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VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER 49 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina KA all communications to PILOT company, vass. n. c. ,y vrEHOUSEMEN ' ^ reached by law THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1923 . .irtcd nnd Fined Under Recent M:’-rket!iiK Siatute Co-op ‘“Deliveries Increase nvi. tions were secured against • iiciior warehousemen of South iM.r Monday and fines were ^ i’l overv case for violation of T^^pcoiit ^latute in Virginia, which ^ that all tobacco sold on the llooi as well as in the co-op- ve wavohouses, shall be sold in T u've niimo of the owner and makes mVdt'iaeanor for anyone conduc- warehouse to fail to tag such with the name of the owner number of pounds sold One of thi' convictions obtained this •ppk at South Boston \vas for refusal f the aiu tion warehousemen to per- ^.epresfiitatives of the co-opera- tk-e a<sociaiion to inspect the tickets the t0b;u‘c'0 in his warehouse. It t expeotcJ that prosecutions will be Uituted at other points immediate- V ami in view of last Monday’s de- ciqon^ it is believed that auction varehousenuMi in Virginia will com- nlv more strictly with the recent law. \il of the warehousemen of South Boston \vh" were convicted and fine l laq Mondav under the Virginia stat ute have ai pt'aled to the circuit court of Halifax ('cunty. L G. Pat erson, warehousemen, of Smithneld, X. C., also felt the weight of the new iaw this week when ad judged in contempt of court by Judge Thomas S. Ca.lvert, of Wake county Superior rmirt, at Raleigh, for aid- iiio- A. I- Faulkner to sell tobacco in violation a court order. Faulkner, who wa? a member of the association, had already been attached for con tempt and tint'd by Judge Frank A .Daniels r-f the Superior court. Deliverk*'^ of the organized farmers to the Tobn>H '> Growers Co-operative Association h:ive now passed the 000,<}<'''> mark, according to reports from the h-af de!>artment of the as sociation received this week at Rai- ei{ih hc.-d-iua’ters. In spite of the later.e'^ of th-. Old Belt crop, tobac- co farmer^ have delivered more than six and a ha'f million pounds within les?thar ten day< of operation by the co-operativi‘ warehouses. The asso ciation has rindo a striking gain in the South Caro’ii^a Belt, where it has re ceived thirty-two and a half million pounus to as '■ompared to slight ly more th? ” tweuly million pounds for the intiie s(*ason of 1022. East ern Car* Ml a urowers are increasing their delive» iO'^ to the association and will h'hvx half a.rain as much tobac co, as last yt'ai', if the present rate of deliveric' t-^ ai^sociation houses co^- linue.^. S. D. FRISSELL. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 LOCAL RAILROAD DOES THRIVING BUSINESS A. & R. Compelled to Run Extras to Handle Volume of Freight—Best Local Barometer of Business ! The Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad 1 which operates between Fayetteville I and Aberdeen, and the traffic of which [consists principally of freight origin- I ating along its 45 miles of line and I all freight going to destination along it is compelled to run extras daily 1 in order to handle the in and out ; freight over it. The freierht leaving here consists principally of cotton and tobacco, and the freight arriving is as varied as are the needs of the com munity. Because of the fact that this is a short line serving a particular com munity it can safely be said that it is the best barometer to gaugae our ovni prosperity by, for it hauls away a good part of our agricultural pro ducts, which in return give us buying power. THE SANDHILLS SCORED THURSDAY SAMUEL F. PERKINS’ MAN-CARRYING AEROPLANE WAR-KITES ADVERTISING CONGOLEUM RUGS S. F. Pei kins, in his man-cariying Kite which he wlil fly at the Sandhill Fair, together with many others every day JOHNSUN’S UTTER NO. 14 SAM.HU.I, FAIR NOTES Xe>- V tM-k is the big we?k. i ^ ♦ * i Take the f-hildron to the Sandhill Fair on Tuesday. They will have a ; great time with the Kite man, the men'v-j'-o-i.jund and the ferris wheel. , ^ * I ^ The pau *ant, “The Spirit of the | ^sandhills” will take place on Friday i at 1:30 p. m. We are glad to state ! positively that this is by far the best | pageant we have ever "had. i * * ♦ I Friday is (lovernor’s day. Colonel | jJonald Walter r’ameron, chief of the ^•an CaiiKMon of Scotland and our Governor Aloi-rison will be pres ent and will speak at 1:00 p. m. Every j^andhiller should show their apprecia tion of this honor by being there. We ^an assure you that you will hear oniethino- that will well repay you. * * ♦ The Scot;-h Highland Dancers from ora Mf-lJonald College, eight in _ i^niber, have a special number in the pageant on Friday. * ♦ ♦ the races on Tues- „ 5,’ aun>-polo starts on Tuesday kite flving contest takes place on Tuesday. ^ * Aberdeen and Laurinburg meet for jjp football game on Wed- ^^^u^'inburg thinks they will this year. Who knows? ♦ * * the Harvest Festival at C. L. Hayes’, So. Char’p I^rug Store, Aberdeen, hurcf u Carthage and Pine- Urug Store. Uni * * * niadp arrangements are helf] • V? annual baby show will be AT section of the grand- 11 a ’ October 31st, at placp . ® certain but the changed, in which case s Will be posted on the grounds. A * * * program is assured for thp p the only night show ^esiHpo Grounds during the week, gram fu elaborate fireworks pro- which • auto-polo game nitrkf the most spectacular comedv staged, and the Vii+ ‘^j^^obatic act and a concert ^ victor’s band. We were sailing up the Columbia River, the Oregon of Song. Before we reached the mouth of the William- ette (the accent is strong on the “lam”) we passed by a large islancl some 15 miles long and from one to three miies wide, and all along the shores of this island were numerous fisherman in small boats with nets and snares, and they appeared to be won derfully busy. The old doctor told me they were fishing for sturgeon, and he said this is the best grounds for stur geon fish^HP- on the Pacific coast. Nature changes slowly. In Lewis & Clark’s Journal of their expedition in 1804 to 1806 they teil of passing this* same island, and even then there weie nuiaerous Indians fishing for sturgeon in the same manner with nets and snares. Those of my readers who are ac- • quainted with Lewis and Clark’s ex pedition will recall that the states of Oregon and Washington form a part of the Louisana Purchase, and tho • e two states was the property of the 1 United States of America for 50 yea. ? ! before we acquired California, which ' was ceded to us by Mexico by the TreRtv of Guadaloupe. It was Pres- ; ident Thomas Jefferson that sent out this expedition headed by Captain Meriweather Lewis, the President’s I private secretary, and Captain Clark of the United States Army. I must pause here long enough to say that I hope every boy in Moore county has or will read this Lewis and Clark expedition. It is in three volumes, and very readable to all boys with healthy minds. I have these great books, and I will lend them to any boy in Moore county, one volume at a time, just to do a favor to those boys, soon to be the men of our coun ty, and I have a jealous desire that many of these boys shall imbibe a love for rieading healthy books; but I am disgressing. The Williamette River pours into the Columbia on the south side about one hundred miles from the mouth of the Coiumbia, and twelve up the Williamette is the city of Port- land, Oregon, a city of more than two hundred thousand population. in Lewis & Clark’s Journal, it is wolrt in a most interesting way of the hign class Indians who occupied the shores of the Williamette River, but the name of the river is there given by the ancient Indian name of Multno mah. The county still bears that name. Did you ever hear how the city of Portland got its name? Well, here it is: In the year 1846 two gentlemen from the East, one from the city of 1 Boston, Mass., and the other from Portland Maine, went to the west coast, and purchased a mile square of land on the Williamette River, for which they paid $5000.00 worth of buffalo hides. They were both civil engineers, and they determined to lay out a town on this square mile of land. What was to be the new town’s name ? Each wanted to name it for his own , native city, and they could not agree, but Americans are the truest sports- men in the world, and these sjorts i said, “We will flip a coin.” The coin was flipped, and the Maine man won, so the iiew lown was named “Port- ' and.” 1 think I must have been partial to Poitland before I saw it for I felt like I knev/ the country from reading Lewis’ and Clark’s expedition. Any- v/ay when we had spent three or four days at and around Portland I told liiy good wife that if I were a young man 1 thought I would go to Ore^Oxi a id try to grow up with the country. The Columbia River is the dividing line between the states of Oregon and Washington, and at the mou.h of the Williamette River, the Columbia is fiom four to six miles wide, so most of our investigations were on the Or egon side. The country around Port land is the richest land on the Amer ican Continent, and the vast forests' of enormous timber trees are v ast an description. The fruits are simply be yond belief! Tr*e cheriies grow as large as the boll of our cotton plant, but the seeds are no larger than those of our ordinary che^r.es, whi.e the flavor is simply delightful. One day we were riding in the country some twenty miles from Port land. We passed an old man by the road who had a table loaded down with baskets of these cherries, offer ing them for sale. He had several varieties, but the largest was a great black cherry, which he sold at 15c a bag full. He said the name of this cherry was the “Black Republican.” I handed him 15 cents and told him I would take a bag of the “Black Re publican.” He started to hand them to me, then hesitated a little as if something ought to be explained, then he said with childish simplicity: “But I am a Democrat.” (I wondered now if the immaculate Noore Munety Cows could be induced to print this ? Or does it savour too Special Delegation Marched Through State Fair Grounds Attracting General Attention , , . 4-Vi New England Sweepstakes with hio Showing Sig. Haugdahl ginning t j f^om Fred Horey form- Fiat N® 6, the “"defea‘ed d^t rac k wcmg ^ ^ er dirt track champion of the wor a . gpgcial, runner-up to the Do- a^d from Ray Claypool, pilot of the 1 re^^ ^^e Auto minion Champ.onships AU tne mobile Races at the bananiu much of politics? He that hath ears to hear let him hear.) We, with a couple from Pennsyl- j vania—newly-weds—but the bride was approaching the “sere and yellow leaf,” too an auto trip up the south banks of the Columbia River on the great Columbia highway to see the Cascade Falls. That was the most I wonderful sight of our whole trip, I with the possible exception of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. The 1 Cascade range of mountains approach- I es the Columbia River so closely the great highway at places had to be I I cut into the edge of the mountains to j keep it out of the river. I The melting snow on the mountains I causes the Great Falls, some ten or a I dozen of them that are over five hun- I dred feet at a single leap, and one, the i Multnomah Falls, is over eight hun- I (.red feet At the point where the ' volume of water takes its plunge it is a large stream, bigger than Little Riv er, but the distance is so great it is ; lashed into mist bfore it reaches the foot of the precipice, then it gathers again, and goes tumbling down to the i river below, the clearest, coldest water you ever saw. This v/as a great day with us, in deed, It was o**e ojl our very best, but for oae small circumstance. But \/hat a ii.t*e gnat v/iil render the sweetest drink unpalatable! What a little morsel of a tea leaf floating on the surface of the most delicious tea will take off the edge of your appe tite for “The cup that cheers but not inebriates” when your aesthetic taste ba:ks at a siiiall trfle, the whole appe- ti e is biunted and rendered callous, i On this Columbian Drive Mrs. John- soxi was again troubled with her ear ache, and when we reached our far- tneies desiiaa.ion at Horse-tail Fails, and we.e about to return she asked ! ‘ the bride" io exjhaage sides of the i car With her, a.id explained that she wished to shield her aching ear from the windy side, but “the bride”, said, “I prefer to keep my own sea:.” Our chauffeaur, who was a blue-grass Kentuckian, looked daggers at “the bride,” but she she appeared se.eneiy unconscious of having done a mean and selfish act. On the return trip , as often as we would stop to see some ; point of interest, the chauffeur would button-hole me, and lead me aside out of hearing, and fall to cussing the “bride” with real blue-grass Kentucky cussing. Ordinarily, gross profanity is disgusting to me, but I will have to admit that I felt something of pure joy at this man’s cussing. That reminds me. Once when my son, Leslie, was about 5 years old, I had some very choice pullets that I had recently bought at a fancy price. One morning just at breakfast time I heard a chicken squall in the pig-pen. I ran as fast as I could, and was just in time to see one of my fine pullets torn to death by the voracious pig. I jumped into the pig-pen and snatched the chicken from the pig, but too late to save its life. I was so furious I said all sorts of bad words. I was immediately called to breakfast, and went in fuming and altogther frustra ted. I sat down at the table and turned my plate over, when my wife said: “Aren’t you going to ask the Blessing?” I said: “No, I have just been cussing the pig, and am in no plight for grace.” Then little Leslie spoke up: “The pig needed cussing.” Now, that I have had my fling apol ogizing for occasional profanity, I must try to redeem myself by a little preaching: I stood on the platform of the rail road and saw two heavy trains stand ing on the siding side by side. These The Sandhill Special Excursion to the State Fair last Thursday, which we briefly mentioned in our last issue proved a big hit. The Special left Aberdeen, stopping for a short time at Southern Pines where it was decorat ed with banners and pine branches. From there no stop was made this side of the Fair Grounds except at Sanford for orders. On arriving at the fair grounds a line of march was formed and the procession proceeded to the gates of the fair ground. There a salute of eleven guns greeted it and the Fort Bragg military band met the marchers. The band led the way and the procession followed through every avenue of the ground. All the buildings quickly emptied and the marchers went through a continuous line of people thronging both sides of the Midway and the side avenues. As quickly as the band would cease to play the Sandhill crowd would start the Sandhill song. Banners were carried proclaiming the Sandhills and our own Sandhill Fair, and each marcher wore a red ribbon designating him a Sandhill booster. The band led the crowd to the mili tary camp where it was disbanded. Over two hundred marchers were in I line and although each continued to I wear his booster ribbon throughout I the day, the crowd was so thick that I it was rarely ever the Sandhill peo- ! pie met up in bunches throughout the I day. I The coming of our people en masse j was easily the next outstanding fea- I ture of the day to the big foot ball game, if not on par with it. ALUMINUM SALE The Vass Mercantile Co., is ad vertising an aluminum sale for Tues day, November 6th. This is a special sale and one that has been put on in several towns in the county and has i proved a success not only to the mer chant but to the purchasers of this kind of ware. Remember the date and avail yourselves of this opportunity of , getting bargains. trains had about ten cars attached, and one of the eiigines was puffing, fum ing and making the very ground tremble. It was manufacturing its own power from coal, getting ready .^o climb the rnountain. The other rain was as quiet as a big rock. Not a sound issued from it. The two trains starred on their mountain climb about the same time. The coal burn er went olT with a deafening noise, and filled the heavens With black smoke. The quiet train, when the word was given, went “Click” and moved off up the mountain as easily as rolling a baby carriage on a ce ment pavement. Now what was the difference ? One train had to manufacture its own power, and like a man who at tempts to go through this world with out divine assistance wasted the greater part of his power in the ef fort. The other train was entirely controlled and received its power from an electric current away up on top of a mountain. He that hath ears to hear let him hear! I am willing to leave Portland with out again referring to William Cullen Bryant’s concrete elequence: “The Vasty Wild, where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save the dashing of its own waves.” But all this is now changed to a pandemonium of sound from axe and hammer, and the chu-chu train. My next will have something to say of Seattle and Lake Washington. J. McN. JOHNSON. Mr. O. D. Wallace and Miss Agnes Bartlette, of Carthage, were married Tuesday at the Presbyterian. Manse in Carthage. Rev. Clark officiating.
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