VOL. XV, NO. 16
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1912
FIVE CENTS
MOORE CO. PARK ASSOCIATION
Its Purpose to Establish Reservations
Along Public Highways
Organization Aftected and the .Plans
Discussed at Meeting- of .Represen
tative Citizen of Section
THE ORGANIZATION
of the Moore County
Park Association is one
of the most important
steps in the history of
the section, opening up
as it does opportunities
for the uplifting of the
entire community
through public reservations with their
many attractions. The present organi
zation includes Mr. Henry A. Page as
president, Mr. J. B. Von Cannon as vice
president, and Mr. Leonard Tufts as
secretary-treasurer; the charter mem
bers : Prof. J. A. McLeod, Messrs.Warren
II. Manning, J. Alton Mclver, A. S. New
comb, W. E.Youlandand Francis Deaton.
Formation of the Association is made
possible by the general law passed by
the 1911 State Legislature, providing for
a body of citizens having powers to re
ceive and hold for exclusive benefit of
the public, gifts, land or money for the
acquirement of suitable land or for main
tenance of public parks which shall be
free from taxation. Moore County is
first to take advantage of this and at a
time when values make the project feas
ible in a large way.
Air. Leonard Tufts with the assistance
of Moore County and North Carolina
citizens, has been very largely instrumen
tal in bringing the matter about, as the
result of various excursions through the
County which had impressed him with the
number of places having unusual beauty
either in the plant growth peculiar to
the region,the occasional rock formations,
or- the outlooks from hilltops, valley
slopes, or up and down the valleys.
Noting that most of these sections could
be preserved by broadening of the right
of way, he found that road supervisors
were powerless to take only such land as
was actually needed for roads and that
there was no law which would permit
owners to give such beauty spots for the
benefit of the public without paying
taxes thereon.
The recent meeting was largely given
up to discussion. Prof. McLeod opened
by pointing out the value of such a law
in permitting the acquirement of such
reservations adjoining school grounds of
limited area in which there could be pre
served or added, the native plants, ani
mals and birds, which forest cutting and
land clearing were so rapidly extermin
ating. Mr. Page mentioned particularly
the importance of the county's taking the
lead in lines of progressive action as it
had in other directions, referring to the
should not regard would willingly pay
more for beauty in horses or dogs when
a less attractive but just as service
able animal, could be secured at less
cost. Such men Mr. Page empha
sized, will soon realize that the pre
servation of landscape beauty in Moore
county will add to its distinction, its
w i it & Hw r i- m i - i Ififc i ifj j tP7, sr&
' ' COMPAR AT I VELY FEW TREES, LEFT IN GROUPS, PRESERVE THE BEAUTY
AND DISTINCTION OF THE LOCALITY
inborn appreciation among ail of natural
beauty as represented by fine trees, im
pressive outlooks and beautiful flowers.
He said he believed that every man even
though he was ashamed to acknowledge
it, appreciated such beauty even those
who referred to beauty as a sentimental
consideration, that the practical man
prosperity and its liveableness, thus
making it a leader as it has been in all
modern progress.
Mr. Von Cannon, chairman of the
County Commissioners, expressed the
opinion that the authority conveyed to
the Park Association will lead to the
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ALL PINEBURST GATHERED
Village Club Fete Most Delightfnl Enter-
tainment of Many Seasons
Attractions Numerous and Diversified
Hound Out Perfect Day For
Young- and Old
ALL PINE HURST
gathered for Tuesday
afternoon's Village Club
Fete and the event lin
gers in memoiy as the
most delightful and re
freshing affair of many
seasons. Held in the
open air with the Pine
Grove as the assembling place, a perfect
day was essential and surely none fairer
was ever created, redolent as it was with
the balmy air, mellow sunshine and the
sweet fragrance of Spring. Of attractions
there were many and diversified which
claimed the attention of old and
young with, perhaps, especial attention
to the children whose merrymaking was
enjoyed by all. In charge of the chariots
in which a short ride was enjoyed at the
nominal cost of a nickel, the bowling al
ley, and the bean bags were Mmes. Robe
son, Morse, Splane and Hunter, with
close at hand, a Maypole which attend
ant games and dances, presided over by
Mrs. Leonard Tufts and Miss Stone.
There were refreshments also,dispensed
by Mmes. Langdon, Tufts, Sbarpe, Hurd,
Baxter, Peet, Pottle and Abbe, and the
Misses Bruce and Child, with card tables
under the direction of Mmes. Smithers,
Redfield and Priest, while not far away,
a large company contested for prizes in
a putting competition in charge of
Messrs. Smithers, Ormsbee and Ross.
And ever and always above the murmur
ing cadence of conversation one heard
the eloquent voice of Mr. Prestley S.
Maclaughlin who made sketches in color
for the small sum of fifty cents if you
happened to hand him nothing larger !
Last but by no means least, was the
"dago, the monk, and the grisley,"
(Messrs. J. V. Hurd, N. S. Hurd and W.
S. Dillon) always surrounded by an in
terested group which for the time being,
forgot that it was impersonation and not
reality, casting reluctant glances when
the strange trio wended its way Village
ward, laden with many dollars.
Details of arrangement were in charge
of an active committee of which Mrs. J.
D. C. Rumsey was the chairman. At the
bunting arched gateways dollars were
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