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SEABOARD AGENTS
HELP SANDHILLS
John T. West Starts Adverts-
ing Campaign in
Florida
John T. West, the division passen
ger agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
has instructed Florida agents to join
in sounding the praises of the Sand
hill resorts. He has sent to all the
Florida men in prominent places the
following instructions:
Here we are again broadcasting
about Pinehurst, and Southern Pines
to those of you in Sunny Florida.
These two Resorts in the Sandhills
of North Carolina are reached only
by the Seaboard Air Line and ane lo
cated about half-way between New
York and Jacksonville. This past
Monday we had a little inclement
weather, but that was all cleared up
thee next day and the sun is shining
just as brightly as ever and the vis
itors are able to continue their golf
on courses that are unsurpassed in
any section of the United States. The
climate is bracing and invigorating,
with hardly a day in the season that
golf our outdoor sports can not be in
dulged in.
At Pinehurst, don't forget the Car
olina Hotel, the Holly Inn, The Manor,
and Pinehurst Inn are all open and
ready to do business. At Southern
Pines, the Hotels are all open and can
take care of any guests that you can
send them. Think of it, the Land of
the Long-Leaf pine, golf courses, and
all outdoor sports just a day's ride
from Jacksonville, or a night and a
day from extreme South Florida. Get
the old schedule in your head, tell the
people how to get there and what a
delightful place they will find after
they get there, and-I m» sure that
will have these visitors to these Re
sort points every year.
From Jacksonville,- put them on
No. 304, where it will be necessary for
them to use automobile or bus from
Southern Pines to Pinehurst, six
miles. This train does not stop at
Aberdeen, which is a rail connection
for Pinehurst, but No. 4 does stop
there. From South Florida, put
them on No. 304 or No. 310; both
trains stop at Southern Pines and
passengers destined to Pinehurst can
use automobiles over a very good
sand-clay road.
You cannot beat the Long-leaf
Pine section of North Carolina for a
resort, and I trust that you will put
them on the train, labeled Pinehurst
or Southern Pines, and we will “do
the necessary” when it comes to get
ting accommodations for them for the
remainder of their journey. No trou
ble about this, plenty of space and
trains running on time.
Another thing that I want to call
to your attention, and that is the
completion in the next week or ten
days of the electric Automatic Block
Signal System which we are installing
between Hamlet, N. C. and Richmond,
Va. This block signal system is the
very latest and improved system of
blocking trains, and advances the
movement of all trains in a much
more satisfactory manner than by the
old manual block system. It is not
possible, if these signals are observed,
for trains to get together, thus elimi
nating the possibility of accidents.
We are operating now this electric
block signal system between Raleigh
and Norlina, distance of fifty-nine
miles, and it is very, very satisfactory.
As stated above, the line between
Raleigh and Hamlet, distance of
ninety-six miles will be in operation
in probably ten days and about March
1, the entire distance of 250 miles
Richmond to Hamlet will be in opera
tion. There is lots that can be said
in behalf of these electric block sig
nals, but there is one thing that you
can bear in mind and that is, they
are absolutely safe, and our train
operated by these signals are more
apt to be on time, which is one of the
features that the traveling public de
sires.
Give this wide publicity and send
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY B, 1926
the tourists up t« the Sandhills of
North Carolina. ..
Yours truly,
" John T. .West
Division Pass. Agt.
Mr. West also calls particular at
tention to the recent - arrangement
whereby No. 310, due at S.outhem
Pines at 7:55 P. M. is stopping to let
off visitors to this section from points
in Florida. So you can see that the
Seaboard Air Line is trying to build
up the Sandhills.
At Southern Pines and Aberdeen
the foUawing passenger .trains now
stop:
South bound. No. 1, No. 3, No. 303,
No. 5, No. 11, No. 44, North bound.
No. 2, No. 4, No. 304, No. 6, No. 310,
No. 12, and No. 44, making a total of
thirteen passenger trains daily from
the North and South.
No other Resort Point can boast of
such excellent train service.
TOMATO MEETING AT
VASS FRIDAY NIGHT
On Friday night at Rosland theatre,
Robert Schmidt, of State college, and
Mr. Mercker, of the Division of mar
kets , will meet a gathering of those
folks who are interested in planting
tomatoes for the market the coming
summer. The success of the venture
last summer was so pronounced that
a number of people want to increase
(Continued on page eight)
TWEVE-YEAR-OLD
BOY WRITES BOOK
Carthage Family Have Grandson
Who Has Gained
Fame
Those who read the Literary Digest
of January 2, may have noticed the
review of a remarkable book by Da
vid Binney Putnam, entitled “David's
Gorgeous Voyage.” The boy is only
twelve years old, and his book has
made a great hit. But the feature
(Continued on Page 8)
TO HAKE SURVEY
OFNOORECOUNn
Dr. Sturkey and Dr. Hohnes
Will Cover County
Thoroughly
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At the last meetnig of the Moore
County Board . of Conservation and
Development, a committe was appoint
ed consisting of Richard Tufts, George
Ross, A. S. Newcomb, Stacy Brewer
and Bion H. Butler to meet with the
state board at Raleigh and see if ar
rangements could be made to secure
state representatives to make a survey
of Moore county. The meeting-was
held in George Ross' office at the
Agricultural department on Tuesday
and the outcome of it was that Dr.
J. L. Stuckey, of the geological divis
ion of the board, and Dr. J. S. Holmes,
the state forester, were assigned to
give to this county sufficient time to
make a study of the timber and min
eral resources, and the work will com
mence probably next month. These
two men are at the head of their class
in this state, and their reports will be
comprehensive, and for the first time
a county of North Carolina will have
a positive knowledge of its resources
of this character.
This survey will be followed by sim
ilar work in other lines, and when all
the informataion is gathered it is the
intention to issue a publication that
will tell fully and intelligently what
Moore county has to depend on in' the
way of natural material on which in
dustry, comfort and other factors for
human welfare may be establised.
The State board was warm in its
welcome to the committee from
Moore, for as Moore is the first county
to establish a local l^rd this gives
the state an opportunity to beg^ to,
localize it» work> and to pat before
the rest of the state an idea of what
the work means and of what value it
will be when the information is gath
ered.
Maj. Wade Phillips, the head of the
board, and Dr. Stuckey and Dr.
Holmes are all enthusiasti(: over this
step on the part of Moore county, for
it is a form of local appreciation
that indicates backing the moveitient
they have undertaken in the state, and
they assured the local committee that
they would stand by to the fullest ex
tent their time and funds permitted.
Moore county is now about to take
an inventory of its possessions and
to let the world know what is here in
this section, and from the talk that
floated about in the committee room
Tuesday it is apparent that when the
information is gathered md present
ed in printed form much will be
shown the county and the world that
few have suspected. Dr. Stuckey says
the mineral possibilities of the county
are of wide extent and that many val
uable and usable materials are to be
found in Moore and likely to be de
veloped before a great while as peo
ple become familiar with them.
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CHICKEN CAR COMES
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12
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Farmers who have chickens they
want to sell to reduce their flocks will
have the opportimity on Friday, Feb
ruary 12. The Little River Stores
have arranged for a buyer to be at
Vass at the siding near the station,
where the fowls will be taken as they
were last summer, 'weighed, loaded
(Continued on page eight)"
SEVERAL SALES OR
WEYHODra HEIGHTS
Buyers Go Beyond the Top
Of the Piney
, Ridge
Last Saturday was notable in one
it cloa^ isi- WW
mouth acreage at $1,500 an acre.
From now on the prices are Hxed as
$2,000, and those wlio are interested
in land prices may think about that a
little. Land that a few years ago was
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KIWANIS AT
riNEBLDFF HOT
Fine Place Won Approval Of
the Visitors From
Neighborhood
The Kiwanis club held its Wednes
day meeting at Pinebluff, and the moat
conspicuous talk of the meeting was
the fine new place that the creators
of the hotel had brought about. It
is no disparagement to anything in
the Sandhills to say that the new ho
tel is one of the finest in this whole
state, and that the management is
handling it in excellent style. The
public rooms are convenient and pleas
ing, the service is up to the most
rigid requirements, and Mr. Smith is
swiftly getting his grounds and sur
roundings in apple pie order. The
compliments paid him by everybody,
and some capable hotel men were
among the visitors that day, ought to
please him and his stockholders im
mensely.
One of the features of the day was
Farm Life quartette, which won the
diners at the start, and brought out
round after round of vigorous ap
plause by their ability to handle their
songs and instruments. The school
is in away a ward of the club, and it
was proud of its boys Who proved that
the school is doing a good job.
One of the first things to come up
was the subject of the visit of about
150 peop e from Maine who will stop
in the Sandhills on February 18 on
their way to Florida. They will land
at the Highland Pines Inn from the
morning train, and at 10 o'clock they
will be taken to Pinehurst for dinner,
and brought back there at 5 for sup
per at Southern Pines and taken to
the train for the South later in the
evening. The Kiwanis club asked for
volunteers to bring cars to car^ these
people about, and will need at least
forty cars. Everybody who is inter
ested in getting t^se Maine Yankees
acquainted with the Sandhills is urg
ed to be on hand at the Highland
Pines ready to help take out the
crowd at 10 o^clock in the morning,
for this is one of the best opportuni
ties that has ever been offered to
show this territory to willing visi
tors. “Take a day off and help this
movement along," is the talk Sam
Richardson makes, and he says it will
be a mistake if there is any lack of
cars.
Talbot Johnson announced a mass
meeting in the Carolina theatre at
Southern Pines Friday night at 8
o'clock, to hear about the proposed
new hospital. S. B. Chapin, Dr. Brown,
H. B. Swoope and others of the mov
ing spirits will be on hand to discuss
this situation, and Talbot says here is
a chance to get a half million dollar
hospital for this neighborhood, one of
the most modem type, well equipped,
and endowed with funds to carry it
on. This is not a meeting to ask for
money but to talk to the people about
the prospect, and it is asked that the
house be packed full, and the men at
the head* of the movement be given
encouragement and assurance that a
hospital is desired.
J. P. Gibbons, of-Hamlet, was the
speaker of the day, and his subject
was advertising the counties of the
community of which Moore’is one. He
said that the Hamlet KiWanis club
had undertaken to work out a project
whereby the neighborhood counties
might work .together in this direction,
and that while he knew this county
had already started k big pacji^ct in
that direction he h'oped a l^neral
neighborhood scheme could be*worked
out that it could be made to cover
more territory with more people
working together for results. The
arge number of people who are in
terested in moving in some direction
from the North affords a good chance
to more thickly populate Middle North
Carolina and he believes in advertis
ing and getting a share of them here.
Polo Team in action at Pinehurst, where games can be seen on Tuesday and
Friday of each week.
The successful dairy farmer usual
ly grows all of his roughage at home
and part of his concentrates, says
John A. Arey, dairy extension special-