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VOL. 19, NO. 4.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina Friday, December 23, 1938.
HOOD WINDS UP
UQUIDATION OF
PAGE TRUST CO.
Final Report of Commissioner of
IJanks Acceplcd by Judge
Uivens at Carthage
SECURED CLAIMS PAID
The final report of Gumey P. Hood,
Commissioner of Banks, with regard
to the liquidation of the Page Trust
Company was submitted to Judge
Bivens who presided over Superior
Court in Moore county last week.
The report was accepted and Mr.
Hood, hia auretiea and agents were
released.
-The report showed that statutory
preferred claims in the amount of
$55,105.50 had been paid in full; that
secured claims in the original amount
of $149,878.61 had been reduced
$142,031.29, leaving an unpaid lial-
ance of $7,847.32. Cash dividends of
39.3 per cent were paid on common
claims. The expense of liquidation to
taled $157,472.44.
The Page Trust Company, the main
office of which was in Aberdeen, op
erated branches jn Albemarle, Apex,
Carthage, Hamlet, Liberty, Raeford,
Raleigh, Rainseur, Sanford, Siler
City, Thomasville, Troy and Zebulon.
Mixed Foursomes Golf
Event at Pine Needles
Numerous Entries Expected for
Annual Battle for the Pine
Needles Trophy
A-
FIVE CENTS
Notable Service To Humanity Ends
The Pine Needles annual mixed
foursome golf championship, for the
Pine Needles trophy, is on tomovrow,
Saturday, on the new grass-greened
course in Knollwood, with a fine en
try seeking the prize won last year
"by Mrs. Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., of
Carthage and Benson Maples of Pine- I
l.urst who WUI defend their title, •’“‘o'' Emeritus of Philadelphia
*
John F. Stevens Awarde*..
Medal For Distinguished .. '‘vvc
Southern Pines Resident Hon
ored By American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
Wins Hoover Medai
The event will mark the official
opening of the tournament season at
the Pine Needles Club, and will be an
18-hole handicap affair. One hundred
played in the event last year, and
Ted Turner, club professional, looks
for as many tomorrow. Eaiiy entries
include Mrs. Almet Jenks and E. C.
Stevens, Mrs. Elmer Harrington end
Ted Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Gutman, Mrs. J. K. Love and Mr.
Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Dunlap, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bums,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Townsend, Miss
Helen Waring and George T. Dunlap,
Jr.
Tournaments are scheduled for al
most every week Ithroughout the
season at the F*ine Needles, with the
next event following the mixed four
somes a Member and Guest tourna
ment at medal play, best ball, full
handicap on December 31st and Jan
uary 1st. The full schedule will be
published in next week’s Pilot.
CANTATA SUNDAY NIGHT
AT BAPTIST CHURCH HERE
“Chimes of the Holy Night,” a
Christmas choir cantata by Fred B.
Holton, vnll be presented at the
Southern Pines Baptist Church on
Christmas night at 8:00 o'clock. The j t^his union was born a daughter, Ag
1 John F. Stevens of Orchard Road
Southern Pines, was ho,';oioci Jast
Saturday by the Amerinn Society
of Mechanical Engineers v/.tn tho
award of the 1938 Hoover Aleda', an
I award in.stituted ill 1930 to commem
orate the achievements of Herbert
Hoover, its first recipient. Mr Ste
vens, 85 years old, the father of
Eugene C. Stevens, city commission-
<r of Southern Pines, purchased a
: home htre about two years ago and
' i.s making this his residence. He re
sided formerly in Baltimore, Md.
The award cites Mr. Stevens as an
; “engineer of great achievement, a.s
ilUi.st rated in his work on the Pana-
i ma Canal, who, in his dealings with
j the Inter-Allied forces in Siberia in
I the Great War, demonstrated those
j broader capacities for humanitarian
[ public service beyond his calling."
I Mr. Stevens’ career haa encom-
I pa.ssod much of the world. He has
i made hi.s mark upon such memorable
I works as the extension of railroads
I acro.=s the Rocky Mountains, the
I building of the Panama Canal and the
j rehabilitation of the Siberian and Chi-
; iiese Eastern railways m World War
; times.
j Major |/\<\!iie^e.ments
I An heroic bronze statue of Mr.
Stevens in Marias Pass, where the
! Great Northern Railway crosses the
I Rockies in Montana, and the name
of the Stevens Pass in the Cascades,
commemorate his work in the north
west. The Panama Canal, of which
he was chief engineer and later chair
man of the Isthmian Canal Commis
sion, testifies to the energy with
which he backed General William C.
Gorgas in eradicating yellow fever
from the isthmus, and the official
files of the State Department in
Washington reveal how he, while
I'ead of the Inter-Allied technical
lioard in Siberia, balked Japanese
A Pet Show will feature the gymk- schemes to seize the Chinese Eastern
hana to be held Christmas afternoon across Manchuria in 1919.
at Tlie Carolina riding ring in Pine- He is entitled to wear the Ameri-
hur-st, and with six other classes on can Distinguished Service medal, the
the program and the Sandhills full badge of an officer of the Legion of
of horses and riders, the most svic- | Honor of France, the Military Cross
cessful show of the winter season g^d highest civil decoration of
is anticipated. j Czecho-Slovakia, the oi-ders of Chia
All children with pets, no matter 'Ho and W'en Hu, highest military and
what they may be, are invited to i civil decorations of China, and the
have them at the ring early Sunday; insignia, second class, of Japan’s Or
son. He was a graduate of Washing-1 afternoon. Then there’ll be two der of the Rising Sun.
ton-Jefferson College of the Class iJumping events, a basketball game. He was awarded the John Fritz
of 1878. He received his theological horseback, a ribbon race, musical medal for "great achievements” in
stalls and a potato race. The pub-; 1925^ the gold medal of Franklin In-
lic is cordially invited, and there’s gtitute in 1930, and honorary degrees
JOHN F. STEVENS
DR. MARCUS A. BROWNSON
Dr. Narcus A. Brownson, Beloved
Resident of Southern Pines^ Dies
Church, For Whom I^cal
Church Is Named, Passes at 79
The Rev. Marcus A. Brownson.
D. D., of Philadelphia and South
ern Pines passed away after a two
weeks illness, at the Duke Univer
sity Hospital, Durham last Sunday
afternoon at 3:00 o’clock.
Dr. Brown.'on was born at Wash
ington, Pa., in 1857, the son of the
Rev. James I. Brownson, D. D., who
for fifty years was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of that
city, and Eleanor Acheson Brown
I‘F:T show TO FE.VTURE
CHRISTIVL\S GVMKtt\NA
training at Western Thelogical Sem
inary at Pittsburgh, taking the de
gree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1881,
Dr. Brownson was ordained to the
gospel ministry in 1883. His first
pastorate was the First Presbyterian
Church of Camden, N. J., from 1883
to 1889. During this pastorate he
married Miss Julia Jonvier Bush of
Wilmington, Del., this marriage tak
ing place in 1885. To this union was
bom a son, George Bush who died in
infancy. In 1889 Mrs. Brownson died.
He became the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Detroit in
1889, and in 1895 married Miss Mary
Pruyn Strain of Albany, N. Y. To
tion since a st"Okfc of paralysis a
v'eek ago. Sh'i \vas 74 yeai^ of age.
Funeral serv es will be Jifld at
Page Memorial Methodist Church,
Aberdeen, at 11:00 o’clock this, F’ri-
dny, morniug, interment following in
uiu Bethfcsua ceineLery.
Miss Page was a native of Cary,
a daughter of the late Frank and
Catherine C. Page. Later she lived
in Aberdeen many years, and for
about a generation had been a resi.
(ient of Greensboro.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Wilder and Miss Mary E, Page, of
Aberdeen. All five of her brothers
preceded her in death: Walter Hines
ir'age, American ambassador to
Great Britain while W'oodrow Wilson
was President; Henry A. Page, State
food administrator during the World
War, whose public service included
tenure of office as a member of the
General Assembly of North Carolina;
Robert N. Page, who represented the
cld seventh North Carolina district in
Congress many years; Frank Page,
first chairman of the State Highway
Commission, and Junius R. Page,
whose death o(^curred withbi the
past year.
For a number of years, during
the presidency of Miss Lucy H. Rob
ertson, Miss Page was teacher of
Bible at Greensboro College. She was
a member of Page Memorial Meth
odist Church in Aberdeen, but dur-
Roy F. Grinnell, golf professional ing her residence in Greensboro was
Chapter National rounda ion > ^ southern Pines Country Club,{active at West Market Street Meth-
no charge.
COUNTY LAUNCHES
DRIVE AGAINST
by Bates College (1922) and the Un
iversities of North Carolina and
Michigan (1926).
Roy Grinnell Injured
In Collision of Cars
INFANTILE HERE Country Club Golf Professional
i Suffers Broken Collar Bone
I, N. Clegg, Jr., Chairman of,
Committee To Organize Local
And Other Injuries
MISS EMMA PAGE,
ILL OVER A YEAH,
Funeral Services Today For
Sister of Late Distinguished
Page Brothers
SUPERIOR COURT
LEGALIZES SALE
* OF LOCAL BONDS
Tudge Bivens Sets Aside Res
training Order Which Held
l^p Purchase of Library Site
NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED
In a decision handed dowTi by Judg«
Bivens of the Moore County Superior
Court last week, the Town of South
ern Pines was authorized to sell bonds
of the town and with the proceeds to
purchase land next to the postoffice
building, and thereafter, at such time
as the Board of Commi.«£=ioners and
Mayor are able to piovide the funds
necessary for said purpose, to erect
thereon the municipal buildings con
templated for the uve of officials T.nd
employees 01 the town in the tran"-
action of a.j affair.s; also, to permit
the erection (n the said site of a pub
lic library building to be ereotol
from privaf.3 funds and donated to
♦he town, A restraining order was
vacated and set aside. Notice of ap
peal to the Sa.'^itme Court v/j,a giv
en.
In the cd.se, which was titled Hir
am W'estbrook versus the Town of
Southern Pines. D, G, Stutz, Mayor,
L. V. O’Callaghan, Charles S. Patch,
R. L. Hart, H. J. Botterley and E
C. Stevens, Board of Commii>4\iiier.'',
all parties had agreed that a jury
trial be vv’aived and tliat the Judgt
find the facts from the evidence of
fered by the parties. The plaintiff
was seeking to have the tempor.-irj’
Mi,ss amma Page of Greensboro
passed away on Wednesday nigh; ai
tne home of her al‘ter, Mrs, Thoiua/i
B. Wilder, on Page Hiil in Aberde.
She had been in i'l health for more [ restraining order, which had iield up
t/ian a year and in a critical coi.i.i- the sale of bonds of the town tc: the
purchase of the land, made pernna-
nent. The action is a friendly one to
legalize the construction of a new li
brary building from privata funtls
and a federal grant.
Cles to war on Mantlle paralvM. and : rther injurle. Wetoe.aay
cantata has been especially prepared | nea who died in childhood. In 1897 aid its victims in Moore colinty is ms'home”for at leaat a
for this ser-vice by a choir of 211 he became the pastor of the Tenth
voices under the direction of Mrs. L. Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia
D. Williams. Solo parts will be tak-1 where he remained for 25 years, re-
ne by Mrs. Ralph Mills, Mrs. Myron | tiring in 1922, at which time he came
Adams, Mrs. Kivet, T. Sloan Guy, j to Southern Pines to make his win-
jr. and J. B. Gifford. Notable among ter home. He was made pastor emer-
its varied units is a male chorus of itus of the Tenth Presbyterian Church
melodious quality and rare beauty at his retirement, which position he
Everyone will b* most welcome, } held until his death.
I Prominent In Churdi
KED AND WHITE BAIX j Dr. Brownson received the degree
AT CIVIC CLUB TUESDAY of Doctor of Divinity from Wash-
I ir>gton—Jefferson College in 1891.
The Civic Club will be the setting i He was a member of the Board of
for one of the gay parties of the i Trustees of Princeton Theological
-week following Christmas. On Tues- j Seminary, a trustee of the Presby-
States and abroad.
.Vew Aberdeen Mill to
Be in Operation Soon
creation of permanent local agen-l suffered a broken collarbone and od.st Church, in which sl^e served
^ ^ ... t« several years as teacher of the Su
sanna Wesley Bible class. She had
this year’s aim of the Committee for connnea lo ms xwx ;;raveled extensively in the United
Celebration of President Roosevelt’s week, and unable to play golf for
Birthday, I. N. Clegg, Jr., county | at least six weeks,
chairman, announced this week. i Mr. Grinnell was driving his car
Calling for volunteers “in a great cut of the Country Club entrance
army being mobilised for the protec- j just as an automobile driven by a j
tion of your children and those of! colored man was passing. The bum-, Fashioned Hosierv
your nei.hho„,.. Chai™an Ceg. ap-1 “riele.^h! mLKL “ed w“
pealed to all crtrzens of the county the Grinnell car against a teiegrapn, Mov» ‘ili Dnvs
to help raise funds by any form of pole with sufficient force to badly j
damage it. The golfer was consid
erably shaken up and bruised in addi-1 Negotiations have been completed
tion to the fracture. | lor the leasing of the new factory
, Mr. Grinnell and his family had a j building in Aberdeen to the Aber-
ond perpetuate a local chapter of the' narrow escape during the past sum- | deen Hosiery Mill Company, a sub-
National Foundation for Infantile i mer in the hurricane which struck; sidiary of the Crystal Hosiery Com-
community celebrations on the Pres
ident’s 57th birthday next January
30.
The funds will be used to found
rfav nieht the Red and White ball will terian Hospital in Philadelphia, a Paralysis—among more than 3,000; the Rhode Island coast. They were j pany
daymghttoeKeda^ - and member of the Board of Relief of the units to be formed throughout the ' in Providence shopping when the ko days ten full fashioned hosiery ma-
attract all who like to dance,
guests are asked to wear red and j Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., a del-
■white to add to the festivity. Script I egate to the Pn I’je.sbyterian Coun-
one dollar. Dancing, to a four-piece cil held in Liv rpool in 1904, a del
orchestra, will start at 9.00 oclock.
egate to the .Tonu ^Calvin Celebration
f’t Geneva in Icr.D, ►'ua a member of
70, well known car-; the Na^ r.n; ’
B. F. Rosser,
pentor and farmer of Carthage, died
in the Mocre County Hospital on
Wednesday > ' ‘ ■
country in a tremendous field organ
ization to direct local medical care,
rehabilitation of victims and preven
tion of epidemics.
The local committee is working on
Service Commission the plan w'iih the State and Nation
al Committee, headed by Keith Mor
gan, Executive Chairman, New York
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During J la;,t few years Dr,
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tidal wave hit. and succeeded in get-; chines will be shipped here, each
ting their car out of a parking lot | weighing in the neighborhood of 20
hut a few minutes before it was in-! tons. The new plant will employ from
undated, the water rising over the 6r, to 80 persons, in throe hour shift^^
•ops of the other parked cars. Sever- and operations will begin as soon as
il were drowned in their cars. The; the machines have been received anc»
Gi'innells live at So-konet Point, R. T., | ^^t up.
in the summer, and their house was | E. H. Rhetiberg of Philadelphia i-«
badly damaged.
to be supe.rintt ndent of the mill.
To Present Christmas
Drama Sunday Night
Fellowship Forum Will Enact
“They Thr't Si1 in Darkness”
at Wide Fellowship
'‘T),rv That Sit in Darkne.ss," a
Chri as drama by Dorothy Clarke
Wilson, will be presented Sunday eve
ning at 8:00 o’clock by the Fellowship
Forum of the Church of Wide F’ellow-
ship. The play presents the familiar
‘’tory of Miriam, the outcast of
Bethelehem, who after living in spir
itual darkness because of her sin
finds light in the coming of the Sa
vior. The dramatic version of this
««ory is arrjanged with revqrence
and rare beauty; it carries a deep per-
.sonal appeal. The parts are sympa
thetically portrayed by a well-choncn
cast. The director Is Algene Hoskins.
Costumes are by Mrs. Harry Pethick
xnd Miss Birdilia Bair.
The characters are as follows: Mir-
am. the outcast, Dorothy Tate; Ruth,
laughter of the iimkeeper, Edith
Smith; Mary, mother of Jesus, LouLse
Gardner; Joseph, the carpenter, Mil
ford Gi’antham; Joash, the inkeep-
"'i, L, L. Woolley, Amon, a sei'vant,
Charles Austin; Esther, Iris Tate;
Rachel, Mary Alice Tate; Rebecca,
Blanche Sherman; Sarah, Evelj'n P'd-
son; Ramah, Lois Hall; Nathan,
Charles Boney; Homar, Ernest Miers;
Jonathan. Dick Pethick; Abel, .'lan-
ley Austin; The First King, Don
Jones; The Second King, R W Tate;
The Third King, Dr. R. P. Sheperd;
Voice, Rev. V. O. Taylor.
All are invited to share in this
Christmas service.
CAROLINA PHONE BOOK
GOES TO PRESS SATURDAY
1
The new telephone uirectorj' of the
?:entral Carolina Telephone Company,
vhich serves Carthage. Hemp, Pine-
'irst and Southern Pines, v. Ml go to
press tomorrow, Saturday. Rub.'icrib-
rs on record on that date wii; be
lifted in the 1939 director^' t ojies
hich will be distribute ! in Jan
uary,
These now without te!ephf'n.^ ser-
'-•vio d-'Fire it, r <J 1'iO«jp want
ing their listin" in lUreclory
hanged in any way 'liquid g' t in
ourh immediately with the com
pany’s business office.