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^ Pa^r Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Nort
NUMBER
Address ail OfHiiiiianications to
HE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1926.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
CONFIDENT OF
STONE FUTURE
Colin Spencer Sees Big Pros
pect for Moore
County
Colin Spencer is pushing forward on
his schemes to develop stone in the
upper part of the county, and is hope
ful of establishing an industry there
that will distribute its product not
only over all of Moore, but in many
of the districts of the state where
building is going on. He has been
prospecting over wider territory, and
finding more varieties of attractive
and substantial stone, and he also
has been in Greensboro, Raleigh and
other places exhibiting samples of
his discoveries, and telling what
Moore county has in building material,
and the cost of loading and deliver
ing the material to all the towns in a
reasonable range of the point of pro
duction.
Half a dozen different types of
building stone have been included in
the collection Mr. Spencer has already
made, and others are to come. These
include highway and concrete mater*
ial as well as building stone. Some
of the flooring slates and flagging
that he is finding show up in differ
ent colors, and in many patterns that
give promise of interesting builders.
The stone for walls, chimneys, col
umns, etc., is of many types and pat
terns, and in unlimited quantities, for
all of the upper part of the county is
made of stone, with the exception of
a thin covering of surface clay and
gravd in places. But along the
Norfolk Southern railroad from the
point where it enters the’ county to
its point of exit stone of many kinds
if In Quantiities millions and mil-
Itons of tons, l&nough to replace all
the building in North Caroina could
be taken out and the total supply not
reduced to any perceptible extent.
The brown sandstone of Moore
county is only one of its building
stones, and probably the least valua
ble, for it has but one color, and some
of it is inferior in quality, for it is
but a sedimentary rock, while the
lighter and darker colored rocks are
more permanently cemented together,
and are found in a wide range of
type?3 ^andj colors and shap^ and
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Dry Weather
MOORE COUNTY
MAN RE-EIECTED
Movie Men Ask Picqnet To
Serve Another
Term
The North Carolina Motion Picture
Theatre CKmers, in convention at
Wrightsville this week, named Chas.
W. Picquet as their president for the
coming year. Mr. Picquet has been
guiding the destinies of this organi
zation and delivered the STOods in such
an efficient manner that his fellow
exhibitors deemed it wise to receive
the benefit of his able direction for
another term, at least.
The convenMon was by far the best
the theatre men have ever held. “Or-
ganization'* was the watchword and
several progressive measures were
adopted.
We congratulate Mr. Picquet, andf
having seen him in action, can con
gratulate the M. P. T. O. just as
heartily.
Damag-es Crops
The continued dry weather is
doing much damage to crops. The
dewberries have suffered badiy,
and the peaches are beginning to
feel the effects. Corn and cot
ton have not shown so much
harm, but the gardens are hard
hit. The water level in the
ground is steadily getting lower,
and if rain does not soon come
and in considerable abundance
the farm outlook is not comfort
ing. It is true that drouth has
been as bad as this before and
rains came in time to see a good
general crop, but the fruit is now
at its climax and what is to be
done to save it must be done
soon. Rains are promised, but
at this writing they seem to be
chiefly promise. This is the
third or fourth year of dry sum.
mers, and the cumulative effect is
bad, as each dry season seems to
leave the ground in worse shape
than they were before.
L4KEVIE\rS GOOD
FRIEND PASSES
Mrs. D’Auby Was One of First
Northerners to Settle
There
RED CROSS AND
WELFARE REPORT
Chester O. Bell To Take Charge
of Red Cross Roll
Call
THE ORTHOPAlnDIC CLINIC WILL
BE HELD AT SANFORD, JUNE 18
The orthopaetiic clinic for the free
examination and treatment of indi
gent cripples being held under the
auspices of the Rotary club at the
Baptist Church in Sanford will be
held again on Friday, June 18.
Owners of p#ach orchards in Rldi-
mond County will plant 200 acres to
Iron and Brabham wilt resistant cow-
peas this season for soil improvement
and seed production.
(Mrs. M. C. McDonald)
The Executive Committee of the
Moore county chapter of the American
Red Cross, also the Moorfe County
Health and Welfare society held the
June meeting in the home of Mrs. M.
C. McDonaldi West End, Tuesdey,
June 8th, at 2:80 P. lif. The chairman
presided. The attend«nce was good,
Reports from J. H. Page, treasurer of
Bed Cross and Robt. N. Page, treas
urer of Health and W>elfare were
read and approved.
A life saving instructor for our
county cannot be secured this sum
mer as we are too late in applying.
The demand seems to be greated than
the supply of instructors.
Our chairman was glad to an
nounce that C. 0. Bell has kindly
consented to take charge of the Red
Cross roll call! this fal.
Mrs. Hazel hajs asked for the
months of July. August and Septem
ber to take a much needed rest and
recuperate from the recent long ill
ness. Her request has been grant
ed. During her absence her car
will be cared for and stored in
Pinehurst, also the Red Cross will be
painted on it before she returns.
A motion was made and carried
that welfare funds be used to pur
chase awnings for county sanatorium.
Mrs. H. F. S’eawell and Mrs. T. B.
Tyson to make the purchase and see
that they am installed.
Several branch chairmen made re
ports, all were interesting, but Mrs.
Keating’s, of Pinehurst, was especial
ly so. Her committee enrolled 85
members the past month, averaging
50 cents per member. *f1ie statement
was made in a previous article that
there were no welfare dues. But
when the question of whom should
be allowed to vote arose, it seemed
best to have an annual membership
fe« of 25 cents per member.
A report from Annie Gaston, sup
ervisor of colored schools in the
county was read and approved. She re
ceives a small amount from the wle-
fare budget for work among her peo
ple and seems to spend it wisely.
Mrs. HazePs report came next. She
made a strong plea for the under priv
ileged children in the county and urg
ed the meml^ers present to be ready
to help establish a pr^entorium when
she returns to her work the first of
October. She has found several chil
dren much underweight, some of them
exposed to tubercyflosis. These chill-
dren in a preventorium could be built
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Barley, oats and vetch in combi
nation have produced yields of from
1 1-2 to 3 tons of dry h^y,per,acre
in Union County this spring.
The passing of Helen Mar D'auby
on Friday morning, June 11, was an
occasion of sincere sorrow to her
Lakeview friends and neighbors. For
many years, since the infancy of the
little to^ her name has been a house
hold word and many there are who
have known her kindnesses in church,
in school and in the community at
large.
She was always ready to help every
worthy cause with money, with her
facile pen or with well directed words,
and this applied to the colored people
as well as the white for she was a-
ways their friend.
Her illness was brief as she had
always prayed it would be, and even
during the time of suffering she was
planning for some cMildhr'eii ^•at
Vass.
Always the young interested her
most and though the many years had
passed over her, she was still young
in spirit. She was devoted to her
young protegee. Miss Ruth McNeill,
of Vass, and the affection between
them was beautiful.
The community attended to the de
tails of the funeral to spare the
beloved and only daughter, Florence,
all the suffering possible, as she and
her husband could not get here un
till Saturday night.
Sunday, the church was beautiful
with the most exquisite flowers from
northern cities and from the commun
ity. The choir sang “Rock of Ages”
and Abide with Me,” with Miss Lula
Eaaitwooil at the piano* - Mjc.
Monroe conducted the services in a
very tender and considerate manner,
both in the church and at the
grave.
In compliance with an oft express
ed wish of Mrs. D’auby*s, that she be
buried here, a beautiful lot was se
lected and she was laid tenderly to
rest with the whifluring of the trees
above and the beauty of flowers all
around. No one could express wishes
in m more beautiful form than in the
following poem from her oWn 'ever
ready pen. She was a poetess of
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LAKESIDE INN,
DRAWS CROWD
Fast Gaining Reputation For
Superior Ser
vices
The amount of patronage being ac
corded the Lakeside Inn at Lakeview
indicates that the new policy adopted
by £he management is popular and
will receive the stamp of approval
from the public. Last Sunday there
was a waiting list at the dining
room for a time, but all received ser
vice that satisfied and were loud in
their praise of the excellent table
Manager Lancaster had prepared for
them.
MISS CAMERON
VISITS CHICAGO
Miss Gussie Cameron left last
Thursday for Chicago where she will
commence a twq weeks study in
X-ray work. lAs$ Cameron is the
able and efficient worker in Dr. Mud-
gett’s office. She has had advanced
study along these lilies as she spent
some time in Charlotte under able in
structors.' She will come back from
Chicago broadened by her course and
undertake more responsible work in
the office; for the doctor says she is
developing an ability with the X-ray
woric and an aptitude with patients
that permits him to advance her ma
terially. She is a wfU-liked young
woman and she has a cordiality that
mak^ her a ^«ed member of Dr.
Mudgett’s force.
Legion Picnic
At Lakeview
The Carthage and the Sandhill
posts of the American Legion are
planning for a big basket picnic
and baseball game at Lakeview on
July Fourth, to which they ask
all members of the legion from
any place to come and bring all
their friends, or all friends to
come whether they are brought
or not. As this is one of the
few outings announced for this
section or the neighborhood towns
a big crowd is exepected. The
Sandhills post and the Carthage
posts will each present a ball
team. That from the Sandhills
will consist of Donald Eifort, cap
tain and pitcher, Bill IhHilop,
catcher, H. J. Betterly, first. Dr.
Hart, second, (lordon Cameron
third, Bob Lewis, short, Mr.
Purdy, right. Nelson Courtway,
center, Alex Field, left. Car
thage will offer a nine to meet
these boys, but The Pilot has not
a list of the names.
MISS EIFORT
TELLS OF WORK
Talks To KIwanis Club About
The Unfortunates of
The Country
BIG LAND SALE
AT KMLWOOD
J. V. Healey Gets 1,800 Feet
On Midland
Road
J. sj. Healey has bought 12 lots on
the Midland road in Knollwood, ex
tending 1,800 feet on the left of the
road going from Southern Pines, just
east of the bridge near the Barber
lake. This closes out all the land
on that side of the road between
Southern Pines and the creek, and is
presumed to be the beginning of some
a©rt of developittent ’^n ttatw
borhood. Nobody would say much
about the purpose of the purchase,
but it is intimated that some further
projects are in sight, and that the
territory in the vicinity of the lake
will be opened for. consideration and
use later on.
This is regarded as one of the most
important steps taken in that section
in a considerable time, as the size of
the block of lots makes it an unusual
ly big sale. The prices are not
mentioned, but it is said that they
help up to a figure that gives a sub
stantial tone to values in the Mid
land road section. Real estate men
have a high regard for the tract in
question, as it is close to both South
ern Pines and Knollwood Village and
the golf course, and lies on the high
yde of the double road, with a wealth
of pme treees covering most of the
surface.
At the Kiwanis meeting at Aberdeen
Wednesday Miss Eifort, the county
welfare agent told the members about
her work in Moore county, and she
presented a bit of information that
was tragedy and pathos. Some hope
ful phrases crop out-in the work,
but the most of it has its depressii^
features no matter how much opti
mism is brought to bear on the sub
ject. While less pathetic she says
the school work is the hardest of all,
because it involves more or less com
pulsion in the effort to get the chil
dren into school. However, Miss
Eifort says the attendance is grow
ing more satisfactory, and the prize
offered by the Kiwanis club for at
tendance is helping to awaken a great*
er interest in the children in inaking
good records.
The speaker cited a number of cases
where she mixed tact, force, explana.
tion of law and some financial consid
eration with the attempt to get the
children in school, and one case she
cited was that where she paid a child
fifty cents a day to attend, when his
mother said the work of the child at
home was necessary to help in the
maintenance of the familly which was
burdened with sickness, and scant in
come. The money paid was the gift
of an open-handed friend of the wel
fare work and was sent in to be used
as Miss Eifors decided best. She has
several contributions of that charac
ter, and the uses she puts them to
are novel.
One amu8?ng incident livened tb«
soml^r tale in spite of its tragic tone.
She had one on her hands, an insane
negro, and apparently no j^lace to
put him. She wrote to the superin
tendent of the hospital at €k>lds-
boro and said the man must be sent
some place, and that 'she-had fa^il-^
ities in the county for caring
ihim. The answer was that the hos
pital full, but when she finallly
insisted the superintendent . wrote
back to her that if she would send
her violent negro down to the ho;ipi-
tal at Goldsboro a less violent one
MEETING OF THE STATE B. Y. P.
U. CONVENTION AT MEREDITH
The State B. Y. P. U. Convention for
North Carolina will meet at Meredith
College, Raleigh, N. C., June 22-24.
Each local union is urged to send one
delegate and each church where there
is no B. Y. P. U. is urged to send one.
Mr. Perry Morgan, State B. Y. P. U.
Secretary has arranged a splendid
program which will be very . much
worth while. A new feature this year
will be the arrangements for enter
tainment. All delegates will take
their own sheets, pillows, l^ilow cases,
soap, towels, comb and brush, etc., and
will stay in the college building. The
college does not have thesie articles
so be sure t<) carry them with you.
Rooms are free and board will be
furnished by the college at one dol
lar a day.
B. S. BEACH,
Bonlee, N .C.
Tiiis summer may be a good time
to plant some Sudan grass for forage
and hay, think livestock workers of
State (College. It appears that
drought may permanently injure the
com crop.
The hog outdook continues good.
Many North CS^olina farmers are
cashing in on this farm crop l^s
year.
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PINEHURST cow
WINS TROPHY
Flossie Mitchell Awarded Hand
some Silver
Cup
Pinehurst has won another triumph,
for last year Pinehurst Flossie Mit
chell produced more milk than any
other Ayrshire cow of her age iii
the United States. She is 4 1-2 years
old, but comes of a remarkable fam
ily of milk cattle, her father and
mother and one grandfather and one
grandmother being in the Pinehurst
herd, along with a number of sinters
who are making records as milk pro
ducers.
As a reward for her achievement
Flossie was awarded a handsome sil
ver cup at a meeting of the .Ayrshire *
Association at . Pililadelphia a few
days ago. This is not the first of
the. Mitchells to win distinction, ior
several have been so honored, and
it is expected that more of them will
be, for the whole strain appears to be
big producers. Pinehurst brought
out the old Tootsie Mitchell, a cow
that made her first record after she
had reached her teens because prior
to that time no pronounced tests were
made of this family of cattle there.
But Tootsie at once hung up the rec
ord for her age and continued for Sev
eral years to make new ones, and
then tests were made of a nutnber
of her heifers and of .others of the
Mitchell family,^ ai^d ^ey commenc
ed to win recognition. Tootsie Mit
chell made such a big milk produc-
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