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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUNBER
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.
COUNTY TO HAVE
A TAX COLLECTOR
T D. McLean Appointed by
Board of Com
missioners
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925
For some time the county commis
sioners have been considering the ap
pointment of a county tax collector
who should have no other work than
collecting the taxes, and that propo
sition came to a head Monday in the
appointment of J. D. McLean, of
Cameron. The reason for the appoint
ment of a collector is that it will re
duce the cost, as the county is pay
ing now around nine thousand dollars
a year for collecting the taxes, and the
commissioners decided that to place
the work in the hands of a man en
gaged for that purpose vi^ould cut the
price of collection by several thousand
dollars.
The subject has been discussed from
both view points since it was first
proposed, which has been a consider
able time, and it was finally decided
that with the big total which the
county taxes have reached in recent
years the collection could be accom
plished for less than the amount paid,
and the steps were set on foot to bring
about this reduction in cost. At a
previous meeting the board concluded
to create the office of tax collector,
but left the time of appointment and
the selection of the officer to a later
day. But not long ago the members
decided to install the new system
with the taxes of the present year,
and to have the new man appointed by
the time the new books would be
ready. So the meeting Monday was
(Continued on page 8)
HIDAL PARADE AT
TBE SANDHILL FAR
This Year Bids Fair to Far Sur
pass any Previous
Efforts
A big increase in prizes over any
previous years assures the biggest
and best parade that has ever passed
the Grandstand.
Voting contest to be held for the
most popular young lady in the Sand
hills to represent “Miss America.”
The Annual Parade at the Sandhill
Fair is an institution which has been
getting “bigger, better and more in
teresting than ever” since the first
Parade of ten years ago which tra
versed the winding roads of Pinehurst
and dispersed in front of the Country
Club where the Fair was held. Every
year has seen a steady growth both in
quantity and quality and this year
bids fair to far surpass any previous
efforts. There are two big events of
the Fair which are strictly Moore
County’s offering. One of them is the
Annual Pageant and the other is the
Annual Parade and in both events
Moore County has a wonderful oppor
tunity to show the world that it is
progressive, wide awake, up and com
ing, and in neither event can Moore
County afford to fall dovm. Because
these are strictly local events and are
absolutely along the lines of Mr.
Tufts’ ideal of what a Sandhill Fair
should be, he is offering larger prizes
each year for the one and spending
^ore money on the other. The “Pa
rade of All Nations” offers great op
portunities for beautiful floats which
well, instructive and educational,
for every nation has many things for
which they are world famous which
easy to represent vividly by means
floral floats. There are nations
enough to make a parade which would
reach from Southern Pines to Pine
hurst but a selection of even the great
Nations is sufficient to make the great
est parade that has ever graced the
Fair Grounds.
Aside from the fact that this Parade
&ives Moore County its great oppor-
^nity to advertise to the visitors that
We are a live community, the prizes
offered are bound to create keen inter
est and competition. A glance at this
(Continued on page 8)
MRS. W. H. GOLDSMITH
dies at southern pines
Mrs. W. H. Goldsmith died at her
home in Southern Pines Sunday after
being in an unconscious condition from
Thursday night, due to a stroke of
appoplexy. Mrs. Goldsmith has been
an invalid and a sufferer of heart
trouble for a number of years. The
Goldsmith family came to Southern
Pines over twenty years ago and are
numbered among the early prominent
settlers. Funeral services were held
at the home Sunday night, conducted
by Rev. Park Fisher, pastor of the
Congregational church. The inter
ment will be made in the family plot
in New Jersey among all her old
friends and relatives. Mrs. Goldsmith
is survived by her husband, and one
daughter, Ruth, and three sons,
Wallace of West Virginia, Robert, of
New York City and Harry Goldsmith
of Southern Pines.
A WELCOME TO A NATIVE
COMMUNICATION
Wake Forest, N. C.
August 19, 1925.
Pilot Printing Co.,
Vass, N. C.
Gentlemen :-
I note from the papers this morning
that a special term of court is asked
for the trial of Mr. Cole in Rocking
ham. This, under the circumstances,
may be the best course to pursue.
But the naming of a special judge to
preside shows how good, sensible men
may do a foolish thing. There is no
advantage to anybody who has a trial
in court to have Judge Shaw preside.
And, on the other hand, there is
certainly no disadvantage to anybody
when Judge Shaw is running the
Court. The asking for any special
man is not fair to the judge asked
for, not fair to the Governor. And it
may suggest to some that the court
is a sort of “Trick Horse,” whose
findings may not always be in accor
dance with the law and the evidence.
None of these things were thought of
by the men making the suggestion,
but it was evidently a mistake.
J. C. CADDELL.
MUSIC AND EXPRESSION
AT PINEHURST SCHOOLS
Miss Caryl Brigham of Brenau Col
lege will direct the Music and Ex
pression Departments of the Pinehurst
Public Schools during the term of
1925-26. Miss Brigham not only is a
graduate in both of these departments,
but she has had some very successful
experiences in teaching' both music
and expression. As she will teach
pupils in both of these, her number
of pupils in each will necessarily be
limited.
The patrons of the Pinehurst School
who wish their children to study either
Music or Expression should communi
cate at once with Miss Brigham or
with the superintendent of the Pine
hurst Schools.
SEABOARD TAKES
OFF TWO TRAINS
Withdrawal of Train No. 31 and
34 Between Wilmington and
Hamlet
The following letter was received
from John T. West, Division Passen
ger Agent, which explains changes of
schedules:
Mr. Stacy Brewer,
Care Vass Pilot,
Vass, N. C.
Dear sir:-
“I have written the Agents in my
territory, giving them the following
information:
“I want to call your special atten
tion to the withdrawal of trains 31 and
34, last train Number 34 leaving Ham
let Friday, August 28th, and the last
train Number 31, will leave Wilming
ton, Saturday, August 29th.
“With the withdrawal of these
trains, trains 41-31, 44-34 will be oper
ated through between Raleigh and
Charlotte. This manner of operating
(Continued on page eight)
On Sunday, at the Vass Presby
terian church a home-coming son. Dr.
D. N. McLauchlin will conduct ser
vices. He is at present pastor of the
second Presbyterian church in Nor
folk, Virginia, and he has made him
self a place in the world.
Dr. McLauchlin, well known to all
but the younger residents of the town
ship, was raised down the Lobelia
road on the McLauchlin farm, where
his kinsfolks are among the oldest of
the settlers of this neighborhood. His
inclination led him to the ministry,
and his ability soon called him to a
wider field than existed in his home
vicinity, and today he is one of the
strong forces in the Presbyterian
church in the neighbor state of Vir
ginia, and the big city of Norfolk. He
has been in the community two or
three weeks on his annual vacation,
and will soon return to Virginia.
PETE PENDER TELLS
OF TRIP ABROAD
Says France Thrives Because
People are In
dustrious
At the Kiwanis club dinner Wed
nesday John Bloxham and Pete
Pender, (that is not what his mother
called him) were called on to tell the
crowd something about their recent
wanderings. John said he had been
traveling over North Carolina, over
bridges, roads, hills, and one thing or
another, as an insurance agent with
the state as his territory, and that
most of the talk that greets him is
questions about the Sandhills. Folks
want to know what it costs to live in
Moore county, where he got his auto
mobile, if he thinks a red necktie
harmonizes with his color of hair and
whiskers, but all are interested in the
Sandhill country, and John says he is
too. His address made a hit, and he
was welcomed to the dinner for the
prodigals who had been away and
come back. John is so welcome when
he comes back that all the fatted
calves in the township shiver when
they hear that he is figuring on a few
days around Southern Pines.
Pete Pender is an imitation of a
bashful man, and he said that his first
impulse when called on to talk to the
crowd was to move to adjdurn, but on
second thought he said that since he
went away he had been at London,
Oxford, Cambridge, and other places
in England and that he was impressed
by the fact that over there they are
not all the time tearing up things and
building new ones in the place, for
they build right at the start. Neither
did he see upset Fords and waste
paper and trash everywhere. They
keep things trimmer over in England.
France made a hit with Mr. Pender,
for he says they are recovering from
the war, and are working and thriv
ing. In England a million and a half
of the people are living on doles from
the government, while in France
everybody is working and caring for
themselves, and the result is that
France is taking a lead of England
and promises to be a more desirable
place to live. However, in neither
country are outsiders invited who
want to stay, for both countries have
people enough. He took an aeroplane
(Continued on page 8)
PAGE TURNS RAIDER;
TAKES 120 GALS. BRANDY
“I have got to go to church with
my wife, and I can’t sit around in
the woods all day with a shotgun
guarding a liquor still while you
hunt a revenue officer, but if you want
somebody to go get the liquor and
take it to the revenue officer. I’ll g«t
a truck and we’ll go after it,” said
State Highway Commissioner Frank
Page to the Mayor of Aberdeen Sun
day morning when the mayor appealed
to him to volxinteer for guard duty.
With no further ceremony Mr. Page
rounded up a truck and went in search
of the cached liquor. In ample time
to accompany Mrs. Page to church he
was back in Aberdeen with 120 gallons
of the finest peach brandy that has
ever been made in the Sandhills. It
was turned over to the local revenue
officer who had been found in the
meantime, and it was poured into
Aberdeen Creek—^below the intake of
the town’s water supply.
Dave Knight, the chief of police in
Aberdeen, got word early in the day
Sunday that a cache of brandy had
been discovered two miles beyond the
town limits, and well beyond the juris-
iction of the town officers. He re
ported the find to the mayor and to
gether they set out to find an officer
who had authority to seize it. Knight
went later back to keep watch over the
brandy until officers of authority could
be located to take charge of the situa
tion. Rumors of the discovery of the
brandy got into circulation, and fol
lowing hard upon the heels of this re
port were reports that the proprietors
of the liquor had armed themselves
and left the town to defend their
property. Grave fears were felt for
the safety of Chief Knight, who was
alone with the brandy and beyond his
legal parish. It was at this juncture
that Mr. Page drove in town to get
his morning paper out of the post-
office. He was sitting in his car read
ing it at the time the mayor ap
proached him.
“But we have got no authority to
seize it,” protested the mayor.
“Got as much to seize it as we have
to watch it,” said Mr. Page, “and it is
a darned sight safer. Let’s get a
truck an go after it. How much do
you think there is of it?”
Twelve ten-gallon kegs were locat
ed by Mr. Page, the mayor and Dave
Knight, scattered about in the brush.
They were loaded onto the truck and
headed toward Aberdeen, observed by
most of the population. The reve
nue agent was located and the brandy
turned over to him. Mr. Page reached
church just in time to join his wife
for the morning service. There was
no clue as to the ownership of the
liquor.
s. C. GROWERS ARE
APPEALING TV N. C
A “Grape Vine” Message Comes
Through in Advance of Open
ing Next Week
South Carolina tobacco growers by
scores and hundreds have employed
the oldest known means of communi
cation to send along an appeal to
members of the Tobacco Growers’ As
sociation urging them to stand by
their guns and save the bumper crop
of 1925 for a profit to the men who
produce it. It has been widely cir
culated in advance of the opening of
twenty-five association warehouses in
Eastern North Carolina next Tuesday.
It has been a word-of-mouth mes
sage which has reached the Eastern
Carolina belt from the association
members in the South Carolina belt,
according to reports which have been
received at association headquarters
and verified by association men in
the field.
The South Carolinians are right
eously elated over the sixty five per
cent advance which they have received
and compared with auction floor aver
ages. Loyal members have appealed
(Continued on page eight)
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
PMEBLUFF HOTEL
NAKESJINE SHOW
Handsome Picture From the
Highway Not Far
Distant
The new hotel at Pinebluff stands
out against the sky line as it is seen
from the highway a few hundred feet
distant, and it will be in another
month one of the most striking build
ings seen by the traveler going
through Moore county. The building
has progressed so far that the general
character of the hotel is now apparent.
When the house is ready to occupy
it is going to be a place that will ap
peal to people, and it can accomodate
a large number. Two full stories will
take care of the office, dining room,
and other large public conveniences,
and about 75 sleeping rooms with their
baths, halls, porches and similar ad
juncts. Golf facilities will be on the
lower floor and basement, and the
plans indicate the usual inside and
outside nooks and pavements and
other trimmings to accommodate the
patrons.
The house is a brick veneer, with
its two stories of full size, the base
ment, and the steep roof over the big
structure the effect of so large a
building in brick is that of massive
ness. That is one thing that gives it
a commanding appearance when seen
from the highway, for a ravine lies
between the highway and the build
ing, which throws the big house in
clear relief among the scattering
pines, and lets the world see what has
been created there during the summer.
(Continued on page 8)
PINEHURST SCHOOLS
TO OPEN SEPT. 2nd
Superintendent W. P. Morton
Makes Announcements in
Regard to Opening
Wednesday, September the second
will witness the opening of the series
of the Pinehurst Public Schools. This
year’s faculty is perhaps the strong
est in the history of the school in both
training and experience. Basing suc
cess upon these factors the year is
very promising. To contribute to the
success of this year’s work all parents
should enter their children promptly
the first day of school.
A Certificate of Perfect Attendance
will be offered by the school committee
to all children who are not absent or
tardy for the entire session. To com
pete for this honor it will be necessary
to be present the very nrst day of
school. The school committee have
asked the superintendent to order
enough certificates to supply at least
twenty-five percent of the total en
rollment.
It was recently announced in one
of our state papers that North Caro
lina is far behind among state school
systems. It ranks forty-second among
the school systems of the forty eight
states, and it ranks ninth among the
school systems of the sixteen southern
states.
This state paper stated that this
conxparison was made on the basis of
ten factors. Average attendance was
one of these factors. This year it is
to be hoped that the Pinehurst schools
will lead in the average attendance in
Moore county.
All parents who have children who
will be six years on or before January
the first are requested to enter these
children the first day of school.
Children whose sixth birthday falls
after January the first will not be per
mitted to enter school until the fol
lowing year. By following this plan
all children who enter school will have
an opportunity for a full year’s work.
The confusion which results from en
tering a child any time during the
year will thus be avoided. All be
ginners must enter school on or be
fore October the fifteenth.
All patrons and friends of the Pine
hurst Schools have a most cordial in
vitation to be present for the opening