VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
SO
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communicacions to
the pilot printing company. VASS. N C
CIOUNTY CHAIRMAN
IS APPRECIATIVE
Sends General Letter To Co-
Workers in Fall Caiii-
paign
HON. FRANK PAGE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926
GOVERNOR McLEAN
Carthage, N. C., Nov. 8, 1926.
Hon. Stacy Brewer, Chairman,
Vass, N. C.
Dear Mr. Brewer:—Now that the
ampaign is over and the smoke of
battle is cleared away, the dead and
'.voimded have been taken care of and
w can think more accurately and de
jibe rat el y about matters, I desire to
fXpress to you a word of sincere ap-
ineciation for the co-operation and
-plendid help I received from you and
• hose associated with you in the re
cent campaign.
I hope our people are satisfied with
our efforts and with the results. I
linow that those of us who were en- . many other notables were
trusted temporarily with the affairs i attendance at the Twelfth Annual
rjnd leadership of our great party did
the best we could. One great trouble
we had to contend with, is the fact
:hat the voters, especially the women
—with some exceptions—are not tak-
Meeting of the American Association
of State Highway Officials, held at the
Carolina, Pinehurst, this week.
Mr. Page pointed out that a man,
losing his license in one state, be
ing their political responsibilities se- ^^use he is unfit to drive a car, can
rously enough. Votng is not only a ^^'oss the line into another state and
privlege but a duty that. every ctizen continue his career of destruction,
owes to his county. There were many j declared that 15 per cent of the
things combined to make our work automobile traffic in this country is
iiifficult; otherwise the oucome would . the sense that cars have
have been better. Our people could | state and have driven into
Kiniply not be aroused to the require-1 ^r^other. The rgulation of vehicular
nients of the hour.
It has ben a great pleasure to me
to have had the opportunity to work
'.vith you in this campaign, and I hope
we have meant something to our par-
ty*
With high personal regards and
best wishes, I am,
Yours very truly,
D. AL. BLUE,
€o\ifity‘ Chairman.
SECRETARY JARDINE
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
NEW HOTEL IS
ORDERED BUKT
The Pinehurst Project at Knoll-
wood Becomes a
Certainty.
traffic is no longer a county nor a
state problem, but one as large as the
country itself.
McLean Welcomes.
Governor McLean did the welcom
ing handsomely. He paid Page a high
tribute, and he told the audience that i
Jardine was making a very fine secre
tary of agriculture and a worthy suc
cessor to Houston. He told the 48
commissioners and their organizations
that are with them that North Caro
lina was proud and pleased to have
them come down here, because he felt
that North Carolina had something to
show them in the way of achievement,
and a warm welcome because of their
own achievemnts back at home.
The Governor didn’t crow. Here was
the chance of a lifetime to tell the
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GOOD TOBACCO SALES ON ABERDEEN MARKET
I On Wednesday Tapps Brothers sent 1 and everybody expects them to get
I a shipment of tobacco to the Aber-1 noney for their crop. Yet almost
I deen warehouses and the 3,100 pounds j $1,700 from a truck load creates
j sold at the rate of 54 cents a pound, j some talk. Such results as this from
j This is a good sale, of a large quan- tobacco is arousing Aberdeen folks to
BOYEH TALKS
ON NEW COURT
farm has held the record for several
xity at a high price, but the Tapps
years of making good tobacco and
lots of it, and getting a good price,
cncourage more tobacco and the for
mation of a club to Wck an energetic
expansion of the tobacco area is un
put more tobacco men on local farms
with the help of the people of that
end of the county. It is hoped that
next spring may see the acreage
much increased with good farmers
from other sections establishm^r them
selves as was the case a few years
ago when the tobacco movement
Bion H. Butler.
The erection of the contemplated
hotel at Knollwood is definitely an
nounced this week from the general
office at Pinehurst, and men are at
work on the site of the golf courses^
clearing ground for an eighteen-hole
course and opening the black jack
thicket for the hotel site. Donald
Ross is laying out the first eighteen
hole course, and Frank Maples is fol
lowing behind him with a crew that
i will speedily open the face of the hills
j with a series of fairways that will
cover about seventy-five acres. When
this has been accomplished the sec
ond eighteen hole course will he plot
ted just beyond to the eastward, af
fording two complete courses of the
kind that Ross knows how to locate
and build.
The location for the building will
be on the hill something like half a
mile up the water line from the
bridge on the Midland road where it
crosses the creek below the Barber
dam. As work progresses it can be
seen from the road crossing near the
creek, and in a few days the opening
of the golf fairways will give an op
portunity to see the activities dis
tinctly, for one of the fair ways will
run down nearly to the Midland road
at the creek, and two of them will
reach up to the hotel site, and give
a broad, clear view from the hotel to
the road at the creek crossing.
site is about the same distance from
Judge Way’s house as from the creek,
and just above the Judge’s house a
dorway in Aberdeen, with plans to | starld in Moore.
Shows Kiwanis Club How
Saves The County
Money.
It
At the Wednesday dinner of the
Kiwanis Club at Jack’s in Southern
Pines, M. G. Boyette, solicitor of the
new countv recorder’s court establish
ed something over a year ago explain
ed something of the working of the
institution. In the 18 months the |
court has been in operation it has | One of the noticeable things about
handled over 510 cases, and cleaned the boys that came back from the
up the minor criminal docket. As j world war was their reluctance to
Little Stories About The Natives
By MISS CONNIE CURRIE
The Burial of An Unknown Soldier
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DOCTOR STREET
ON EVOLUTION
Sets Forth His Ideas On “Most
Important Leg'islative
Question.’
99
“Education”—self
They are in alii-
■:he superior court can hardly get
away with more than a couple of doz
en cases in a term, and holds session
at infrequent intervals it is seen how
impossible it would have been for
'he superior court without the record
er’s court to attend to the increasing
business of the county.
discuss any of their experience. It
probably a pile of straw and leave?
raked up over it. Corn, wheat, po
tatoes and any treasures they had
were hid in unlikely places,
seemed, as it was so great that they j^gt as dark was settling down on
wanted to forget it as soon as possi- ^he evening of March the 8th, in 186">,
ble. I old Angus Currie and his two little
Such was probably the case after I boys, Frank and John, came in from
the civil war also. Sure it is that | he swamps where they had been to
many stories that would be of interest j look after the horses and they were
The Foolishly Proud Evoluteonists
and Modernists—These men presume
“Leadership” in
I appointed leaders.
I ance with the Clarence Darrow’s and
“The American Civil Liberties
' League,” an organization of infidels
i that was suppressed by the Govern-
' ment during the war on account of its
pernicious teachings and seditious ac-
' \ him to see that he was buried.
The next morning began the search
or the body. A few days after, with ' tivities. They are especally active
th^* help of one of the soldiers that | against Chrstianity and the Consttu-
was again passing by, they found it ^ional prohibition amendment. Those
”i l th<ere where he was killed, Mr. s«W-aPPointed leaders who are not
Currie and Alex Steward buried !
nary mspiration of the Bible, the
Virgin birth and Deity of the Lord
to us now have been forgotten and i startled to se their yard and field sud- ^ Tliey knew no name for hini but ^ Jesus Christ, and of the truth of
This vast amount of business has , in the days that have past. Occa-| denly fill with soldiers. The little Stew-. God’s Word are in open alliance of-
‘•cen cleaned up, and it has been done | g^Qj^ally a good story comes to light ' boys had had big eyes for days but . ^ I a carve jfensive with the deniers of the Bible
at a cost that is insignificant as com- course of a casual conversa- now they almost popped out. -Never i ^ f nowg u m | and the scoffers of the Lord Jesus
in their ?mall imagination had they * gentlemen said . Christ, and are wilfully and knowing-
supposed there could be so many sol- j ^ Pi’ayer for him. They had had ly working in bad, bad company, try-
diers. So many terrible stories had i
">ared with the superior court. The j-io^ which we hear and promptly for-
recorder’s court has three officers, the | again.
Judge, solicitor and clerk. These three | ^ might be of interest
men handle the entire business, and j natives is the story of
average about ten to twelve cases a burial of an unknown soldier in
day. The superior court requires a i ^pHng of 1865.
judge, solicitor, a score of grand ju-
’ . , . Ill The lonelv grave is located just
-ors, a number of trial jurors, a clerk,! , ‘ u + « i« now
stpo,rapher and possibly others and | about half w ^
‘ill these take county money. Then : ^
.fu 1 . ; home of the Carpenters.
the lawyers must argue their case, - - .u + tn
1 .. . Rnt for the storv as it was woia to
and the judge charge the jury and
the jury must deliberate over the ; f f
case, all this takes time, and only a , “One evening a ® ^
cases on this high basis of cost i March in the year 1 ^ wor c^e
‘ that Sherman’s army had reached
Wadesboro and were headed this way
been told of the cruelty of Sherman
and his raiders that momentarily they
expected something awful to happen.
To their joy, however, they found the
soldiers to be, not Yankees, but Gen-
be turned out in a week’s ses- that Sherman s army had
^ion. So under the old system the i
jails were always full, for a man ar- | and some of the o er ® ® the
nested a few days after court had i that unless our so
adjourned stayed in jail nearly six | ’em off at the river an s oo
months awaiting the next term of : down like ducks as t ey J
■ourt if he was not bailed out, and | were sure to come y an s ^ +heir i laughing and joking—and just as
that took money to feed and care for j burn everything; they cou | settled again they rode away.
j^im. The man bailed out was left out | hands on. J 7eTaway into 1 As he was leaving General Butler
;ame on because ; Horses and cow , . ^
the first attempt was to empty the j the swamps and t
ing to have the Bible discredited by
war and not returned. act of the North Carolina legislature.
Thus was buried an unknown sol- Hence not one of them can logically
dier of another war. Unwept, un- and with truth claim to be a believer
honored and unsung, but somewhere, i in the Bible, or to be earnestly con-
someone watched the roads for many tending for the faith once for all de-
eral Butler’s calvary of the Confed- i weary months hoping against hope | livered unto the saints, as all believ-
erate armv. The Yankees, they told i that he would come. Why he was ' ers are commanded to do.
them, had gotten no farther than Pat- i killed was never known. ’Twas in the | xhe whole aggregation is an arrant
terson’s Bridge, where they had had last days of the confederacy when j array of diabolical and human deceit
a small skirmish. 1 morale was very low. and conceit and pride and arrogance
For a day and a night Butler’s cal- The soldiers were almost desperate. ' in array against God and the truth
varv camped at the old Currie home. wives, children, fathers and | of His Holy Word, and because the
All day long on March the 9th, Gen-'starva-, democrat party is in power at pres-
Butler sat on the little front porch | t'o" and who could blame them for ent m the state, it is the purpose of
Currie houise and sent his ^P- Whatever the | this ^ gang of worldlings to make the
All cause, there lies buried near the ; democrat party in North Carolina
couriers in different directions. All » i. , . • . -4. ^ i ^
1 • his soldiers were in and out' ^^^rby s school house just another one | commit itself unmistakably to the po-
orthrLuse cooking and eating and I the many, many soldiers that j sition of plainly declaring that the
fn bail when court came on because | Horses and ^hid i called old Mr. Currie and told him
Tt 1 o+nvf»r
rails, and frequently cases ran along . where a
went to the war and never came I Bible is not wholly inspired by God
Himself, and that the Bible is not
true; and to make the democrat party
tax all the people for the purpose of
back.”
A sword that was left at the Cur-
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sLll boy usually stayed to that on the afternoon before they had
u .u Melt if thev were so I found it necessary to court martial
fortunate to have it', was buried and i and shoot one of his soldiers and ask-
rie’s on that day is still in the pos
sesion of Alex Currie’s family. It is
covered with inscriptions, but no one
has ever been able to read them.
teaching this soul damning falsehood
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