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ABERDEEN TOBACCO - INDUSTRIAL EDITION VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER 44 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the Pllt)T PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1923 SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 ABEKt>EEN SCHOOL FACILITIES Consolidated District Employs 25 Teachers—Courses Up To Large City Standard The Aberdeen Consolidated School District, comprising the territory arounti Aberdeen and taking in the towns of Pinebluff and Addor, may ^ell pride itself of its school system. Two commodious and up-to-date school buildings, one of which has just been completed at a cost of $50, 000.00 house its pupils. A faculty of teachers selected solely on their qualitieations and a curriculum pat- The school has a library of three hundred volumes selected from the list recommended by the State Board of Education. This library is com prised of works of reference, history, science and some fiction. In addi tion a laboratory has been installed for the high school science work at a cost of $1400. All this has been accomplished in the course of a little more than a year by hard and determined effort on the part of the school board guided by the present Superintendent, J. E. Redfern. From a school which was not on the accredited list, it has I m New Graded School Building terned after city school standards bid fair to make the Aberdeen Schools stand out as a model for other com munities to pattern after. The school has already attained the rank of a group B-1 school under the State Board of Education’s classification. To rank as a group A-1 school, the highest standard, it will only have to add another vocational training course to its curriculum. A department of Home Economics was instituted this jumped to first rank, and where formerly only three high school teachers were employed there are now five who give their entire time to teaching in the high school. Music, both instrumental and voice, I is being taught throughout the I course. Three instructors give their j time to it. At the close of last year . there were eighty-four pupils taking I music and the school boasts of an or- i chestra of twenty-two pieces. ABERDEEN The Pilot, by its recent declara tion that it “Is a paper devoted to the upbuilding of the Sandhill territory” links its hopes and des tinies alf^o with Aberdeen. Aber deen is a part and parcel of the Sandhills and the Pilot is, there fore, part and parcel of Aberdeen. The Pilot sends forth this, its Aberdeen Industrial Edition, to supplement in a measure the ef forts that are now being put forth by its merchants and business men to advance the interests of Aberdeen as a Tobacco Market and as a Trading Town... In pic ture and type The Pilot seeks to portray the past accomplishments made, and the visions dreamed of by its builders. . Some progress is thrust upon Aberdeen, and some it must achieve. Its location, situation and railroad facilities make it stand out as the industrial town of the Sandhills, but its business men are going to improve their opportunity, to make Aberdeen come into its own. To goad them on there are the constantly arising rumors of in dustries seeking to come into the town. A cotton mill is talked of, a tobacco stemery and dry prizery is a possibility, a knitting mill is in prospect, and a cannery is said to be assured. And, as a fitting climax, there looms up another trunk line railroad to traverse the State from the coal fields to the much discussed port of Southport. One of the surveys puts the road through Aberdeen, and the Ki- wanis Club, which is sponsoring the interests of this section in conjunction with the Chambers of Commerce of the other towns along the proposed route, will not allow its hopes to become daunt ed. Aberdeen must come! A TRADING CENTER Aberdeen Stores Offer a Variety of Merchandise to Fill Every Want —Merchants Enterprising Every line of business usually found in a country town is represented in ABERDEEN HOTEL clothing and shoes; two drug stores, two hardware stores and one furni ture store. A wholesale grocery is also located at Aberdeen, making it possible for the merchant to replenish his stock almost (immediately. To further supplement these there is in the town one lumber and building ma terial yard, one feed store, one elec- Sycamore Street Looking North Aberdeen. Some lines of business are represented by a number of stores. The town has about a round dozen of grocerys and meat markets; a half dozen stores selling dry goods. trie shoe repair shop, two cleaning and pressing establishments, one jeweler and watch repairer, three bar bers, and last but not least an up- to-date, clean and sanitary restaurant. A TOWN INVIGORATOR Aberdeen Building and Loan Associ ation Speeding Up Building—Ef fects Seen in Civic Improvements The Aberdeen Building and Loan Association which is now rounding out the second year of its existence has made a record most satisfactory to its officers and members. It en abled a score of people to build takes in its Building and Loan As sociation and the esteem it has for it, only a two days canvass by the secre tary resulted in subscriptions to 500 shares on its Fourth Series of stock opened September 1. The Building and Loan Association has livened up things in Aberdeen and quickened the building program generally. Others have been prompt ed to build with private funds and the increase in dwellings in Aberdeen since its inception can be placed at Well Located Hostelry Under Good Management—Steam Heated and Modern High School Building year, and the school board hopes to 130 able to add to it a Manual Train ing Course next year, thus advanc ing the school into the A-1 classifica tion. The schools have as large a facul ty as some of the city schools in the state, a minimum of twenty teachers being required for a recognized city school system. The number of teach ers employed not only exceeds this minimum, but in addition, all teach ers are graduates of A grade col leges and college trained. In the high school all instructors have their A. B. Degree. Physical Culture also holds its due place in the schools’ activities. In the high school the physical culture and the school athletics are under the supervision of the principal. Prof- C. P. Ashley, for the boys, and Miss Le- la Wade for the girls. Miss Ruby Walden supervises the exercises in all the grammar grades. The colored schools in the territory of the district are also under the su pervision of the school board and Superintendent J. E. Redfern. Two schools, one in Aberdeen, and one at Addor with seven teachers furnish in struction in these. The Aberdeen Hotel, operated by Crown W. Wilson, who has been in the hotel business in Gastonia, Col umbia and other principal towns in North Carolina, is prospering under the present management. It is kept clean and sanitary and the guests aie made comfortable. The hotel has fif ty rooms, twenty-five of which have connecting baths; all are steam heat- I ed. I A barber shop, a cleaning and {'pressing establishment and the Wes- I tern Union Telegraph office occupy the ground floor for the further con venience of the hotel’s patrons. Mr. Wilson also operates the Jack son Springs Hotel during the sum mer season at the famous springs. ALL ROADS LEAD TO ABERDEExN CHURCHES IN ABERDEEN Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist iJenominations Represented — Sunday Schools—Societies Three religious denominations have places of worship in Aberdeen—the taken in the various societies in each of the churches. . The Methodist Episcopal church is a beautiful edifice and was erected as a memorial to Mr. Frpk Page. The Presbyterian church just at pre^nt is being enlarged and beautified. The Baptist church, of which The Pilot could not resurrect a cut or picture. t t n Main Street Looking West Highways 50 and 70 Come Together Here—County Roads Run in Every Direction Roads radiated from Rome in every direction so that the phrase “All roads lead to Rome” was commonly accep ted. Aberdeen is likewise fortunate in that roads radiate from it to every nearby community. Two of the State’s main highways cross here—the State Highway north and south and the Fayetteville road east and west. Like wise, County roads start at Aberdeen reaching out into all of the best com munities. A great deal of the travel of the section goes through Aberdeen as well as the tourist travel over the highway. Page Memorial Church All i Presbyterian and Baptist. 1 are in a growing and SpK 1 condition. The Sunday all churches are being well nded and a keen interest is b®ing occupies a comfctable sti^ure ho’ises who perhaps would not have otherwise built them. Doing this it accom "dished a two-fold ob e2t for the town and community. First, it created new taxable values safely es timated at over $70,000. Secondly, it made available more tenant houses by enabling former tenants to vacat'J these for their own homes. About $45,000.00 has been paid in by its members since its incorporation and this with the interest accrued has been put back inio building as quick ly as it accumulated. To show the interest that the town COCA-COLA PLANT about 23 rer cent. This covers a pe riod of only one and three-quarter years. The Association has also extended its opeia ions to the town of Pine- bluff, which under a working agree ment with it receives the benefit of all funds paid into it by its citizens toward Pinebluff building loans. Secretary Sparrow has won the distinction for the AssociaMon of still having in force and regularly paid in on every share of stock issued by it. Therefore it hasn’t lost or been oblig ed to retire a single share. TOWN’S FIRST OFFICE BUILDING Puts Up Coca-Cola and Line of Other j Erected by Glchner & Johnson to Fill Beverages in Bottles—Operates Pressing Demand—Houses Law- Two Trucks yers, Doctors, and Others The Coca-Cola plant under the management of G. C. Seymour is growing with each year’s operation. Modern machinery turns out a steady stream of bottled goods all day long and these are delivered all over this section by two large trucks. Coca- Cola is of course the plant’s forte, but it also turns out a line of other carbonated beverages, pleasing to the taste and refreshing as well. The Gichner &Johnson building on Sycamore stieet, the picture of which we are showing, presents a good ap pearance to the. traveler-through on NEW COTTON MARKET Presbyterian Church Will Buy Spot Cotton at Aberdeen —Buying and Receiving Now A new firm, the Ross-McKinnon Cotton Company, made its advent in to Aberdeen this week. The firm will buy spot cotton, and is composed of George R. Ross, of Jackson Springs, and A. J. McKinnon, Jr., of Maxton. It also operates at Jackson Springs and at Maxton. The Aberdeen office will be in charge of Jack McKinnon, who will grade and buy. The firm will buy from wagons at Aberdeen and will also canvass the country roundabout for cotton. Gichner-Johnson Building the railroads just across Sycamore street. Its ground floor stores are oc cupied by some of the town’s busiest stores. The entire upper floor is used by professional men and businesses requiring a centrally located office. The building is at airtimes filled and space therein is at a premium when ever a vacancy occurs.
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