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Address all commumoitioQS to
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926
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ROAD BUILDERS
BIfi CONVENTION
First For the Season at Pine-
hurst Meets Next
M<Mith
THE ALSTON HOUSE
NUNBER
Robert R. (“Bob”) Reynolds
At 2:00 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
October 26, in the Court House at
Carthage, Hon. Robt. R. Reynolds, of
Asheville, will speak on the issues of
the campaign. This blue-eyed moun
taineer is putting in some hard licks
in his effort to assist in rolling up the
biggest Democratic majority possible.
If all of Bob’s friends in Moore
County can arrange to be present at
this great rally, the court-room will
be far too small for his audience..
WELFARE ASS’N. IN
FIRST MEETINtJ
Business of Moore Co. Health and
Welfare Ass’n. Brought
Up To Date
The first big convention for the sea
son at Pinehurst will meet the week
beginning November 8 at the Caro
lina. The American Association of
Highway Officials is the organization
that will open the campaign this fall, I
and it will be represented by dele- i
gates from all over the country. Mon- j
day will be occupied in getting here j
and settling for the work of the
week, and Tuesday will start organi
zation in the morning and an after
noon out of doors after the morning-
work. After a dinner at six o’clock
the North Carolia State Highhway de
partment will undertake to entertain
the visiting brethern in North Caro
lina fashion.
On Wednesday morning a program
of technical discussion and carefully
prepared papers will be presented, and
this will be kept up each morning
during the convention. Each after
noon a chance will be given the dele
gates to get acquainted with the Sand
hill country and to initiate themselves
into the mysteries of that game of
golf which has made Pinehurst fa
mous all over creation. On Wednes-
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REBUILDING'
PINEHURST ROAD
Jackson’s Force Has Old
Almost Com
pleted
Road
ABOVE IS A PICTURE OF THE OLD ALSTON HOUSE ON THE
HORSESHOE, ONCE OCCUPIED BY GOVERNOR BENJAMIN WIL
LIAMS AND NOW OCCUPIED BY JOHN WILLCOX.
Last week a writer who is too mod- j sive neighborhood for miles, and it
est to let his name appear, wrote a | afforded a gathering point for the pa-
letter to the Daughters of the Revolu- L ■ x . . . . .. . rpu
4.* „ , 4.- 4.U 1 J? triots and a target for attack.. The
tion, suggestmg the purchase' of the
Alston house in the Horseshoe nf the Hornes and big plantations were
Deep river, the occasion being ihe I conspicuous, and the attitude of the
At the meeting of the highway com
mission in September it was ordered
that the roads connecting Southern
Pines and Pinehurst should be re^
paired. To get to the double road
the commission figured that the old
load should first be taken in hand so
traffic might be cared for while the
other was under construction.. Her
bert Jackson’s crew was detaile<l to
the job, and this week he has about
wound up the job of reshaping and
claying the old road from the lower
end of Southern Pines, past the ceme
tery to the club house at Pinehurst.
He has had hard luck most of the time
for the ground is so dry that the clay
he puts down grinds immediately to
dust, and not much headway can be
made in getting a good road until
rain enough comes to make the mater
ial stick together under the drag and
the wheel.
Until the double road is dampened
a little by rain Mr. Jackson says he
battle that took place thare in revolu
tionary days, and the agji’ressive and
vindictive warfare made in that sec-
owners and the inhabitant was that
of enthusiastic loyalty to the new gov
ernment. Such a stand called out
tion by the guerrilla, rauninjr, who | the determined antagonism of the ele-
day night W. M. Jardine, Secretary of river territory ht*ll during ! ment that espoused the British crown.
Agriculture of the United States, is ^ number of year whila the strug-gle | The house in the Horseshoe, some
Mrs. M. C. McDonald
The Moore County Health and Wel
fare association held its first meeting
for the fall in the civic club building
at Southern Pines on Tuesday, Octo
ber 12 at 3:00 p. m. At this the bus
iness of the association was brought
up to date and the various reports
heard.
Mrs. R. N. Page reported that the
making of the Christmas bags for our
soldiers who are in hospitals has been
given to the girl scouts of Southern
Pines. It is very fine of the girl
scouts to take this work.
Mrs. J. R. Page reported on the visit
of thelife- saver from the National
Red Cross headquarters. He held a
very successful cl^s in Aberdeen for
a few days. His visit was very much
appreciated.
C. 0. Bell, who is chairman of our
Red Cross roll call this fall was for
the cooperation of all the members,
ihe chairman of the different branche
organizations and all whho are in
terested in this work.
Awnings for the county tubercular
sanatarium were bought and placed
early in the summer.
Report was made of the improve
ment in health of the Moore County
boy who is at the State Sanatarium.
also of the death of the colored wo
man, whose board we have been pay
ing there.
Mrs. Hazel and Miss Eifort told of
the work they have been doing, men
tioning their plans for the coming
winter.
Last spring when reporting quotas
the different brances are asked to
raise toward the welfare budget, it
seems I gave suggested figures in
stead of those really decided upon.
I gladly take this opportunity to cor
rect the mistake.
The quotas follow:
Southern Pines, $300.; Aberdeen,
$150; Carthage, $150; Vass, $50; Pine-
bluff, $50; Lakeview, $50; Eureka
•‘^25; Hemp, $25; Jackson Springs,
$25; Eagle Springs, $25; West End,
$25; Cameron $50; Pinehurst, $800.
scheduled for an address. All of the
48 states of the Union and the Hi-
waian islands have membership in
the association, and with the subjects
to be considered the convention will
be one of the most important that
has assembled at any time in Pine
hurst.
In quarter ended June 30, there were
more than 17,375,000 telcpliones in
operation connected to Boll switch
boards, an increase of more than 200,-
000 over the previo^is quarter.
was on. Late the iioase was the i ten miles northeast of Carthage, is
home of Governor Benjaniin Williams, I reached now by a good road all the
who died there in 1814, ail i.s buriod I way, and it is interesting enough to
on one of the hills this side of tho j drive out to see. John Willcox, the
river, where his grave was mai-kcd | new clerk of courts, lives there now,
a few years ago by a tablet procured land he has a fine big farm, for the
through the efforts of Gen. Julian S. ! old place included hundreds of acres.
Carr and some Moore counry frlKs. In any but unusually bad weather that
Probably no other place in this sec
tion is the scene o? so niuih l iti jr-
is now a good road from Southern
Pines or Pinehurst to Greensboro and
ness and wanton bloodshed and re- I points north, as the Sanford Greens-
prisals as the Horseshoe country, of boro road is picked up at Goldston,
which the Alston house was the con- ^ and that is rapidly being made a fine
ter. There was the pnnvros-' road.
VOTE TO ENI,ARGE
SCHOOL DISTRICT
GOOD TOBACCO
PRICES RULING
Southern Pines Takes in
Territory Adjoin
ing
New
Aberdeen Making Sales at Sat
isfactory Fig
ures
KIWANIS TAKES
TO ADVERTISING
At the election on Tuesday held in
the district surrounding Southern
Pines it was decided by a vote of, quality of the leaf excellent
more than three to one to join with the | Tuesday a lot of tobacco from the
Aberdeen is having a good tobacco
market, the prices running high and
On
Southern Pines schools and make the
whole territory a consolidated dis
trict.
The Manly section voted 66 for con
solidation out of 99 registered. Jim-
town voted 4 out of 56 registered, and
the district at Suggs cast 33 out of 34
registered. Some of those register
ed failed to get out, or the favorable
majority might have been larger.
Ralph Chandler, of the school com
mission of Southern Pines, is much
pleased with the result and says it
will make the schools of that town
among the best in the state, although
they already rank well, as their grad
uates are admitted freely to the uni-
verisity amd the colleges, and the
Southern Pines boys and girls in the
higher institutions of the state are
getting high marks in their studies
at those places. Practically all the
children in the consolidated district
will be taken to the central schools
from now on, and while most of them
have been going to the main schools
the consolidation makes the district
officially a unit instead of a group and
unifies it in its management and fi
nancing.
Tapps farm sold 3,700 pounds at the
rate of $49.63, and a load from
another farm brought at the rate.
Backs A Continuation of Last
Year’s Pro
ject
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COUNH TEACHERS
ORGANIZED
Helpful Talks Given By Mem
bers of Board of
Education
The Kiwanie club at its Wednes
day meeting at Jack’s Vittles dis-
T^ensary in positive voice voted to con
tinue to back the advertising effort
made with so much benefit last year..
Leonadr Tufts in saying a word in be-1 athletics.
By the call of Superintendent A.
B. Cameron and President O. B.
Welch, the teachers of Moo#e €ounty
met for a business session Saturday
morning, October 9, at the court
house.
The meeting was opened with devo
tional exercises, conducted by Rev
erend C. E. Clark, Pastor of the Car
thage Presbyterian Church. At the
close of the devotional exercises Pres
ident Welch appointed a nominating”
committee, to nominate officers for the
current year; and a program commit
tee was appointed. This was fol
lowed by a talk by the County Sup
erintendent, in which he outlined the
plans for the year’s work. Mr. Cam
eron emphasized the importance of
special efforts to maintain a high
average daily attendance and the need
for higher standards in high school
results of last year’s work by the ad- j At the end of the superintendent’s
$56.00 for a lot of 1,140 pounds or | vertising committee had been the best | talk. President Welch called upon J.
over $638 for the pile. The Tuesday | year the Sandhills had ever known, j W. Graham of Aberdeen, a member
sales totaled 48,100 pounds at an av-1 and that the great gain over previous ‘ County Board of Education,
One person in every nine in the
United States meets with an accident
every year, and on out of every ten
deaths is ch^argeable to accident
causes.—New York Times. It pays to
be careful.
Pay your taxes during October and
and save the discount.
SERIES OF MEETINGS AT
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A seies of meeting conducted by
Rev. Mathewson, of Jackson Springs,
assisted by the pastor. Rev. M. D. Mc
Neill, Sunday, October 24, at Manly
Presbyterian church. The services
will be held at 11:00 and 7:30. Begin
ning Itfonday, October 25 and lasting
through the week, services will be
held at 3:00 and 7:30. Everybody is
cordially invited.
erage for the entire day of 31 cents a
pound, or $16,000 for the day.
The quality of tobacco coming to
the warehouses this season is of a
higher type than usual, and Mr.. Saun
ders says that the work Archie Tapps
has been doing is in considerable de
gree responsible for the gartifying
conclusion. Yet he says the tobacco
market is short of supplies now in the
face of the steady increase in the
demand for cigarette, and that this
years’ crop will not be likely to pro
vide a surplus against the existing de
mand. He therefore looks for ^ood
prices for tobacco for next year; and
predicts a good prospect fo rthe next
two or three years. Mr. Saunders
says the Sandhill tobacco is steadly
attracting more favor, and that this
field is interesting farmers from other
parts of the state and that the number
of tobacco farms continues to multi
ply.
One thing he regrets is that a num
ber of farmers take their leaf to other
markets to sell when the home mar
ket brings good prices, saving the cost
of going elsewhere. He thinks the
coming three or four years will see a
big expansion of Moore county tobac
co growing.
years was so great that a vigorous
effort this year was warranted.
! who spoke very frankly upon the sub-
I ject of school supervision and its man-
I agement. Mr. Graham said that one
Sam Richardson, Murdock Johnson, i of the most important factors in the
Charlie Mason, Forest Vonconnon, C. success of a school is the conduct of
W. Spears and Levi Packard were ap- j the teacher, and asked the teachers of
pointed to the advertising committees j stabilizing the
, „ ^ ^ , spirit of jazz by keepmg their conduct
and Sam Richardson, Talbot Johnson
Pay your taxes during October and
and save the discount.
and Richard Tufts on the committee
to solicit subscriptions for money to
pay the bills. Charlie Mason argued
that the work should be pushed at
once as the time to impress people
with the Sandhills is in the immediate
few weeks ahead, and a diversity of
argument agreed with him and backed
the project. Solicitors will be in the
field irght away, and it is believed
advertising can be placed within a
few days.
To attend the district convention
held in Charleston beginning Novem
ber 11, Prof. Morton, Rev. McLeod
and Ralph Chandler were elected del
egates. A number of members are
talking of going to Charleston to the
convention as a golf rivalry exists in
the organization, and Charleston is
said to have a good place to play the
game.
Considerable running talk along the
tables indicates that this is to be an
other year of exceptional business in
the Sandhills, and much confidence
was expressed.
above reproach. Mr. Graham also
emphasized the importance of home
training and home study and express
ed himself as thinking that every high
school student should spend a mini
mum of two hours a day in home
study.
Mr. Graham was followed by
another member of the County Board
of Education, John R, McQueen, of
Lakeview. The hearty applause
given Mr. McQueen showed the love
and esteem in which he is held by
the Moore County teachers. Mr.
McQueen expressed an opinion that
this will be the best year’s work in
the Moore County schools since the
war.. He encouraged the teachers to
put forth their best efforts in raising*
our standards to the highhest possible
level. The following officers were
elected to direct the Moore County
teachers association during the cur
rent year. President O. B. Welch,
Carthage; vice-president. Miss Al
berta Monroe, farm-life; secretary, J.
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