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Kllliil THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK 'glJW 8 U 1 Pi OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR! 1 SSJSSSSi' i Page&Shaw jJ THE above will call your attention to The Candy of Excellence. Are you a patron for this product? A. half century of success and approval of our most valued customers warrant your endorsement for the PAGE & SHAW CANDIES New York Boston Philadelphia Chicago .Lynn Salem and all Principal Cities and Resorts ! L e in M J t i i c f t s i id Ki - - ' - ! r Tad ---, VT? ..ffC7. HIGHLAND PINES INN ON WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS - SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. A beautiful Colonial building luxuriously furnished and equipped with the best box-spring beds and hair mattresses; accommodating 200 guests and more than half the rooms have private baths. Greatly enlarged for the present season, orchestra, Country Club, golf, tennis, hunting, motoring, Faulkenburg riding. School headquarters; adjoins the great Weymouth Pine woods. SEASON, NOVEMBER TO MAY. On main line of Seaboard Air Line Eailway. Fifteen minutes motor to Pinehurst over Capitol Highway. Write for illustrated booklet. ANDREW I. CREAMER & MILLARD H. TURNER, Proprietors. FIREPROOF NEW MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN HOTEL CONTINENTAL WASHINGTON, D. C Opposite Union Station Plaza This modern fireproof hotel offers every comfort and ' convenience at moderate prices. Room with tfetached;bath $1.50 to 2.00 Rpom with private bath $2.50 to $3.00 American Plan $3.50 and upwards Management of A. W. CHAFFEE THE PINEHURST THEATRE MOVING PICTURES Special De Luxe " Double Show Thursdays r - i juuuic onuw xiiursuays ) Reels Every LTWintY-liVe CeiltS and Every Other Even- C Ton fiBlltS Wednesday ) ing Throughout the Week ) "Tlirllls, Heart Throbs and Smiles!" Jlutlr WHIn Iiitrrroiiiiffli f mill m Pin, Pat Hiid nrnnt THERE'S a good deal in good neighbors, and Pinehurst is fortunate in the association of Pine bluff, Lakeview, Car thage, Aberdeen, West End, and last but by no means least, nearby Southern Pines. If In many respects Pinehurst and Southern Pines are complimentary of each other, lying as they do almost touching elbows, and united by a bond of common interest and steadily growing social and commercial ties. The principal difference is that Pinehurst is congrega tional in its government and tone, while Southern Pines is governed by the ses sions. Southern Pines has more of a commercial side. Being a summer town as wrell as a winter town it is equipped with numerous stores and smaller busi ness institutions. Being a winter town and having grown up with the object of affording a safe harbor for people from the North who are running away from the extreme of winter, it is a pleasant, modern, clean and homey place. It is exactly such a neighbor as Pinehurst is glad to have just over the hill, and Pine hurst is one of the first places the South ern Pines folks bring their visitors out to see. One of the first good roads in the Sandhills put Pinehurst and Southern Pines within fifteen minutes of each other not many years ago, and that good road is the genesis of the good roads system of this part of the State, a system which includes two or three thousand miles by this time, and is still growing. About thirty years ago Captain A. M. Clark wrote to me from Southern Pines to come over from Knoxville, Tennessee, and plant some peaches in North Caro lina Sandhills, and I wrote to him a few rude words about North Carolina sand that would seem now a bad guess. At the time I rated them as sarcastic or humor ous, I forget now which. But let that pass. H There were a lot of us in the prophet business along about that tinte, and with the exception of John T. Pat rick, we would be rated, I presume, as minor prophets in the light of actual de velopment. May be we would hardly make that average. To put it plain so you can understand it, we were as prophets, strictly bushleaguers. John T. Patrick started Southern Pines and it was another case of Cyrus Field and his Atlantic cable. If I would say a word about Patrick and the immense benefit his work has conferred on people if I had the command of words ajtid- expres sion, but for man whose alma mater was a lumber camp in the Pennsylvania woods the job is too big. But I can take off my hat to John T. Patrick every time I think of it and I can stand on the hill above the town and look down and con template the happiness this persistent old bull dog has conferred on thousands and on the thousands who are to enjoy the benefits of the town that is yet to arise on the foundations Patrick laid. If However, this is not a eulogy over the memory of the father of Southern Pines, for that task is a long distance off yet. Patrick started the town and he stayed wdth it many years and set it on the highway to permanent existence. Then some other folks came along and put a shoulder to the wheel. The number was large, and they were energetic. There were Asaph M. Clarke, Dr. W. P. Sweet, Pierre Stebbins, Junge and Beck, a pair of hustlers who worked together; Charley Grout, a gum shoe worker who stayed on the job, but overlooked no bets; Patch, Hayes, a fellow who made a creditable light for health and progress; and a lot of them. Charley St. John put a lot of hustle into Southern Pines at the Piney Woods Inn. 1f Rest his ashes, he was a worker, f His Piney Woods Inn, which burned one sunshiny morning as he was getting in shape for a season's task, was in its day a missionary for the Sandhills. When the Piney Woods Inn burned South ern Pines had just about emerged from the woods and that fire looked like a strangle hold of adversity. From the abdication until the restoration of the real line of hotel kings was a season of gloom. Then came the accession of a new line of hotel artists, and the clouds rolled back. John Boyd took up the work of Warwick, the man behind the throne. Dr. Mudgett, Wiley, Powell and some of the younger 42-centimeter howitzers put before John Boyd the notion that a hotel on the hill east of the town would be a four time winner, and Boyd was a big man. 1 This bunch made Highland Pines Inn, which put new life into Southern Pines, and moved into an entirely new class of activity and growth. If Southern Pines is the Kosetta stone that recounts the unflagging energy and enthusiasm of Patrick the Highland Pines ridge is a similar permanent page re counting the vision and creative faith of John Boyd. The Highland Pines Inn was over successful from the day it opened, and last summer added a lot of new rooms. Pottle and Son, also from Pine hurst, came over to Southern Pines, and put up a hotel of the same first water grade, and that pegged ' Southern Pines out on Popularity Lane a little farther and a little firmer. Other hotels in South ern Pines make visitors pleased with the Sunshine Country, so that take it all around, the hotel organization is a strong one which appeals to anybody who ever reaches town. In its hotels and smaller institutions for caring for winter visitors, Southern, Pines has reached a state that is practically ideal, and which has estab lished the town as a thoroughly satisfac tory point at which to put in a winter. The schedule fits all pockets, and the best part of it is that the working drawing of that section designed for fat pocket books, tallies out when the accommodations given are compared with the price paid. Southern Pines can deliver the goods to all comers no matter what is demanded. One day a few years ago the Country. Club arrived. For a few months if you A
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