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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 19, NO. 15.
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CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, March 10, 1939.
FIVE CENTS
LIST 50 CLASSES
FOR HORSE SHOW
LAST OF MARCH
Trotters, Pacers, Saddle Horses,
Polo Ponies, Hunters and
Jjmpers To Be Shown
MANY SPECIAL TROPHIES
Grand Illusion”
Widely Discussed Film To He
Shown Here For Benefit
of Maternity Clinics
Fifty classes are on the Premium
List for the 22d annual Sandhills
Horse Show, successor to the Pine-
hurst Horse Show, to be held at the
Pinehurst ring on the race track
grounds on Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 28th and 29th.| The Pre
mium Lists were mailed out to horse
owners throughout the state during
the wee), by Secretary Charles
W. Picquet. Entries close on March
22d.
The list includes four classes for
trotters and pacers, eleven for three-
gaited saddle horses, five for five-
gaited horses, five for horseman,
ship, three for polo ponies, 13 for
hunters and jumpers, and numerous
military classes. There are money
^5take claases for saddle horses,
hunters and ajumpers, and numerous
special trophies, among the don
ors being Mr. and Mrs. Reed A. Albee,
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Heather, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Herbert Todd, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph McKee, Alfred B. Maclay and
Richard Welling.
The Premium booklet lists the of
ficers and executive committee of the
'show as follows: N. S. Hurd, pres
ident; Nelson C. Hyde, vice.president
Charles W. Picquet, secretary-treas-
urer; Ccl. George P. Hawes, chair
man executive committee, of which
the members are the officers and
Mrs. Leroy Gates, George P. Liver
more, Frederick H. Burke, Steven E.
Comstock, Col. I. T. Wyche, Capt.
H. F. Searight, Walter T. North-
graves and Mrs. Lawrence B. Smith,
Judges of the show this year will
be Col. Sloan Doak of hunters and
jumpers, Mrs Reed A. Albee, Larch-
mont, N. Y., and R. C. Heather, New
York, saddle classes and horseman
ship, and an officer from Fort Bragg,
to be named by Brig. Gen. William
Bryden, military classes. Frederick
H. Burke of Southern Pines will be
ring master and Col. Hawes ring
supervisor.
“Grand Illusion,” the most widely
discussed film of the decade will be
presented at the Carolina Theatre on
March 25 by the Moore County Ma
ternity Committee to raise funds for
assisting the County Welfare officer
and the County Health officer in
maternity health work in the coun
ty-
All seats for the performance of
"Grand Illusion" will be reserved and
sold in advance. Tickets may be ob
tained from members of the commit,
tee or resei'vations may be made
through Mrs. Page at Madame et La
Jeune Fille in Pinehurst or Mrs. Ed-
son at Franjean’s in Southern Pines.
This picture, which has been run
ning for more than six months in
New York, has been highly praised
and was recently awarded first prize
by the National Board of Review and
the New Y6rk Film Critics Circle.
The film is beljig presented to raise
funds so that maternity health woik
may re continued and care may ne
giV'.*n to mothers who have, uhmI
now, leceived, in most cases, none
at rll
The Maternity committee has been
instrumental in securing a nurse,
trained at the Lobenstine Clinic in
New York, who supervises prena
tal clinics a month and visits pa
tients and has secured a doctor to
conduct each clinic. Also, it provides
medicine and baby clothes for needy
mothers and contributes toward hos
pital care when needed, transports
patients to and from the clinics and
supplements, whenever possible, the
low fee which the county pays to
the doctor.
COUNTY ACCEPTS
RESIGNATION OF
D. D. McCRIMMON
Exhibit of Rare Oriental Art \
Objects To Benefit Hospital
Member of Board of Commis
sioners Since 1934 Succeeded
by W. J. Dunlap
OWN' BUSINESS PRESSING
The resignation of D. D. McCrim-
mon, who had served continuously as
County Commissioner since Decem
ber, 1934, was accepted by the Board j ”
I I’ethick for the benefit of the Wo
of County Commissioners at the reg-
Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Pethick
To Show Collection Acquired
in Far Eastern Countries
Through the courtesy ancf kind
permission of Mr. and Mrs. M. H.
Turner, there will be an exhibition
of Oriental Art objects in the ball-
loom of the Highland Pines Inn dur
ing the afternoon and evening ot
Thursday, March 16th, beginning at
2:00 o’clock. The exhibition is being
i given by Mr. and Mrs. Harry H.
ular monthly meetings held on Mon
day of this week, and W. J. Dunlap
of Hemp was appointed by the Clerk
of the Superior Court to fill out the |
unexpired term of Mr. McCrimmon.
Mr. Dunlap took the oath of office
Monday and entered upon his duties
at that meeting.
Mr. McCrimmons resignation was
accepted “with reluctance and regret,
the Board desiring to express its
sincere appreciation to Mr. McCiim-
mon for his fine and sacrificial ser.
vce as County Commissioner, and to
nun's Auxiliary of the Moore Coun
ty Hospital.
The collection was acquired by Mr.
and Mrs. Pethick during their 25
year.s of residence and travel in
Chna, Japan, the Philippines, Indo-
China and Siam. While not many
items are oi great value, tne arts
of these countries are well represent
ed and the collection contains some
ancient pieces of considerable inter-
i est.
There will be over 500 objects on
view, including examples of wood-
Review of “Joseph in
Effypt”-at Civic Club
Patsy Smith (ioodwin of Char
lotte To Read, Ethel Edwards
To Sin>? This Afternoon
One of the most important pro.
grams to be offered this season by
the Civic Club of Southern Pines,
vill be this afternoon, Friday, at
3:00 o’clojik, when Patsy Smith
Goodwin of Charlotte, is being
brought here to give a review of
‘‘Joseph in Egypt” by Thomas Manii.
Book reviews are Patsy Goodwin’s
beloved work and she holds her and.
ience every minute. Preceding the
reading of the book she gives 15
minutes of current topics.
Ethel Edwards of Stamford, Conn.,
will give a group of soprano solos,
accompanied by Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins,
and will follow with a group of read-
ing.s to music, for which ?he plays
her own accompaniments. All visi.
tors in cottagcs and hotels are in
vited to enjoy this program. There
will not be any charge for admis
sion and tea will be served.
1)01 GK.VM>SON OF
IJNC’OLX DKBATKIl. HERF
TOURNAMENT ON
FOR GOLF TITLE
AT COUNTRY CLUB
southern Pines Championship To
Be Played Saturday
and Sunday
cuts, prints of silk and linen em-
wish for Mr. McCrimmon every sue- . ,
•' broideries, textiles, costumes wood-
carving, ivories, blackwood pieces.
The 10th annual Southern Pines
Country Club Golf championship will
be held tomorrow and Sunday, March
11 and 12 over the 6,300 yard cham
pionship course. The event will con
sist of 36 holes of medal play to be
played over the two-day period.
Last year’s ch.nmpion, Herimann
Grover, will be on hand to defend
cess in his chosen endeavors.
In a letter to the Citizens of Moore
county, released for publication this
week, Mr. McCrimmon said:
“I have found it necessary to re
sign from the Board of County Com
missioners of Moore county. Being a
druggist, I find it necessary to be
in my store more regularly, and ra
ther than neglect either the County’s
business, or my own affairs, I have
submitted my resignation.
“It has been a pleasure for me
to sei’ve as a Commissioner, and I
have at all times endeavored to dis
charge my duties to the best of my
.abilities. It is my sincere hope that
every decision I have made as a
Commissioner has been for the up
building of Moore county.
“Moore county has a real Board of
Commissioners. Every member of
this board is rendering real service
to Moore county at a sacrifice to
himself. I have sincerely enjoyed
■working with this board and will
definitely miss the association with
these men each first Monday. I have
always found them ready to cooper
ate in anything which they felt was
for the good of the county.
“I hope that the citizens of Moore
county will keep these men in har-
bronzes, old brass, porcelains, orien.
tal silver and metal work. Carved
chest:^, Jacquer, cloisonne, Peking
rugs, dolls, masques, and donkey-.'kin
fig,ire.«i used in Chinese shadow pUiy,9.
In addition interesting examples
of the coinage of China, Jcipm, tne
Philippines, Indo-China, Siam, Bor
neo, Sarawak, Malay States, Cam-
bodia, Netherland Indies and New
Guinea will be shown. Among then
will be 1 collection of 80 dii’fer> n:
Cliin<ise silver dollars of the Empire
and ^\(^puiblic, some of \»’hlch are new
extremely rare.
Tickets at 50 cents each. Includ
ing tea, will be on sale at the desks
of the principal hotels or may be
obtained at the entrance to the exhib
it. Chinese tea will be served from
4:00 to 3:00 p. m.
Urges Caution
Fire WardenTAfter Ten Fires
in February, Asks Public
To Be Careful
Now is the time for all good
men to come to the aid of the con
servation of our natural resources.
In other words, it’s a bad time
of year for fires—grass fires, for-
e.st fires. There were ton during
Februarj’, fortunately kept down
to small acreage by the efficient
work of Fire Warden John R. Mc
Crimmon and his men. But it
doesn’t take much for a little fire
to spread, and it takes less to
start a little fire. So Mr. Mc
Crimmon urges caution—with a
capital C.
“THEY’RE OFF” TO
BE HEARD HERE
NEXT SATURDAY
Cream of Country’s Steeplechase
Horses Entered in Fifth An
nual Sandhills Event
PARKING AT PREMIUM
Entries have been coming in all
week for the fifth annual steeple
chase races of the Sandhills Steeple
chase and Racing Association on the
Barber Estate course a week from
tomorrow, and at this writing there
Is every indication of a most suc
cessful afternoon of sports-_the most
thrilling sport from the spectator
standpoint that there is. Entries close
tomorrow, so that a listing of the
aspirants for honors and shares of
I the $2,200 purses is not available at
n 4 t Tri¥ Tr« /I 1 » w ^ already sufficient en-
CAUCUS CALLED : r :r:ve^"';v"fr„ irzi
TIM ARFRni7I7IVI TA ^
lil 1 i i ^rush, one over timber, one over
M Anir riTv TirurT ™
iirilfllj Lll I llLlVrjl ' completed yecter-
: day, and everything Is reported In
n-f m TT- . « readiness for the big day the 18th
f»r I . r.c0M.breaklng day. More part,-
Mayor, Commission I ,„g than ever
Citizens of Aberdeen are meeting '““ T”**'
i„ and from all reports people are
11! caucus on Monday niirht March ... r
9nth ir. Marcn comng from all sections of the state,
^Oth to name candidates for Mav-1 r. o .u ^ ,r. ■
u ^ I fiom South Carolina, Virginia, about
or and members of the Board of everywhere..
Commissioners to serve for a two I t> ■ o .
. J Lwo. , Racing Secretary Richard Wallach
year period, the election to follow on j, rvicnarj wcti.acn,
Tuesday, May 2d.
The meeting will be held in the
High School building at 8:00 o’clock.
John G. Sloan has been aoDointed,
chasers; Mrs. Marlon duPont Scott
gave out the names of a few
horses yesterday. Mrs. Frank M.
Gould has entered Postman Home,
one of the country's best steeple.
. , If' sending several horses, among
Lean poll holders and J. F. Blue al 1 .u r
them Lance Corporal and Sailor’s
Cotton Can Rehabilitate
South, Kiwanis Hears
Lieutenant Governor of District
and Rev. J. PVed Stimson
Address Club
The South can be rehabilitated
through its principal crop, cotton, In
the belief of Thomas Upchurch of
ness for many years to come as I j Raeford, lieutenant governor of the
do not believe a better board can be | Carolinas district of Kiwanis Inter
found. 1 national. Mr Upchurch spoke at the
“W. H. Currie has and is render- j weekly meeting of the Sandhills Ki-
ing real service as chairman of the wanis Club, held Wednesday in the
his title against a field of more than board. He knows the County’s bus-, Southern Pines Country Club
70 golfers. The tournament Is open iness from the bottom to the top,
to all seasonal or weekly members and It would be extremely hard to
and no entrance fee will be charged, find a man of Mr. Currie’s ability
All entries are requested to be in by who would give as unselfishly of his
6:00 tonight, Friday. Among the en- ) time to the county,
tries already listed are the names of “I wish to thank the citizens for
such local stars as Grover, Gordon honoring me in the past with their
Keth, Macke Caldwell, Dick Sugg and .support and It Is with extreme sor.
Fmmett Golden. Prizes will be given jow that I find that the pre.ss of per-
t(ir the champion, runnor-up, low net sonal affairs makes my resignation
and second low net.
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Musical Treat Offered Here By
Flora Macdonald College Faculty
The Catholic Daughters of Amer
ica and the Holy Name Society of
Saint Anthony's Church, Southcrr
Pines, assembled last Sunday morn
ing. The speaker was R. D. Douglas.
Sr, prominent attorney of Greonsborr
Others at the speaker’s table wer<
ifiss Marguerite Wolff, of Altoona
Pa.; Mrs. R. D. Douglas, Greensboro-
Rev. Thomas A. Williams, Southen
Pines; Mrs. Harold Maloney. South-
trn Pines; Mrs. James J. Sprlnf
Fitchburg, Mass.; L. V. O’Callaghar
Southern Pines. Mr. Douglas had a
his subject “The Future of the Cath
olio Church in North Carolina.”
One of the musical treats of the
season is in store for Sandhills music
:overs tomorrow, Saanday, wl;en un-
er the sponsorship of the Three Arts
Gioup, members of the faculty of
Ihe Conservatory o’.’'*Mu.‘iic at Flora
Jslacdonald College, Red Springs, will
present a musical program at the
'ine Needles clubhouse at 8:30 p.
m.
Artists on the program will be
lelen Scoggins of Wilmington, asso-
iaie professor of piano; Estelle
Louise Cooney of Nichols, Conn.,
lead of the voice department; Lil
ian Farquhar Robeson, head of the
Though alarmed at the present
plight of cotton farmers, Mr Up
church sees a way out through the
recent organization of grow'ers in
Tennessee, a move which has spread
trhoukhout the entire cotton belt. The
aim of the National Cotton Council
of America is- to expand production
and find domestic uses for the ex-
ce.-s. Wo can grow three million more
bales and increase employment by
25 percent, and “uses for the full
ci'op can bo found,’’ he believes.
The Postoffice depaitmenf alone can
\nc .several million bales by Hwitvh-
ing from hemp to cotton twine; all
—« I kinds of bags can be made of cot-
studied under Edwin Hughes in New j ton; more n.'ie can be made of cot-
York. ton in road consti'uction.
necessary.
registrar, J, V. Ferree and Ed Mc-i jc
Lean poll holders and J. F. Blue al
ternate for the election. The reglstra- .1
, Knot, Paul Mellon, who won the
on book. 1, be open .t the Eeon. -Sandhill, Challenge Cup la« year
omy Grocery Company s store for corn Dodger, has entered Fac-
Zl'T, TT “-J Captain Kvart
are entitled to register, on Saturdays , Johnson has the well favored Sea-
H * ' A 1 ^ already here for the big
Saturday, April 29th will be Chal- I .• u
, timber race. Others who have en-
lenge Day.
, tered horses Include “Jock” Whit-
f t *s the pres- ^ Walter T. Northgraves, L. W.
en mayor of Aberdeen, and the pres. jr,_hl. Cabin Flro won
ent Commissioners are W. H. Me-: .u 01 u v. 1 4. u 1
the $1,000 brush race last March and
Neill, H. A. Gunter, J. D. McLean . • * ^ o n
^ ^ ’ *• IS re-entered; Mrs. Stuart Spillman,
C. L. Guion and W. D. Caviness. Mrs. :
Evelyn H. Pleasants, Clerk-Treasurer,;
gave official notice of the caucus and
election this weelt.
Mrs. Lewis Parks and Mi’s. J. C.
Clark, all owners of leading thor
oughbreds.
Though the supply Is almosi. ex
hausted, the office of the Sandhills
association, in the Village Court
Building, Pinehurst, is still taking res
ervations for parking spaces in t^e
Clubhouse Enclosure, and selling
Grandstand spaces on the hiUside
overlooking the entire course. 'Ihese
latter are sold at $5.00, which in.
eludes all passengers in the car. The
If you see a little red Model T 1 c-o ^ 1 ■
, $2.00 non-reserved parking spaces
I>oid jogging around the community,^ goU only on the d;iy of the
stop it. It has tickets for sale to. event.
the Old Fashioned Co.stume Parade rr.u <• »
; The cour.se is m perfect condition,
to be staged for the benefit of the ^ * j
„ i The grandstand was erectcu this
Moore County Hospital in the ball- , j 1 , , , *
week, the paddock fences put up, sta-
room of the Pinehurst Country Club ,, , 1 ,r .1
bles made ready for the v.siting
tomorrow, Saturday afternoon. And ,, 1 ■ 1 ■ » ■ *
horses, and fim;hing touc .ts put oa
al! fences by the gaint Every
thing’s set for the cry:
Yesteryear’s Costumes
On Parade Saturday
One Worn at Court Presentation
others of All Ilk Are Proces
sion for Hospital
tickets are going fasl. They are also
on sale at both drug stores in Aber
deen and in Pinehurst. at the Broad
Ptrcet I^harmacy in Southern Pines,
by Sam, the Carolina’s hotel’s major
domo, by Girl Scouts and at the
Pinehurst Libraiy. They're either 50
“They’re off!’’
.lay Cee Barn Eaiice
Feature of Next Week
Estelle Cooney studied at Woman’s j Mr I'pchurch also discussed the I a dollar. ,
College in New Haven, the Yale 1 growth and importance of Kiwanis { " served om.-half an 1 Country Club To Be Transform
ed Into “Ye Olde Brrno*’ For
Tuesday N'«iht
School of Music, the Yale Graduate! activitle.= in his district, and through.'*'®^”’ b<‘f''i'e the parade of “old tim-
School of the Drama, the Schroon out the United States and Canada,, |‘'it o:00 o’clock I
Lake Colony and later with Oscar At its peak in 1929, Kiwanis had 1 The first costume in the pro-
.Seagle, in New York. *103,000 members he .said. The aim will be worn by a lady who Highlighting the c.^toriainm ’t
Lillian Farquhor Robeson is a Uiig year is to get b.ick to this total, j presented at court, and has the calendar for next wee], •.ill be the
graduate of the Halifax (Nova Scotia) 1 nnd he congratulated the SanJhills ' court train. There’ll be many , Jay-Cec’s Barn Dance, ' ;n?ored by
Consen’atory of Mu.sic; has studied j ch.b on its expansion, the club .show- cthns,-of all ages and ilks,
for two years at the Leipzig Conser- ing n s.ibstantial increase in mem- 1 —-
the Southern Pines Jur );• Char.ibor
of Commerce, and schci’ iicd to ‘a'-e
Iilace on Tuesday night at the Cour_
try Club.
Dick Jones and his o:' hestra l\ V3
vatory in Germany and has since . bership during the pa.st •, lar. “If the , GO\ I’UNAirA'T SENDS I*. ().
coached with Max Rosen, Ruth Bre, | other 2.000 clubs keep pace wl:.h you,” : PL.XXTING SPTX'IFIC'ATIOXS
ton and Sascha Jacobson, in New, lie said, “there will bo no question '
^ork. j about the 103,000 members of our , I’lars nr.d sp clficatlions for the i been engaged to provl.’c music .'ind
Mr. Ebf i-ly received hi.s musical , 2,000 club--.’’ | r'an‘uMr <>f Vbe giMvnds around the , entertainment for thi.i affair, rnd
education at the University of Ne- ; The Rev. J. Fred Stimson, in ex- | new r.o iil:crn Pin?s postoffice were , these boys make their bow to P nd-
lolin department, and J. ilg’us | j,raska, and has since studied with tending a welcome to three new j I’ovivU ■ stoi r’->y fro.n Washington . hills dancers accompanied by t e
:berly of Davia City, Neb., dean of ■ York and done j n'emberg, Che.ster Williams of Pine- canyir:- o.'t largely the suggeslon.Jhicvhe.st recommendatio-.’^ and frrsh
he School of Music. 'graduate work at New York Univer- : hur.^t, D. Sabiston of Carthage of Alfred B. Yeomans of the locn! from an auspicious debut befor ■ n >:.
Miss Scoggins, a brilliant pianist ^ sity. ! nnd Pvobert ^^cClelIan of Knollwood
ho has won especial recognition a?. There will be no admission charg-| tok; the membership that ne\’<?r be-
n accompanist, received her B. M. | ed for this musical program and ho-1 ft re in history was an organlfcatlon
agree in piano at Flora Macdonald tel guests and members of the cot- , such as Kiwanis as necessary as nov.'
’ollege and, prior to her appolnt-
ient to the School of Music faculty,
P!’r.nii'.g Commission. Bid? will be neigh’s citizens at last v.cek’s “'?.Tin-
opiiud on Friday, March 17th, rn warming” dance, which offi K’’,y
’ ■•tm'>tcr Frank jBu^han reportn closed the Southern Conference bss-
^hnt already he has had requests for
tage colony are invited to be present 1 “to bind men to try and hold togeth-1 spec’f;, ations from 15 nurserymen
as guests of the Three Arts Group.' er the fundamen'als of civilization, 'eiiirlng to submit estimates.
ketball tournament.
The word from P.aleigh is that
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