TheSou^ern BerksHire Congress, Show and Sale and tHe Sandhill F'air—October 28 to 31
VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
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.
iuGARA FOLKS SEE
aldnindn works
Beautiful Scenery on Way to
Badin; Big Dam is Point
of Interest
(MAUDE STEWART)
Last Sunday C. W. Marston, W. R.
Wilson and Misses Warren and Stew
art motored to Badin, N. C. An ideal
day, ^ood roads and interesting sights
made the trip a pleasant and instruc
tive one. A part of the way one
found a winding, wooded road which
added much to the beauty of the land
scape and made one think of the Mo
hawk trail in Massachusetts. Owing
to these many curves and carelessness
on part of drivers, accidents are a
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WAR VETERANS
ACT TO BE VOTED ON
Will Be Great Aid to Ex-Service
Men in Building
Homes
(SHIELDS . CAMERON)
The 1923 Session of the North Car
olina General Assembly by passing
the World War Veterans Loan Act
made the first step of North Carolina
Legislators in the direction of state
aid to veterans of the World War.
Other States have made adjusted
compensation to their returned soldi
ers, many have given over public
lands to the men who served in order
that they might be in some measure
rewarded for the sacrifices they had
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1924
NEW CANTATA FOR
SANDILLS FAIR
Big Chorus Working on Selec
tions From Gaul’s “Holy
City”
The most remarkable musical event
Moore county has ever known was the
singing by a big chorus from South
ern Pines, Aberdeen, Carthage and
elsewhere last fall of selections from
the oratorios of Mozart, Handel and
Haydn in the theatre at Pinehurst
during the fair. This fall some of
these choruses will be repeated, and
along with them Mr. Picquet has had
the big group working on Alfred R.
Gaurs “Holy City,” one of the most
popular of the modern cantatas. While
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A MONDAY RAMBLE
IN MOORE COUNTY
Roads, Taxes, Welfare,
Court House and the
Fair
the
(BION H. BUTLER)
When Brewer and I set out together
for an adventure in the gas buggy we
do not have to ramble far before we
begin to encounter all the romantic
adventure that mankind needs for the
fujlest diversification and entertain
ment. We concluded to go from Vass
up by the highway toward Cameron
and then cut across above Cranes
Creek and hit the Carthage road at
the McPherson farm. We deliberated
a bit at the cut off as to whether it
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SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
GEN. GLENN TALKS
ABOUT PORT BILL
Thinks it Will Reduce Freight
Rates by Increasing
Competition
At the Kiwanis dinner Wednesday,
General Glenn spoke to the club on
the proposed port bill that is before
the people for a vote at the coming
election. He started out by showing
that the railroads are not keeping up
with the demand for facilities to move
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Maetin 51.
McBeynolds 5t
Court Hou^e
Dowd 5t
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Plan of Courthouse Square
Ca.j?thage. NC.
Monroe 5t
One of the most interesting things the present card of -
missioners has done is award to J. W. Stroud & Oo., of San o , '
tract to pave and curb the court house square at Carthage,
has prepared for this work a detailed drawing, wi^h a design that in
cludes the court house and the vacant ground on all sides as well as the
street on the entire distance around the building. This design has been
carefully worked out, and is one of Deaton’s best contributions to Moore
county improvement. Walks, driveways, and spaces for planting, are laid
down with careful mathematical precision, and the entire square, with
the court house and the adjoining property treated as a single unit.
When work is completed Moore county will have one of the most attrac
tive court house locations to be found in the entire South. The cut tells
the story better than any description can.