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Page Four THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, yorth Carolina \ Friday, September 10, 1937. DistribtttiHg Point for the Sandhills Area ~ ^OE]I^DE]E]IN » Leading Railroad Center of the Peach Belt Tobacco Experts Say Crop in Sandhills Section Looks Good Estimate Sales of 5,000,000 Pounds on Floors of Aberdeen Warehouses This Season When the coin is tossed next Thurs day morning to decide the warehouse that will have the first sale, ahd the cry of the auctioneer opens the Aber deen tobacco market for its 19tii season, there will pass over the warehouse floors there the first of what bids fair to be one of the best crops of tobacco ever raised in the Middle Belt. Advance reports from growers in the belt indicate that the crop will run about 25 per cent ahead of last year in total poundage and that the quality of the leaf is exceptionally good, while Aberdeen warehousemen, who have been circulating among the growers, are enthusiastic over the prospects for a record season. Claude W. Covington, who will op erate the big brick warehouse in Aberdeen this season, told The Pilot that he had seen enough of the crop in preparation to be convinced that it will compare favorably w’ith the 1934 crop, which was one of the best seen on the local market. It is, he added, a good, grainy working crop of domestic tobacco and should bring very attractive prices. Gene Maynard, who will be associ ated with T. J. “Tom” Smith in the operation of the Aberdeen warehouse, said that he had seen very little ex tra-fine tobacco in his visits to the growers, but that there was an a- bundance of thin, bright, well-cured tobacco excellently suited to cigarette manufacture and that there should be a good demand for the crop. Predict Sales Increase Both warehousemen estimated that the Aberdeen m.arket would sell about 5,000.000 pounds this year as com pared to a little over 3,250,000 pounds last year, but neither would venture to estimate the probable average price that the crop would bring. On the Border Belt earlier this season a precedent for good average prices was established for good grades and that precedent carried over to the Bright Belt markets. No re capitulation is at hand for the Bor der Belt but Bright Belt sales (with the exception of the markets at Wal lace and Ahoskie, for which figures were not available) had sold over 28-, 000,000 pounds of tobacco through last Friday, at an average price for all grades of 22.12 cents a pound,des- pite a flood of poorer grades beating down the prices the first of last week. MBS. CHARLES ENTERT.4WS WALTER PAGE BOOK CLUB Mrs. G. A. Charles was hostess to the Walter Hines Page Book Club at the Community House last Thursday afternoon, where all present enjoyed an unsually interesting musical pro gram. Mrs. John W. Graham gave a paper on Edward McDowell, Mrs. E. L. Barber a paper on Ethelbert Nevin and Victor Herbert. The pro gram closed with a vocal selection by Mrs. Ralph Caldwell, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Edwin McKeith en. Mrs. D. I. McKeithen of Wash ington, D. C., a former club mem ber, was the guest of honor at the meeting. PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCI.\TION TO HAVE TE.\ ON SEPT. 17 The Aberdeen-Pinebluff Parent- Teachers Association will give a tea at the home of Mrs. Sidney L. Wind ham on Friday afternoon, Septem ber 17. from 3:30 to 5:00 o’clock as a “Gct-Topctlicr” of the school patrons, fricn i,3, tcacliors and members of the P T. A. in r.n enjoyable social affair. Thi3 v/i-l take the place of the reg ular Tcptcmbcr P. T. A. meeting and all member;, cxrc urged to be pre^icnt. r:r.o. keith hostess Mrs. Krnnet’-i Keith entcrtnlned at seven ta’.'ion cr triJjc at the Com munity I'outc la:t Friday evening After an :iitere^tir.^ hour at the jjame Mrs. Wlmb.-rly Bowman was pre sented with tho hi;i;h .score prize, Mrs. Iv^nox Jr^^’^r"vG with the second prize and Mrs. "rnncca Tlcasants v/ith tha traveling nri:;c. ^TTriD RrnTiiD.w WUlian-. Carter, III, celebrated his third bi.thday with an enjoyable party at his home hero Monday after noon, a larg:? rumfccr of guests wish ing him r.ia::y hzpny returns of the occasion. 0 Brief Cases, Ring Books, Zipper Manuscript Crv~eo, Loose Leaf Memos at Hayes.’ Debutante Aberdeen Schools Open Next Monday Morning Exercises at Both Grammar and High Schools, With County Superintendent as Speaker Aberdeen Community Happenings MISS LID\ DUKE BLUE The attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blue of Aberdeen will b»' formally presented to society at the Debutante Ball to be held in Raleigh tonight. Miss Blue’s chief marshal will be her brother, Clifton N. Blue, and her assistant marshals Robert B. Everett of Laurinburg, Hill Pas chall and Julian Lintz of Durham, and Midshipman Haywood C. Smith of Raleigh. Miss Blue is the only Moore county young lady presented at this year’s ball. Ike Blunt of Parkton has accepted a position as drug clerk in McCrum- men’s durg store. The Aberdeen Schools will open next Monday morning. September 13 at 9 o'clock and will only run until 12 o’clock the first day. Opening ex ercises will be held at both grammar and high schools with devotional serv vice conducted by a local minister. H. Lee Thomas, County Superintendent, will be present at the high shool to make an address to the children and patrons, and interesting talks will be made at both schools by school i patrons. 1 Following the opening exercises, books for the coming school term will be distributed. Text books for the grammar grades will be furnished free. High School pupils can use the rental system before, for one-third i the cost or buy them outright, should they care to do so. It is asked that j all children come prepared to get I their books on the opening day. I Both the grammar and High school buildings have been complete ly renovated and all necessary re pairs made, with everything in good order for the opening. The school grounds have received a good deal of attention and both *'uildings and grounds will present attractive ap pearances. Prof. L. J. Dawkins expects his teachers and assistants to arrive to w'ard the latter part of the week, and is asking that the entire school fac ulty meet with him at the high schoo' on Saturday' afternoon at 4:00 o’ clock to outline work and discuss plans for the coming school year. Prof. Dawkins asks the co-operation of all pations and friends of the school and all are most cordially invited to be present at the opening day exercises. The Pilot Pleads Guilty to Serious Accusation Leon Seymour of Mid-South Motors Says We Almost Put Com pany Out of Business With Advertisement Which Sold Every Used Car They Had in the Place By BEN BOWDEN Sometimes an advertising solici tor encounters some peculiar sit uations when he or she approaches a merchant in search of business, and sometimes, too, he is given some pe culiar reasons when the merchant declines to place an advertisement in his paper, but we encountered the topper of them all early this week when we approached Leon Seymour at the Mid South Motor Company in Aberdeen and suggested to him that this w'eek might be a good time to ad vertise his used cars to the tobacco men who will be coming to Aber deen for the opening of the Aberdeen tobacco market on Thursday. The fact that Mr. Seymour made the remark jokingly and that he re ally wanted to place the advertise ment, in no way effects the essence of the idea, and the facts of the case are so interesting that they can stand re telling. Some two months ago Mr. Sey mour came into the Pilot office and placed an advertisement listing his used car stock for sale at very at tractive prices. Business had been good for the previous several weeks and as a result he had taken quite a few u.sed cars in trade for new ones, with the result that he had a larger stock on hand than he wanted to carry at that particular time and he proposed to move them out if he could. We didn’t see much of Mr. Sey mour I'rom that time until we went into his office the other day, and when we suggested the used car ad vertisement for this week he looked at us in a peculiar manner and in- ; formed us that he wag off Pilot ad vertising for life. When we had re covered from the blow and delved into the matter a bit we discovered that he was only having a little fun at our expense and that what prompt ed the remark was the fact that ex actly eleven days after his previous advertisement had appeared in The Pilot, there wasn’t a single used car left in the Mid-South Motor Com pany stock. They were completely sold out. “When we advertise with you, you put us us out of business and leave us with nothing to sell,” Mr. Sey mour remarked, and then gave us the advertisement we were after. “See if you can do it again,” he added. We don’t know whether that cir cumstance is a tribute to Pilot ad vertising or to the attractiveness of the Mid-South Motor Company’s used car stock. It was probably a combi nation of the two, end we think it a pretty good story. FREDERICK STANLEY SMITH RETURNS TO SANDHILI>i Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Stanley Smit)i returned to Southern Pines iror.day after a two months visit in IvI.’.rj’Iand ai d Pennsylvania with rel ativcs and friaidn. During the first tv.'o weeks in Aujuat Mr. Smith wa? eni’olied as a atudcnt in the Christ iansen Summer Music School in Charr.bcrsbur^, Pa. The school was r^.'/noiicted ty Dr. F. Melius Christian cer, fou;;der and director of the fa mous St. Olaf Choir at St. Olaf Col lege, Northfield, ilinn. One hundred and eighty church and school musi Ilians from 40 elates and Canada at tended thi.s Ecsnion. Mr. Smitli was fho.sen "Claes Poet” for the gradua tion exorciscs. During Auguct, llv. Sriitii ccrv’cd as organict at tho First L'ltharan Ch’irch in Chambcrs’our,-]; r.nd gave a rccita! cf his own compositions at or 2 of t!ic cvcn’.ng ccrvices. His pub U. Iicd ccmpositiona were on exhibi tion in tiic music stores of Hagers town ar.d Chambsrsburg. On Septem ber 2nd. he was the guest speaker be'ore the the Chambersburg Rotary Club, speaking on “Music, the Uni versal Language.” JOE DEBEKRV NOT TO BUY ON .XBEliDEEN M Vr.KKT Joe DeBerry of Southern Pinec, American Tobacco Compiny repi'tjcn tative in this section v;ho has been buying for his company on the Abcr deen tobacco market in previous years, will not bo seen on t'.io loca.' market this sca'ton. Mr. DeBerry ha.i been trr,n~rrrro:’ to the Sanford market Tor the rur- rent season fiat opens on neptsmbor 16th, and a new buyer, as yet un nam ed, will buy for the American Tooac CO Companv at Aberdeen. Mr. De Berry coachod the Cancihills Junior American Lc~icn baocbal! team the past season. Mrs. W. C. Wicker is spending some time in Dixville Notch, N. H„ visit- I ing her son, Raymond Wicker. She attended the marriage of her daugh ter, Edythe to Joseph Donald Gross at the Balsams Hotel last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith and son. Jack, Jr., spent several days last week in New Bern visiting relatives. Frank Blue and Scott Russell spent the Labor Day holiday in Washing ton, D. C., where they attended a big league baseball game. Miss Helen Clarke Capps left Sat urday for Raleigh where she enAied Miss Hardbarger’s Secretarial School for the coming business session. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bryant attend ed the marriage of their nephew, Harold Markam to Miss Lewis in West End last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wiley, Mrs. B. G. Peterson, Miss Mabel Bethune and Joe Freeman enjoyed a fishing trip to Swansboro on Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. James Fagan and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hines of Pon ca City, Okla., who have taken a va cation trip through Canada and New York city, are spending a few days in Aberdeen this week as guests of Mrs. Ella J. Heckert. Mrs. S. E. Sloan, Jack Smith and Jack Smith, Jr., have returned from Asheville and Statesville where thy spent the week-end with relatives. Miss Eunice Lindsey of Brooklyn, N. y., is spending some time in town visiting her father, William Lindsey. Miss Mary Schwarberg. who spent the summer at Chautauqua, N. Y., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot John son before opening her home in Southern Pines for the winter. D. B. Herring is confined to his home, suffering from erysipelas. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shamburger and children have returned home from a vacation trip to Wrightsville Beach. The Rev. E. L. Barber spent several days in Raleigh this week attending the North Carolina Synod at Peace College. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Crutchfield of Lakeland, Fla., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Murd Muse last Sunday. Miss Lida Duke was selected to be among the State debutantes to be presented at the 17th Armual Debu tante Ball at the Memorial Auditor ium in Raleigh tonight. Miss Flora Lee Freeman of Wash ington, D. C., is spending a few days vacation in Aberdeen vi.'iting her mother, Mrs. A. B. F’'eeman. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weaver of Chapel Hill and Mrfi. Jesse Frink of Columbia, S. C., weie guests of Mrs. Ada Weaver over the Labor Day holiday. Mrs. Emmett McSorley of New Bern was the overnight guest of Mrs. Jack Smith last Friday. Don Easterling is spending several days in Washington, D. C., on busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. John Brantley and children of Raleigh spent the past week-end in Aberdeen as guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Page have re turned from visiting their son at New Bern and attending the celebration at Manteo. Miss Nora Norris, who spent the summer in Aberdeen visiting Miss Minnie Pleasants, has returned to the Blind School in Raleigh, where sh^ holds a position. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hagler spent last Tuesday in Greensboro visiting rela tives. Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Maynard and Mirs Elizabeth David spent last Sun day in Raleigh, visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Laban Little and ci'-iidrcn spent tlie week end at Myr 1 tic Dcacii., 1 C. V/. Covington and family have j moved t? Aberdeen from Reidsv^ilo |.ind are o;cr.pyinT: tiic Dan McK ithen lho;r.c cn Main sLrcct. Mr. Covington ' v. ill have cli.'r?:e of the Covin"^ton ;to::r.cc:> warciiDuco during the com- ■ ."reacor*. llrs. St3\vr-rt V.’cn,vcr cr.d l.Ir. and i :t-', j, D. McLcan and fiau'Thtor i Joycc cr cnt tiie past v;eek end at Or- ^ ar.Tcburjy, fJ. C., wit’.i relativc3. j The employees of the Taylor Ciier.i- I'or’l C'—p.'-T'" v<ith Garlanl rarrell and Stewart Weaver enjoyed a fish ing trip to the Seymour-Martin Bur- ney house boat on the coast over the Labor Day holiday. Mrs. Joseph Chandler of Greens boro, who was called home on account I of the death of her father,^ J. D. Wimberley, is spending this week with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Frances Pleasants, Mrs. Mary L. David and Miss Bertie Rivers motored to Bennettsville, S. C., last Sujjday afternoon. Charlton Huntley returned last week from Wytheville, Va., after at tending a house party at the home of a classmate, S. B. Campbell, for ten days. Misses Vera Edwards and Eliza beth Lewis attended the State Cos metologist meeting in Charlotte last Monday. Miss Rebecca Deaton sustained a severe fall a few days ago, resulting in a fractured elbow. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon K^ith and children spent the past week-end in Columbia. S. C. Mrs. R. S. Gwyn, who has been visting there for some time, accompanied them home, Mrs. Roy Harrington was hostess to TOBACCO MEN! While In AberdGen Get Your Dinners, Short Orders and Beer THE PILO? RESTAURANT Open Day r.nd Ni^ht I “GOOD rOOD AT HEA30N-\::LC PRICES” ' her Night Bridge Club at her home last Tuesday evening with the living room arranged for three tables. Mrs. Malcolm Pleasants was presented with high score prize for the club, and Mrs. Wimberley Bowman the guest prize. I The following acted as bearers at ] the funeral services for Joseph D. I Wimberly on Sunday morning: H. A. j Gunter, J. L. Rhyne, Curtis Law- hon, C. M. Wilson, W. H. McNeill and I Frank Shamburger. Honorary bearers j were G. C. Seymour, Cliff Johnson, j J. A. Bryant. S. Holleman, T. D. Mc- 1 Lean, A. F. Dees, J. H. Suttonfield, Angus McDonald, Dr. E. M. Med* I lin, Dr. H. E. Bowman and Dr. A. H. ; McLeod. Among the large number of rela- ; tives and friends from out of town were Miss Pearl McDonald, H. F. Mc- ' Donald, Earl McDonald and Mrs. , Thel Radford of Jackson Springs, Mr. i and Mrs. A. J. Butler and Miss Mary i^lue of Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Atkinson of Kenly, Miss Vera At kinson of Rocky Mount, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Scott, Miss Bessie Bailey and Miss Vera Sloan of Durham, Charlie Yates and A. V. Riggbee and Miss Mattie Howard of Marshvllle and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewter and Miss Tennie Yates of Apex. OUTH TREET ERVICE TATION Extends a Cordial Welcome to ABERDEEN to the Tobacco Buyer, Grower and Warehouseman. C. W. SEYNODR ABERDEEN Gulf Gasoline and Products a tt ii a it K HOUSES for sale on Easy Terms LOCATED IN ABERDEEN No.l Eig’ht rooms, two baths located near school. Larg*e g“rounds. No. 2 Eight rocms and bath located on Eastman Street. No. 3 Fife rooms and bath located near business section. No. 4 Flve^room !)un9:alow located on hig*h ground near school. . No. 5 Seven rooms and bath overlooking* lake. TERMS 20 Percent Cash, rir.Ir.ncc Payable over Period of Ten Ycrr.',. For Further Paraculars, See Paul To Barnum SOUTFKIfN PINES, N. C. Telephone 5151 tt