VOLUME
THE
Pi L 0 T
NUMBER
8
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
xhk pilot printing company. VASS, N. C.
ENENTS AT
SOUTHERN PINES
goiOiiern Pines Warehouse in
pscw Location; New Road
’\Iachinery; Other News
FMDAY, JANUARY 11,1924
Wf Y i*- ^<>nsidered one of the
W South.
^ ® under some of the
most famous vocal teachers in Amer
ica and Europe, and for several years
Paris in
pole ®0f'stud^n^X'^ fTerritory Toward Southern
chorus
NEW DEVELOPMENT
AT KNOLLWOOD
studying the more popular
selections from both opera
and classical music and to render them
11 T»* Tir I as to appeal to all music lovprss
Tbo Southern Pmes Warehouses whether they are familiar with
have moved to their new location at or not. That this has been accoT
the eolith end of East Broad street, plished to a very successful deKreHs
and there they are providing one of demonstrated by the increase d^-
the most complete plants for handling mand for the Club in concert and bv
buiia.ng material to be found in this the unstinted praise Zr harden
part of the state. Two large buildings given the work of its members wherT
are already completed and occupied ever a concert has been given
and a third large warehouse to hold xt i ^
cement, lime and such stuff, is under Artist 3
Jrav, ami will be finished in a few dtrfnIW ^
<ia{.'. The buildings already finished tj,. Carolina r1
are full of material of all sorts, with rh„r1„Hp ^ PS
more coming daily and with room on voices nrecisiin *++
Te pround for an unlimited stock, as L 's^ET je-
aboui three acres is embraced in the I ■ ■ - ® ® intonation
Pines to be Thrown
Open
warehouse property. Hugh Betterly,
the manager of the establishment, is
not in the Sandhills very long, but he
has proven his usefulness in the way
he has taken hold of aggressive work.
He has done a lot of building, a big
share of orchard development, and has
brought the new warehouse plant to
are seldom heard.”
A brief outline of their program is
here given:
Bandit Song from Ernani Verdi
Concert Club
Oh Bird of Love Wood
Nettie Allison
(a) Hush in Silence
a conspicious place in Moore county Unot a Lonely Abode (Rigoletto)
affairs. It is interesting to note that Concert Club . Verdi
the fine growth of pine that stood on Little Rose of May Clarke
the land wehre the warehouses stand , Grace Kohn
was used in building the new struc- ^isereri from II Trovatore Verdi
tures. The timber was taken to the \ ^ 4. Club
saw mill, and sawed lumber brought Verdi
back.
Kohn and Smith, Gibson and O’Grady
Soldiers Chorus from Faust....Gounod
Concert Club
(a) Pipes of Pan Moncton
(b) Fanchonette l—Clarke
(c) The Answer Terry
Miss Grace Kohn
Ah, Love but a Day Beach
Will Neal
Hunters* Song from Der Freychutz
Concert' Club Weber
CALLS FOR
SANDHILLS PRODUCT
The machinery for building the new
road between Southern Pines and Ab
erdeen is in position near the new lo
cation of the Southern Pines Ware
houses, where the warehouse siding
can be used, and in a few days the
contractors expect to get at the con
struction work on the road. The time
given to finish the job* will require
that it shall be finished by spring, or
about three months. A big outfit has 1 p a | fa
been set up, and it is evident that it I v/ALlr OKW lA
will push things along fast when it is
under way.
One of the interesting Christmas , Encouraging the boys to secure sub
features on Weymouth Heights was a scriptions for The Pilot and win as a
Christmas tree that Walter Halliwell nremium a Pinphnr'^t Rprkqhiro rAv
devised at his home on Connecticut ~t a W in a letterHa^
rrr/e nfnf ry«,^of SoSn Pines,‘hL Jult
a large pine tree stands in the grove, received from California. The let-
and on that tree he strung a great . uxf ^ 1 ^ ^
number of electric Hghts of all eol-
lors and every night had the bulbs weighing about
al il uminated. They could be seen I would be very
far down into the Fort Bragg tern- send enough
^ ^ A 5 English Breakfast bacon to feed seven
fn beyond j^ngry people. Pork here on the Pa-
the town. It was one of the pictur- cific coast is cheap but very inferior.”
esque features of Weymouth Heights “ . ZT \ f j
for the past few days. ^ewis promptly sent a ham and a
The new theater building has been qsiiSug siq }o
delayed a couple of days by failure of ^o Belvedere, California, by ex
material to arrive, but it is making does not c^P^ct to estab-
fast progress. It will not jonly make a very great trade that far away
a fine building as an addition to the the request froni that distan^ce and
appearance of the town, but also as the willingness of the buyer to pay
nother modern theter. Its rchitectur- the expix,?s charges across the conti-
al style will be apparent as the out- pent show tn^t Moore county is mak-
side walls progress a little farther. something bv.‘=5ides peaches, cotton
Capt. M. S. Murray, formerly safe- and tobacco. Three or four years ago
ty and efficiency engineer for the big L^wis commenced to specialize m hog
Ford collieries near Pittsburgh, Pa., P^*oducts of the higher types. He en-
who has joined the forces of the Caro- couraged farmers to bring to his pack-
lina Coal Company at Coal Glen in mg plant every superior hog that was
Chatham county, was visitor in South- raised. By buying i^jod hogs and
ern Pines over Sunday in company making good products he has created
with Howard Butler, superintendent a reputation for Sandhill Imms and
of the mines. Capt. Murray comes J^r what he (mils English breakfast
with a highly creditable record. The bacon. English breakfast bacon must
general manager of the Ford.compa- not be confused with the ordinary ba-
ny told one of the officials of the Car- the meat shop, for it is a va-
olina company that Murray came out riety of meat unlike anything else,
of the army to straighten out some Mr. Lewis makes it by pickling the
things at the Ford mines five years pork loins and then putting thern
ago, “And,” said the manager, “He is through a smoking process so t at
here now and has a job as long as he they are cut up they are P^ac-
wants to stay. He is one of the most tically pork chops that Vo
capable men we ever had.^^ Capt. treated like the famous Sandhill hams
Murray joined the Carolina company It js plainly apparent why this San
because he says he thinks the compa- hill bacon has gained a wide popular -
ny has a fine opportunity and is a ty.
good concern to be connected with. Mr. Lewis is constantly calling on
^ Herbert Beck is building up a big the farmers for more good hogs that
buoiness at his garage on East Broad can be used in his special b^nd of
street. He is a young chap who grew Sandhills hams and Sandhills Eng •
up with the town, and whose good breakfast bacon. With ,
Work and attention to business is mak- these articles broadening e y y
mg him a lot of friends and patrons, the market for a good typ
1 . ^ . , , - ^ X Moore countv will never be overdone.
dnWonTv.^ There is a big field for the boys who
ptainers say more are feared if the
pJ'^ed is not brought within the legal
limit.
three boys in this movement.
double KILLING AT ABERDEEN
POPULAR CONCERT AT THE
CAROLINA THEATRE
The Carolina Theatre management
announces the engagement of the Car-
olma Concert Club to appear in a pop-
luar concert at Pinehurst on Tuesday,
'January 15, at 8:15 p. m.
News reaches Vass just as The
goes to press telling of a double Jail
ing at Aberdeen inwhich Chief of Po
lice W. P. Page was killed by a negro,
and in turn the other officer with Page
took the gun, falling out of the chief s
hand, and killed the negro.
The Tiec^o was wanted for store
V XU, iiL o'xo u ni i Xnegro was
The Carolina Concert Club was or- breaking, and the officers went to the
.,anized in Charlotte two years ago place where he was staying and ar-
and is composed of ten men, picked rested him, and were t e
f‘;oni among the most popular singers turning to Aberdeen when the negr^^^^
91 the city, each of the members hav- who was sittag on the bac „:efol
studied voice for at least three policeman Page ^
years and the majority of tliem at from his person and shot the omcer.
present members of the prominent The ofl^ers thought tl^Y had g
church choirs and prominent in the as good a search as
niusical life of the community. seem to overlook the gun. Tht other
The club is directed by Carol Hay- 1 oflRcer's name was Jeanes.
Last week The Pilot announced th»
opening of a new road that is connect
ing Knoll wood Village and Southern
Pines. For a couple of years this
has been contemplated, and The Pilot
has been looking over the maps and
waiting for the day when the start
would be inade. A few weeks ago
Judge Way initiated the work by com
mencing on the Fairway road that
leads down from his property, and
Mr. Tufts, manager of Knollwood,
proposed to Mayor Richardson, of
Southern Pines, that the two villages
should finish the job.
Francis Deaton had made the sur
vey long enough ago that it was all
ready, and when Mr. Tufts said go
the thing started with a hurry move
ment. It is now about completed, and
as the road goes it is one of the best
in the Sandhills, and with one of the
most interesting regions to traverse.
But it is not the road that is the
essential thing just now. That road
opens a magnificent bit of Sandhill
ridge, running from the foot of Rhode
Island avenue in Southern'Pines out
to the creek, and then up past the
pump station and a half mile front on
the rise above Mid-Pines golf course,
and in the whole distance a succession
of the finest building sites in the
colintry are available for settlement.
These building locations will be put
on sale as fast as they can be tagged
in some way to designate the bound
aries. Judge Way has a number of
sites on the Fairway road over the
Knollwood Village end of the new road
and then comes in the Knollwood
property, reaching from the Way lines
to within a couple of squares of the
main streets of Southern Pines, for
the new road is a continuation of
Southern Pines streets for something
like a half a mile.
*S. B. Richardson will have the sale
of the lots in the section adjoining the
town of Southern Pines. A. S. New
comb will continue to sell Knollwood
property, and Judge Way will be ac
tive in bringing his territory into the
market, probably in a developed condi
tion, or in the hands of buyers who
will be developers. The Judge is not
a hurry-up man in disposing of his
stuff until it is in a condition to be
used by some one, and he wants to
put it in that shape himself or see it
done. In talking with Mr. Richard
son and Mr. Newcomb on this new
orospect both say unequivocally that
it is destined to have a pronounced
influence on the immediate future of
both villages. Work will progress
out from Southern Pines, for as Mr.
Richardson says, the minute the peo
ple drive out that road and see the
fine prospect that has been laid out a
demand for home sites will begin. The
nearness to all the public points in
Southern Pines, postoffice, railroads,
schools, churches and stores as well
as to the Mid-Pines territory will
make that ridge out of Southern Pines
a highly popular location for settle
ment.
The contour of the ground out that
way is such that it gives a series of
elevated terraces all the way from
Southern Pines to the creek, and most
of the ground has a fine growth of
young pine coming on as well as a
sprinkling of big trees. It slopes
enough to make interesting variation
of surface, and is high enough to af
ford all the elevation desired.
Mr. Richardson says he expects a
quick response to the opening of that
section of the SouthernPines-Knoll-
wood connection, and that it will be
peopled with that type of home
makers who will build such homes as
will put the new community in the
desirable quarters of the suburbs. The
outcome of this opening will be the
early connection of Southern Pines
and Knollwood Village, as this will be
the short road, and every lot along
the line will be a good location. The
size of the building locations will be
large, so no crowding into town lots
will be necessary. Prices will be fix
ed low enough to permit the purchase
of a good frontage. This will allow
plenty of room for buildings and for
ample surroundings. Mr. Newcomb
said possibly a scheme might be adopt
ed allowing any buyer to select what
ever frontage he might desire, but
this is not definitely decided. But in
that event the size of each individual
purchase would depend on the buy
er’s inclination, and the price made by
the size of the frontage. Those who
are interested can drive out the road
and see the property and then find
out about selling arrangements from
Richardson or Newcomb.
DR. McBRAYER RESIGNS
[sion Wednesday at Sanatorium, and
thr. P. P. McCain, son-in-law of Dr.
McBrayer, and assistant superinten
dent of the sanatorium, was elected to
succeed his father-in-law.
The action of the board followed a
request made some weeks ago by Gk)v-
ernor Cameron Morrison that Dr. Mc
Brayer be removed as head of the san
atorium because of his plea of guilty
in Hoke Superior court recently to a
charge of trading with himself in an
official capacity.
Dr. McBrayer’s resignation was ac
cepted following unanimous adoption
by the board of a resolution stating
that Dr. McBrayer had rendered dis
tinguished and unselfish service to the
institution and the state.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
DEATH OF NR.
C. B. THOHASSON
Lived With Son Near Cameron
—Remains Carried to Stem
—Other News
COL. CAMERON LIKES THE
SANDHILLS
We are printing an excerpt from a
letter Mr. Leonard Tufts received this
week from Col. D. W. Cameron, of
Lochiel, Scotland, which will be of
interest to his many friends in this
section:
“We had a very good and comfort
able journey back on the Aquitania
and we are now settled in here for the
winter. (Dinard, France).
“I cannot tell you how much we en
joyed our visit to Pinehurst or ap
preciated all your kindness to us.
“Please remember us most kindly
to Mr. Ralph Page and all our other
friends in Pinehurst and assure them
we have not forgotten them nor shall
we ever forget them. Please also
don^t forget to remember me to my
clansmen.”
KIWANIS CLUB BACKS M|SS
McQUEEN
At the meeting of^ the Kiwanis club
on Wednesday at the Littlecote tea
house at Pinehurst the question of
backing Miss McQueen, county nurse,
in her campaign for a dental clinic
was brought up, and after some dis
cussion as to methods and ways it was
decided that the individual members
would give the movement individual
support until it was learned how far
this step would be effective. The com
mittee to which the affair had been
submitted last week reported that $1,-
100 had already been subscribed by
private individuals, and that more
would probably be forthcoming on the
total amount of $4,000 asked for to
carry on the work throughout the
county. It seemed the sense of the
organization was that further private
help should be tried out before the
club as an organization should take
hold. Incidentally Dr. Mudgett won
dered if it would not be well to include
a whole time health officer in the coun
ty, but as that was not the question
at issue the suggestion was passed up
for the original proposition.
After proper attention had been
given to the vittles Hon. James H.
Vahey, of Boston, was introduced, and
he talked in interesting fashion about
the development of the Sandhills. He
had come to Pinehurst first in ?y05
and had not been in the county since.
The change was interesting t 0
him. He said that in his younger days
he lived in the suburbs of Boston, and
.hat a short distance across the coun
try the luf s family were neighbors
and that to come down inio this coun
try now was to find so many people
from up that way that he could stand
on the sleps at the Carolina and call
by their first names a large propor
tion of the people he met theie. As
a New Englander he felt at home in
the Sandhills of North Carolina, and
he liked what he found. Mr. Vahey
talked a little of his work in the in
dustrial relations of labor and capical
in Massachusetts and Washington, and
he stepped on thin ice when he ventur
ed to intimate that child labor laws
in North Carolina enabled the North
Carolina mill men to put up a petition
in textile manufacture that Massachu
setts mills were feeling, and protest
ing. But R. N. Page assured Mr. Va
hey that the Carolina labor laws as
far as they pertain to children are
identical with those of Massachusetts,
and that the factor that has made this
state second in the union in the con
sumption and first in the number of
mills and spindles is that wonderful
factor that has done so much else for
the progress of the state, which is
climate. Mr. Vahey accepted the ex
planation gracefully, and was given a
vote of thanks for his interesting talk.
He stays in Pinehurst for a considera
ble period, and told the club that if
he gets to feeling any better than he
has he will at once go- to see a doctor.
He said that since he came here two
weeks ago he had written but twice
to his wife who is back home, and
some of the old gray heads around
him remarked that twice in that time
loked like a good record.
The club is arranging to entertain
the District Club January 25, at the
Carolina, and for a night for the wo
men in a week or two.
didn't
of a
at the
The resignation of D?. L. B. Mc
Brayer, as superintendent of the state
sanatorium for tuberculosis patients
at Sanatorium was accepted by the
institution’s board of directors in ses-
SERIES OF MEETINGS
A series of meetings are going on
at the Presbyterian church, to which
everybody is cordially invited and urg
ed to attend.
Rev. Leonard Gill is doing the
preaching.
Just at the dawn of New YearV
morning Mr. C. R. Thomasson, famil
iarly known as “Grandpa,” passed
away at the home of his son, Mr. B. T.
Thomasson on route 2, in his 86th
year. Mr. Thomasson was a native oZ
Granville county; was born July 4th
1838; was a volunteer in the Confedr
erate army; served four years with
Company E. 46th N. C. B., and was
wounded at three different times. The
body was carried to the family bury
ing ground at Stem. The funeral ser
vices were conducted by Rev. L. Hi
Joyner, pastor of Cameron Methodist
church, of which Mr. Thomasson had
been a member for five years. Mr*
Thomasson^s wife died in 1902, and
since then he had made his home with
his son, B. T. Thomasson. He leavea
one brother, W. H. Thomasson, of
Stem. All of his children are living^
of whom are B. F. and J. W. Thom
asson, of Cameron, W. A. Thomassoni
of Durham, Mrs. Cameron Johnson,
of Stem. Among the relatives and
friends that attended the funeral
were Rev. Mr. Tucker, of Vass, Mr.
J. R. Loving and daughters. Miss La
dy and Miss Lucile Rogers, and many
others, as the many beautiful designs
of flowers were placed upon his grave,
loving friends sang “When the roll is
called up yonder.” In the two years
that “Grandpa” was confined to his'
bed no one ever heard him complain;
Calmly he wainted his summons from
on high, content to live, but nojt afraid
to die.
At the present writing we are ex-'
periencing some old-fashioned wintry'
weather, the kind we used to have
and enjoyed so much the “Icy Milk*'
we had for breakfast.
Frozen pumps and bursted pipes
are now the inconveniences of some
of our more fortunate town people,
but the well of clear water at the
home of the correspondent
freeze.
The correspondent partook
bountiful New Year dinner
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Morgan, of
Niagara. Other invited guests were
Mrs. R. A. Smith and son, Robert, Jr.,
of Eildon Hills, and Miss Mary John
son, of Aberdeen.
Mrs. F. C. Ruth and son, Frank,Jr.,
Mrs. Oscar Summers and little daugh
ter, Virginia, of Raleigh, returned i
home Sunday after spending the holi
days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Swett on route 2.
Miss Lillian Cole returned last week
to her school in Nash county.
“Yes, we have no bananas,” but we
have weather of all sorts and condi
tions.
Mr. J. A. Phillips is recovering
from an attack of influenza.
Chicken pox and measles are in
town and throughout the country.
Little June Mclver Hemphill is quite
ill with pleurisy.
Please to report Mrs. T. C. Gaddy
and Rev. J. W. Hartsell improving.
Older residenters in the town report
the week-end cold wave the coldest
weather since 1899.
Along with no bananas, we have
frozen ink.
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Yow have moved
into their new cottage in the vicinity
of Breezy Summit.
Miss Thurla Cole is spending the
week in Charlotte.
Mr. Coley Snipes, of Sanford was
a guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. D.
W. McNeill.
The home of Mrs. Georgie Mat
thews caught on fire Friday night
from an oil stove. The alarm being
promptly given, the fire was soon ex
tinguished by neighbors.
Miss Kate Harrington who came
home to spend the holidays with her
mother, returned Friday to Charlotte,
Miss Blanche Coore is visiting her
sister, Mrs. J. W. Cameron.
Misses Annie.and Bessie McDonald
who Lave positions at High Point, re
turned last week after spending tiie
holidays at home.
Miss Elizabeth Harrington on route
2 visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Har
rington during the holidays.
Misses Mary Ann Cameron, Bessie
McDonald, Annie McDonald and Min
nie Cameron were supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harrington on
New Years eve.
The new year ushered in more mar
riages in this vicinity, lifrs. Alice
Wilson, a worthy widow widow, who
for the past several years had made
her home with Mr. and Mrs. A. Z.
Easom on route 2, was married to
Mr. Isgett of South Caroling
Mr. Lonnie Stuart and Miss Myrtle
Yow, of the Whito Hill section were
unit^ in marriage last week.
Mr. Will Wicker and Miss Katie
Pierce on Jonesboro route, were mar
ried on January 3rd. Rev. A. Ray, of
Jonesboro, officiating.
The Merry Makers Club met Friday
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