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VOLUNE THE PILOT NUMBER 20 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the PiLOT printing COMPANY. VASS. N. C. WANTS S THOUSAND K9GS FOR SAUSAGE pinehurst Sausage Factory Lim- iteo Only by the Supply of Good Animals When Pinehurst started to make sausar ’ the thing that seemed to be the in ortant question was whether the market would take a sufficient amoinit of the product to use many more tlian the surplus hog stock that is ah'ays growing up at the Pinehurst Berks'iire Farms, where about 400 a year are ready for the barrel. But the Pinehurst supply was used up in short order and the market called for sausage so lustily that it was neces sary to ask the farmers to bring their good hogs, and to bring lots of them. The sausage made a hit that was not anticipated, and the management of the factory is buying hogs from the country around for forty miles or more. Some have come from as far away as South Carolina, and if more can be had down that way they will be boLi.u'ht. Some curious things develop in con nection with this sausage experiment at Pinehurst. It transpires that a Berkshire hog will cut up better for sausage than any other type that comes to the factory. The others give a little more lard, or waste in different ways. The Pinehurst Berkshire turns out about 60 pounds of sausage for each hundred pounds of live hog. That does not include the lard, liver, feet, etc. The loins also cut etc. The loins are also not cut into sausage. But practically all the rest of the animal goes into the mill. It looks rather nervy to cut the finest kind of Berkshire hams into sausage, but the purpose is to make the best possible sausage and good hams are fine sausage material. From every place whore Pinehurst sausage is sold comes the statei.oent that it is superior to all other makes. This is easily understood, for it is made from selected hogs, and the whole hog with few slight exceptions noted goes into the mill. Pinehurst sausage is not made of scraps. No filling is used and no excess of season ing. The farmer who raises hogs is cautioned that all hogs will not make Pinehurst sausage. Hogs fed on pea nuts are too soft. A few of this kind were bought, but too large a propor tion had to go to the lard bucket. Here after all animals used must be finish ed on corn. The price paid for suit able hogs is the price paid for Rich mond delivery. That means a much better market for hogs than the Moore county farmer can find elsewhere. The sausage factory urges farmers to have a liberal supply of hogs for next sea son’s delivery and prefers Berkshires to any other variety. to Mr. W. T. Joyner, secretary of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee at Raleigh. ^ 5. The chairman of the various pre cinct Democratic Executive Commit tee in your county will'constitute the County Democratic Executive Com mittee of your county, and should meet on the date of the county con vention and elect a Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Com mittee. I assure you that I shall be deeply grateful if you will see that the pro gram as above outlined is carried out. It is important to us this year to see that everything is done towards promptly perfecting the County or ganizations. I hope you will be able to have a good attendance in every precinct and at the county conven tions, and I do earnestly ask you in behalf of our great party to see to it if possible. With assurance of my highest re gards, I remain, Most sincerely, JOHN G. DAWSON, Chairman State Demeocratic Executive Com mittee. COUNTY CONVENTION Kinston, N. C. March 6, 1924. D, Al. Blue, Chairman, Carthage, N. C. Dear Sir: I am extremely anxious that full information be given throughout your county regarding the Precinct Meet- in your county, and regarding the ounty Convention, as well as the tate ^^onvention. Of course the news paper, will be a good medium for do- this, but you can find other ways and in( ans which will prove effective. h ! Precinct Meetings are to be e d fvery Precinct in every county on day, April 5, 1924, at 2 o’clock p. ni a ; elect delegates to the ouniy Convention, and also to choose ^ ne\' i/recinct Executive Committee. 2, - be County Convention is to be the court house in the county on Sjr, April 12, 1924, at noon, or t 'G purpose of electing delegates iron. county to the State Con vent’. O'-- * h u ^ ^tate Convention is to be ';• he city of Raleigh on Thurs- v]vril 17, 1924, at noon. O') the date of your County con- entif or immediately thereafter. Dr. W. C. Mudgett DR. NUDGEH GIVEN SWORD Recognition of Grand Command er Had Brought to Local Commandery the State ^ nes of the delegates to the 'v^onvention should be certified Southern Pines Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar, held a public convocation on last Monday night, the occasion being the presentation of a gold Knight Templar sword to Grand Commander William C. Mudgett of the Grand Commandery of North Carolina. The sword was presented by Grand Master J. LeGrand Everett on behalf of the members of Southern Pines Commandery in recognition of the honor Grand Commander Mudgett had brought to the local Commandery, and of the services he has rendered to the masons of the state at large. Grand Master Everett spoke in high terms of the progress the Grand Co-m- mandery has made under the leader ship of Grand Commander Mudgett, and he voiced the feelings of the en tire assembly that the honor conferred upon him was a well deserved one. In accepting the sword, Mr. Mudgett ex pressed his appreciation of the gift, and talked very interestingly of the great educational work being carried on in North Carolina by the Grand Commandery in making it possible for a great number of deserving boys and girls to complete their college courses. Sir Knight U. L. Spence, of Car thage, presented Past Grand Com mander J. C. Braswell, of Whitakers, who addressed the audience on the history and ideals of Templarism, after which the ladies of the Eastern served refreshments to the Sir Knights and their guests, a great many of whom were tourists, repre senting practically every state east of the Mississippi. BOX PARTY The public is cordially invited to be present at a box party and voting con test at Roseland school house on the night of April 5, 1924. Proceeds will go for the benefit of school. FRIDAY, APRIL 4,1924 CANERON CAKING FACTORY REVIVES Piedmont Canners, Inc., Take Hold of Property and Are Rushing Building Work The people of Cameron are feeling rather jubilant these days over the resumption of work on the canning factory sometime ago projected at that point. For some reason the plans as originally laid down did not work out. But now comes R. L. Reaves, president of the Piedmont canners incorporated, of Charlotte, who has made a deal with the stock holders at Cameron and a force of men are at work completing the or iginal plant and adding to it. The enlarged plant will be a hundred and twenty by forty feet with a basement under a portion, and an addition for a steam plant. Charles S. Thomas, who has experience in canneries in Maine, is in charge of the work and will be field representative as soon as the factory is ready to run. Mr. Thomas says the establishment will be in shape to turn on steam by the first of May. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Reaves come to the community as strangers but they both seem familar with the work they propose to do, and they waste no time in tackling their building proposition. Brick layers and car penters and laborers are on the job at Cameron, and if the gait at which they start is maintained for the next four weeks, it is easy to believe the statement made by Mr. Thomas when he says the steam will be turned on by the first of May. Mr. Thomas says about thirty peo ple will be employed in the factory. In addition to the accommodations to be found in Cameron he says the plans of the company call for building two or three houses on the property just above the plant. A new road will be necessary com ing in from the village and connecting with the road going up by the station so that farmers bringing in stuff to the factory can have easy access in either direction. Mr. Reaves tells the Pilot that the plant will have a ca pacity for handling forty-six thousand cans a day. He also expects to have a large salting station for handling cucumbers whicH he says can be raised in unlimited quantities in this section and to a good profit by the farmer. The proposition as outlined by the men at the head of this new work is of a comprehensive character. It is the intention to handle all of the dew berries that the farmers can dispose of at from ten to twelve cents a quart. H. P. McPherson, one of the biggest dewberry men in the county, says that twelve cents a quart wouM be a right fair return for berries as they come from the field, as that would save all cost of crates and boxes and all p.iek- ing charges. It would also afford an outlet for the berries that aie too ripe to ship. S. B. Richardson, the big peach man of Southern Pines, thinks that if the peach crop is what it* promises this year something like three hundred cars of fruit too ripe to ship, or in other ways not suitable for marketing in the North, would make excellent mat.-^rial for canning. Mr. Mcfherson’s estimate is that the total crop of dewberries will be two hundred cars. If ten per cent, of this crop should be overripe, it would be the equivalent of twenty cars that would go to the cannery. But it is ar gued that some shippers would rather take their stuff to a cannery and be sure of a market than to take the risk of consigning it to northern com mission men. However, Mr. Thomas says they are figuring on much stuff besides dewberries and peaches. He expects to contract with farmers for at least a hundred acres of tomatoes. And tells the Pilot that he has already ar ranged for twenty acres. He will also try to secure a large acreage of string beans, and other garden vege tables, that can be handled in quan tity. When ask'ed about sweet po tatoes, he said he had not looked into that subject very far yet, but would be able to say more about it later on. Mr. Thomas seems very enthusiastic over the prospect for an establishment of this kind at Cameron, pointing out the benefits that will arise if the farmers will provide a liberal supply of stuff for the factory. He says that an acre of beans or tomatoes, or dew berries or peaches, or crops of that character, will bring more money than several acres of cotton or tobacco, and that a canning industry once built up around Cameron where the growing season is long and the diversity of products is great would make this one of the most thrifty and prosperous section of the south. As soon as he gets the building work off his hands he expects to get pretty close in tou^ with the farmers. Incidentally he would like to have all who are inter ested and who m;?y happen to be in Cameron at any time call at the fac tory and talk with him. The location of the cannery is on- the railroad about a thousand feet south of the station. As a number of the people of Cam eron are connected with the tannery, farmers who are interested and who would like to know more about its marketing plan, can find out what is going on by talking with nearly any body in Cameron. IMPOSSIBLE North Carolina, it is said, is to have a new Pinehurst. Which is particular ly interesting if it includes a new Leonard Tufts; and not otherwise— Greensboro News. A Pinehurst without a Leonard Tufts ? There ain’t no sich animal. RAILROAD TALKS BY JOHN L COBB He Tells the Kiwanis Club to Stand by the Roads or Fall With Them SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 SUNDAY SCHOOLS HAVE MEETING Big Crowds in Attendance—J. R. McQueen Makes a Fine Talk A highly appropriate address by John L. Cobbs of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was the feature of the Kiwanis Club dinner Wednesday at Southern Pines. Mr. Cobbs started out by showing that the Sandhills tourist business, and the peach busi ness, and every other industry is ab solutely dependent on the service of the rai’road. To carry on the rail road requires an enormous outlay of money, and make the money profitable io the investor. For the last ten years rolling stock, rails, labor, and everything needed by railroads has been high in price. The expenses of the railroads reached a point where the income would not meet them. With new equipment needed, more tracks, sidings and everything there was no money. With increasing prices of ev erything else the clamor was still for reduced railroad rates, and the result was that men with money refused to buy railroad stocks or to lend money on railroad bonds. As a cause of this condition, Mr. Cobbs cited the continual hostile legis lation. Already at the present ses sion of congress one hundred and eighty bills have been introduced to restrict and tamper railroad operation. This has been going on for years un til the railroads tied hand and foot, and they reached a point where they had no standing as an investment among men of means who could pro vide money for extension and im provement. Then came the Esch- Cummins act, which Mr. Cobb says is the first constructive legislation ever passed. It allows a railroad to earn five and three quarters per cent on its investment, if it can. -If it earns more than six per cent, half of that extra earning is taken from it to give to weaker roads, and the other half goes into a reserve fund for re strictive uses. In 1920 the depression came. That gave the railroads a jolt. In 1922 business woke up and the rail roads were without money to provide facilities for handling them. In the closing half of the year, they were able to borrow half a million dollars, and in 1923, a billion and a quarter.. This enabled them to put the roads in (Ciontinued on page 8) (Mrs. M. C. McDonald) The Mineral Springs Township Sun day School Convention met in West End Methodist Church Sunday, March 30th, with Mr. George Ross, township chairman, presiding. We are glad to say that every school in the township was represented, and all, with the ex ception of one, took active part in the* program. A model Sunday School was con ducted at ten o’clock by Mr. F. W. VonCanon, superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School here. This was a splendid success. Three hun dred and sixty persons joined the various classes, and perhaps a hun dred others were there just to look on. All the class rooms and main auditorium were filled, and Mr. Ross* class of forty-six young men met on the lawn. A collection was taken in all the classes, the money to be used for the expenses of the Township Sunday School Association. After a short recess, the schools re assembled at 11:15 for talks by Mr. Ross on the work in the township, and by M. C. McDonald, county president, on the work he has been able to ac complish; also announcements as to the coming regional conventions. Let us say here that the president hopes every Sunday School in the county will be represented at Sanford, April 4, 5, and 6. Every school is entitled to three delegates besides its superin tendent and pastor. The address of the morning was made by Mr. John R. McQueen. Sub ject: “The Benefits Derived from the Study of the Bible.” His address was forceful and to the point. Mr. Mc Queen used two very striking illus tration. One was of the lives of two men with whom he came in contact in his boyhood. The first was a man of humble station in life, but every one knew he made the Bible his guide, and tried constantly to pattern his life by it. Mr. McQueen was present when he died. This man said at the end, that he was glad he had been al lowed to live here, and thanked God for his long life. The second, though a not particulary bad man, had left the Bible out of his life. Mr. McQueen was with him also when death came, and this said he wished he had never been born. The speaker said the man ner of the going of these two men had greatly influenced his life. The sec ond illustrative was a trip the speaker made to our national capitol, a few years ago. He had a map, which was absolutely correct, all he had to do was follow its guidance, but once when he came to the parting of the ways, one looked so much better than the other, he was sure it lead to Washington and took it without con sulting his map. As he traveled on, the road grew rougher and dimmer, until he took out his map and saw that he was on the wrong road, and had to go back and start again. The speaker said the thought came to him that when we all get off the right road to eternity, it is because we do not consult the map (Bible), which God has given to lead us there. There is though, no halting life’s journey on going back. Next came adjourment for dinner, which was served on a long table on the church lawn. The dinner was ex cellent, and needles to say all did jus tice to it. The afternoon was given over to a song service, conducted by Mr. Bruce Cameron, in which the schools all took part individually and collectively. Doubs Chapel deserves special mention for the spirit in which they took part. After the song service came four round table conferences. Miss Lucile Eifort, who is chairman of the chil dren division for this county, led the conference on cradle roll, beginners, primary and junior work. Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield, of Pinebluff, who is secre- (Continued on page 8)
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