VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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the pilot printing company. VASS. N. C.
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1928
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COLLEGE EDITORS
TO ARRIVE FRIDAY
Delegates From Everywhere
Will Visit Southern
Pines
Thirty farm press agents from
twenty States g*athered at the State
College at West Raleigh Tuesday for
a conference that will run through
Friday. Their business is selling
ideas on improved farming to Ameri
can farmers.
The occasion is the 13th annual
conference of the American associa
tion of agricultural college educa
tors which has become an institution
in educational annals. The visitors
were welcomed to the college by
President E. C. Brooks, who told
them that they are the hope of
agricultural education for adult far
mers.
On Friday the visitors will drive to
Southern Pines where they will be the
guests of the Kiwanis club there at
a dinner at the Southern Pines country
club and after dinner they will be
taken around the neighborhood and
shown the peach orchards, and other
farm development in the Sandhills.
Those expected are: Reuben Brigham,
L. A. Schlup and N. A. Crawford,
United States Department of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C.; M. D.
Bowers, University of Maryland,
College Park, Md.; M. Glenn Kirk
patrick, The Farm Journal, Phila
delphia, Penn.; Prof. C. E. Rogers,
Kansas State Agricultural College,
Manhattan, Kan.; J. Francis Cooper,
University of Florida, Gainesville,
Fla.; J. E. McClintock, Ohio State
University, Columbus Ohio; Bristow
Adams, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York; Lewis Merritt, Clemson
College, Clemson College, S. C.; H.
B. Stevens, University of New Hamp
shire, Durham, N. H.; G. W. Sum-
merour. University of Georgia, Ath
ens, Ga.; Gust M. Oehm, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.; A. J.
Sims, University of Tennessee, Knox
ville, Tenn.; Russell Lord, Farm and
Fireside, New York; J. R. Fleming,
Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio; P. 0. Davis, Alabama Polytech
nic Institute, Auburn, Ala; Miss Alice
McFeely, University of Minnesota,
St. Paul, Minn.; Roger W. DeBaun,
Miss Broedel and Mr. Woodward,
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.
J.; C. A. Cobb, Southern Ruralist,
Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Marjorie B. Ar
bour, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, La.; J. B. Hasselman,
Michigan Agricultural College, Lan
sing, Mich.; E. R. Price, Virginian
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg,
Va.; Dr. C. V. Smith, United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.; W. G. Yeager, county
agent, Rowan, county, Salisbury, N.
C.; Frank H. Jeter, North Carolina
State College, Raleigh, N. C.; A. B.
Bryan, South Carolina.
DAN McKEITHEN TO
WED GIRL IN YORK
Moore county’s prominent young
bachelors are encountering an epide
mic of matrimony. Following the an
nouncement of the coming mamage
of Richard Tufts, of Pinehurst, comes
the following bit of News from York,
S. C.
Of interest to friends and acquain
tances in the Carolinas is the an
nouncement of the engagement of
Miss Eleanor Herndon, daughter of
Mrs. W. H. Herndon of York, S. C., to
Dan Ingram McKeithen of Aberdeen,
N. C., the wedding to take place in
the late fall. The announcement was
made Thursday evening at the recep
tion given by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mac-
Korell at their home “The Equarium”
following the wedding of their daugh
ter Miss Janet MacKorell to Rev. P.
W. Wilson of Due West, S. C.
Dan McKeithen is cashier of the
Page Trust Company at Aberdeen,
and one of the young fellows of the
county who are coming to the front
at a substantial gait.
TO THE PEOPLE OF
THE SANDHILLS
GILLIAM-McCASKILL
The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Gilliam, of Sanford, was the scene
of a quiet and beautiful wedding when
their daughter. Miss May James
Gilliam, because the bride of Walter
J. McCaskill, of Vass. The home was
effectively decorated with fern and
Queen Anne’s lace and myrick of
white tapers. Proceeding the cere
mony a beautiful musical program
was rendered by Miss Julia Gilliam,
sister of the bride. The bride was
lovely in her wedding gown. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. I.
H. Williamson, former pastor of the
bride. The bridegroom is a success
ful farmer of Vass, route 1, and is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Mc
Caskill.
It is a pleasure for me to call at
tention to the work of the Woman’s
Foundation for Health, Incorporated.
For the month of July, beginning
Friday, July 10, at 11:30 a. m., and
continuing at the same hour each
Friday in July, Station WEAF will
broadcast a series of fifteen-minute
talks by the Women’s Foundation for
Health. The topic for July 10 will be
“Can Women Do Team Work?”
Women’s interests in general will
be touched upon in each talk, but the
particular responsibility of the indi
vidual woman to develop her full
physical and mental power will occu-
uy the greater part of the fifteen
minutes.
It will be worth your while to listen
in.
Hattie A. Whitaker, President.
Moore County Health and Welfare
Ass’n, Southern Pines, N. C.
REPUBUCANS TO
APPEAL TO CAL
Feel Keenly About Investigation
Of Unfair Practices of
Imperial
Scientists report that fleas can go
without food for two weeks. But
they won’t.—Tampa Times.
Women leam to swim sooner than
men because the men have to teach
themselves.—New York American.
Our grandchildren may accept the
monkey theory on the record of state
legislatures.—Wall Stret Journal.
(By R. E. Powell)
Capers the Republican majority on
the Federal Trade Commission seems
to be cutting in handling the investi
gation into alleged unfair trade
practices of the Imperial Tobacco
company are fretting good Republi
cans in the rural sections of North
Carolina and the gossip is that the
G. 0. P. in this part of the South
is mobilizing to send Mr. Coolidge a
vigorous message about it.
So far, the Republican majority on
the commission hasn’t done anything
with the investigation it was ordered
to make upon complaint of the co
operative growers. But it has pro
ceeded painfully slow with the in
quiry into the boycott which the co
ops allege the Imperial has estab
lished and apparently, has gone far
afield by probing the internal affairs
of the cooperatives.
The coops have been through a
searching investigation conducted by
nine officials of Virginia, North Caro
lina and South Carolina and the edi
tors of farm papers in these three
states. The nine members all held
responsible and leading positions in
the agricultural world. It was in no
sense a picked committee. 'It did
not whitewash the association but
recommended in the main that it
give its members a little more infor
mation about the business. That’s all
the fault the nine men found .
Jealous of Record
The grumbling of the North Caro
lina Republicans because of the delay
and dilly-dallying on the part of the
Trade Commission is easy enough to
follow when it is understood that
(Continued on i>age 8)
THE TOWN OF VASS
AND rrSJONNUNmf
A Story of Its Early Life and
Development — Yesterday
and Today
(Bessie Smith)
Part V.
For years A. Cameron operated a
planing mill here that gave employ
ment to a number of men, white and
colored. Lumber was hauled in on
wagons from saw mills all around,
and over a tram road that extended
from the plant here several miles out
the Lobelia way. The manufacture
of brick was also an important in
dustry at one time.
As the lumber supply diminished,
the people turned to farming on a
larger scale, and today, that is by
far their most important occupation.
The soil and climate are wonderfully
well adapted to the culture of almost
every crop that is grown in the
Temperate Belt. The principal money
crops cultivated are tobacco, cotton
and dewberries.
The community’ is very fortunate
in that its population in most part is
made up of people who own their own
homes and farms and are permanent
residents, and therefore more inter
ested in the welfare and progress of
the community than they would be
otherwise.
The growth of the school has been
most marked. From the little Winder
school building of which we have told,
the school moved to a newly erected
building a short distance west of the
village, the one now used by the
colored people. This, also, was a one-
room house, but it could boast of fair
ly good blackboard space and a stage
in one end of the building. We like
to think back over the days spent at
this little school, and of the wonder
ful “commencements” or “corcerts,”
as we called them then. Perhaps the
most thrilling moment of it all was
when the room was packed with
parents and friends who had come to
see their young hopefuls perform and
we were on the stage with the cur
tains drawn. There the audience
waited anxiously for the curtains to
open, even as we wait today, and
imagine how dumbfounded they were
when the youngsters who were sup
posed to be on the stage came
marching in at the front door (which
was to the rear of the audience)
singing lustily, or keeping step to
the strains of “Oscar Wilde” played
on the organ that had been bought
by the efforts of the children with
their faithful teacher to lead them.
The secret was that we had been
spirited out the back window, and had
crept noiselessly around to the front.
We like, too, to think of the teachers
who labored so faithfully trying to
make real men and women of charac
ter of the boys and girls whom they
taught, giving their time and best
efforts in exchange for a mere pit
tance and for the satisfaction of
knowing that they were doing some
thing worthwhile. Among these teach
ers to whom we would publicy express
appreciation, in behalf of the boys
and ' girls of that day, are Miss
Florence Leslie, Miss Annie McNeill,
now Mrs. J. R. McQueen, Mrs. Mary
McNeill Stuart, Miss Annie Clegg
and Miss Laura Huff ,all well known
throughout this section.
“Sheep Spring School,” as this
school was called by the children, was
replaced about 1910 by a two story
building here in town. Prof. W. D.
Matthews has been the principal of
the school every year except one since
1911, and has taken great interest in
it. During this time he has seen it
outgrow the town building, then out
grow it after it had been enlarged
to more than twice its original size.
The faculty has been increased from
two in 1911 to eleven in 1924. School
trucks bring the children in from the
outlying districts, and this fall, these
children will enjoy advantages equal
to those of the city child when they
enter the new fifty thousand dollar
school that will be ready for the fall
(Continued on page 8)
MR. AND MRS. W. C. BYRD
OF AYDEN HONORED
Mrs. W. C. Byrd, who before her
marriage a few weeks ago was Miss
Margaret Keith, of this place, and
Mr. Byrd were honor guests at a love
ly shower and bridge party given by
friends in Ay den on Wednesday even
ing of last week. About forty guests
were present. The following account
of the affair appeared in the News
and Observer, and will be of interest
to the friends of the young couple in
their home community:
“Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Byrd, a recent
bride and groom, were the honor
guests at a shower and bridge party
given by Mesdames Z. G. Lyon, W. C.
Cannon and Miss Lalla Rook Boyd and
Mr. H. S. Gurganus at the home of
Mrs. W. C. Cannon last Wednesday
evening.
As the guests arrived they were
served punch by Mrs. A. R. Cannon,
Miss Boyd and Mrs. Jack Quinerly
greeted the guests at the cloak room.
The attractive place cards seated the
couples for bridge. After all the
guests had assembled an hour of
bridge was enjoyed. The first ladies
prize was won by Miss Beulah Bar-
wick, and second by Mrs. G. H. Sum-
rell. The gentlemen’s prize was won
by W. O. Edwards and W. H. Howell.
The bride and groom were then re
quested to follow the white ribbon
path once again and after traveling
a short distance found themselves in
the gift room where many handsome
pieces of fiat silver and cut glass were
on display. The happy couple ex
pressed their appreciation very gra
ciously.
At a late hour cream in the shape of
roses on pedal of green and individual
cakes with hand painted decorations
were served by the host and hostesses.
pnaRsr SELLS
PREFERRED STOCK
Will Put a Limited Amount
in Hiands of
Employes
FREE TYPHOID VACCINATION
Dr. R. G. Rosser will be in his office
from four to five o’clock Saturday
afternoon, July 11th, to give the ty
phoid vaccination to all who care to
take it. There will be no charge.
After all, there is much to be thank
ful for. Nobody has yet complied an
anthology of senate poetry.—Water-
bury Republican.
The employes of Pinehurst received
an important announcement last wi;«k,
which marks a new policy on the
part of the big concern. A letter to
each individual on the payroll in
formed him that if he desired to hold
some preferred stock in the corpor
ation it would be at his disposal.
This step has been taken for several
reasons. It grew out of the custom
on the part of Pinehurst of acting in
the early days as the custodian of
savings for many of the employes
when banks were not so numerous as
now. When the Bank of Pinehurst
was established the savings accounts
were encouraged to go to the banks,
but employes continued to want to
place money in the hands of their
employer, and that has kept up to
some extent to the present.
Seeing the continued desire on the
part of the employes to have the cor
poration act as the custodian of funds
it was determined to offer a series of
preferred stock, with seven per cent
dividends at reg^ular periods, and thus
save a lot of work in accounting and
additions to deposits, etc. Already
several of the employes have been
arranging to take stock, and it is
thought that a considerable amount
will be taken.
The preferred stock is being
offered, beginning with July 1st. This
stock is preferred both as to assets
and to dividends, which means that
Pinehurst Incorporated guarantees
the dividend, which is 7 per cent an
nually, paid in semi-annual install
ments on the first day of January and
July each year. Not only does Pine
hurst Incorporated have to pay this
dividend before they pay the common
stock dividend but if the property does
not earn enough to pay this 7 per
cent dividend then the property itself
would be held liable for it. The stock
is non-taxable (except for income
taxes) as the county and state taxes
are paid by the corporation.
(Continued on page 8)
TO THE MEMBERS OF
THE CHORUS OF 1924
It will soon be time to begin rehearsals for the big
musical event of the year, the Annual Harvest Musical
Festival.
Of course this one must be “bigger, better and more
interesting’’ than the last one.
We have selected that wonderful secular oratorio,
“The Rose Maiden” by Frederic Owen as our vehicle this
year and you are going to agree with us that it is the
most beautiful choral work that has ever been published.
If my memory serves me correctly we had about
eighty last year and I have set out to get one hundred this
year. We must grow!
Because “The Rose Maiden” is not a sacred cantata
and because the music will be more appealing, I believe
we can interest many more of the younger singers this
year.
On June 29th., I was Judge at the Annual Tri-County
singing contest held at Benson.
There were twelve choirs in this contest and the
choruses were made up of folks from the ages of fourteen
up to sixty.
It was estimated that six thousand people attended
that annual affair, and those folks sang almost con
tinually from 9:30 A. M. to 5:00 P. M.
While they did not sing the class of music we do, and
the talent was far below ours, it was an inspiration to
see the interest taken in the event by both participants
and audience. ' f'
Before we call our first rehearsal I am going to ask
you to try to bring at least one new member with you.
Let’s get hold of more of the young people. Someone
must take our place when we get too old and now is the
time to fill up the ranks.
Interest in music is being revived in the State as evi
denced by the State-wide contest which was held in
Raleigh last winter.
Let’s put on a Festival this year that will make the
whole State sit up and take notice.
We can do it.
Very truly yours,
C. W. PICQUET.