VOLUME
7
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
22
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address ftll communications to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY, VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.
UBSCRIPTION $2.00
COUNTY SCHOOLS
HOLD CONTESTS
Moore County Schools Meet in
Successful Omtests, Show
ing Character of Work.
On the afternoon and evening of
April 29, Carthage was alive with
school folks—teachers and pupils—
from here and there all over the
county, the occasion being intellec
tual contests for the grades and the
high school. Practically every grade
was represented, there being spell
ers, story-tellers, readers, reciters,
•nd declaimers from the primary and
grammar grades, and reciters and
declaimers from the High School.
Superintendent Cameron had urged
that no special preparation be made
for the contests, but that the work
be put on as a product of the achieve
ments of the year. Every represen
tative was interesting, from the lit
tle lisping tot of the first grrado to
the sweet girl or manly boy graduate
of the High School. Clad in their
Sunday best, with replendent faces
EMPLOYE-OWNERS
AT HIGH FALLS
Cotton Mill May Place Some
Stock Among the
Workers.
A project is under consideration up
at High Falls which has for one of
its aims to permit the employes to
become stockholders in the corpora
tion. About a hundred hands are at
work at the cotton and flour mills,
and as they are all local people and
practically permanent residents the
management has figured that the dis
tribution of stock among them would
he a fair recognition of their serv
ices, and a strengthening factor in
the operation of the plant. High
Falls occupies a peculiar and inter
esting position in the industries of
Moore county, and one that is of
more than merely financial import
ance It is a self-contained commun
ity, and one that has as broad possi
bilities as the people will take care
of. If the mill is to become in a
measure the property of the people
SEWING CLASS AT
PINEHURST SCHOOL
This Class Has Been Carried
On Successfully For
Five Years.
and active minds they came, anxious j of the community in a broad way
to shine for their respective schoils
and to do justice to their faithful
teachers And the children one and
all participated with a spirit and
zest that was admirable.
In the afternoon contests for the
elementary grades were held in the
school auditorium. Primary teach
ers and those who love little folks
were interested in the story-telling
and silent reading contests for the
primary grades. Miss Gunter, rural
irtipervisor of Lee county, had a
•tory for each of the lower grades.
After hearing the story twice, the
thildren reproduced tit. Those par
ticipating in this contest were:
Jean Von Cannon, West End.
Pearl Rachel, Farm Lif»*.
those who are discussing the matter
figure that High Falls can develop to
a broader basis, and with prosperity
widening with the advancing years.
The community is built on the
water power developed at the falls.
At the present time a fall of about
20 feet gives approximately 250
horsepower. This serves to drive the
machinery in a flour mill producing
20 barrels of flour daily, and a cot
ton mill with over 4,000 spindles.
The consumption of cotton is over
3,000 bales a year, and the supply
comes almost entirely from the farms
of the neighborhood within easy
trucking distance of the mills. The
flour mill is supplied generally with
i wheat
iU. -
the rsmc -•’rAn
AHce White, Southern Pines.
Audrey Jewel ^oodley, JJacl^son |the neighboring territory
Springs. jtham and Randolph is good wheat
Mary Worthy Spence, Carthage. land as well as good cotton country.
By W. P. MORTON.
For the past five years, some la
dies with Mrs. T. A. Cheatham as
leader, have conducted a sewing
class for the girls of the lower
grades lat the Pinehurst Public
School. The class is divided into
different groups, each of which is
given work suitable to the ages of
its members. This project has been
entirely worth while and has meant
a great deal to the girls both educa
tionally and socially.
You would be amazed to leam just
how much real sewing these girls
have done, the surprises in the form
of practical gifts that they have car
ried home to their mothers as a re
sult of what they have learned, and
how intensely interested they are in
their class. Indeed, quite a number
have had 100 per cent attendance
records for the year.
Prizes have been awarded each
year to the pupils having the best
attendance records, to the pupils who
are most diligent, and to those show
ing the greatest improvement.
Last Monday, April 25th, through
the courtesy of Mrs. Gunning, Mrs.
Cheatham and her assistants gave
the children a most delightful pic
nic at Little Cote. After appetites
had been whetted by a variety of
games and fun, most delicious re
freshments were served, and it is
even rumored that some of the chil
dren enjoyed the ice cream to the ex
tent of being abl© to eat four plates
of it.
, Wednesday Mrs. T. A.
Cheatham and Miss Oliver W.eller
FARM LffE HAS
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
TOP
DALS
Turn
Out Forty-Three Boys
and Girls in the Fin
ishing Groups.
Kiwanis Club In Arms Against
The Looting of
Shrubbery.
The eleventh year of the Sandhill. Kiwanis Club at its Wednes-
Farm Life School was brought to a
successful close on May 10. The
school is proud of the fact that this
year’s class is the biggest in its his
tory. With 20 high school seniors, 11
graduates of the Teacher Training
Department and 12 graduates of the
Business Department, a total of 43
young men and women are going out
as graduates of the institution.
The commencement program was
interesting and inspiring from start
to finish and many friends and pa-
Betsey Jean Johnson, Aberdeen.
Alma Frances H|arhardt, Pine
hurst.
The Gates Standard of Measure
ment of Reading was recommended
by Dr. Trabue of the University, and
used. Leaflets containing reading
for primary grades, and pictures
were distributed. The children read
these silently and marked pictures
the upper part of Moore county, with ^ i
Cha- I present at the chapel exercise
at which Mrs. Cheatham in a happy
speech of commendation to her class
awarded to members the prizes which
they had justly and truly won.
While Mrs. Cheatham has been the
So the river furnishes the power and
the farms supply the raw material
to operate the flour mill and the cot
ton mill, and the neighborhood pro
vides the hands to work in the mills,
R. G. HUTCHESON,
Superintendent Farm Life School.
tions pronounced it the best ihe
school has had.
On Thursday night, May 5, the
fin«T^ exercises were begun with a de-
lig ul recital by the piano students
under the able directorship of Miss
day dinner in Carthage heard Sam
Richardson announce that J. Ellwood
Cox, of the Highway Commission for
this district, said the building of the
Midland road between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst is determined
for the immediate future with two
tracks each ten feet wide. But Mr.
Cox called to Mr. Richardson’s atten
tion that the folks of the Sandhills
have proposed to maintain between
the two roads a planted strip of
vegetation, and that the Highway
Commission will look for that plant
ing.
That brought up some more talk,
and before it had gone far the
wanton destruction of pine trees and
other plants by travelers and others
along the roads excited a lot of dis
cussion. It is a notorious fact that
cars drive the roads at times that
are filled with little pine trees cut
to carry away, and in the arbutus
and holly season, and later when dogr
wood is in flower the wantonness of
the waste of those plants is fierce.
The talk led to a reference to the
commissioners of a proposition to do
something to stop the destruction of
plants, even to drastic enforcement of
law, for it is hard luck to plant trees
and make parks to have folks come
down the road and carry away the
things that have been planted The
subject will come up again, for a
sentiment that this thing should be
stopped was evident in the meeting.
Naturally the matter of enforcing
the law in the case, and the need of
paying more alLeiiuiutt to ttie iaws'^n
general came up, and also the wis
dom of allowing tourists to break
down and carry away unlimited stuff
rather than to deal harshly with
them. But it was stated that if
strangers are to be permitted to de-
according to printed directions. The I a quarter pounds is made annually.
Stella Ethridge, the music teacher.
nvimo ® !'*®!stroy~things as fast'as they can be
piime mover and leading spirit of declamation and recitation
splendid class, her assistants | the school assem-
and the whole proposition is able to j than able, and at her i 1,3)] There were 11 contestants
care for itself with the resources at 1 a list of the [ declamation and recitation
u-nd 'adies to whom she wishes to ex- medal, and the winners were Adol-
press her sincere gratitude and ap-, ,,hus Covington, of Lakeview, and
preciation of their heartily response ' Margurite Phillips, of Bennett,
and efficient co-operation. i respectively.
The product of the cotton mill is
yarns, of which about a million and
following were the readers:
Eleanor Felgar, Carthage.
Alma Crouse, Farm Life.
A. M. Bentley, Southern Pines.
Mary Laura McArthur, Aberdeen.
Mary Elizabeth Cameron,' Pine
hurst.
planted it will be impossible ever to
make this the attractive place that
tourists are looking for. The de
struction of the arbutus once so
plentifiil in this section, and now
hard to find, and the equal ruination
of innumerable holly trees had their
place in the story, and it was the
sense of the meeting that something
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CHURCH WORK IN
THE SANDHH.LS
New Churches and Aggressive
Congregations At All
Points.
The occasional fear that the church
18 losing its influence or its standing
with the people will hardly be veri
fied by observation of the work the
polpit is doing in the Sandhill coun
try, for even though conditions may
he changing some it is hardly to be
imagined thlat they are changing
much for the worse. We are having
different view points of many things,
and naturally the church along with
other institutions modifies its habit
of thought in some things and its
customs at times. But the probabil
ity is that it has its biggest work
ahead of it, and that it will be a more
powerful help for good in the future
than it has in the past. For with
the advance in the intelligence of
men the general field of work con
stantly broadens, and men come moire
willingly to back every good move
ment the church or any other agency
fathers.
All of which is not particularly
PINEHURST OPENS
A WEEK EARLIER
Next Fall Sees the Date About
October 24 With Full
House.
with a good demand practically all j Teachers: Mrs. Harold Green, Mrs. The school campus furnished
the time, and a wide market. Or Tues-1 Journey, Miss Ethel Lamont, niost beautiful setting for the senior j done to make the law
day in the shipping room were pack- j Philadelphia, Miss Alice Barber. c?ass exercises on Saturday after- j pjain to prospective offenders and
ages destined for Buenos Aires, for I Assistants.^ Mrs. John Peacock, j noon at 6 o’clock The 20 high school j^;]*y t,o stop them.
Oshkosh, Syracuse, for Boston, and I New Brunswick, Canada, Mrs. John . seniors entered into their final class j Various other routine matters were
so on all over the country, and for j Fitzgerald, Mrs. Ellen Morrow, Miss meeting in a manner which delighted | disposed of, and a lot of fun mixed
use iu many forms of textiles j.nd i Olive Weller, Mrs. Lloyd Gaidner, ^ large number of visitors and class i other proceedings,
cotton products. j Mrs. Harold D. Phillips.
) mates. Irving Cartwright, of Fort |
The river at High Falls can easily i Prizes for best center pieces: Eve- Bragg, president of the senior class,
permit raising the dam to increase 1 lyn Smith, 8 year old gi'oup; Edith | presided in a gracious manner, and
the power materially, as the hills i Fry, 9 year old group; Gertrude Kel- each member of the class performed
rise abruptly on both sid(.- 5 of the ly, 10 year old group; Arline Bliss, i his or her part most creditably,
stream at the end of the presenr li year old group; Louise Campbell, j On Sunday morning at 11 o’clock,
dam, which means that f th-^ indus i 12 year old group; Esther Mae : Rev. Murdock McLeod, of Pinehurst,
try grows it can still take care of j Campbell, 14 year old group. ' delivei ed an excellent sermon to the
its growth. The farming terr^ory Prizes for perfect attendance:—'senior class. Mr. McLeod holds a
surrounding High Falls has n ferti'e Louise Campbell, Wilmer Maples, I warm place in the hearts of Farm
soil, and is probably one of tha best Gladys Prim, Dorothy McKenzie, j Life students, due to the fact that he
adapted for farming of any of the NelWe Lewis, Marg^aret Morton, conducted a most helpful and inspir-
Alise Frye, Alice Black, Edith Frye, ing meeting at the school at the be-
Una Lewis, Irene Lewis i ginning of the session, in which he
Prizes for most diligent—Frances j ® large number of the students
Erhardt, 8 year old group; Alise to higher ideals and nobler ambi-
Frye, 9 year old group; Katherine I tions. The baccalaureate sermon was
Ritter, 9 year old gi-oup; Mildred | a splendid plea for the fundamental
Robbins, 10 year old group; Irene | principles of character building and
Lewis, 11 year old group; Wilmer I Christian lives. „ , i. r.
Maples, 12 year old group. | On Sunday evemng Mr. John R.
Prizes for greatest improvement— McQueen, chairman o e oar
Alice Black, 8 year old group; Ethel
Moore, 9 year old group; Mary E.
Wisemian, 10 year old group; Betty
Hogg, 11 year old group; Louise
Campbell, 12 year old group.
The best average attendance badge
went to the eight and nine year old
groups, their average being 87 1-2
per cent.
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South. Good roads have opened the
country, so that the folks can get
in and out, and with the miilrf
High Falls i^x % niarket close by ami
with the hands at the mills affordmg
a local market for considerable stuff,
that feature of farming in upper
Moore county is taken care of.
The village has its own v/ater
plant, and electric current is sup
plied by the mill plant. The village
is owned by the corporation, and
about two dozen substantial houses
shelter employes of the mill, v/hile
others live on the neighborho<^
farms with their own people, as it is
the immediate vicinity that provides
the help employed.
In the past the corporation has
been in the hands of a limited num
ber of persons, hut the suggestion
th« 86fne mtght be por
tioned out among the employes has
met with m»ch favor, and many o<
the worker* have expressed satii-
faction over the possibility of be-
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Twelve farmers in the Lowe’s
Grove Community of Durham Coun
ty will plant one acre of alfalfa each
as a demonstration this year.
Tom Tarheel sayis he is getting his
roadside market ready for the sum
mer trade.
trustees, made a splendid talk to the
Christian Endeavor Society on the
topic, “Our Duties to Our Homes.”
Mr McQueen always pleases Farm
Life folks since he has been more
deeply interested in the progress of
the school and the individual prob
lems of the students than any man
in this section.
On Monday evening at 8 o’clock,
the annual high school play was
given before a large and apprecia
tive audience. The name of the pro
duction was “Go Slow Mary,” and it
unanimously proclaimed the
was
best amateur production ever given
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Pinehurst has been steadily in
creasing the length of its season,
both by earlier opening in the fall
and later closing in the spring. While
the Carolina will open officially for
the general business of caring for
everybody next fall on October 31,
as has been the case for a year or
so, it will open unofficially the pre
ceding week to care for a convention
of the American Institute of Steel
Construction, Inc., an organization
made up of the high officials of the
large steel concerns and their friends.
The attendance is expected to reach
2.50 to 350 and the hotel will be
theirs for the week. This is an un
usually prominent organization of
persons of wide acquaintance in the
country, and it is expected that its
coming to Pinehurst will have a wide
and wholesome influence on the early
fall business.
For the end of the season next
spring the North Carolina Medical
Society has booked the week incltid-
ing April 30 to May 3. This asso-
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