P Page TWELVE |jour li«at+ sliad ani t^our joi^ MO wan from tjou JOHN 16:22 be puts • m • SEASON’S GREETINGS AND SINCERE BEST WISHES TO OUR FRIENDS, OLD AND NEW .O Jf-s O •ov. 0 loish (lOu ■tliejoijS "•"CLfeu WILLIAMS - BELK Sanford, N, C. .''V . ' -C . ? • • • ' •OME CK] I!\J/ Well welcome the chance to visit with an old friend, and talk of the many good Christmas Seasons of the past, and extend our hearty wish that the Christmas Season of this year be a happy one for you. Brown Auto Supply THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1961 a Christmas Shopping Choo-Choo tracks, a whiff of fuel oil in your nostrils. There on the station platform, waiting for the express, were the piles of mailbags and a great stack of long boxes of holiday Radio Joe’s Radio & TV Service Southern Pines To Jbe held up by a freight train, these days, is to watch the Christmas shopping of a whole city—of several whole cities—go trundling past. Three Diesel two-job units were hauling the early morning heavy load last week. Groaning and straining, moaning its mournful warning call, the long freight train came creeping up the hill from Aber,deen to crest, with ani audible sigh of relief, the rise that makes Southern Pines the highest point on the entire Seaboard Air line’s right-of-way. There were 198 cejrs on that one train and that was, to judge by the tooting throughout the day, only one of many making the long haul north. The cars came from all over the nation, as is the ex traordinary way with freight trains. Casey Jones himself wouldn’t be able to explain how on earth the railroads get them straightened out and back where they belong. If they ever do. Hit or Miss These cars were in the usual ■ hit-or-miss, scrambled-up succes sion . There were the cars of lum ber, rough or dressed, and un doubtedly some of the many closely buttoned up boxcars, sashaying along in high class snobbism held Christmas treasures of fine furniture from High Point and other Southern marketplaces There was other wood, too, that looked like plain ordinary light- wood meant for Christmas hearths. (Only for goodness’ sake look out for Santa coming down!) There were lines of the little black coal cars, hitched, like circus elephants nose-to-tail, scut tling along, bumpety-bumpety- bumpety. Obviously SOME fur naces are not converted to oil. But the shiny oil cars were right be hind them, their little towers looking disdainfully over the tops' of their small black rivals. “Okay,” said the coalcars, “Okay. Competition is the breath of trade, boys. Just so we warm up the folks, it’s Okay with us!” Ignoring the chat, along came a long string of orange cars, filled to bursting with oranges for Christmas stockings. With maybe some crates of early grapefruit land jars of guava jelly tucked away in the corners. 'For All The Family' Sakes alive! Take a look at this! Here came the “Present For All The Family.” Or would it be For Him or For Her? Six cars six, no less—of brand new, shiny automobiles, snazzy, slicked up to the nines with chrome an^ the latest gadgets'. Each flatcar had a scaffolding that made two levels and on each level were five cars. I They rolled majestically by: 60 new models going up the line And Christmas morning will see ' a series of those photos the ads carry, only this one will be real true, of a smiling Dad at the wheel and a smiling Mom, in her boxy topcoat and short-short skirt, and three—always three— smiling kiddies, all grouped about the smiling car, and Mom will be saying; “Just look, darlings, what that good Santa brought us for Christmas!” And never a single Charles Addams monster child to squeak; “How did he get it down the chimney”? On rolled the train, cars of every railroad flashing past as it gathered speed again. Great Northern’s white mountain goat peered down from his cliff in the Rockies, the Santa Fe’s Indian sign, with its image of deserts and cactus and pueblos, Northerq Pacific and Union Pacific, bring ing to mind Columbia gorges and salmon fishing and all the trea sure-trove of orchards and the roses, the copper and the gold of those fabulous regions of the far Northwest. Here came the busi ness-like Pennsy, the B&O, C&O, the Phoebe Snow road, and others too numerous to mention, and finally a last group of the Sea board’s own, offering its “court eous service”, bringing up the rear as. if taking care of the whole 'operation. Past -Al Last Like a gay lady switching her skirt as she hurries across the street, the little red caboose swung past. The rails sang, the signals stopped their fuss and you came to and bumped across the greens folks are sending to their friends in the north. Lightered wood is packed in burlap for somebody’s fire, and red berries and a few needles, scattered about, decorated the platform. The rails up the curving tracks shone in the sun and, above the vanishing shape of the little red caboose, a plume of white vapor puffed high into the early morn ing air. —KLB CARTHAGE NEWS P--W .Martha and Isabells, and Mrs. tUCnual ChrUtmas parly of Guy Pittman of Olivia; M.sa Bla eimsrmns gKceT/ngs and me ctiniwaA j. - ^ the Carthage Music Club was held in the home of Mrs. H. G. Poole w Pinehurst Road with Mrs. L. R. Sugg as co-hostess. The 22 members assembled at six o’clock and were serv^ a buffet supper from a beautifully appointed table. Assisting the hostesses in the dining room were music club of ficers, Mrs. Thad Frye, Mrs. J. K. Roberts and Mrs. H. Lee Thomas. Everyone enjoyed singing Christmas carols following the ^'^^s B. E. Dotson read Phillips’ translation of the Christmas Story. Mrs. John Cline was welcomed back after a long absence. As is customary there -was no business session at the Christmas meeting. • Upon arrival of Santa, in the person of Mrs. J. K. Roberts iner- riment prevailed. She presided at the Christmas tree and gave out the gifts that were exchanged by the members. Students Home \jcuy x-w--..—, Ruth MacLeod and Archie Mac Leod of St. Andrews College, LaLurinburg. Mrs. Carey Pitty Cooper and her husband, of 'Winston-Salem, spent part of last week with Mrs. W. G. Brown and Mrs. Charles % Grier. Mrs. Margaret Pierce is home for Christmas and was accom panied by her daughter Mrs. James Wallace and daughtep Margo and Penny of Toledo, Ohio whom Mrs. Pierce has visited this fall. CAMPBELL CONCERT The 83-voice full choir of Campbell College presented its annual Christmas concert in Turn er Auditorium on the college campus Tuesday night. Singing with the choir was Geraldine Baldwin, alto, of the Eastwood community near Pinehurst. all good wishes for your happiness [ay the spirit of the Christmas Season bring jov to vou and yours Edwards Feed Mill Vass, N. C. I ! TATE’S Hardware & Electric Southern Pines A GIFT FOR THE HOME IS ENJOYED BY ALL Carthage Furniture Co. is the place to choose that suite, sofa, chair, lamp, table, or picture to make your room complete. Good selections at worthwhile savings. College students home for the Christmas holidays with their parents include; Miss Molly Dot son, Agnes Scott College; Miss Ruth Anna McDonald and Miss Frances McCaskill of Womans College; Miss Sara Jo Allen, John L. Currie, Mr. and Mrs. Mosley G. Boyette, Jr., Bob Kelly, Yates Williamson, Teddy Frye and others, UNC; Miss Ella Ruth Mac Leod, Archie McLeod, Butch Eld- ridge, Miss Lydia McCaskill and Gretchen Whitman of St. An drews College. Miss Brenda Kirby of Gardener Webb College. Tommy Currie, Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C. Miss Kay Patterson of Peace College; Archie Kelly, Fredricks College in Portsmouth. Personals Miss Katie Lee McLeod has re turned from a visit to relatives and friends in Richmond, Va Mr. and Mrs. David McCulloch and little daughter, of Arden, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Currie. Pfe Watson Dalrymple is home from his Army base in Texas for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dalrymple. He was accompanied by a friend. ' Mrs. Charles Cox left on Thursday for a visit with her son- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Pendleton and fami ly in Richmond. Mrs. M. G. Dalrymple left Friday for New York City to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Temple Dalrymple. Miss Kinsey Sabiston arrived 3me on Friday from Salem Academy, Winston - Salem to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sabiston, III, of Duke Univers ity, will arrive during the week and the Sabistons will have as their guests Lloyd H. Waters of Wilmington, N. C. and Mrs. James Malone, Jr. of Louisburg, N. Electric Toasters, Percolators, Skillets, Mix ers, Blankets, Vacuums, Heaters and other practical appliances. RCA, General Electric, Zenith radios, tele vision, Hi Fi, Stereo. WITH Best wishes r V V V • y' T ~ T T T ▼ N FOR YOUR Happiness our as we extend thanks, we hasten to add our best wishes to you for the Holidoy Season. May it be one of manifold blessings Keith Hardware Vass, N. C. CARTHAGE FURNITURE CO. Carthage, N. C. WH7-2253 iio pint % mse... !••• ^ 4/6 quart E. C. ABERDEEN SOUTHERN PINES C. M. Patterson is home from Laurinburg. Among the out-of-town people attending the funeral of W. Curtis MacLeod Sunday afternoon at Carthage Presbyterian Church were: Mr. and Mrs. N. E. McKay and J. M. Pleasants of Southern Pines; Doyle Miller, Statesville; Mackie Caldwell and Jere Mc- Keithen, of Aberdeen; Mrs. Car- llos McLeod and daughters, Miss 86 proof k IFor love and Peace, for ibff Qoodness in the world. J.T.S. BROWN’S SON COMPAtiT 7or life and family, for truth and for freedom, 7or friends, one of the most valuable gifts of all. 7o each one we extend a special wish for a Christmas of Peace, and for future years of happiness. LamnueiUTK Kmhuiv Blended Whietev S0% tiraight whieief e yean old 70% grain ntatral eptritn Steed Realty Company Southern Pines