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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North
Address all communications to
the pilot printing company. VASS, N. C
REPUBUCANS
ARE BARRED
Cannot Participate In Demo
cratic Primary On
June 1.
The following correspondence be
tween U. L. Spence, county attorney,
and N. J. Muse, chairman county
board of elections, makes plain that
for a Republican to interfere with or
vote in Democratic boxes is a serious
infraction of law.'
Mr. N. J. Muse,
Carthage, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Answering your inqiury about the
primary law, I have to say:
1. The primary held on the first
Saturday in June is not held under
any plan made by any party, but is
held under the law of the land enact
ed by the Legislature and is applica
ble alike to both the Democratic party
and the Republican party. . If there
had been any contestants in the Re
publican party of Moore County for
the offices, the Registrars and Judges
of Election would provide under the
law separate boxes in which the Re-
piublicans would vote for their can
didates and, of course separate boxes
for the Democratic party in which the
Democrats vote for their choice. In
as much as the Republicans have
agreed upon their candidates, no Re
publican has any business whatso
ever interferring with or voting in
the Democratic boxes.
2. In order for any person to le
gally vote in the Democratic boxes
for any person in the primary he
must declare himself to be a Dem
ocrat, in the first place, and pledge
himself to vote the Democratic ticket
throughout in the general election
next November. If the person offer
ing to vote does not so declare and
pledge himself, the Registrars and
Judges of Election ought not to let
him vote. It is not only contrary to
law to let such a man vote in the
Democratic Primary, but it is un
just to all the Democratic candidates.
The Republican party has no business
indicating what candidates should run
on the Democratic ticket any more
than the Democrats have a right to
direct what • Republican candidate
diall run. This Primary ought’ to be
a Democratic primary as the law pro
vides and the Registrars and Judges
of Election violate their sworn duty
unless they make it so.
No Republican has a right to vote in
the Democratic Primary sin*ply be
cause he expects to vote part of the
Democratic ticket next November if
certain Democrats are nominated for
office. Officers of the election ought
not to allow him to vote. We oii^^ht
to have at least one clean primary
election in Moore County so conducted
by the officers of the election that no
defeated candidate in the primary
could say after the primary was held
that h ewas defeated by Republican
votes. You ought to require yolir
election officejrs to hold just such a
primary this time. I do not doubt
that it will be the pleasure of the
election officers to see that this Imw
is carried out if you call it alertly to
their attention.
In this interpretjation of the
primary law I am backed up* by the
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1926.
NUMBER
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NOTICE
SUMMER SCHOOL
FOR TEACHERS
Eleven Certificates Issued In
Moore County Last
Year
DEGREE RECEIVED
BY VASS BOY
(MISS META LILES)
Moore County has one of the
thirteen Teacher Training Depare-
ments established in the high schools
of North Carolina. The purpose of
the department is twofold—^viz. to aid
the County Superintendent in supply
ing the public schools with competent
teachers, also to aid high school grad
uates, who are desirous of teaching
and unable to go to college, to gejt
some professional training.
Last year the department at Farm
Life enrolled eleven young women,
every one of whom rceived an Ele
mentary A. certificate, also a Zaner
Teachers’ Writing certificate.
Throughout the year the girls stud
ied the principles of teaching and put
into practice their theory in the
grades at Farm Life. These student-
teachers taught, among other sub
jects, vnriting, throughout the school.
As a result, 26 high school pupils won
High School Writing Certificates, 15
won Grammar Grade, and 15 the Im
provement certificates awarded by the
Zaner Writing company. Other sub
jects were taught just as intensely
and with good results.
Names of the young women who
are ready to teach are: Buelah Cope
land, Eagle Springs, N. C.; Strawda
Hare, Spies, N. C.; Florene Hinson,
Vass, N. C., R. F. D.; Ruth Mattocks,
Jackson Springs, N. C.; Edith Mc-
Caskill, Vass, N. C. R. F. D.; Flora
McCaskill, Vass, N. C. R. F. D.; Katie
Lee Rice, Cameron, N. C.; Marion
Shields, Carthage, N. Waldo
Stubbs, Jackson Springs, N. C.; Jes
sie Mae Siigg, Ellerbe, N. C.; Ethel
Wiles, Jackson Springs, N. C.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of J. P. Gilchrist de
sire to thank their friends for the
many kindnesses, help, love and sym
pathy shown them during the recent
illness and death of their father.
THE FAMILY.
JOHN FRANKLIN BYRD
John Franklin Byrd is one of five
candidates for the degree of Bache
lor of Science in Textile Chemistry
and Dyeing, at the graduation exer
cises of the North Carolina State
College of Agricultiure and Engineeir-
ing, which will be held in Raleigh
June 6 to 8. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Byrd, of Vass and receiv
ed his early training in the public
schools of Moore County.
SANDHEIBAND
VISITS FRIEND
The North Carolina farm home is
being made more attractive through
the addition of modem conveniences.
Electricity in the home is becoming
a valuable factor in raising the stand
ard of living.
Vass Boys Take Trip To Towns
Close By. George Wells
Surprised.
The Sandhill Band of Vass took a
short journey to nearby towns on Fri
day of last week, playing several se
lections in each of the towns visited.
The main object in taking the trip
was to surprise, their good friend
George E. Wells, of Pinebluff, who
writes of their visit, as follows:
“Pinebluff, N. C.
May 31, 1926.
Editor of The Pilot
Vass, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Last Friday afternoon I was very
much surprised when three automo
biles stopped in front of my office and
a jolly lot of youngsters began to un
load themselves, each one with some
thing that proved to be a musical in-
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NEW STATE SONG
FOR TARHELLA
^id To Be Most Inspiring March
Since George Cohan’s
‘K)ver There”
On Thursday of last week, S. M.
Kendrick appeared before Governor
McLean and C. W. Picquet, director
of the singers who will represent
North Carolina in the Chorus of
States at the Sesquicentennial cele
bration in Philadelpiha on July 5, and
presented for their approval a new
state song for North Carolina. Mr.
Picquet, who has been a student of
state songs for many years, says that
Mr. Kendrick’s is the best he has
ever heard. The martial air to which
it is written is very inspiring, having
the delightful swing often found in
Sousa*s marches, and also a little dash
of the Cohahesque. One of the most
desirable features reciting from the
composition is the fact that it is
within easy range of all voices, which
it not true of any of our National
Airs.
Herewith are the words of the
song which will be whistled and hum
med throughout the length and
breadth of North Carolina very
shortly after the music is distribut
ed:
I.
Onward all ye loyal sons.
Join our joyous throng,
Harmonize your voices
In proud triumphant song!
Sing this creed and carol,
North, East, South, and West,
And tell the whole creation
Wliy. ^®ve^01d North State best.
Chorus:
North Carolina,
State of health and prosperity.
Treasure chest of America
In the land of liberty.
Climate, location and scenecry*
Excelled only by her hospitality,
They don't know how to make them
any finer
Than dear Old North Carolina.
II.
Onward North Carolinians,
As the years go rolling by;
Marching straight to victory.
Old Glory unfurled on High!
Prove you love Old Tar Heel State,
The land of wealth and worth;
Sing lustily this slogan song
Of the finest place on 'earth!
The monthly meeting of The Health
and Welfare Association and
Cross will be held at West End, in
the home of Mrs. M. C. McDonald, on
Tuesday, June 8, at 2:30 p. m.
A Ml attendance is urged as this
will be the last meeting until Octo
ber.
JANIE MacLEOD,
Secr’y. of H. and W. Ass’n.
Union (Jounty farmers have adopted
lespedeza, vetch and soybeans iii a
soil building progiram in Union
County. Over 40,000 pounds of vetch
seed were planted test ftoll and much
th^ crop :haa been plowed under
this spring.
Moore County Champion BasebaU Team of Twenty Years Ago
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SPENC ER FINDS
ROCK OUTCROP
Unusually Fine Building
Stone In Abund
ance
Colin Spencer, who has been load
ing some stone from his place on the
river near the Jackson ford, has been
prospecting around up that way un
til the first of the week he discovered
an unusually fine quality of building
stone closer to the railroad siding than
what he had started with. He at
once had enough taken out to fill a
car which he despatched to Pinehurst
where everybody who saw it was en
thusiastic over its appearance. The
stone is a hard, brecciated material,
volcanic in its origin, varied in its
coloring and structure, and without
doubt one of the most interesting ma
terials for building that can be found
any place in the United States. It is
likely that it will be used in a build
ing at Pinehurst some time this sum
mer, for already a proposition is in
the talk stage of a new model house
on the Midland roads east of the one
built last year, and Mr. Spencer has
proposed to supply the stone for the
building if stone should be used aa
the outside material.
Builders and home owners are be
ginning to take an interest in the
prospect of a vast supply of building
material in Moore which has here
tofore not been suspected of having
any great amount of stone of this
character. Richard Tufts has been
in communication with masons who
are familiar with working in stone*
of this type, and during the week
has had men in Pinehurst looking over
the prospects*of stone work, and of
doing something in that line in the
county. One man who has laid mudi
of the stone in the building at Roar
ing Gap gives the Moore county stone
a high rating, and says it is the equal
of anything he has ever seen, and
that almost any effect can be securd
with its use.
Over at Carthage the Baptists are
figuring on a new' church and it is
said that they will seriously consider
a stone structure if the cost is not
too high. In the past brown sand
stone has been regarded as Moore
county’s contribution to the build
ing stone supply, but those who have
seen the stone from the upper parts
of the county are more enthusiastic'
over it than over the sand stones. The
discussion of stone work in the last
month or so, since Dr. Stuckey has
been here looking over the field has
brought out a lot of comment, and
especially talk about! the many ex
amples of stone construction to be
found in old chimneys, foundation
walls, and similar building, and that
has brought types of stone under ob
servation in many directions. It is
now to be seen that Moore county
has a variety of building stone that
is perhaps not equalled in any other
part of the state. The range runs
from the pure white of the schists of
the talc territory to the solid black
of some of the diabest intrusions,
with all shades of all colors between'
ihe two^ Sid from the soft mica tex-;
Ihires to the quartz and rhyolite and-
volcanics that will cut glass.
The archery building on the Mid-
land road out from Pinehurst has thet
foundations all laid, and the waUs ar^
up above the floor, and in position tc^
show- the attractiveness of the new:
material. Everybody' who sfites ife.
is emphatic in approval. -
WILLIAM H. FRY PASSES ^
William Hollifield Fry, aged 75^
died at~his home near Carnage Sun/
day morning. He was the father o£_
John Fry, of Vass.
Funeral services were held Tuesday:
afternoon, conducted by Rev. Williams
of the Baptist church, interment be
ing made in the Pry cemetery near
Carthage. Mr. JVy was a member oC-
tihe Baptist ehurch, a staundi Dem
ocrat,? and the esteem in which he
was hdd wm evidenced by the greai
number of people who gathered at
tim wmBtery to pay their 4aet re
spects to him.
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