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VOLUnE
NUMBER
27
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all o^iiM^ntkms to
the pilot PRINTOW X)IIPANV. VASS, N. C.
FRIDAY. HAY 29. 192S
SUBSqtffTION $2.00
SAN SPITTING
MCE AGAIN
This Time He Hits ’Em Harder
Than Ever-^12,S00.00
Blow
(S. B. Richardson)
Yes, it is a fact that the Mayor and
Board of Commissioners of Southern
Pines have gone wild again. This
time their extravagance has taken on
the form of an American LaFrance
fire engine at a cost of $12,500.00. I
must confess that such a rumor picked
up on the street without being ana
lyzed would naturally shock the eonfi-
dance of the most ardent admirer of
the present administration, dampen
the arder of the most progresive
citizen and provoke just criticism from
the majority of the taxpayers; there
fore, I feel it my duty to offer the
following explanation not only to
justify our action, but that those of
you who pay the bills may be in pos
session of the details the entire
tansaction.
For two years your Board of Com
missioners and myself have been
striving in all our public improve
ments to conform to the requirements
of the Southeastern Underwriters
Association in an effort to reduce the
insurance rates in Southern Pines. At
first there seemed to be insurmount
able obstacles in our path and the
prospects of our being able to meejt
the conditions necessary to advance
from a third class town to second clase
seemed very remote. Our greatest
obstacle was removed when the rapid
growth of our City forced us to
abandon the old water phmt and re
place it with what the State Inspector
has pronounced **the most modem and
best equipped plant in the State.”
This plant provides an abundant sup
ply of water, adequate equipment for
pumping and water mains suificicnUy
large to deliver water to any hydn^
in town in such quantity as is required
by the Underwriters^
Having finally accomplished this
major project, there still remained .one
barrier between lower insurance rates
and the Underwriters which was an
approved type of fire engine that
would deliver 750 gallons per .minute
from three lines of hose eonnect«d to
one hydrant for five consecutive hours
and one full time paid fireman to
operate it.
At a recent meeting the Com
missioners appointed a committee,
consisting of Mr. Mase and mysetf,
to go to Atlanta and get a definite
proposition from the Southeastern
Underwriters Association; this com
mittee was also clothed with authority
to purchase an American LaFrance
fire engine, provided such action would
bring about a re-rating and place our
city in second class. This duty has
been performed, the fire engine will
be delivered September 1 and the in
surance rates will be ‘reduQeii. Now
the question is how are we going to
pay this $12,500.00. Had it not been
(Continued on page 8)
MGEBUUDDIGNEW
ABERD^ GARAGE
Pine Structure Hundred Pett
Square-^y
Embury
H. A. Page, Jr., is at work on a big
new garage building at .-^ierdeen,
which will be one of the most iCjpn-.
venient and striking things-of its kind
in the South. 13ie location ji»t west
of the Peach Growers* building, fronts
on the highway, and allows a ‘base-
*nent that will a little lower than
the road, with a one-story structure
above the highway level, and with ap
proaches to both floors from the high
way.
Aymar Embury is architect for the
new building, and.he is providiag for-
a structure as interesting in its
character as all the other new wo«k
6 has done in the vicinity. *It will be
^ fitting companion for the peach
wilding, and an interesting addition
to that section of* Aberdeen.
The lower floor will have storage,
repair shop and various uses, while
the sales room, stock room and offices
will be on the main floor. The size of
the building, 107 feet on the square,
will give ample room for the Ford
business that Mr. Page carries on. But
the chief interest that will attach io
the new structure will come from its
design. The istre^ front will be typi
cal of Embury’s ardiitecture, whieh
means that it will be picturesque as
a building, and that it wiil display the
contents of the l^ilding in the most
interesting and attractive form. A
frontage of 107 feet will give ample
room to .show the Fords, Lincolns and
the tractors, an4 ^11 the appliances
that pertain to ^ business. Mice
and operating rooms will be in the
rear of the big show room, and the
whole arrangement of the building
from top to bottom will be on the plan
of Ford efficiency and Embury’s ar
tistic effect. It is not often that two
influences like Henry Ford and Aymar
Embury tie in together, but that is
what is starting off there at the Page
BuUding at Aberd^n. The building
will be ready for use by^^. end of
the summer. '
A calf furnished funds for water
to be put in the kitchen, scrap cotton
gave the floor covering, an old bannis
ter held up ^e sink |ind a discarded
incubator was made into a tea wagon
when one woman wanted to enter the
kitchen improvement contest in Samp
son County.
DEAIHOFHR.
JAHESGIEEN
Was Natiye of Yemoiijt—iMYea
Wife -and Four
SoM
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On Suiidf^'^!ii6mng at o’clock.
May 24, the soul of one of our long
known citizens, Mr. James Green,
passed from this world to the great
beyond. He'has suffefed with heart
trouble since February and gradually
grew weaker as the winter changed
into spring and the spring into sum
mer. All that could be done ,hy
physicians, riiirsed, friends and rela
tives was done^but God Imw best and
so our town was" saddened as His will
was done. *^Let not your hearts be
troubled, for 1 am with you, even unto
death.’’
Mr. Green was a native of Vermont
from ;:^ere ,;he mpved to the ^outh
several years- ago. Here he was
married to Miss Burgess of Lilling-
ton, who has been to him a loving and
faithful wife, all thro’ life and unto
death. They with their two' small
sons have lived in Niagara for several
years, where thc^ have a host of
friends to mourn ihe loss of the dead
and have heart felt sympathy for •his*'
survivors. , ^
Interment was made at Southern
Pines Hiursday. Mr. Green is sur
vived by a wife and two eons, Alton
and Charles of this place. Two sons
Bert i^nd. James of Vermont, a brother,
Mr. Pete Green of Souths Pines, and
a sister, Mrs. I. F. .Chandler also of
Southern Pines.
The entire family has otir deepest
sympathy. i
i* Jesus,Qh.how, sw^t,-
Prom which one never waits to weep.
Securely shall my ashes lie, ^
Waiting the_summons from on high”
MEM0BlAI.%SJ)EyjCE8
The ^huidhiU PoBt of The
Am«r|(^n Legion will ,hold
Memorial -aervkes *t Soath-
ern Pines, Saturday morn
ing at 10:00 o’clock. Hon.
R. N. Page wUl make a talk
aifter which the citizens will
go to the different burying
phces and decorate the
^myoe of Me dead 4wMiers.
n»e Juyne agent of fiamptKMi-Cowtr
states that $11,ON90 of new money
came into the county as a result of the
recent toflot shipments of ‘ poultry. '
THEOLDS(MH
GRAVEYARD
An Historic Spot Seven Miles
West of County
Seat
Seven ijailes due west from Carthage
on a high plateau from which can be
fieen the town is situated an old ceme
tery, known as “The Old Scotch
Graveyard,” which possesses peculiar
interest.
Here, in this quiet wooded spot
where majestic oaks and graceful
pines lift their heads high above the
surrounding forest standing mighty
sentinels to guard the silent forms
beneath their branches, rest and moul
der the mortal remains of many of
the early settlers ot this and the sur
rounding section of country.
Here and there the tombs lie, some
marked with rude stones but many
unmarked and forgotten, of our fore-
fa^ers and ancestors, some of whom
have slept there, perhaps for an
hundred and. fifty years and possibly
longer, for before Moore county was
cut off from Cumberland, in 1784,
this had been the burial ground of the
country for miles and miles around.
We find here the following (verbatim
et literatim) inscriptions, chiseled in
rude form, a few on marble, man on
native brownstone and a few*on rocks
in their native shapes while one was
chisled upon a slab of heart pine,
which retains the lettering in a far
more legible state than many of ^e
stones of later date:
Neill McLeod di’d Aug. 25, 1845;
agied 85 years.
Sacred memorial of Allan McLean
was bom Sept. 25, 1776; died the 2d
of May, 1889.
Christian McLean bom Jan. 1,1780;
died Jaly 3, 1851.
Saeied to the memory of Mai^ret
McXioan vm Wm Ang. t, 1802; died
Fetoy. 19, 1848.
The sacred memory of Norman Mc
Leod and died July the 8, A. D. 1886
ag*d 72 years.
Saored to the memory of Mary Mc
Leod died Oct. 27th 1859 aged 85
years.
Ann McLeod died March 26, 1842.
E. McLeod.
M. T. Mol^d.
R. M. McLeod.
D. McLeod.
Mrs. Jannette McDonald and died 24
Sept. 1834.
Kenneth Murchison born Oct. 10, A.
D. 174^, jlied April 12th 1817 in the
72nd year of his age.
Ann McMillan died 1^ March' 1810.
Neill^atheson died 10th Feby 4.8J.1.
Sacred to memry of Norman Malhe-
son who died August 18, 1846 in the
78 year of his age.
Here lies Nancy McC&skill de’c
Feby 29th, 1825 ag ftbout 0^.
Sacred to the memry of Angus Mc-
C^dll who died June the id, 1853 age
47 years 6 mos & 27 days.
In memry of Elizabeth relict of An
gus McCasHill-born Apl 23. 1813 died
(Continued on page 8)
goes on beneath the quiet earth be
neath their feet. ^
Six of the men are known to be dead
and their bodies were%rought out a^
8 o’clock last night. Superintendent
Howard Butler who rushed into t^
THE VffiMS
OFfOT LHPR
Howard Butler who rushed into tl^ef^ 'W . ■""
shaft immediately lifter the first ei-
jfloiry WaHerpm Said That It
plosion saw them caught there te- Was Foun^ittion CoO*
ip
neath the tangled mass of slate add
timber. A second explosion shook the
mine and the young superintendent
was scarcely able to fight his way back
before a third and final detonation
closed the throat of the shaft and hid
the men from his sight.
Forty-four men, six of whose bodies
have been recovwed, have been defi
nitely aecomited for as having been
in the mine at the time of the ex
plosion. The number may run beyond
this even as high as seventy-one. No
accurate check is now possible. Ac
cording to the distribution of lamps,
there were seventy-one men entombed.
According to the payroll check there
were forty-four. The fact that some
miners report when they come off
duty instead of when they gelt''on,
leads officials to believe that the
larger number may be more nearly
accurate.
Dead and Entom^d
The six men whose Ij^ies were
brought to the surface tonight and
sent to a Sanford undertaldng estabr
lishment were:
White, A. L. Holland, W. E. 3yerly,
Hollis Richardson and Zeff Rim^.
Colored, Will Ir^ and Jim
Williams.
(Continued ga page five)
CAROUNA SBOW°
JOOSEREm
Sp^ial Attraction to pe Pre-
smiei this Friday i^d
Saturday'
HJNE EXPLOSION
ATCOALGim
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JoMn i^. lauhseiier of Vass One
of the Men Entombi^—
Many Others
‘ Sanford, May 28.—Two score or
possibly three score or more men were
trapped e^ht hundred -feet under
ground in t^ Carolina Goal Mine lune
miles from here yeaterdiby when three
successive e^^ilp^ions pf gas pecked
^le shaft, bibcking all escape and n(me
among the mdnii^ experts who are,di
recting the rescue work holdy out the
faintest hope that any of them will be*
removed alive.
Twelve hundred feet from the mouth
of the slanting shaft into the mine
ja handful of relief men work feverish
ly with a mountain of crambled slate
and timber* Beyond the wall of
debris a fire rages, and the thousands'
who wait silently about the mouth of
the shaft can ^ly wonder-wfeat else
The Caic^in^; Theatres will re^>pen
for the special attraction “Are Pirentsl
People?” adapted from the Saturday\
Evening P^ Story' by Alice Duer
Miller and featuring Betty Bronson,'
(of Peter Pan fame) Adolphe Menjou,'
Florence Vidor and Larwttdnce Gray.
This is the first piftfe^^^ directed by
Malcolm St. Claire, w1io’'‘‘'ife5ade “Thfe’
Lighthouse By The Sea” and sevei^'*
of Buster Keaton’s Comedies.
Betty Bronson, who skj^ocketed to
fame in the title role of Barrie’s im
mortal classic, “Peter Pan;” play^ the
role of the Daughter^ while Adolphe
Menjou, the cleverest actor' on the
screen' today, is the Father and
Florence Vidor, who has no superior
as a'leadi^'^jla.dyris the Mother.
“Are Parents People?” has to do
with the trials of a young girl, whose
parents are suffering from a. case of
incompatibility. They are constantly
quarrelling about trifles and finally,
s^pjirate. How Betty finally brin^
about a reconciliation hy giving them
a “mutual -worry”—making them .be
lieve that she is infatuated with a
long haired movie “shiek”—puts this
picture a hop, skjp and,a jump ah^ad‘
of anything of its }cind. , .
'It is a clever story l^t containsr
^ough k^hs to raise ypur spirits tpt
the highest >pit^* has pathos^
«np«^h ^ ,mate ypur he^ throb, and
romance .enough to ,^11 you with the
joy of li^ng. -r ,
m WUX DI6S
AT SOUTHERN PINES
Mr.'WM Allan died at his home in’
Southern Pines, Monday moming.
aftiar ^ illness covering three or fouri
years. ’ .
Bfr. ^len, or-“Bili' as ^ was inti
mately known, was a general favorite
in the town with young people and-
people of all ages. He came to South
ern Pines in its early days and lived
with his motfier Mrs. Bartron, who*
owned and operated Tara Nook, a
popular boarding house, whose partcms
came y^r after year.
Mr. Allen leaves a sister, Mrs. King, |4M»hood.
also of Southern Pines.
The funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon and interment
took place in Mount Hope cemetc^. '
federate Srfdier
.rfi "j* '*
“Leam to Wvf your liquor,” advises
Philander D. Boston, writing in the
Washington 'Mslt. He hastens to ex
plain that 'il^^ mUy be done without
violation the 'Volstead Law, for
he refer^Htd “pot liquor,” or water in
which v^%etables have been boiled—
once a^ staple of Southern food, but
now,'^ lie charges, too often poured
downsink. Col. Henry Watterson,
he tells us, claimed that “pot liquor**
made the Confederate soldier the best
individual fighter and the finest type
of hardy manhood the world has ever
seen. He insisted that, without “pot
l^uor,” tile Southern Confedera^jy
would have fallen within six months,
instead of holding out against over
whelming odds for four long yeairs.
Mr. Poston continues:
“ Tot liquor’is just plain vogetabje
essence, or the,:water. in which vegeta
bles are boiled, which nearly everyo^
pours down the sink. It’s that st\urdy
stuff, dear to the haaft and sj^omach
of the real negro thi^t twer ^f
strength and endura^i^ who wins o^
admiration when we w^teh the play '^
his brawn and bone m rhe happy
ecution of his hard physical
‘Pot liquor’ is quite foi»]gn to the
frail and educated 'colored ^ntlems^^,*
but just mention it to a real stur^,
downright i^egro, and watc^ him smile.
“Evolutif^ works from tlw ^rroi^d
upwai^ 13^ eai^ is compo^ pf
certain minerals, , as ircm, li^,
soda, ph^phorous^ iodin, et^.
same minerals are found 'in '^aw^tqr;
in the vegetable and aninu^l kingdoms,
^d in phjsniical man. Kafcin,,
r^ponding to eternal cosacue
cansfis the vegetsUes to eat, digoity
assimilate and deposit in the cells pf
the^plant these minerals from, the SfOil.
After being so treated, they are ’^-
•vanced to > the next higher plane oi ^ij^e
—vegeteble kingdom, -Now they
refined and made ready fox anot^
upward move and similar process jn
the animal and human body. .
“Vegetation receives from still
other source another power—trem^-
dous in its strength and eternal in ^
vitality. That power is splar en^gy.
It comes to the earth in the form 4>f
sun-rays, and vegetation, e^o^sed to
the~e constant rays, absorbs th^ vi^al
power and locks it up tight in i^e
vegetable cells along with the
als from the earth. There, in t% le|if,
which ^is thf? cheimcal ^abpratp^y of
|lhe plant. In the p0d, in the fnixt, ,^d
in the grain, are blended and bpi^d
together the Almighty powers of ^sjp
and of earth.
“But,^ right here, pian st^pis m ^d
spoils it ajl. IJe destroys or thrf^^
away practically all .value in the vege
tables he cooks and eats. In ^e
long boiling, the vegetable cells tin
broken open and the minerfiL wealth
(Co)atini^d on page 8)
mmimm
nSTAUfASRffi
Vass,
Union an d La^view
Hold InstaHatim '
^erviees- ''
An .impressive installation service
was' held at ^the^ Vass >Presbyteran
^huMh last Sunday' morning when
J[tev. D. McD. Monroe was instalted «s
pastor by a commwion of Fayattevflle
Presbytery compesed o^ Minlstm ^
A. McLeod, of Galatia, and Charles
Rowan, of Rowland, and Elder A. B.
Cameron, of Caiihage. A large con>
gregation; w^ present; ^Or^it was an '
occasion of more than ordinary inter
est, in that each minister taking part
was a native of this section and" had
fldany relatives or friends m the neifi^
The usual order of service was ob
served' with «Rev. BicLeod prasiding.
Special music was beautifully rendar-
(Continued on imge 8)