1926. are soil jvalue |n all ftates ica,— tt H ii: ::: S n tt n VOLUME 6 THE PILOT n r] NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of the pilot printing company, va&s. n. c SEPTEMBER 17, 1226 CRIPTION $2.00 MOORE COUNTY’S NEW CHURCHES No Lack of Religions Considera tion In County Building j,. Opemiions In these days of building activity over the country some talk has been beard regretting that churches are Tiot keeping up with other types of building, but in Moore county that sort of expression seems groundless. One of the finest new structures re cently put up is the $100,000 village ji.apel at Pinehurst, while the Cath olics not long before set the example with one of the most attractive church buildings in the neighborhood. Up near Cameron the Disciples have built a nice new church on the state high way. Carthage Baptists are about to begin work on a new building that will be creditable in all respects. At Southern Pines the Congregationa- lists are figuring on an addition to their church, which has been so well filled by the work of Dr. Searle in the recent past that more room has become a necessity. Then the steady growth of both summer and winter population is making a decisive de mand on all the churches for greater seating capacity. Possibly the most pronounced ad vantages are those by the Episcopal congregation which the last of this week will consider plans submitted by their architects, Benton & Benton, for a new parish house on their new lo cation, where the complete plans con template a parish house, rectory and new’ church in one entire unit. The site is on Massachusetts avenue, on the rise towards the Highland Pines Inn, where a well-designed group of buildings will be highly impressive, r. L. Hayes, in talking of the propos ed construction, said that the work will be a fine creation using Moore county building stone, and planned to fit in with that type of architecture that is now developing in this section, and which is giving an individual dis tinction to Sandhills constructon. Moore county stone meets the ap proval of builders for the more pre tentious style of buildings, and it is said to be particularly fitted for ec clesiastical construction, as well as to harmonize with the surroundings of the Sandhills village landscape. Little Stories About The Natives By MISS CONNIE CURRIE Nose McDonald’s Commencement Shoes Commencement time! Is there ever a time so dear to the hearts of girls and boys as commencement time ? Even in this advanced age of mov ing pictures, chautauquas and fairs, there is a certain thrill about “school breakings” that girls and boys get from nothing else in life. There they are literally speaking the center of the stage—there the Tom, Dick and Harrys, who were so disreputable looking yesterday, step manfully out into the center of the stage and speak wisdom written by the sages of old. There the most insignificant child in school becomes a person of import ance. Each boy is a future presi dent—each girl a future president’s wife. So it is today—what must it have been many years ago when the only things the children had to go to for amusement were ‘spelling matches’ and ‘school breakings!’ Some years ago, the story runs, Mose McDonald was a boy just so wild about school breakings and spell ing matches as his son “M. C.” is now about the Sandhill fair. An “exhibi tion” as it was called, was a thing to be prepared for and talked over for weekjs beforehand. And they were some preparation, too! ’Twas then, possibly, the mothers made the boys their new suits that were to last a year. ’Twas then the boys took the leather they had tanned to the neigh borhood shoemaker and had the shoes made that were to last them for the season. For you are to understand that the “McDonald Store,” that was to furnish so many commencement shoes, was a thing of the future. Pos sibly the nearest place farmers could have gone to buy shoes would have been to Fayetteville. At any rate, instead of getting store shoes, young McDonald took his leather to a neigh bor to have a pair made and he had dreams of getting a very stylish pair of shoes. Indeed—he saw himself as he hoped others would see him—a hand some, young “Mister” McDonald, a- walking around attracting a lot of at tention and demanding the admira tion of all in his new suit and his new shoes. The neighborhood shoe-maker was very rushed and young Moses did not get his shoes until the night before the big day. They were wonderful looking shoes, but when he tried them on he found to his despair that the shoe-maker had made a mistake and made one of them on a number six last and the other on a number five. The tragedy of it was that Moses foot was decidedly a number six foot and absolutely refused to go into a number five shoe without a great deal of pro test. But as Moses had decided to go to that commencement some time be forehand, there was nothing else to do but put that foot in, protest and all and in it went. He was a deter mined young guy even then. Of course his. mother made various suggestions^ as to how he might wear his old shoes or even go barefooted, but the boy scorned them all. He’d had visions of himself at that “school breakin’ for quite a spell and those visions included neither a barefooted Moses nor yet one that was in an old pair of shoes. For the first time that Cinderella story didn’t seem quite so foolish. He could have dispensed with a toe or a heel him self without grieving so much. And his mother being a wise woman, said no more. So Moses went to com mencement, shoes and all—clothed, but scarcely in his right mind. They drove to the school grounds in a w^agon and by keeping his foot prop ped up high it didn’t hurt so bad, but that was one day he wore a pained ex pression on his usually pleasant face. He was of the “grin and bear it” type, but his grin was rather sickly. He kept hoping that when the exer cises began he might forget his foot but no such luck. All day long he hobbled from place to place or sat under the arbor with his foot propped up. When he should have been get ting inspiration from “Mark An thony’s speech, or “Lincoln’s Gettys burg Address,” he could think of nothing more elevating than heels and toes. Even the dinner was taste less. Anyone that is subject to corns will understand that. At last the day was over and they started home. Once in the wagon he ea&ed off his shoe but the pain for a while was worse than ever, tears would come. Right then he develop ed a great sympathy for all Chinese wolnM; Thus was spoiled for Mose McDon ald a “commencement day” But after all he remembered that day when he forgot the others. P. S.—I didn’t hear whether those shoes were ever worn out or not. Fourteen silos were built by farm ers in Buncombe County in the fall of 1925. RIWANIS REPORT ON LAW SYSTEM ANOTHER LINK IN CAROLINA CHAIN Picquet Takes Over Theatre At Hamlet, Formerly Known As Hamlet Opera House Not Enough Positive Attention to the Details of of Law The meeting of the Kiwanis club Wednesday was given largely to the report of a committee to inquire into the gossip that has been going about jn the county concernnig various phases of law enforcement. The re port presented said: “The committee appointed by the president to investigate certain re ports concerning the operations of the law enforcement off^icers of the County, holding minor offices, together with the system under which they work, beg leave to report that they have found the investigation no small task, this being caused by the fact, that in many instances, the records appear to be incomplete. It appears that un der the law, the Justices of the Peace are required to make detailed reports to the Clerk of Court, before each term of the Superior Court (Crimi nal) and to pay over the fines collect ed by them to the County Auditor. We find that in some instances, no reports have been filed with the Clerk of Court, for several terms of court, and that some of the Justices turn their money over to the County Treasurer, some over to the County Auditor and some of them turn the money over to the Clerk of Court. Charles W. Picquet, the man who “brought the show business to this country with him,” recently closed a deal whereby he becomes the man ager of the Hamlet Opera House, to be known henceforth as “Carolina Theatre, Hamlet, N. C. He immediately put a force of workmen on the job remodeling the place, which when finished will have all the refinements belonging to a metropolitan theatre of the first class. His plan calls for a ladies’ reception room, with maid in attendance, gentle men’s smoking room, public telephone service, sanitary drinking fountains, and many other appointments not of ten found in theatres outside the lar gest cities. Employees in every ca pacity will be selected for previous known efficiency and courtesy. Any town fortunate enough to in terest a showman of Mr. Picquet’s calibre is to be congratulated. In addition to many other important posts, he is President of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of North Car olina, having been re-elected unoppos ed at their Annual Meeting held a short time ago. ■ I I • !'< iii J (Please turn to page 7)