THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
Published Every Saturday Morning During
the Season, November May. at
Pinehurst, North Carolina
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Saturday March S3. 1018
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
At the Pinehurst Chapel:
Holy Communion 9.15 A. M.
Children's Services 10.00 A.M.
Morning Service and Sermon. . .11.00 A.M.
Night Service at the Community
House at 8.00 P. M.
Roman Catholic
Early Mass 6.15 A. M.
When visiting Priest is at Pinehurst
Second Mass 8.00 A.M.
Lenten Seevioks
Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 5.30
Lenten " Services :
; Ash Wednesday, February 13.
i Holy Communion 9.15 A. M.
Penitential Office and Sermon 11 A. M.
i Friday, February 15th
Short Lenten Service 5.30 p. ,m.
MAILS
Arrive 8.28 A. m. Depart 8.00 A. M.
10.30 A.M. , 9.45 A.M.
6.27 P.M. 6.00 P.M.
8.05 P.M. 8.00 P.M.
TRAINS
NOBTH south
Leave 9.45 A. M. Leave 7.25 A. M.
9.35 P. M. 7.23 P. M.
from north from south
Due 8.20 A. M. Due 10.35 A. M.
8.05 P.M. 10.30 P.M.
RED CROSS WORK
Work on surgical dressings and hos
pital supplies for our soldiers in France
by all the women in the village, includ
ing all transient guests, goes on steadily
at the following places
Workroom at the School House near
the Movie Theatre Every Morning ex
cept Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Carolina Hotel, Tuesday , and Friday
mornings, 10.00 to 1.00.
School House Every Tuesday Evening.
PINEHURST BRANCH, SANDHILL CHAPTER
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Chairman, Mrs. Leonard Tufts.
Secretary and treasurer, Mrs. J. D. C.
Rumsey.
Permanent Committee Mrs. T. T.
Watson, Mrs. W. H. Priest, Mrs. C. E.
Horton' and. MrsG- -M; Howard, Mrs.
S. A. D. Shepard, Miss Helen Child, Mrs.
W. T. Barr, Mrs. B. V. Covert, Mrs.
W. E. Truesdell, Miss. Sarah Yerxa, Mrs
M. T. Bishop.
I. It the Men or the Mineral?
Drilling for a well at Biscoe, Henry
Page said that he came on a ten foot
strata of Iron Pyrites, the glittering sem
blance of gold that in the early days of
Jamestown caused a run on Virginia in
the London markets. He sent a sample
to the bureau of mines, and received
back a letter that has some considerable
bearing upon the development of the Old
North State. The writer said that if
the Lord ever granted him a. year's va
cation he was going to spend it in North
Carolina. He wanted to clear up a mys
tery too deep, for the School of Mines.
He added that' there was something
curious the matter with either the
minerals or the men of North Carolina.
For the bureau received more and better
samples from North Carolina than from
any other State in the Union and less
was thenceforth ever done about it. He
wanted to know why.
To disclose the reason for this, and
to lay the train for lifting the inertia,
if inertia it was, was the subject engag
ing the attention of last Saturday's
meeting of the' Saturday Dining Club.
They met at the Country Club, and
tackled the problem over one of Fitz
gerald's masterpieces.
Some of the things we do not do are
amazing, judge cs. r. Mcuonnen oi
Carthage said that a little way above
that old borough was the finest talc de
posit in. the whole country. It was so
acknowledged and recognized. But we
let it go at that. John McQueen came
to the defence, saying that after a lapse
of fifty years he and Bion Butler were
actually getting coal of a very high
grade out of the old mine near Cumnoc.
But a little discussion with R. L. Burns
and U. L. Spence, old residents of the
County revealed that the coal beds ex
tended for miles.
It was suggested by Leonard Tufts
that we might make some advantageous
use of the abundant and wasting water
power provided by the swift waters of
Drowning Creek and Little River. And
it then developed that the few cotton
and hosiery mills that enterprising capi
tal have put in down here have made an
average net earning this year of more
than 100 per cent. R. L. Burns and J.
R. Page both bore testimony to this.
The field of inquiry proved so inter
esting that it is intended to go into it
further. Query Why is it that practi
cally every available natural opportunity
in the South is discovered and developed
with lingering hesitation! Is it the
aftermath of the Slavery system? Or
the fact that it is not a new and un
known country? Or that it is supposed
to be purely agricultural? This last is
no answer. For although this very sec
tion has the audited balance sheets to
show that the culture of peaches pays
in cash dividends from 25 to over 100
per cent a year every blessed year, no
body pays much attention to it.
The most plausible theory was the
rut theory. Capital, like society, is a
creature of fears and habits. Certain
things are not done because they haven't
been done. And there's an end. Pre
sumably the water will run unharnessed
and- the sunshine -innocent of- peaches
blooming until such time as the local
moguls gather enough shekels in their
coffers to do a little development on
their own account.
AUf ULTIMATUM
The Sandhills have received the defi
nite call to produce a case of five yard
rolls, a case of oHkum pads, and a case
of large cotton pads by the first of April.
The call comes from the American Red
Cross. And coupled with it is the in
formation from Division Headquarters
at Atlanta that they face a serious situa
tion. There is no gause on hand.
More tangibly than ever this briDgs
home to our working forces the imme
diate and personal dependence that is
being placed upon their endeavors and
gives us a distinct share in the National
work in which we shall not fail. Pine
hurst has assumed the responsibility for
the case of five yard rolls, and hopes to
be able to help with the pads. The
ladies of the village have already begun
the rolls, of which it takes 360 to fill
the case, And they are going to see
what can be done about the gause.
The volunteers are requesttd to ob
serve the notice in the Red Cross column
on the editorial page that there is work
at the school house every morning ex
cept Wednesdays and Saturdays.
ft II A HE ON THE JMAX
That Doesn't
Give
Book
a ftoldir a
Everyone with a spark of human kind
ness or a surplus of current novels ac
quired to relieve the transient tedium of
a railway journey to the Salubrious
Sandhills, will take personally to heart
the request made in the following letter
to Mrs. Leonard Tufts and leave a vol
ume or two at the Pinehurst Library to
be sent to the front. Observe again
the Pinehurst Library will forward all'
books left there for that purpose.
. Carthage, N. C, March 16, 1918,
My dear Mrs. Tufts :
Book3 are needed for our Soldier and
Sailors and the War Service Library has
started a campaign to get them. For
every man in service there should be a
book in service. That means at least a
million more books at once. Every one
of us has one or more books we can
send. You can pass on to the soldiers
and sailors books you have eDjoyr d read
ing but will not read again and you can
give them some of the books you would
like to keep. They will like them too.
Will you work hard to help get these
books? If possible have the books sent
to the Carthage Public Library. You
might designate a place in your vicinity
where they can be left and some one
coming to Carthage could bring them all
in perhaps. This is one more way we
can help in War Work. We must not
let slip any opportunity. The week of
March 18th to 23rd, is the time for the
big drive. Let us give our books freely
to "our boys.". They need them.
' Sincerely,
Mj. O. McConnell.
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