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THURSDAY, NOVENBER 1, 1923
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KiWANIANS ADDRESSED
by LEONARD TUFTS
Gives Impressions Gained on His Sum-
' luer’s Sojourn—Enthused Club
With Convictions Gained
31 r. Leonard Tufts was the speaker
at last Thursday’s Kiwanis luncheon.
31 r. Tufts has just returned from his
summer’s sojourn in New
Hampshire and other Northern states,
ailii before coming back here also
made a round of the bigger fairs
in the Middle West and South.
Speaking of New Hampshire and
the England States, Mr. Tufts
said that they moved entirely by sta-
—everything had been closely
tabulated. He gave the impression
that nothing could be attempted up
there without a lot of star gazing in a
mass of past statistics. Progress
there, therefore, is more or less me
chanical, lacking the push adn pep
that is being displayed in th newer
territories. Towns back there had
ceased to grow, country districts are
disintejjrating and road maintenance
badlv neglected. His faith, which was
never waivering, he said, was made
still stronger in North Carolina and
its possibilities. We need, though, to
let the people in those states, where
prouress had become cumbersome,
know that North Carolina is an ad
vancing state, industrially and agri
culturally. He spoke at length on the
kind of publicity which would best
accomplish this, referring to an ar
ticle by Irving S. Cobb appearing in
a recent issue of Hearst’s Magazine.
Mr. Tuft’s remarks were well receiv
ed by all present and evoked a lively
discussion of the ideas advanced by
him.
RUSH OF SIGNERS
TO TOBACCO CO-OP
Landslide to Association Starts With
300 New Contracts Last
Week
A rush of new members to the To
bacco Growers’ Co-operative Associa
tion, which followed the recent open
ing of its Old Belt markets brought
in 301 new contracts last week to
headquarters of the organized tobaccc-
farmers at Raleigh.
More than 700 new members have
joined the tobacco association during
October and the effect of increased
cash payments on every grade of the
weed delivered to the association
houses is resulting in the arrival of
many contracts daily.
Confidence in the organization of
the 92,000 Carolina, Virginia farmers
seems to be increasing in all three
states reached by the association as
new contracts reaching Raleigh last
week were very evenly divided among
the southern tobacco area, 109 com
ing- from Virginia, 109 from North
Carolina and 83 from South Carolina.
Five million pounds of tobacco
reached the co-operative warehouses
of Virginia and Wsetern North Caro
lina last week, according to advices
from the leaf department at Rich
mond. Eastern Carolina farmers al
so increased their deliveries, bringing
the total receip^^s of this year’s crop
to well over fifteen million pounds
from the Eastern Belt.
The association will open nineteen
more markets on November 20 for
deliveries by the majority of Virginia
farmers in the dark and sun-cured
areas, who form its membership. The
last markets of the association to
open this year will be at Amherst, Al
tavista, Amelia, Appomattox, Ash
land, Arrington, Bedford, Blackstone,
Columbia, Cumberland, Dillwyn,
r armville, Lynchburg, Milford, Pamp-
*in Petersburg, Phoenix, Richmond
and Emporia.
The dark tobacco crop of Virginia
unusually late this year and the
association management has delayed
HS opening date on that account, ac
cording to F. D. Williams, Sales Man
ager of the Dark Leaf, who states
that the crop is not yet fully cured
and that much tobacco will not come
in order and run to uniform color for
several weeks.
The large gain in membership
which has followed their first success
ful season, indicates that the Virginia
Clark growers will market close to 75
per cent, of this year’s crop through
tneir own association.
S. D. FRISSELL.
LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION
The Laymen’s Association of Fay-
etteville Presbytery will convene in
annual session at St. Pauls Presby
terian Church, Tuesday, November
at 10:30 a. m.
A program of interesting topics
^’11 be arranged and an all-day ses-
/^ill be held, with dinner served
on the grounds.
Among the items of business to be
JJ'ansacted will be the election of a
'chairman and other officers for the
Gi’^suing year. The present Chairman
being in the bounds of Orange
presbytery will necessitate the elec
tion of someone to succeed him.
» ^large attendance of the laymen
1 the Presbytery as well as the min-
■sters is desired. A. C. RAY,
Moore County, Pinehurst and the Fair
By BION H. BUTLER
The Pinehurst Fair is under way again as The Pilot is printed, and
from all the indications, (unless the wrong sort of weather should be ex
perienced) it will be the most interesting and best patronized thing of its
kind ever attempted in the county. The reason is plain enough. There is
but one Pinehurst on earth. James Tufts started out with an original plan,
which has grown into something else so purely original that it is the re
sult of development that determined for itself what Pinehurst should be
come. Pinehurst is an opportunist, and is the outcome of watching the
cards as they run and playing the game accordingly. So the Pinehurst
Fair is unlike anything else on earth, because Pinehurst could not have
anything that is not unlike the rest.
The Sandhills country is unlike the rest of the world. Moore county
is unlike the rest. Irvin Cobb in a recent issue of Hearst’s Magazine
writes about North Carolina and says we need a press agent. Cobb is
right enough, but he is also wrong. What we need, at least in this part of
the state, is a research man and an analytical chemist. We have in this
county considerable press agency. Pinehurst is one of the foremost on
earth. Not that I refer to the thousands that Mr. Tufts spends for adver
tising, the simplest form of press agency. That phase of the subject we
can stand aside for a minute. The Fair is one of the biggest forms of pub
licity that can be devised. Pinehurst itself is another. The men and wo
men who come here from the highest stations in life, who stay long
enough to get acquainted with Moore county, who go home to talk over
what they have seen, and who come back to be a part of Moore county
development are among the most powerful advertising agencies under
the sun. Think about Judge Way, for instance, or James Barber, or S. B.
Chapin, or any of the long list of men who are putting their money into
Moore county in big wads. Go up and down the county and you see their
investments showing out prominently, and successfully bring back to
them good returns on what they have been putting into the Sandhill coun
try.
But it is not what these men are doing, nor how many checks come
from outside the county when the ta x bills are paid, nor what they tell to
others of what they see while they are at Pinehurst or at other places in
the county. The need of the community, Mr. Cobb says, is a press agent.
Mr. Cobb as I have said is emphatically right. But as I said he is wrong.
Before we get a press aorent we need a man who can look over the cardfe
and point out to us what we have to tell the world about. When I came
to Moore county thirty years ago everybody thought we had here nothing
but a tragic joke, and that the joke was principally on those folks who
thought Moore county could ever be made good for anything. In thirty
years we have come along some distance. But to my notion the joke is still
on the folks who think we have gone the limit, who think here is nothing
else beyond, and that here is the time to quit.
We cleaned this county out when the lumber and turpentine was tak
en away. Then it was discovered that some of the useless lands could be
sold to folks from the North who wanted to make a place to dodge the cold
weather in winter. Then winter resorts were found to be oossible. The’"'
the building of connecting villages like Knollwood. Pinebluff, Weymouth
Heights, and the other suburbs of Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern
Pines followed, and the orchards exoanded, and the dewberry fields. Golf
swept the world, and Pinehurst rose to the foremost rank in that reprard.
It is useless to enumerate the resources that have unfolded. But they
have been many. The county became a tobacco center. Cotton came into
prominence to a certain extent. Now this year Moore county shows that
it can make cotton to better advantage and with more likelihood of prof
itable success than almost any other cotton section on earth. Better results
attended the work with the weevil here than in most places. At any rate
the weevil has to be overcome and Moore will raise cotton as well as any
place. Up around High Falls the farms make cotton. All over the coun
ty it can be made, and probably it is a crop that will give a greater
account of itself yet than we have imagined. And along with cotton we
will find that many things are available for Moore county if we care to
venture. The small farms of the upper counties are showing that small
farms have a big possibility. The upper part of Moore county has a lot of
thrift and substantial comfort. A closer relation ought to be established
between the communities of the Deep River section and the Sandhill coun
try. Moore county has come to the point where it is ceasing to be a county
of isolated neighltorhoods. The good roads are opening all sections to all
people. Pinehurst is half an hour from Hemp and Glendon, and no farth
er than from points in the Sandhills that Pinehurst knows better. Good
roads have brought within half an hour of Pinehurst the finest scenery in
the county. What’s the use to go to Carthage by the same old road by East
wood when you can go by Eagle Springs, Spies, Brown’s Mill, Hemp, Mc
Connell, Glendon, and a lot of other places that afford variety and interest?
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CAMERON NEWS
Sandhill Fair!
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harrington
and children spent Monday in San
ford.
George Wooten came home from
Trinity for the week-end.
Rev. J. W. Hartsell is on the sick
list, and unable to attend rail day at
the Baptist church Sunday.
Rev. R. A. McLeod, of Hope Mills,
who conducted a meeting at Union
church last week, and Mr. J. P.
Swett on route 2, were supper guests
of Miss Chrissie McLean at the
Greenwood Inn Sunday night.
Miss Cattie McDonald spent the
week-end with Mrs. James McLean
and family on route 2, and attended
services at Union.
Mr. E. B. McNeill, of Raeford, and
D. J. McNeill, of Union, were callers
Sunday afternoon at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. M. D. McNeill.
Misses Myrtle Gaddy, Myrtle Boaz,
Mr. Carl Boaz, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Hicks at Rockingham.
Mr. L. A. Fink on Carthage R. F. D.
was in town Monday.
Mr. M. D. McLean accompanied
Rev. M. D. McNeill to his appoint
ment at Vass, Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Donnee McDonald and
little daughter, Margaret, visited Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. McDonald, of Car
thage last week.
Mrs. J. D. McLean and little niece,
Margaret, and James Hunter, Jr., of
Huntersville, attended the funeral of
Mrs. Bynum, Friday, at Johnson
Grove.
Misses Vera McLean, Annie Hart
sell, Lola Thomasson, Thurla Cole at
tended esrvices at Springfield Sunday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. R. A.
McLeod.
Mrs. James Gilchrist, Misses Sallie
McDonald and Nonnie Gilchrist spent
Friday in Sanford.
Mr. R. C. Thomas, Miss Margaret
Thomas, and Mr. I. S. Thomas spent
a part of Sunday with Miss Mary
Emma Thomas, student at Meredith.
They returned home by way of Dur
ham.
Mrs. Lula Muse and Mrs. Jewel
Hemphill attended the wedding of Mr.
Thomas Black, of Carthage, and Miss
Jessie Godfrey, of Jonesboro on
Wednesday, 31st.
Wrapping the world in lively gay.
To reconcile us to decay,
October passed.
The Merry Makers Club met Thurs
day evening with Mrs. H. D. Ta’^y.
After a delightful two hours of “so
and so,” the hostess served apples
and candy. Next meeting will be
with Miss Margaret Thomas.
Mrs. Addor and daughter. Miss
Elise Addor, of Addor, were guests
Monday, of Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Mc
Neill.
Sunday, October 28th, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Thompson celebrated, each,
their birthdays. Mr. Thompson, is
ninety-one, his wife, eighty-nine. All
their ten children were present. Their
grandchildren, and three great grand
children. A feast of good things was
spread in the grove, and the home
gathering was a happy one.
Two of our much loved young wo
men in town are having a serious
time with their “mif-s.” Miss Annie
Borst has been suTering intensely for
the past week with a bone felon that
necessitated an operation at the C. C.
Hosp-tal. While out gathering au
tumnal leaves and flowers, Miss Lula
McPherson had the misfortune to
have her hands poisoned from poison
oak, and she, too, paid a visit to the
C. C. Hospital. We hope a speedy
recovery for both young ladies.
The correspondent was the happy
recei 'ient Sunday of a nice tray of
daintv eats with two generous slices
of a delicious birthday cake, from lit
tle Miss Mary McDonald.
Rally Fay exercises were held Sun
day at the Baptist church. Mr. Jerni*
gan, of Drnn, made a talk on “How
to build up a Sunday school.” Prof.
Clyde Kelly spoke on “Citizenship.”
Mr. James Turnley made a talk on
“Relation of Parents to Children.”
Mrs. W. G. Parker spoke on “Teaching
Children to Reverence God’s House.”
Miss Vera McLean was hostess last
week of the Young Ladies Auxiliary.
Meeting called to order by president,
Mrs. Jewell Hemphill. Subject, “Co
rea.” Miss Thurfa Cole read a paper
on Corea. Report of group confer
ence by Miss Vera McLean. Guests
of honor, baby Isabel McKeithen, who
behaved beautifully, knowing she was
the first baby who had attended the
Auxiliary meeting. The hostess serv
ed coffee and sandwiches, whipped
cream and cranberry nectar. Fruits.
Th next meeting will be with Miss
Thurla Cole.
Mr. E. L. Ray returned Monday
morning.
Miss Mabel Muse who teaches at
Norman, came home for the week-end.
On her return, she was accompanied
by Mr. Dallas Loudermilk, of Nor
man. “Get a move on ‘Brother’ Arch.”
Miss Littie Rowan, pf Union route
2, spe^ a» evening of Ij^st week with
Miss Vera McLean.
Miss Alma McLean came over from
Raleigh for the week-end with home
folks on route 2.
Mrs. H. M. Phillips, of Goldston,
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