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PILOT
NUMBER
16
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.
FRIDAY, HARCH 13,192S
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SILK GOODS FROM
NEWNILLATHENP
Pinehurst General Store Makes
a Window Display of
Handsome Fabrics
One of the finest displays of native
product in a long time in Moore
coynty is in the show windov^rs of the
Pinehurst department store at Pine
hurst. It consists of a large number
of pieces of silk goods woven at the
new mill at Hemp, which commenced
operations about two months ago.
The quality of the new material is of
high class, and the patterns are such
that they must appeal to the feminine
taste, for they are in all colors, and
woven in extremely dainty shapes and
forms.
The Pilot has already told of the
beginning of work up there at Hemp
and of the fine new mill that has been
built. But this exhibition of the pro
duct of the mill at the Pinehurst De
partment store is the first of the
goods on display in this section so far
as The Pilot is aware. The cloth as
woven is of a satiny effect, the silk
fiber showing on the surface, and the
cotton texture running the long way
of the goods, but concealed by the
cover of the silk. The effect is that
of all silk weave, and is rich and
lustrous.
These weaves in the window at
Pinehurst are priced to sell about
$1.45 a yard, comparing decidedly
favorable with silk goods from other
sections, and they are said to be
absolutely fast in color, to stand
washing, and to give solid wear. To
say that they have produced an effect
in Pinehurst is to put it mildly, for
much comment is heard over there
from people in various walks of life.
Not only have the women taken to
the new goods, but men with money
have been gathering up some stock
in the mill, believing that the Moore
county mills have hit on a line that
is certain to be popular and profit
able to the makers.
The new material is made from
cotton and silk, as has been said, the
silk being an artificial product, a
chemical fabric made from wood pulp.
It is long in fibre, which makes it
strong and durable, and it is glossy
and fine like real silk, but it is be
lieved to be a more durable material
than the natural silk. Mr. Craig, at
the store, says he is meeting with a
good sale on this new voile, and that
it is being made up into some of the
most attractive garments seen in the
Sandhills.
It is said that the demand for silk
goods has created a big demand for
the new type of silk voiles, and at the
prices the goods can be woven at
Hemp the prophets say that a new
industry has been established that will
give Moore county a big industrial
impetus.
NEW HOTEL PLANS
UNDER DISCUSSION
Following the conference last week
at Mid-Pines club Jack Boyd, Arthur
Newcomb and Edwin McKeithan
^Vednesday night gave a dinner to
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■A> UTn.i't of IN^ooT'e Oouii.'t'y'^s F^oaicl EjQruiprneri.'t
Harry Lewis, Dr. Mudgett, Leonard ■
Tufts, Judge Way, Sam Richardson,
Bob Page, Talbot Johnson, Frank
Buchan and Bion Butler at the same
place to further discuss the things
that might be done in the Sandhills.
Among other things brought up for
consideration was the heed of more
hotel facilities to accommodate more
people, as the existing hotel room is
fully taken, and the capacity of the
several towns of the neighborhood is
exhausted as usual at this time of
the year.
While everybody realizes that a
new hotel is a big task the men pres
ent realized also that with the con
ditions that exist in the Sandhills to
attract visitors the whole business of
a new hotel is simply one of the con
fidence of the resident people in their
power to awaken an interest in
sufficient capital to build it, and to
back the effort by investment of their
own money. This was discussed from
all view points, but it was believed
by all present that another big hotel
is a practical proposition and that if
the Sandhills will get up on its toes
the matter can be carried out.
While such a scheme is of course
one of discussion at the present time,
a conference was arranged with the
directors of the Knollwood corporation
to figure on a site on a tract of three
or four hundred acres across the road
from the club house, and it was also
proposed that Weymouth estate be
approached as to a location. Aa
enough Knollwood directors were
present to give the idea that Knoll
wood would consider a thing of this
kind favorably, and as Jack Boyd
intimated that Weymouth would be
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ECONOMY IN ROAD
MACHINERY WORK
Superintendent McDonald Gives
Figures to Tell What
Is Doing
THE revolutionary HISTORY
OF NORTH CAROLINA
The Alfred Moore Chapter of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution will g^ive a
medal to the student who submits the best
essay on “The Revolutionary History of
North Carolina.” The medal will be pre
sented at the Field Day Exercises held in
Carthage in April. All students of Moore
County are urged to compete for
Please send all essays «
the secretary, Mrs. J. Talbot Johnso ,
Aberdeen.
A few months ago when the road
commission discussed the purchase of
tractors and other machinery to ex
pedite road work The Pilot strongly
advocated the move. At the sugges
tion of the paper Superintendent
Charles McDonald has given some
figures showing what the tractors and
machinery are doing. He says in re
sponse to the request for information:
“In accordance with our talk some
days ago, I am sending you the
following information on the work
and the costs of the McCormick-Deer-
ing tractor belonging to the Moore
County Highway Commission.
“This tractor will have been in ser
vice on patrol No. 5 twelve months
the first of April. During that time,
we have taken care of this patrol
which consists of 43 miles of road,
in the vicinity of Southern Pines and
Pinehurst. This section has by far
the heaviest travel of any of the
roads in the County. I have found
by actual count on the Knollwood
roads that about sixty cars and trucks
travel these roads per hour, this count
being made between the hourls of
six o’clock in the morning and six
o’clock in the evening. This tractor
will carry a 4 or 6 horse drag and will
do from 25 to 30 miles per day. It
also handles a 4 horse road machine.
We have a trailer on which we carry
yards to 2 yards of gravel or
sand clay.
“During the past year the expense
has been as follows:
4 Spark plugs $2.00, 1 fan belt
$1.00.
The cost of operation is as follows:
Operator, per day $3.50
Helper, per day 2.50
Gasoline, average per day,
wholesale price 1.76
Oil-grease, average per day,
wholesale price *50
AMBULANCE FOR
McConnell hospital
A movement to secure an ambu
lance for the McConnell hospital at
Eureka had its inception last week at
Pinehurst when the Solov-Hinds
company put on a fashion show at
the Carolina. A silver collection was
taken up at the close of the show,
amounting to about $300, and the
sum was set aside for the ambulance.
It is the intention to try to gather
a further fund from the other towns
of the county, and provide this much
needed vehicle, as at the present time
the only means of moving a sick
person is the ordinary automobile,
which is not always a comfortable
vehicle.
CLEAN-UP DAY
Tuesday, March 17, 1925 is here-
w‘th named as Clean-Up Day for the
Town of Vass. I urge all citizens
to cooperate with the Woman’s Clrb
is this worthy undeHaking.
Signed,
W. D. MATTHEWS, Mayor.
MEETING OF HEALTH AND
WELFARE ASSOOCIATION
Total per day $8.26
“I feel sure that with proper care,
we have at least two more years ser
vice in this tractor and then some
second hand value. I also feel sure
that for the same expenditure we
cannot get anything that will do the
same work in this particular section."
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The regular monthly meeting of the
Health and Welfare Association was
held at Mrs. Muse’s home in Cameron
on Wednesday, March 4th, at 2:30
P. M., Mrs. Charles R. Whittaker in
the chair. The regular business being
finished, an informal discussion was
held as to ways and means of best
helping the work of the nurse and
welfare worker in the county. It was
the sentiment of those present that
Miss McQueen and Miss Eifort are
doing good work, work most necessary
to the well-being of those of us who
live here, and that, in order to make
that work as near 100 percent efficient
as is humanly possible, it is necessary
to have the backing for it, not only
of a good strong association but of
every man and woman in the county.
Part of that support, necessarily, must
be financial, but an even more im
portant part is moral. To have the
sympathy and interest of every citi
zen of Moore, would be ideal. This is
a condition which does not exist at
present, but one which can be striven
for.
The next meeting of the Health and
Welfare Association will be held at
Pinehurst, April 8th at 2:30 P. M.
in Mrs. Leonard Tufts* home. All are
cordially 4l?Lyited to be present.
BAMBADGH SAYS
WEAREWASTEFUL
Former Governor of Pennsyl
vania Talks to the
Kiwanis Club
At the Kiwanis dinner at the
Southern Pines Country Club Wednes
day the speaker was Martin Brum
baugh, former governor of Pennsyl
vania, who says that while he is
merely a school master he has helped
to make some smart men and women.
But he does not like the manner in
which as a people we have departed
from sound lines since the war. Wars
leave big problems and peace is one
of them, but he thinks we are not
facing our peace problems as the
boys faced the war problems in their
-Jays of service. We should work and
earn more money and pay off the
^ebts made by the war, and we should
be more industrious and frugal. We
have done neither, and we are not
eriously back to work. Since the
’var only about- 67 per cent of the
efficiency is shown that we had be
fore the war. We are loafing the
governor says, for it takes three men
to do now what two did before 1914,
and they are paid for doing that work
much higher wages than in the days
gone and we wonder why things are
so high. We make far too little
effort to save money, but we live in
extravagance, and let state, com
munity and national debt run along
and pile I’p. We should be paying
our debts instead of making new ones
and neglecting the old ones. He
thinks we should be in the league of
nations where we could have a voice
in the affairs of the world. We went
into the war without any desire for
conquest, and asking nothing and that
is what we got, except for the island
of Yap, and island no one knows any
thing about or cares anything about.
We got Yap, and that is about all,
and because no one else wanted it or
woud have it.
Wastefulness and extravagance lead
to decay, and unless we have more
regard for law and morals we are
firoing wrong. The man who is not
amenable to law is nof a good citizen. '
Peo’^le who are violating the law,
should shut up about our conditions^;
and change their tactics and help taj
sret back on the old lines of before^
the war. -j
The Pennsylvanian said he was not^^
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