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rived come on the train that stops. If
y0U want to do any more traveling the
walking is good, and the horse and buggy
or the automobile can take you any p'lars?
any reasonable person desires to go.
Xo, Pine Blur! is not a supersaturated
gathering of the highbrows. It is a clever
Village of clever people who know what
they want when they want to get away
from the absurd high pressure of life at
the North and let themselves down to
reasonable speed. It is a Community
where people know each other and where
they have innumerable little gatherings
that dispense with formality, and a
limited number that have formality
enough to remember that such a word is
still in the dictionary. At stated times
the population can go out to the post
ofliee, and at irregular intervals it is en
regie to make a tour to the grocery, but
beyond that not much else disturbed the
poise of the neighborhood except at such
times as Dickey Brown is summoned down
from Southern Pines to thaw a frozen
water pipe or a new resident decides to
buy a lot and build a new house. For a
time the wise people out in the self -satisfied
world refused to take Pine Bluff
seriously, but that did not disturb the
feelings of the town or the people who
had located on the reservation. They
kept along the even tenor of their way,
and occasionally a visitor looked the place
over and saw like the various stages of
creation as narrated in Genesis, that it
was good. That meant an increase in
population. Boarding houses found out
that some people were hunting just such
a spot as Pine Bluff and the boarding
house folks at length told of their houses
and their Community, and that seemed to
appeal to people and more came. So the
town continues to add to its inhabitants
and it has finally passed the stage where
it has to wait until people are done laugh
ing before it says its little say. Pine
Bluff wins in this way it is strictly Pine
Bluff, and there are mighty few of the
kind on earth. It is not a little place
trying to get a part of the business that
the other towns are fishinsr for. Pine
Bluff is drawing a cerain type of people
that would not bo much interested in any
town in the South except Pine Bluff, and
it is drawing more or that type every
year, for it lias the advantages they want.
It is close enough to the other towns to
let its people out if they want out to any
thing and it is far enough away from the
other towns to be completely separate if
it wants to be separate. It has all the
modern conveniences; electric lights, run
ning water, telephones, schools and
churches and good roads to all the four
quarters of the earth. Possibly good
loads have done as much for Pine
Bluff as any other one thing for the
roads that lead out from Pine Bluff are
interesting roads. The main route down
by the Drowning Creek bridge is about
as typical of the South as you can get on
any road you travel in the vicinity. The
Keyser road takes you to a really South
ern village which is worth while.
Out a little way beyond Keyser is the
Buchan farm on Drowning Creek. That
is a real North Carolina plantation.
Might as well go and see it. A few years
ago J. E. Buchan had a saw mill out
there: He cut the lumber from the two
thousand acre lot, and then tried to sell
the land. Nobody wanted Sandhill land
in those days, but Buchan finally found a
man who would give two thousand dollars
ior the place and the deal was welcomed.
But the buyer demanded two cows that
were on the place, and because they be
longed to his wife and she insisted on
keeping them, that deal was spoiled.
Buchan recovered from his gloom some
time later when he sold four thousand
dollars' worth of lumber from the place,
and then he made a farm. He got the
farm to where he could sell eight or ten
thousand dollars' worth of cotton a year
from the portion of it that he tilled, and
then he decided to make the farm right.
Last year three hundred and sixty acres
of new ground was cleared, and that farm
today could not be bought for fifty thou
sand dollars I reckon. A few years from
now it will be turning off a crop worth
fifty thousand a year if it keeps on as it
is going. So the wife did not lose much
when by refusing to let the cows go she
broke up a sale that involved two
thousand dollars.
Pine Bluff is a neighborly little place.
You can take a jaunt down that way
assured that if you happen to arrive at a
time when you have a tooth that wants
to bite something that something can be
found. The stranger can lounge in at any
time and find Pine Bluff at home and
ready to show him where to hang his hat,
and the road to the gasoline tank. It is not
a jay town because it is a little one. It is
right popular with enough visitors from
several directions to be a pretty good place
to pick up somebody you will be glad to
find and some new acquaintances you will
be glad to know, for they gravitate to
Pine Bluff from all the other towns
around in reasonable distance. I rather
expect Pine Bluff to be a town of con
siderable growth in the years that are
ahead, for it satisfies a want that exists,
and as more people discover just wThat
sort of a Community it is they are certain
to turn to the place in increasing num
bers. It fills an admirable part in the
group of towns springing up in the winter
homes belt and with the steady enlarge
ment of the population that moves South
ward with the arrival of inclement
weather in the North, Pine Bluff will find
favor with the strangers along with the
other towns that offer different attrac
tions. You can make the trip to Pine
Bluff by taking the straight road down
by Aberdeen, or if you want to see how
much gasoline you can burn up on the
journey, you have a choice of different
routes. You can slip out by West End
and Jackson Springs and down through
Roger Derby's neighborhood, to Mark
ham's Bridge, and Keyser, and on the
way home you can go by Southern Pines.
Or if you still feel real savage you can
go on up by Niagara and Vass, or down
to Raeford and home by Lobelia, or you
can stray away and send back for a relief
expedition. That is one of the privileges
about going to Pine Bluff. You do about
what you want to do, and nobody makes
much fuss about it.
Some dav the opening of farms clown
i lm Drowning Creek valley and on the
other side, is likely to make of Pine Bluff
something of a village farm center, but it
will always be a Pine Bluff variety, and I
imagine that it will be a mighty pleasant
farm center and the center of a lot of
right interested farms, for many of the
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