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I pjPIfffL PINEHURST OUTLOOK FIIOJH A5f TO HERS UK RIB A. (Continued from page four) ing acquaintance. You stop a man on the road and ask him if he saw Henry Hamestring go by, and he shakes his head. ' ' He was driving a Packard four," you tell him, and his eye bright ens. "Naw, he isn't down this way to day,' ' you get answer. "Pumpelly's six cylinder Cadillac, that 1913 model Overland from up above Biscoe, that Ford fellow that come out from the Rockingham road, and a Eaeford Hud son six is the only folks I have noticed since morning." it snakespeare lived now he would revamp his tragedies. He would say: 11 Clarence is come from false fleeting, perjured Clarence, that stabbed me in the field by Tewksbury. I saw his Studebaker, that one with the break in the lower windshield, so I know he is around here somewhere. ' ' Or Ham let could assure us that I am " doomed for a certain time to ride the streets at night in that Michigan self-starter that will start quills upon the fretful porcu pine as well as any other thing." One man asks another, "Was that a South em Pines crowd that just went past?" "Nawp. It was a Detroit Chalmers," which settles it, for you are supposed to know nobody in Southern Pines has a Detroit Chalmers. WITHOUT VALUE AND WITHOUT PRICE It is impossible to measure the value of a eood road. We might as well un dertake to measure the value of the sun, or of food, or of any other thing that is so essential that it is beyond the func tion of measurement. The community that has good roads is open to commerce. It can dispose of the things it makes and trade in the things it wants. A good road enables any place to become cos moDolitan. It Dermits the man at the cross roads to avail himself of every thing under the sun, silk from Japan, lobsters from Main, shoes from Lynch burg, gasoline from Pennsylvania, any old thing from anywhere. It puts him on the earth, for the big road that leads to the earth is on the earth. A good road brings the school to the children, and it brings the church, and the village, and the rural postman, and any good thing that can move on wheels. It brings neighbors, and with neighbors comes more conveniences, for a populous com munity can pay for many things that a thinly settled neighborhood must go without. More neighbors mean more money for public affairs. Probably it North Carolina could hatch up a scheme of public roads that would touch every square mile in the State that one thing of easy ingress would add materially and at once to the population. People are most likely to go to places that are easy ot reach, and they are not readily persuaded to tie themselves down to a place that you must get to by struggl ing over ways that are obstreperous. INSIGNIFICANT EXPENSE Pinehurst is in the midst of a web of good roads, and the best feature about the whole good roads acquisition is the ridiculously small cost of building and maintaining roads. Three hundred dol lars a mile to build, thirty dollar to keep in shape is the way they figure it. A sand clay road is merely a process of marking out the 'route, smoothing it up a little with a plow and a road machine, then adding a few inches of clay from a convenient pit close by. Clay roads can be built at the rate of a mile every few days, without interrupting traffic, and without any fuss or any big crowd of men. Such a road is repaired by run ning water over it occasionally with a drag to shape it up, or with a few shovels of clay where it wears down once in a while. The biggest task in repairing the roads is going from one place to another that is in need of attention. It is probably safe to say that one of the biggest assets of the State of North Carolina is the surprising cheapness with which good roads can be built fit for traffic, and the durability of these cheap roads under the wheels of the automo biles. A good rubber tire packs a sand clay road and makes it better, instead of wearing it out to plow away in impal pable dust as too often is the case with the harder roads of the North. The sand holds enough moisture to keep a clay road reasonably slid almost feall the time, yet does not hold enough to make it muddy. At the Brkhir Mrs. S. A. Reed, Mrs. E. Blackie, Mr. S. M. Gourley, Hillsboro, N. H.; G. E. Guthrie, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Eli Scott, Bennett, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Trusdell Moore, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Byram, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Chambers, Maplewood, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nash Bent, Norfolk, Va.; J. M. Hagood, Lexington, Ky.; John A. Carr, Somer ville, Mass.; Charles H. Ash, Coates ville, Pa.; J. E. Doan, Coatesville, Pa.; B. F. Calvert, D. M. Selby, Baltimore, Md.; Horace F. Sise, Medford, Mass.; Mr. and Mr. W. M. Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Anderson, Portsmouth, 0.; C. P. Hayward, C. H. Stevick, Mrs. A. W. Pell, R. Muriel Pell, New York; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. King, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Clark, Portsmouth, 0.; Wil liam Tucker, New York; Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Kile, Providence, R, I.; P. D. Hall, H. H. Jacobs, Akron, O.; M. H. Epps, Atlanta; Mrs. H. H. Lyons, Fitchburg, Mass.; Mrs. C. E. Quirk, Marlboro, Mass.; Miss C. E. O 'Toole, Clinton, Mass.; Miss S. S. O'Toole, Bos ton, Mass.; Miss K. S. Summy, Wash ington, D. C; George L. Richardson, Raleigh, N. C; Richard T. Taylor, Cin cinnati, 0.; J. Archer Turner, Swarth- more, 'a.; James it. xurner, ueniuns- town, Pa. At thv Pin Crt Mr. and Mrs. B. II. Stephens, Wil mington, N. C; R. Y. Benard, Philadel phia, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leak, Mrs. William P. Calhoun, Mr. Jennings Dumas, Rockingham, N. C; J. H. Spence, Easton, Pa.; J. P. Rampe, Cin cinnati, 0.; Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Beall, Miss Priscilia Beall, Mr. E. (J. Beall, Uniontown, Pa.; Mrs. H. H. Van Clief, Master Henry H. Van Cleif, Master William R. Van Clief, Poughkeepsie. LOST 12 Diamonds Bar Pin, Platinum Setting. $25.00 Reward, kotify Carolina Hotel ALPHANO Timely lAord of Caution About the Use of Humus On Your Gordon and Lawn A DM1TEDLY. humus is the very backbone of any soil's fertility; without it the ground is sterile. But most deposits of humus found in their watery bed, are acid and entirely devoid of the bacteria so essential to fertility. Their use is dangerous. Reports from all over the country tell of harmful effects. The grass on one of the finest golf courses, near Philadelphia, has been totally killed by its use. Unless the moisture is mechanically driven out, such humus contains 85 per cent, of water, for which you pay humus rates, making the water come rather high. As far as we can learn, Alphano Humus is the only humus that goes through a process of preparation cov ering months, and resulting in a sweet, dry, finely granulated humus, to which has been added concentrated plant foods in abundance, to make ona ton of it worth four to five of ordinary stable manure. In addition to all this, it is also liberally inoculated with Alphano No culant, makng it lively with at least seven different nitrogen gathering and soil food liberation bacteria. It is free from weed seeds, sanitary and odorless. For your garden, your shrubs, and lawn it is ideal. But make sure you are sure it is Alphano Humus you buy. The Humus with an established reputation of 10 years as your guarantee. $12 a ton in bags, by the carload Send for the Alphano Book. WRPi $8 a ton in bulk, Q (Aft lOI by the cark)ad H 7 H Established 1905 I I LJ Place - - NEW YORK AloK 17-N Battery Jerome D. Travers and Frances Ouimet on the Seventh Green, in the Finals of the 1914 Amateur Championship, at Ekwanok, Manchester, Yt. Grass Seed Supplied by Stumpp & Walter Co. for Five Successive Seasons Grass Seed of Known Quality GUARANTEED for PURITY and GERMINATION For the Best Results in the production and maintenance of good turf, whether it be for the Golf Course, Polo Field, Tennis Courts or Lawn, the purchase of Grass Seed of the highest quality, selecting the right varieties in proper proportion to suit soil and climatic conditions, is most important. All of our seed is of the highest quality, purchased direct from the source of supply, carefully examined as to purity and growth, and tested by the leading Seed Testing Stations of Europe and Washington, D. C. We are always glad to suggest formulas suited to soil and climate or we furnish seed by named varieties. Expert advice in connection with the production ot maintenance of good turf, furnished upon request Stumpp & Walter Co., 30-32 Barclay St. NEW YORK a 11 D m D 1 CI
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