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THE PILOT, Southern Pinea and Aberde«n, North Carolina
Friday, September 16, 193S
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THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
TBE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
BEN BOWDEN JGAN C. EDSON
News Editor Busincii Manager
CHARLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY
Advcrtiiinx Circulation
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ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
natter.
WHAT MORE
CAN WE ASK?
The first reaction to the news
that the qualified voters of Sou
thern Pines must vote again on
the question of acquiring the
property adjoining the postof
fice for a Civic Center was one
of discouragement on the part
of the sizeable majority which
had favored the project. These
good citizens had waged a win
ning fight for something which
seemed distinctly worth while.
But on sober second thought
it seems to The Pilot that the
legal technicality that forces
another vote may well have help
ed matters. It clarifies the sit
uation in this respect: there
were many who opposed the
proposition in the previous elec- j
tion on the ground that no one i
knew if, or w'hen, any building i
might be erected on the site. |
And without a building it seem-1
ed to them unnecessary, with
a park directly opposite, for the
town to acquire another park.
Now comes the gladsome
news from the Public Works
Administration of a gift of
$11,250 from federal funds for
a library buiding on the site.
This is an outright gift of 45
per cent of the cost of land and
building. It leaves 55 per cent
to be raised locally, of which
the $9,000 plot of land is a part.
By tacking $3,000 on to the
proposed bond issue, on which'
the citizens wiH vote next mon- '
th, it now becomes possible for i
Southern Pines to acquire land ^
and library building worth in:
the neighborhood of $29,000 for
the sum of $12,000. The differ-,
ence between the $12,000 rais-!
ed by the bond issue, if approv-'
ed, and the $29,000 is entirely;
provided for by gifts. There’s
the gift of $11,250 from the gov
ernment; there’s an offer of
$2,000 from the treasury of the
Southern Pines Library Asso
ciation, and there’s a guarantee
of $4,000 from friends of the li
brary.
It w^ould appear as if South-'
ern Pines would be biting off,
its nose to spite its face should |
it fail to take advantage df i
such a proposition. The gift of
45 per cent of the cost of a li
brary building is predicate^
upon the town’s providing a site.
Voters have once approved the
purchase of a site for $9,000.
They are nov asked to add $3,-
000 to this, for which they get
a landscaped park surrounding
a handsome and adequate struc
ture for one of Southern Pine.?’
vital assets, the public library.
What more can we ask?
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News travels far, and fast. Post
master Frank Buchan has a request
from the postmistress at Lake Gen
eva, Wisconsin for a sketch of the
Southern Pines postoffice because
she’d heard we have a particularly
beautiful building here.
should be completed by October 1st.
When a prominent resident of Sou
thern Pines returned from the Aber
deen tobacco market the other day
with a $50 bill to show for a sale of
some leaf, his friends took a picture
of it, they hadn’t seen one in so
long.
Those who want to get the “low-
down” on the Czechoslovakian situ-
Ption can do so the last half of this
week at Charley Picquet’s theatre.
The current “March of Time” goes
into it pretty thoroughly.
Congratulatioi^s to Messrs. Blue
and Worsham on the first anniver
sary of their new grocery store on
East Broad street. Southern Pines,
There was a vast difference in the
looks of the Aberdeen Warehouse on
last Friday night and on Tuesday
morning. On the former occasion it
was full of Lions and their friends
gathered around a huge banquet table
celebrating installation of the Lions
Club in Aberdeen. On Tuesday morn,
ing you couldn’f see the floor for
t )bacco.
We gather the people of the state
v'ant federal funds but don’t want
the federal government telling ’em
how to vote.
* The Sandhills resort section is ex
panding. That’s getting to be quite
a. hotel at Lakeview.
Correspondence
SILVER LININGS
IN ABERDEEN
Aberdeen is well pleased with
the way things are going. Right
on top of securing a full fash
ioned hosiery mill which will
employ, upwards of 60 residents
of the community, comes a to
bacco market opening which
breaks all records in Aberdeen’s
long history in this field.
The president of the new tex
tile plant was in town during
the week and cast aside any
doubt of the ability of the mill
to keep the wheels of its big
hosiery machines turning. Hp
told local citizens his company’s
annual sales were far in excess
of its manufactured output, and
expressed the confident belief
that the plant here would oper
ate 24 hours a day, with three
shifts. Machinery ia to be ship
ped in at an early date.
As for tobacco, the n^rket
opening brought hundreds to
town from near and far, and
the sales loosed in excess of
50,000 to the farmers. The av
erage price of close to 22 cents
a pound was satisfactory to most
of the growers, and there is no
A good boys’ preparatory school
would bring a lot of business lo the
Sandhills section- The move to es
tablish one here merits support.
Pinehurst trained t.'otters were
big money winners on northern
tracks this summer. It s only a ques.
tion of time before this will be one
of the leading winter traiining head
quarters in the country. It’s among
the first now.
They started laying the brick at
the new Nurses Home for the Moore
County Hospital this week. And the
new building for Aberdeen’s hosiery
plant is ahead of sohedule, in fact
reason to believe they won’t
keep their leaf coming this way.
The stores did a good business
Tuesday, so the merchants are
happy.
Of course, despite all these
silver linings, the principal sub
ject of conversation around
Aberdeen is, who’s going to win
that $150 that’s been accumu
lating for months in one par
ticular spot in town?
WE MUST KEEP
OUR SKIRTS CLEAR
The foreign situation is too
muddled at this stage for any
intelligent comment.
It is but to be hoped that the
visit of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain to Gernxany’s
Adolph Hitler may lead to some
peaceful solution of Europe’s
problems.
Whatever may betide, Amer
ica must so act to keep its
skirts clear of entanglements
that may lead to a war in which
we can but lose, victorious or
Po-
The Week in Aberdeen
OLD UNION CHURCH
Editor, The Pilot:
Union Presbyterian Church was or.
ganized in 1797 with the following
elders; Walter Macbeth Zachariah
GrzLliaiTi. r>ur.C!<n Patterson, John
Eilue, and Col. A. McDonald. The
present elders are: J. S. McLauchlin,
D. B. Kelly, M. D. McLean, and J.
F. Swett The first Church building
was erected by the congregation in
1798, and was located where the Big
Wagon Road leading from TaycLte-
ville tc Carthage crossed the old Pee
Dee Road leading from Cheraw, S.
C. to Raleigh, N. C. Only a few years
previous to this time, these roads
had been used extensively by the
Whigs and Tories during the Revolu.
tionary War. Three Church buildings
have been erected by the Union
congregation. The present structure
was built a fow years after the Civil
War,
Tradition tells us that burials were
made at Union prior to the organiza
tion of the first Church in 1797. Ser.
vices have been continued since this
early date; and the cemetery has
continued to grow. In most of our
48 states can be found persons who
have relatives buried in Old Union
Cemetery, especially in the Western
and Southern States-
For nearly 150 years there has
been a fine Christian spirit of fel
lowship at Union. It still exists. I
saw it the other day and felt Its
great power when friends, neighbo^ps,
and relatives gathered there on an
appomted day to clean off the
Church grounds and improve the ap
pearance of the cemetery. Several
ladles cleaned up inside the Church,
while sixty or more men worked In
the Cemetery. Some persons who
could not be there for the occasion
sent other men to work there until
the job was finished. Others sent
money to help defray expenses. Even
to the place In the Ipwer end of >
the Cemetery wiere colored people}
wei^ buried ir Uie days of slavety, {
everything was made to look neat
and clean- Special attention was giv
en not to Just a few graves, but
to every grave. '
May this fine Christian spirit of
fellowship and brotherhood of Old
Union Church continue to live on for
many years to come.
—PAUL BLUE,
Southern Pines, Sept- 10, 1938-
Miss Julia Brown of Charlotte was
the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs-
G. C. Seymour.
Garland Farrell, who under\vent
a serious operation at Mary Elizabeth
Hospital In Raleigh last Tuesday, Is
doing as well as can be expected.
Miss Frances Wlmberley Is return
ing home this week after spending
the summer months at The Balsams,
Dixville Notch, N. H., where she held
a position, and after a few days visit
with her mother, Mrs. Julia Wimber-
ly, will leave for Flora Macdonald
College to enter the Senior year.
Mr. and Mrs- Hector McMillan u'
Lumbert»n were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs- Fred Blue- They were
accompanied by Miss Mabel Bethune.
who Is a student nurse at the Thomp
son Memorial Hospital In Lumber,
ton.
Mrs. A. F. Dees and son are leav
ing this week for Pinehurst to make
their future home. Mr. Dees Is night
policeman there- The Dees boarding
house has been taken over by Mrs.
D. H. Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hurley have
returned home after spending a week
with their sons, Ed Hurley and Will
Hurley in Fayetteville and Hope
Mills.
Charlton Huntley has returi;eJ to
Presbyterian College in Clinton, S. C-,
lollowlng the summer holidays, Ht
wUl join the Senior Class-
Mr. and Mrs. Burnell Britt of Troy
were week-end guests af Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kellis visited
relatives In Star last Sunday after
noon.
Ralph Stowell of Oakland, Maine
and James Hafley of Atlanta, Ga-,
were week-end guests of their class
mate, Charlton Huntley, before re
turning to thei" college at Clinton, S-
C.
Bill Burns and J. Vance Rowe, Jr.,
returned to the University at Chap
el Hill Monday to resume their school
work. They were accompanied by
Lawrence Howe, who enters the
Freshman class.
Mrs. Mary Pierce of Camden, S.
C., was the week-end guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Weaver.
Miss Charlotte Miller has returned
from Greensboro where she has been
the guest of her aunt.
Misses Kathryn Charles and Mar
garet McLeod left Monday for Flora
Macdonald College, Red Springs to
enter the Freshman class.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blue attended
the Mosler-Hlnnant wedding In Beau
fort last Thursday. Their daughter.
Miss Lida Duke Blue, was maid of
honor.
Miss Susan McLean has returned
to Nashville where she will resumi;
her work at teacher in the schools-
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Monroe and
sons, Frances and Clifford visited in
Clinton over the past week-end.
Mrs. Jack Asbury returned Friday
after a two weeks visit in Miami
Beach, Fla.
Miss Betsy Jean Johnson left Mon.
day for Chapel Hill where she will
attend school this fall and winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith and sons.
Jack and Joe, and Scott Russell mo
tored to Statesville on last Sunoay,
bringing back with them Mrs- S. E-
Sloan, who has been visiting there
for th» past week.
Mr- iii,u Mrs. James Earl Parker
spent tl'.c past week-end In W'ngate,
Little Betty McLean returned to
her home in Raeford this week after
a visit with her cousin, Joyce McLeim.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C- Fletcher spent
last Sunday in West End whcic they
were guests of Mrs. T- J- Fletcher.
Mrs. J- L. Rhyne and daughter.
Miss Mae Rhyne, Mrs- A. B. Free-
man and Mrs. T. C. Baldwin visited
Mrs- Jack Clark at Jonesboro last
Friday.
Misses Theresa and Roberta Zim
merman left Monday for Greensboro,
where Miss Theresa Is entering her
Sophomore year, and Miss Roberta
joining the Freshman class.
Mr. and Mrs- W, D. Hannon and
sons, Billy and Stancll of Washing,
ton, D. C., spent last week-end in
Aberdeen as guests of Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Bobbitt.
Miss Carol Bowman attended the
Brown-Clark w'cdding in Hamlet last
Friday evening.
Mrs. W. A. Mclnnis and family
are moving Into the house on Main
street recently vacated by Mrs- Mary
L- David and family.
Mrs. E. M. Medlin and daughter,
Gloria Gray, have arrived from a
visit with relatives at Davls-
Mrs. Jack Clark of Jonesboro an
nounces the arrival of twins, a son
and a daughter, Jock and Jerry, on
Mrs. James Cameron of
Near Timberland Dies
Large Family of Sons and Dau
ghters Survives Cumberland
County N^ative
Mrs. Mary Jane Cameron, wife of
James Cameron, died at her hom^ oc
Elue’s farnr.. near Timberland, lait
Friday night at 8:00 o’clock. She has
been In falling health for some time.
Death was attributed to angina pec-
toris.
She was born May 5, 1878, a dau
ghter of William Alexander Rice and
Mary Ann Shelby Rice of Mecklen
burg county.
Funeral services were held at Wnlte
Hill Presbyterian Church, near Cam
eron, Sunday morning.
She is survived by her husband, the
following children, Mrs. Herbert
Brown of Star, Mrs. W. N. Fields of
Sanford, Mrs. D. B. Herring and Mrs.
K. G. Deaton of Aberdeen, Misses
Annls and Elizabeth Cameron of the
home, Clyde Cameron of Star, Albert
Cameron of the home, and Harold
Cameron of Timberland, and three
brothers, Frank and Luther Hlce of
Lanharn, Md., and Arthur Rice of
Pinebluff.
September 8th- Until Mr, Clark's re
cent death Mis. Clark made her
home in Aberdeen-
Mrs. E. M. Karris was hostess to
the Walter Hines Page Book Club
at her home last Thursday after
noon, with an interesting program of
study during which Mrs. J. W. Gra
ham gave a paper on the Hawaiian
Iplands, and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson
reviewed a book on New York state.
At this meeting it was learned with
regret that Mr.-i. S. E. Sloan had ten
dered her resignation, after 13 years
faithful attendance and work In this
club, and the club voted unanimously
to make her an honorary member.
Mrs. E. B. Maynard entertained her
Afternoon Club last Thursday with
four tables of bridge. Mrs. Colin Os
borne of Southern Pines was pre
sented with club ’ rlze, and Miss
Edna Maurer wltn guest prize.
M>ss Jaanette Leach was hostess
to her bridge club at her home last
Thursday evening. Mrs. Gordon Kelt*i
was the winner of high score prize
and Mrs- Robert Farrell guest prize.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE PILOT
UOHTNINO STRIKES NE.4B
VASS AND KILLS TWO COWS
Two cows belonging to Wes Hen-
nlngs, who resides between Vass and
the Clay Road farm, were killed by
lightning during a storm on Thurs
day afternoon of last week. Two
mules In a stable adjoining that oc
cupied by the cows were not harmed,
and the barn was not damaged.
NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT YOUR WINTER RESIDENCE
FOR NEXT YEAR
Why Not
Southern Pines
This garden spot of the Sandhills offers to dis
criminating people an ideal winter home, with every
possibility for healthful recreation and sport.
To those seeking Residential Properties, Cot
tages, Furnished Apartments or Rooms for the Winter
Season in Southern Pines we offer the facilities of our
Organization. We have a Complete Listing of Avail
able Accommodations for Lease ... A number of At
tractive Town and Country Sites for Purchase.
PavQ T. Oarniim
'real estate and INSURANCE
Bank Building
Southern Pines