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nson and unday. lue front <lred here rs acconi- o the lat. S. C., on returned Y. in at her several d Mrs. A. ss visitor week. and Sa- rs. I. c erine, of the home een, Sun« nt s C. I ' w t ttttnnxttstn VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Address all commuaicauons to the pilot printing company. VASS. N C FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1926 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 FINE STAND OF LONG LEAF PINE Ten Thousand Acres in Extended Sandhill Forest. One (Bion H. Butler) A couple of miles from Pinebluff, three or four miles from Aberdeen, and perhaps half a dozen miles from Pinehurst is one of the most interest ing forests in North Carolina, and it is accessible from any of these points by roads that are in excellent condi- non at all seasons of the year. The territory fronts about two and a half miles on Drowning creek, and is tra versed by the county road from Pine- bluff to Markham’s bridge, the road from Aberdeen by Roseland to Mc Donald’s bridge, and the road from Pinehurst by Pinebluff, Roseland or by the Manice orchard to Markham's bridge or other points farther down Drowning creek. No more interesting roads than rhese are in existence in Moore coun ty,, which means almost any place. Just hilly enough in the hill region to be varied, and flat enough in the tiat lands to get away with most of the hills. But in all quarters lined with pine forests of different ages, among the rest being the tract belong ing to Dr. Alex McLeod in the Deep creek neighborhood, which is about the best example of what pine trees will %lo in Moore county if they are given half a chance. This* timber of Doctor McLeod’s would be a fine source of supply for a saw mill man, but the doctor merely says he doesn’t need The money, and the trees continue to grow and to become worth more ev- iry day, besides lending their influ ence to the beauty of the Deep creek i^ion. Drowning creek flows along the west side. Horses’ creek is on the east. And Deep creek runs through the heart of the block of timber land, which includes probably 10,000 acres, and possibly that acreage without a habitant. That vast territory is giv en over to the young leaf pine trees, and they are a revelation. Deep creek is a fine clear stream, rising in the Sandhills, and flowing all its dis tance through the sandhills, with a current almost uniform the year round, and never colored by mud or sediment. It is the largest stream wholly within the sandy belt, and one of the most picturesque. Within this area the young pines are coming in all sizes, and they are in places as thick as if they had been >own by hand. In other places they nave been thinned by Nature, but in nearly all the big boundary the forest continuous, and gives promise of a vast amount of lumber in a few years if used for that purpose, or of a won derfully interesting adjunct to the re torts of the county if by any means some plan could be devised to save the body of timber for that purpose. The play ground that could ■ >e created in that extensive for int is a dream. It has all the requis- Little Stories About The Natives By MISS CONNIE CURRIE When rim Von Cannon Turned Detective Like every other man, Jim Von Cannon has his peculiarities. One of these is the desire to see his fellow- men behave. He behaves himself and he wants to see his neighbors do the same. Indeed, misconduct in his com munity becomes almost a personal matter to him and he thinks some thing should be done about it at once. One morning some ten or twelve years ago, sleepy little West End awoke to find that she had been hos tess to a first class robbery during the night. Some one very inconsiderate of the new plate glass doors and win dows of the new McDonald store had broken in and helped himself to what ever he chose. In half hour’s time West End was agog. Every man in town found that he needed something at the store be fore going to work that morning. Ev ery woman needed a little soap or soda, and teachers and pupils alike discovered that the shortest route to 'he school house was right by that sore door. Trade was brisk and good natured Mr. Ritter would probably have lost his temper by having to an swer the same ({uestions so many times had it Jiot been for a feeling of importance that accompanied each answer. And when the train came in and it was learned that the train crew had thought thy had heard the briak- ing of glass the night before and had tried to phone the Mims from Pine hurst excitement ran high. Every body blamed the Mims for being such sleepy heads, but w^hen later in the day ’twas rumored around that there were probably two of the robbers and one stood on the outside with a gun to shoot anyone that interferred, ev erybody was glad the Mims were so fond of sleep. Among the first to reach the scene of the robbrey was Jim Von Cannon, and, of course, he thought measures should be taken at once to catch those robbers. “Now, I’ll tell you,” he. said, but no one had time to listen to Jim tell anything. The gentlemen of West End were enjoying themselves, they had found on reaching the store that they hardly felt able to go to work and had stayed to talk so every body was busy telling something him self. The store’s supply of tobacco was practically exhausted that day (tobacco promotes thought; a man can think of what to say next, while he pauses to spit), so as I said before, no one had time to listen to Jim. Like Anthony of old he begged them to lend him their ears: “Now, I’ll tell you,” he’d say, but no one listened. After several attempts to gain the public ear he became disgusted and s alked out. Then it wa*", as luck would have it he found the first clue. Just at the corner of the building in the soft sand was a track that arrest ed Jim’s attention. True, under any other circumstances he would not have no iced u but* i f»w tvei^y thii;^ was suspicious and that was a suspicious 'ooking track; ’twas the print of a •un-down looking shoe in the heel of which was a peculiar looking tack, •ome hing like the shape of a horse shoe, and on this track Jim pounced around the store and across the cotton patch he followed it—down the rail road track and on by Aumans—all day long that track he followed— sometime during the day others join ed and followed with him. At last towards night the track led them to Mack’s farm, and there hidden around stumps, here, there and yonder they found the stolen goods—suitcases, shoes, ties, cigarettes, socks and what nots—and there,too, they found the ' hief—a slender, brown negro not over 19 years of age but an ex-convict at that. What makes a thief? is it some pe culiar twist of the brain? I know not, but sure it is that no amount of punishment will make an honest man out of a thief, even as no amount of hardship will make a thief an honest man. Next morning it was noised around that the thief had been brought to I town and was to be tried before ’Squire Morris. Once again the na- I tives had business at the store and ! there they saw the thief such a woe-be j gone looking piece of humanity that i more than the school children found j it in their hearts to be almost sorry I that he had been caught. ' Thus did Jim Von Cannon help I bring to justice the West End robber. Would hevliave been caught any way? Probably. Providence arranged mat ters thousands of years ago so that a man's sins would find him out. Now as to wherether Jim was an instru ment of Providence or not, I couldn’t say. MOORE CO. HEALTH AND WELFARE ASSN Hold Meeting At Home of Mrs. Suttenfield And Elect Officers. WORK PROGRESSES THANKSGIVING PINEHURST HOUSE ON GOLF COURSE RACFS PP^HURST; GETS PULICITY Crowd of Men Surveying Clearing at Knoll- wood. and An Exceptionally Large Field of Horses Are Here For The Winter Season. (Please turn to page 8) farm life SCHOOL BOYS WIN IN JUDGING CONTEST On November 3rd, eleven high -'vhools in Moore and adjoining coun ties having vocational agricultural departments took part in a livestock judging contest at Pinehurst. Each ?^chool was represented by a team of three boys. One class of four Ayrshire dairy COW’S were judged. Farm Life team winning first place in this class. Two classes of four hogs each were judged. One class consisted of bar rows finished ready for slaughter. The "ther class was made up of four gilts "0 be used for brood sows. Farm life hoys placed fifth out of eleven schools in judging the two classes of hogs. The Farm Life team was composed Herman Seward, John McCrimmon, and Herbert Bost. Out of thirty-three boys taking part in the contest John ^IcCrimmon was third highest indi vidual scorer. Donald Ro«s is making progress a" the new golf course at Knollwood. A force of men is busy making further surveys and laying down lines for the work while more hands have been put on the clearing. The bulk of the work under way is on the east side of the water line from the pump station tr Southern Pines, and is carrying thf- clearing for the fairways pretty well down toward the creek. It is also ap proaching the highw’ay near the creek crossing. The expectation is to have 75 acres cleared within the next sixty days, and ready for the plows which will then proceed to make the surface ready for seeding to grass and pre paring for future use as a golf course. Warren S. Manning is ex pected in Pinehurst in a day or two, and he will probably be in consulta tion in the work of planning the gen eral landscape effect to be sought in working out the plan for the work ahead. Mr. Manning has had a hand in most of the recent work in <he Pinehurst and Knollwood schemes, and is thoroughly familiar with ail 'he natural features of the whole sec tion. His visit is looked forward to with much interest, for his big gener al plan for the whole Sandhill section ’s more or less the fundamental basis for most of the new work that is done in all the villages of lower Moore county. The Model Home In Saturday Evening Post Advertise ment. ABERDEEN LEADS Reports just issued covering Tobac co crop and sales show that the mar ket at Aberdeen is leading this sec tion in both number of pounds and av erage price obtained. What promises to be the most suc cessful winter racing season in tho hi tory of the Pinehurst Jockcy Club, will be inaugurate d Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 21th, at ':45 P. M. This statement is not made withort I ion in fact. Never before has cheie been such a large and splendid fiold of both running and harness horses on the ground, two weeks be fore the first race. The running staoies contain over twenty speeds'ers, the majority of which are here direct from an extend ed race meet recently successfully concluded on the track of Charles Schwab in Pennsylvania, w'hile others have arrived from the recent meet in Alabama. The runners are all new, with the exception of “Glascow,” who is back again with the expectation of repeating his feat of last year, in win ning so many of the Annual Cups, owever, there are plenty of owners this season who are already claiming that Glasgow- will have to “sprint some” if he repeats. The harness horse division is equal ly w^ell represented with new blood and keen competition is a«"sured at every race. For the first time in the history of Pinehurst racing, every barn is full two weeks ahead of time and the Jockey Club has been obliged to send out warnings to Southern race tracks to stop the inflow because of lack of stables. This, of course, in sures a large field and an exciting race. Every horse on the track will be “ready to go” on Thanksgiving and a record crowd will be there to see When Pinehurst builders set abon to create a horse that should be a model for this section they fi*/ured on an a*Mac ive building, but it is doubtful if hey expected the house world attra't the atten*ion tha it ^as won. It was hardly completed until it me 'he approval of a north ern visitor at Pinehurst, w^ho bought it and is now living in it. Probably no house in Pinehurs* has been given the attenMon this one has received from everybody, for its purpose to be a model held an interest ail the time. This week’s issue of the Saturday Evening Post gives the building a full page advertisement in colors, show'ing 'he house, as the work of Aymar En- bury, the architect, and while the pri mary idea of the adverti ement is to presen the virtues of creo-dipt shin- '^les as they are used in the building, the promience of the advertisement and its excellence in showing a fine house gives Pinehurst a bit of publici ty that is agreeable. It is a guess that the Pinehurst Warehouses have a finger in the ex hibition of this house in the Post, for a couple of years ago the warehouses w'ere rejoicing over a two-page adver tisement in the Post showing a large number of pretentious houses in Pine hurst which had used paints from the warehouses. Harrison Stutts manag es to sell things that have sufficient merit to bring to him this reward of recognition, and if his paints and shingle dips are god enough to bring Pinehurst three pages of illustrated advertising in the most widely circu lated publication in the United States he is doing a good job in selling (Pleas« turn to pag« 8) (Please turn to page 8^ (By Mrs. M. C. McDonald) The Moore County Health and Wei* fare Association and the Red Cross, committee held the November meet ing Tuesday afternoon, the 9th, in the home of Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield, Pine- bluff, N. C. The president in th» chair, Mrs. J. R. Page, led in prayer. The various reports were heard. In Mrs. Hazel’s report she told of five children she carried to a specialist and had fitted with glasses. The Shriners paid the bills. All of these children were very much handicapped in their school work as their vision was unus- ually bad and none of them could have had glasses fitted if some one else had not paid the bills. Our organiza tion is deeply grateful to the Shriners for this great kindness. Mrs. Hazel has since the last meet ing organized one first aid class of ten girls; 2 home hygiene classes; organized junior Red Cross in six: rooms in the schools. She spoke of the baby clinic put on by the Carthage Woman’s club and with which she helped. She would like to see a baby clinic in the county each week, also would like to have a junior red cross chairman for the county. Next came our welfare worker’s re port. She and Mrs. Hazel visited to gether eight or nine schools. Seven rooms in these schools, six white and one colored will put on hot lunches for the children during the coldest weather. Miss Eifort spoke of Christmas •heel* for the unrltiKunate. She i» al ready making her list and hopes no one will be left out. She would be glad to see donations of canned fruit and jeliies sent to the county sanita^ rium. Next came the annual election of officers. They are for the coming' year: President, Mrs. Leonard Tufts; first vice-president, Mrs. R. N. Page,, Sr., second vice-president, Mrs. T. B. Tyson, Carthage; third vice-president,, Mrs. Chas. W^hitaker, Southern Pines; fourth vice-president, Mrs. M. C. Mc Donald, West End; secretary. Miss Presby, Pinehurst; treasurer, Mr. R. N. Page, Sr. In this connection we would like to say that the time for the Red Cross Tloll comes in this month. The Christmas Seal Sale will follow close ly. It is hoped the different commu- '! ies will push both and make them bigger than ever before. The amounts coming to the county from these will help to make up our budget and will go toward the quota of the place from which it came for either this year or next. FARM LIFE NEWS For the past several days, Superin- •ondent R. G. Hutcheson has been wearing a broad grin. And he has sufficient cause to be happy and proud. No manv men are the father of three .'uch handsome boys as are the Hutcheson youngsters, the second of whom, Fletcher Campbell, w^on the prize at the Sandhill baby clinic for being the best looking child there be- ween the age of two and three. Fletcher is a perfect specimen of childhood with blue eyes and curly flaxen hair. He has never seen a stranger, and he is the pet of the anpts. On Friday evening, November 19, at seven thirty o’clock the teacher ^raining class of Farm Life will pre sen" a Thanksgiving play, Mrs. Tubbs of Shantytown. The play is full of clever savings and dramatic situations. Those in charge promise an evening of deligh'ful entertainment. Mrs. T. E. Johnston of the Sta^e De artment of Education paid the clas= a visit last week and inspected the work. She also spent one day with two of last years’ graduates. Misses Strawda Hare and Florence Hinson, who are teaching in Moore Countv-
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