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* 'More About Moore County v .(Oootfntied. Kroiii One) . . . Intt^Wn^Stine tnd^nw^ei; bu^pea^ mgs tapg* t£e; JgogSl Si.. >1? cwMignUy. l|i| C^abfjf ali)% itert«4tou/M a lui«^er,D#aifc opgraMn^a aQpr mift; in Mississippi four yearn The* milt works- up about 300 bales of cotton a month. Vasa was once noted for its paper, Stacy Brewer’s 'Pilot It waa- a* marvel- for a- villager taking- the awards at the State &ms* aespeiatiQ%ni$e$ij*8i^ best .looking-weekly- in-tha-State- Xhe-Eilot-ia.na»,» publistaedtafc Southern Pines by Mr. Hyde, a north ewag who i* continuing the. Pilot as ajnode} ,we^hlJ But Vass was not to be without a. paper after all those years in which the Pilot flourished* H- Clif ton Blue, 'a mere boy, started the Captain a little leas-- than. two>.yeara ago* It, was, about aa. big. as a (Sunday leaflet, hast, year, it was enlarged.* inn n|M«4.1 hays just pulled^a copy froip, its. wrappet, ta fipd that it has been consolidated, with. the. Sapd. hiBi Citizen* loji£, published at Southern Pines and,, since? the, renewal of.- the Pilot, to that, town .owned, bj.George R* Boss and edited, by Dr. C. I*. Newman, of a farm, weekly, linden tha eqpsolidar tiQHir the Citizen^Captain. will bt^ published af Vass tmA ^ui Qoatainz a. fang department edited, by Dr*. Me., Boss haSj a, haif-interestin the? puhlir. ca#o»« Clifton* Bine? is to, be congratulated upon, his, achievement and Vass. upoinhaving. a youth of so, mjuchr initiative, and vim. jfe m, Burst is mayor and S. A*"!*, agent. Ha has-,'been, mayor for three years. Formerly he?, was at Cameron-? u ! BEere are two Beasleys—«M» W., druggist, a grand* Son of my old friend of Lumber ton days, H. T. Beasley;. long-time tobacco man, Mr. Beasley is an Bleu, mam He* was reared^ at Apex. Mr. Ri Pf BsaStey^a kinsman of M; Ife, is a general merchant, Mr. A. W, MdNeill is nowi owner of a grocery and' hardware business. Mr. Bfen . If. V&od is Vass’s insurance man and town clerk. He was reared in Catawba county, but got hbn a. fine Moore county girl—Miss Ariel Shaw. John, MdCrumen is principal of Vfss’s fine school, but lives on the old McCrummen, homestead over in the West End section. He is a graduate of David . son, B. 1928; has taught at Seven Springs, Star, the Sandhin: Farm-Life School; and for seven years at Vass, where ike is principal. He has a brother Okt Aberdeen* in^the^drug^business. F. M. Dwight, a South Carolinian by birth, is both nurseryman and hotel man. 'For ten years he was a teacher. -. Briefly let me say that these Cameron and Vass folk whom I have named1 are fine people whom it is a pleasure to know. Lake View—One passing Lake View on the train or on the highway would not realize that there is one of the prettiest villages in the State over beyond the lake. It was a discovery to me. The village is most appropriately named. On the highway, A. C- Cox, who came down from [Randolph when a boy, has a filling station. It will interest all the friends of Rev. A. R. McQueen, Dunn’s cherished Presbyterian pastor, to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Cox were the first couple Doctor Mc Queen married. The bride was Miss Olive Blue. This is an old Blue settlement, Duncan Blue having settled there in 1758, according to Bion Butler’s *01d Bethesda.” J. O. and D. C. Blue are among the descendants living there now. , John R. McQueen and Bion Butler f Dp on, the hill overlooking the Lake toward the east, resides Mr. Gibbon of whom I wrote last issue land John R. McQueen, for we. are in the section of the nativity of the McQueen brothers and sisters, brood of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. And if there are two finer men in North Carolina than Rev. Dr. A. R. McQueen and his brother, John R. McQueen, I. should be glad to know them. I knew - John R. earlier than I did the Dunn preacher. Mr. McQueen and Bipn Butler were suffering hard luck on a big scale in Chatham at the same time I was undergoing the same kind on a small scale. I went over, to the Coal Glen mine when the bodies of scores of ; deadi men were being brought out. Mr. Butler’s own, son, Howard, superintendent of . the mine, was dragged, out, and laid aside as dead. Some one threw (water in his. face, and he recovered. That calamitous happening, and other* minor acci dents, bankrupt the company of which Mr. McQueen, was president, but no man, I believe, has ever dared to 'speak, a r word of reproach against either Mr. Mc Queen, or the Butlers. Bion Butler incidentally paid the highest of tributes to Mr, McQueen when I was at bis > Sandhill home three, weeks ago; Ieannpt re call the ..exact' words of the tribute, hut think of the finest thing, you- could say of a. man and you will not fjetter it. I. do recall that Mr. Butler said hees^ ■ teems no man so much,as he does Mr. McQueen, and they were associated for years. ■ - ■ . , i:. John ^: M<^neen .ia jipkidle. He. 4a general su.r ▼isitlng weekly ^ sev^ral. I^anta in tbe.WW towns in w&cM* found him in,the page ofiHs?..# Ab$r?wem to the status the co^JainfrPW^1 is still in the hands of e*f§enator Dial of; Soutfe Carolina as repreaentatlre of whom I belief tbe ^ himself. He said that certain -interests weresttU figuring upon taking the mine over, 'but have been waiting foe better-timeer Ile-had-been-wo rising- upon' the matter that I en‘ tered.. the. office* > - . . ~ Ttfa- /Butler tolff you in hia artfc4e4%the 2I|5?j issue of Th«:. Votee*. about* his Sandhill hon». \ Ih,,. really is a sandhill home. One must be on the alert to find- the little* track that leads front a county* read two miles east of Southern Pines to ttte Butler abode* two bundled yards distant, Trees and- shrubbery so surround1 the big house and- it isfcso overgrown with ivy that one is almost upon , it before he knows? whether he has struck the right road- or- not. H* thinks he lives in a real1 Eden, but if so l was reared, in? one—upon a sandhilt more isolatedj if more easily discovered, than Mr. Butins. It was sis miles from Clinton- amls a thousand5 yard® from the- public road, now the CHnton-iW-hite Lake highway, but then a mere buggy-wide traiP through the sands 1 am- won dering-whether in Mr. Butler’s Eden he ft- visited by the summer yellow flies- whose bites hurt likn-bee stings, or by the sand -gnat swarms; also whether the horse-guards come to bore their holes in- the? sand of the- lawn and to pick the horseflies fro&^ the horsesrand mules—though in Mr, Butte’s case it would , have- to be from an automobile; I • believe. These pests and seed ticks and- red bugs used; to-mar our Sampson county Eden.—perhaps the Moore county sandhills ate-, two- dry and-- too scantily, grassed- to breed all- those pests, Anyway, Mr. Butler’s old age is being spent in^ an isolation that is rather attractive^ I presume, to a man who has been so active daring, the past three score years. He Is'not worrying over either the past or the future, he told’ me. Butler’s “Ora Rethesda" • I hadn’t read his “GhL Bethesda” wJhenl was at his home nor was it mentioned,, though only a, fesv days ,before I had., got my. -first-gjdgipse of a copy at. the homp of Charles Ross,: who remanketL- that ilx. Butler had covered the wll0le country,. it not the, whole world, and all., time, in ther volume, I. had .up, idea at the time how nearly Judge Ross’s, words de scribed the volume. I was presented a copy,, in. Mr, Butler's name, by Talbot Johnson and have, since absorbed it, and. doubt if Mr. Ross (or is it to be Judge Ross?) had, exaggerated the description of the treatise. It is surprising what a, philosophical mind full of information can. make of any subject Mr. Butler has exalted the Scotch and, Presbyterian?, isru. But.the book’s philosophy and the associations developed can scarcely be gainsaid. It is doubtless true that all the roads leading out from Fayetteville did, not pass old Bethesda and that the “Yadkin Road” did not lead directly to Philadelphia, also to Kentucky and Tennessee, and to ail other quarters of America, but marvelously well has the author related the happenings, in Asia Minor (Galatia) and Europe since Caesar’s time and during the settlement of much of the area of the United States to Old Bethesda, an, old Presbyterian church located first near Mt. Helicon and later near Aberdeen, in whose churchyard, lies the bodies of not only a host of pio neer Scotchmen but also of America’s ambassador to Great Briton—Walter. Pago, through whom he has related all the events of the World war to, 01dr Bethesda. Nevertheless, it is an “exciting book,” " as Burt Struthers has pronounced it, and a wonder ful weaving together of facts, Action, and filosophy into a story that is a§ a whole a marvel of truth. I, had before deemed Mr. Butler as more the Sand hills prophet than a master of Christian philosophy. Moore county is unique because of its Pinehurst and Southern Pines, its Patrick.and Tufts,.its Pages,. Blues, and Pettys, but also because of its Butler. Butler alone would make the county. unique—he is the only one cast from the mold and the mold is broken and the copy last. Yet in 1024 when I saw and heard the younger Count Tolstoi, who unlike his father, had had poverty thrust upon him by revolt tion rather than embracing it voluntarily, as had the Great Count, philosopher and novelist, Bion Butler, at that time could have very well doubled, for the Bussian exile in a movie picture. Southern Pinos aswj; Pinehurst As said last week, to mention<those towps.is to say all that is to be said of them,, Their, fame is, gone out through all the earth- I shall not even attempt to add to it. Besidest Mr. Butler in his article in the'former issue of The Voice gave the general setting and, glory of all, the Sandhills developments,. Ifowf ever, j^a few, figures I KiU gjverurha$ fe^ haje rcoft-. ceived: I gsked; President VonCapon of the Pine hurst Bank at what s^fflihe estimate the out of-State inp«t«ne^|^ii^the B||jehurst and Southern * Pines results., -Ejair supposed'gif to be -si* or seven millions, inelt#n%a region |i§ the golf links, wi th roat whiei^hjraaii^^ investments would be ^practically profitless. . \’ s f Hie Pinehurst Barit - I-do not- ewn stop-at Pinehurotv but* at- West* End, Mother ja^BHWperous village, I find fh^~ prafllrtant-and-thevcashier- of-the Pina hurst Bank living. Mr. F. W. Von)Canon£ tfc&presh dgpk amt, Mr it-11- Bichardsohu eaahtery presented t^e .foUowJn^faotf about the bank which has super the Bftgfe TfnstConipahy as Moore’s financial stronghold. "The old capital is $50,000, the surplus amounts to and' recent- safe*,of preferred stodk updfir N^ arrangemgn^.bu^ not to, any gpv ernmeptaji agpcj, aippipts . to th^r.givipgi it a wprfc*ng. capita of., Itu h#p.. established brapch^s.al Aberdeen .and Carthage* Afc the. latter place,M£ Kenney is caster., Npte^lo^h op„ initials aipf nameft, of assistants. Tw«Mftp>reliQH*A«hfevenaent» at Weak U The Pinehurst Fupituye Company has,achieved a success since its organization-in lSf& which I be lieve.. is, unparalleled’’in. Jtorth: Carolina. by.any. bind of-eoncera. The faetory; is owned: and: operated ah .jpo$v wholly by Mr/ Jv Bb VOnGanoa amt sons and sons-ipilaw. The. originalicapital was- $tL5$06£h The business started in lh28f just: a year or two. before the^.dfpression> got/in* full sweep/ Yefc-Ii was., authori tatively informed by Me. J. Bt VonGanon.. that the present*plant represents-an Investment ofbabout $75r QQtt* that not a dollan is owed, and . that money is in ' the bank .to- pay> fen an ndditioac note id. course of erection,; which when- equipped! will pracMcalh.dohble the-capacity. Beat that depression* 0r-no-depres sion, I# you can, : The_principal manufacture- thus xac nas; Deem pos ter ijedsteads, One little patented' quirk, is, probably responsible for the, unusual success ofcthie furniture ..plant-dnring a period - when- many, strongly. capital ized plants were practically, idle,. The Jnnovatisu is an electric light* witik adjustable, .sJttade.la th»: lifiadr rail of tho bed* The push-of as button, will turn, on the lifehfc and* the adjustment, of 1 the metal’shade: will . give it any* strength desired.; Simple, but it lias sold the teds, and- thebig profit isanatherexampleof the part- patents play in the eeonoinic scheme ofl things as pointed out by M& Walter Williamson, Carthage's merchant genius, who* says, that patents play a. more important part in raising the price of American goods and in creating monopolies than does the tariff. ■ £ 7 V West Hbvto AIBoihIs. Another fonder A hundred-twenty-five-acre apple orchard in-eas tern ;5Torth Carolina or central, if you prefer—it is in the sand—is an, enterprise- worthy the attention of every reader of The State’s Voice. Such! an or chard is'part of the holdings of the Pinehurst Or chard Company, near West End, Of the) 125 acres, about 100 are in bearing. The company has about 250 acres in peaches, but all of us know the fame of the Sandhills peach. But such a flourishing area in apples, producing ten thousands bushels of market able Delicious, red and yellow, Wiuesaps, old and Stagien, and other prime varieties, fs another mat ter./ . !.; Mr. Donaldson* a native of Mecklenburg and a graduate of the horticultural department of State College, is in charge of the orchard and; is operating it in the most scientific way. Great spraying ma chines were busy the day I looked upon it and a bunch of hands were gathering up every fallen fruit let^ lest a worm might escape and do ravage next year""' - Of' course,, an apple orchard does not render im mediate ,profits. An investment in. such: a-business is more, of a long-term affair. A hail storjndestroyed the crop two years ago. Ten thousand bushels were marketed last year, but like many, other, plants the vitality of the trees was affected, last fall by the drought and the crop this year is not quite as large as that of last year. Bid, in the'long run. that apple orchard should pr^ve a profitable investments' Kvery bushel of ap ples can he ^old within a reasonable: area. The healthy condition of the trees- indicates a long life for them. The ordinary farmer does. not spray the few trees he has, and probably ruins them by close . cultivation of other crops in the orchard, as was the case in the fine young orchard my father had when I.was. a boy. The trees prospered, for. several years, but the too little regard for, their>: roots and the lack of sufficient fertilizer caused the ultimate death of the trees. There, was no scale ■ then to. kill them, and. old trees were still vigorous in an old orchard. It is eyident that eastern and - central North Carolina <3 ; • S>*r: 4^:Kr*V f.
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