bermuda.
Betsy Jean “crashed through.” She
opened her remarks by saying that
as a pinch hitter she’d never get to
first base and would doubtless strike
out, but she did neither. The Kiwan-
ians credited her with a home run,
with three on bases, when she’d fin
ished a delightful recounting of the
cruise of lawyers and newspaper men
to the famous coral island. There Is
no doubt that Betsy got a lot out of
her trip, for she painted a picture of
Bermuda that made her listeners
think they’d been there and seen It.
It was Betsy Jean’s first speech.
If Klwanians have their way it won’t
be her last.
Judge Sinclair Upholds Right <If
Enforcement of Law Passed
> by 1937 Assembly
In a judgment filed with the clerk
of the Cumberland Superior Court on
Monday, Judge N. A. Sinclair declined
to grant injunctive relief to The
Vending Machine Company of Fay
etteville, ruling that the attorney-
general of North Carolina, the sher
iff of Cumberland county and the
chief of police of Fayetteville have
the right to enforce the 1937 Anti
slot Machine law against evcvy type
of machine except those known as
“Type 12.”
This was the latest development
in the chain of events precipitated
early in 1937 when the Rev. A. J. Mc-
Kelway of Pinehurst fired the open
ing blast against the evils of slot
mactiines through the columns of The
Pilot and which were carried on by lo
cal law enforcement agencies and
Congressional reprt^sentativqs until
the new anti-slot machine law was
passed and the Fayetteville concern
removed its machines from this and
other territories in the State to avoid
the threatened confiscation of any
of their property.
The Vending Machine Company,
meantime, filed a petition for an in
junction against the enforcement of
the law as a challenge of its consti
tutionality, but .Tudge Sinclair's rul
ing holds the law constitutional and
denies the prayer for an injunction.
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McQUEEN BAILEY,
COUNTYSURVEYOR,
PASSES SUDDENLY
Served Moore in Same Official
Capacity for 20 Years.—
Funeral at Old Union
SEABOARD GOLFERS COMING
FOR TOURNAMENT SEPT. 4-5-6
September 4th, 5th and 6th have
been set as the dates for the annual
gathering of members of the Sea
board Air Line Golf Association in
Southern Pines, and according to
word received from officials in Nor
folk by Mayor D. G. Stutz, there will
be a record number here this Fall.
They will start coming in on the
3d, Mr. Stutz said, with all of them
on hand the 4th to tee off in the first
round of the annual tournament. As
usual, the Highland Pines Inn will be
the official hostelry, and the South
ern Pines Country Club the scene of
the competition.
Martin McQueen Bailey, 48, for
20 years County Surveyor, died sud
denly about 12:30 o’clock last Fri
day, his death coming as a distinct
shock to hia many friends through
out Moore county.
Mr. Bailey seemed to be well
as usual when he arose Friday morn
ing, but became over-heated while
working around his home on the
Vass-Union road three miles from
Vass. Symptoms of indigestion caus
ed him to go to Carthage to con
sult a physician. Accompanied by his
brother, A. C. Bailey, he was more
than half way home when he grew
worse and suggested to his brother
that he take the wheel. Shortly
thereafter he collapsed and never ral
lied. Unable to arouse the stricken
man, his brother carried him home
and summoned a physician, who pro
nounced him dead.
The funeral service, which was
attended by a large gathering of
friends and relatives, was held at
Old Union Church at 4:00 o’clock
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DENNY .^ND STEPHENSON
LOCAL LEGION DELEGATES
By Torn Bont
Hemp humped itself into a modern
municipality last Saturday with a
new water and sewer system and a
city hall. In an all-day celebration the
town asseverated to a cockeyed cos
mos that it feels good over what it
has.
It put on a pageant of progress in
which the Roosevelt horse and buggy
age looked post-millennarian by con
trast with the antediluvian ox cart
which dragged over the dusty foot
paths that went in the nineties for
roads. Then the buildings were tor
mally given and taken, the visitorsi
were dined, the greasy pig pursued
and the day danced out in municipal
hall.
It was an upper Moore celebration
in which the greater portion of the
2,000 population of Hemp participat-
pd. Census takers for the government
and registrars for the elections do
not give Hemp any 2,000, but the in
dustries do and they w'ere there Sat
urday. The morning exercises conflict
ed somewhat with farming operations,
but in the afternoon the folks went,
to town. One of the modern acts in
which Hemp revels is the election of
Tuesday, July 21. That day the voters
were asked to ratify bond issues of
$6,000 for water and $4,000 for sewer
construction. By 95 to 7 it was order
ed in the referendum. And thus Hemp
became the newest town in the UniT-
ed States, so they say.
The railroad station, the talc mine.
(Please turn to page four)
Frank M. Shea Dies;
Lived Here 17 Years
.%'.HOEYHERE
TOi/AY TO LAUNCH
SANDHILL PROJECT
Four Thousand Expected For
Celebration and Harbecue at
U. S. Park, Hoffman
Employe of Pinehurst Depart
ment Store W’^as Veteran
of World War
OTHER NOTAIJLES COMING
In discussing plans for the bar
becue and public inspection of the
Sandhills Land Use Projects to ba
held at Hoffman, today( Friday) F. W.
Eatman, project manager, states that
he hopes that interested citizens at
tending this celebration will include
men. women and children. He also
hopes that as nearly as possible rep
resentative citizens can attend from
all the various communities of this
section of the state.
The all-day celebration which wili
begin at 9 o’clock, will be held at In
dian Camp Park where tables have
been erected to accomodate 4,000
persons and where one ton of barbe
cue, contributed by citizens of the
surrounding territory, will be served.
Indian Camp Park is entered from
U. S. Highway No. 1 just w'est of
Hoffman through a rustic gateway.
Speaking w'ill begin at 11 o’clock, fol
lowed by the public barbecue dinner
at 1 o'clock, with inspection tours in
the afternoon and a dance htat night.
The project manager enumerated
this week some of the more impor
tant jobs which have been completed
on this 62,000-acre project, outlining
at the same time a number of jobn
which are yet to be completed.
Roughly speaking the Sandhills de
velopment consists of forest develop
ment, wild life conservation, and re
creational development. (For full de
tails of the purposes of the project
see Page 2).
Governor To Speak
Governor Clyde R. Hoey has defi
nitely accepted the invitation to be
the principal speaker at today's ded
ication and will pass through South
ern Pines in his motor car early this
morning enroute to Hoffman.
A long list of notables who hav«
definitely accepted invitations in
cludes Congressman Harold D. Cool
ey, who has signified to the commi' -
tee that he hopes he will be able to
bring with him Congressman Pearson
of Tennessee, and Congressmen Cof
fee and McLaughlin of Nebraska.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace has notified the committee
that it will be impossible for him to
be present. However, Assistant Sec
retary Harry P. Brown will attend.
C. F. Clayton, chief of the Land
Planning Section of the Land Utiliza
tion Division, will represent the Re
settlement Administration of the
U, S. Department of Agriculture,
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Mrs. A. C. Smith of
Vass Route 2 Dies
Delegates and members of the
Sandhills Post 134, American Legion,
returning from the Department con
vention held in Durham on Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday of this week re
port that Sandhills Post was ' well
represented in all branches and activ
ities of the convention.
In the balloting for Department del
egates to the National convention to
be held in New York city during the
week of September 20-26, Robert E
Denny and John H. Stephenson were
named as alternates for the delega
tion.
Among the members of the local
post at the Durham convention were
Paul Dana, L. V. O’Callaghan, Robe-t
E. Denny, Charles Creel, John H.
Stephenson and the newly elected
Post Commandant, D. D. Shields
Cameron.
Frank M. Shea, aged 59 years, a
resident of Southern Pines for the
past 17 years, suffered a heart at
tack and passed a-.vay early Friday
morning in the Hotel Houston, Wash
ington, D, C., where he was spending
his vacation.
A war veteran, having served over
seas with the 5th Canadian Engin
eers, Mr. Shea came to Southern
Pines from Bath, N. H., the resi
dence of his father, James S. Shea,
in 1920. Entering the employ of the
H. A. Lewis grocery in Southern
Pines and later in Pinehurst, and
with the retirement of H. A. and
Robert Lewis, he went with the
Pinehurst Department Store and be
came one of the best known and most
popular clerks in his line of busi
ness.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. T. A. Williams and Father J.
F. Morrisey were held in St. An
thony a Roman Catholic Church at
10:00 o’clock Tuesday morning. In
terment followed in Mount Hopa
Cemetery. Pallbearers were; L. V.
O’Callaghan. H. S. Knowles, H. A.
Lewis, Dr. G. G. Herr, Floyd Medlin
and Robert Shaw.
Hfc Is survived by his widow, the
former Mrs. Helen Sadler Wilson;
an infant son, Francis; a stepson,
William Wilson, and an aunt, Mls|
Mary A. Shea Littleton. N. H.
Funeral Services Held in Cypress
Presbyterian Church on
Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs. A. C.
Smith. 60, of Vass Route 2, were
held Tuesday afternoon at Cypress
Presbyterian Church with the Rev.
W. A. Brown, pastor, and the Rev.
M. D. McNeill officiating Mrs. Smitn
had bien in poor health for several
years, but the end came suddenly
Monday from a heart attack after a
day in which she was seemingly be
er.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Smith was
Miss Catharine May Parrish, a nat
ive of Ramseur. She had lived in
Hoke and Moore counties for many
years rnd was highly esteemed for
her fine traits of character and lov
able disposition. Cheerfulness was one
of her outstanding characteristics
and she made life brighter for those
with whom she came in contact,
with whom she came in contact. She
was a member of Cypress church.
Mrs. Smith is survived by her hus
band, A. C. Smith, and by the fol
lowing sons and daughters: William
Alexander, George Herbert, James
Franklin and Daniel Hector Smith,
all of Vass Route 2, Mrs. Effle Mor
rison ol High Point and Mrs. L. O.
Hennings of Vass Route 2.