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K 1927. 'j 2 L' ^ ^ ^ W'l i by mm : Special. Cheara «v«rj eadache eatraix ezam- fitfl you atisfae- correct, recem :hild to Sanford .* lA. to ■888068888^^^ VOLUME 1 ilL PILOT NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory (^j^orth Carolina Address &11 communicftdoni to the pilot printing company. VASS, N C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1927 MIDLAND ROAD A VIVID PROPHET Its Recent Remarkable Record the Guarantee of the Days Ahead. BION H. BUTLER, One day about eight years ago when John Chilcott had arrived in this country I took him down on McDeed's Creek, near the crossing of the old Yadkin road to show him a projected development then beginning. Frank Buchan was there and Francis Dea ton, and they were making a reloca- tion of the road, which was to go to | it should be handW and FARM WOODLAND A SAVINGS BANK Farmer Cuts 50,000 Board Feet of Lumber a Year for 25 Years. the top of the hill towards Pinehurst, to open the big property H. A. Page Jr., had bought from Dr. Von Herf. College. “When he took o^er his By following a system of selective cutting, taking only trees of good size, one good farmer of Moore coun ty has been able to cut an average of 50,000 board feet of lumber each year for 25 years from his farm of 350 acres. “W. T^ Brown, of Spies, in Moore county, is handling his farm woodlot is using it as a savings bank,” says R. W. Graeber, extension forester at State IJ. P. SMITH GETS BIG j CHECK FOR TOBACCO. I The biggest check ever paid out for tobacco in Aberdeen was given last Friday to J. P. Smith, who farms on the road between Aberdeen and Raeford, not far from Raeford. The check called for $3,769.35, and bought an excellent type of leaf tobacco as well as a large amount. Mr. Smith has a big acquaintance all over the South through his famoius cotton plow which he manufactured for years at his home on the Raeford road. Now he has won another dis tinction as one of the most success ful tobacco growers. The tobacco OLMSTEAD PLANS KNOLLWOOD HOUSE Plans for Building Adopted and Will Start Work at Once. I was a little confident in my expla nation to John about what Frank and Francis were setting in operation, and they both helped along with the prophesying work. It looked some what like a bold prediction to say that there would be a leading road in a few years and a thrifty com munity, and all that the dreams of dreamers dreamod. But the one place where we all fell down was in not conceiving in the slightest degree the actual magnitude of what Frank Buchan and Francis Deaton were starting. Warren S. Manning came into the gtame a little later, and he outdis tanced all of us, for he predicted a great thoroughfare on the road Dea ton was projecting on the day I men tion, and I have Manning’s map on my table now. That road extended to Pinehurst in a short time, and be come the Midland road, and then it grew to be a double-way road. The Mid Pines Club was organized out in the pine thickets, and what that in stitution has become needs no ex father’s farm of 350 acres some 25 years ago, he determined to follow R. L. Olmstead has fired the first gun at Knollwood and immediately activity will begin on the lots he bought a few days ago on the ridge just above the new Pine Needles Inn. Mr. Olmstead's location includes lots 512, 513 and 516, and it is probable that the house will be placed on 513. his father’s plan of cutting o<ut the quaity of tobacco and large volume, mature timber each year during the It is believed now the total sales of ij ^ XL , To understand the full meanmg of was sold on the floor of the Saunders!^, , u i-v J X, , the plan it is necessary to have a Warehouse. On that day the sales* i i ^ ^ ^ • • Ku A rt/J. ...V i slight knowledge of the ground in in Aberdeen totaled $10,000 more than j.... t ^ 4-u the vicinity. Leading out from the they did on the opening day in the i, , ,, ., ® ^ a - „ , ^ , Inn to the northwest is Short road, fall, and the pricejs averaged around tj- Oft . mu J t which extends as Indian Trail drive 30 cents. The market in Aberdeen i 4. j 4-u J ., L , . ,1 over to the Carthage road near the is going good, with good prices, good winter months. Since most of the mature trees had been cut, Mr. Brown was forced to mill the smaller, second growth but by carefully selecting only the best trees he has cut over 50,000 board feet of lumber each year for the time he has had the farm in charge. Some sections of the woodlot have been cut over each five years.” Mr. Graeber states that Mr. Brown uses the whole tree. The laps and crippled trees are used for wood and the better stock for lumber. With 275 acres of his land now growing timber, Mir. Brown expects to make a timber harvest each year during his lifetime and to leave more tim ber on the place than when he began to cut. He harvests the timber dur ing the winter, using his own labor and operating his mill with a little water power on the farm. This is i3^ne excellent example of the season will run materially above four million pounds, and that the price will average as good as last year by the time all is finished. Aber deen is showing an extremely ac tive lifei during the tobacco market days, and an air of prosperity is hov ering over the comm'unity. PINEHURST HOUSES GET WIDE RECOGNITION. planation. It is a group of some of good timber farming, according to the foremost men and women of the | Mr. Graeber. It is a method that United States, and with new names other landowners in North Carolina adding from time to time, and with should follow because using timber many more to be added in the fu- as a farm crop gives employment to ture. James Barber built a house on labor during idle seasons, enables the Midland road, buying the first lot at Mid Pines. Judge Way soon In the annual report of the Sher win-Williams Company, which is is sued in one of the most artistic bits of printing that come this way, are some pictures of selectejd buildings over the world that have used the Sherwin-Williams paints. In the number are three houses at Pine hurst. Some costly and elaborate structures in various places are shown in the pamphlet, but in no place are three residence buildings shown ex cept Pinehurst. Maples home. Crossing this drive about a quarter of a mile from the Inn is Fairway drive, and at the junction point Crest road at the end of a curve cuts into the crossing, leaving at the five points a small park way. On the east side of the Fairway drive one tier of lots lies between the drive and Fairway 18 of the Pine Needles golf course. On the west side of the drive is the group of three lots bought by Mr. Olmstead, and on the same side of the drive as the Olmstead lots, but across the curve of Crest road are the three lots John Bloxham owns. This puts sev eral building sites in one little com- mimity, and it is expected that more will come in shortly, and join in the plan that Mr. Olmstead has outlined and is already starting to work out. This group of lots is high on the ridge, not over 600 feet from the big park which the Fairway of the 18th hole will create, and it is believed to be ifi every way a highly desirable the owner to use thfe whole tree and also brings in a steady income year followed. Other houses arose in the | after year. It is a much better meth- territory of the road, and now it is od than selling all the timber to a j UNDERNOURISHMENT one of the chief entrances to the vil lage of Pinehurst, with several at tractive homes on either side of the way. Barber’s development is one of the big things in the vicinity of the road, while the Pine Needles Inn, soon to open, will be one of the fore most community centers within the boundaries of the State. Knollwood Village has been gradually advanc ing, and it is unique in its growth. In all its range of country Knollwood has not a single commercial estab lishment. Mid Pines Club is a pri vate institution. Judge Way’s new orchid greenhouses will come the nearest to a business concern of any thing in the neighborhood, but it is an amusement as much as it is an in dustry, and carries on no trade, for nothing is there for sale to local buyers. Knollwood Village was de signed and has been brought along to its present point with the one idea of making a pleasant place to live, and that has been accomplished with every turn. In all the endeavor to advance the attractiveness of the different areas along the Midland road the men who have been making homes have joined with the general sentiment, and ex tended the improvement that is the dominant note—making the commun ity desirable for residences. The road is unique. Two ways with a strip of pine trees between. Pine trees on the sides of the road. Pine trees on the ridges and pine trees, in the valley, with the various hard woods in the low ground. The road is a succession of chanifing pictures, interesting as a bit of Nature study, interesting as the woric of ttte Itumaii hand as well. The type of buildings is clean and wholesome. For much of the distance a glimpse is offered of Pinehurst, of Southern Pinea, of Knollwood, of the coiantry round for miles, l^e way side is well kept. An occasional bit of orefeard' or c«l- saw mill operator and letting him go through the property at one time cut ting the best and wasting the re mainder. tivated ground breaks in on the home and the woodland. The golf course at Mid Pines, the lake at the foot of the hill,, the winding roads at Pine Much of the com- ®f the new Knollwood develop- pany’s paint is sold there by thej™"‘; is in a short distance from Pinehurst Warehouses and Harrison i connecting roads be- Stutts says he and Sherwin-Williams I f^^en the Inn and Pinehurst. It is go a long way to help make Pinehurst a feiw hundred feet from t^ Mid the delightful place to live that it is. i Club, and a shorter distance Certainly they help to make Pinehurst State highway, known to all creation. Mr. Olmstead has arranged for the plans for his house, for the construc tion and for everything looking to its PREDISPOSES TB. I speedy construction.- Charles Austin, !of Pinebluff. will build the house. It Undemdurishment predisposes tu- ® either tile and brick or tile berculosis in both children and adults, and stucco, with ragged slate or red Anv steps leading to the discovery roof. It will be in all respect a and proper tre«t^ent of .'nHe-no-’r- modern, compact and perfect house, ishment in ch.'IdrPn «nd con-i"'‘th all the equipments and fadli- trib-te to the prevention of tuh<>rcu-|"«« ^^e present I day. Hot air or steam will be the SUBSCRIPTION $2.C0 Oh^i llZATION OF YOUNG FARMERS The Purpose of Organization Is to Create More Interest Among Farmers. s. Needles, the fine new building which | svmntom« of ch Whood Seating scheme, electric range, kel- is the new hotel, the eu>;ves up the | vinatcr, two tile baths, two room ga- hill into Southern Pines, the Archery! been 1 toms factory—and all of this has done in the last eight years. _ Now the Midland road has gained ^ produced b'- malnntriHn.. ^ge, with maid’s apartment, large Chronic fatigue in chili^ren also fol-' '•''•ng room, dining room, pantry, lows closelv the symptoms of under- kitchen, three bed rooms, and the con veniences that go with such a struc- dren occassionally have tuberculosis but the number of undernourished, children who have the disease are greatly in excess of those who are normally nourished. Watch yo*ur child and yourself, and see that you keep both yourself and ymr child well nourished. Its swing, and with its present mo- Undernourishment causes bad nos- I* °ne story, fitting with mentum the work it is to do can children, because the muscles general idea of architecture that preidicted by the work it has done. It i various parts ‘>®®n accepted as suitable for the came from a start of nothing. It! body erect. Bow-legs and surroundings of Pine Needles. has already become one ot the most i knock-knees are the results of faultv' factor. John novel roads of the State. The high way commission in a short time will rebuild the road as a State highway, and with the progress it has made Midland road in another half dozen years will astonish all of us. Pine hurst at one end, Southern Pines at the other, Knollwood Village along the line. Pine Needles Inn adjoining with all its modem innovations, the Midland farm section also on the route, every one is an agent of progress and development. The Midland road has shown its history of the last eight years. It in that brief time has become the main thoroughfare of the communities it ties together. It is developing as one of the moat attractive roads of THANKSGIVING SERVIES AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. taken for the Barium Springs Or- Central North Carolina, with a home- i^ianiire* making factor that is prophetic, and it is carrying a traffic that rank* it already with the leading hi|^ways of the State. What it has accom plished in its first eight years indi cates what it is to do in the next sipiilar p*riod« and that it i# to faet a Midland raad is tMyoBd idl <P1mui# toeii Ip pngii nutrition. Normally nouri shied chil-! who has the three sites across the Crest road curve, is also planning a house on his ground in the near future, and he has arranged with Mr. Olmstead that the two buildings shall be created as a part of a bigger group that is expected to follow, and the whole immediate bit of territory will be handled as a part of a park and building design that will consid er roads, lawns, buildings, planting, the golf course a short distance away, with the Inn the doirunating note of the entire project. The proposition is an artistic scheme that is new in the Sandhills, and will be worked out with the purpose of making a home center there close by No. 18 and close by Ian, so that winter resU dents who wi^t a location close by hotel and amusements may live in one of the iumses, and at such times as are d^siiai m#y go to the Inn for meals or otIiMr purposes, or -be ac* commodated at home. The commun ity idea is designed with the aim of h^vsRS the neighborhood a homogene<> o|2S finit, and one that will absoluter R. G. Hutchison, principal of Farm TLife School, will conduct the Thanks giving service at the Vass Presby terian church Thanksgiving morning at 9 o’clock. An offering will be D. MONIOE. North Carolina Ima hairvestie^ one of its best crops of sweet potatoes this year. Yieixis of 325 bushels an acre are reported by several farmers. 1 ■■ ■ T<^ thauM for good crop yields, for plenty of home grown food and for the health tmd fmmmm ni ii^ The Vocational Agricultural stu dents of the Sandhill Farm "Life • School met October 26, 1927, and or ganized a Local Chapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers, a State-wide or ganization of students of vocational agriculture in North Carolina. Offi cers were elected as follows: President, Lacy Hannon; vice pres ident, Lawrence McLeod; secretaryi Preston Bhie; treasurer, Hill Hinson; reporter, Fred Blake, and advisor, H. L. Seagrove, t^her of agriculture. In a<|dition to these, George Massey, John Bost and Ollie Seawell were elected to serve with the officers as an executive committee. The purpose of thte Young Tar Heel organization is to create more inter est in agriculture and a higher re spect for the business of farming, to promote thrift among vocational ag riculture students to encourage schol arship and promote projects for rec reation and community improve ments. Some of the activities that wiU be carried out by the club are: 1. Organize and conduct a thirift bank. 2. Sell poultry products co-opera- tively. 3. Buy supplies co-operatively. 4. Enter judging contests. 5. Conduct fertilizer demonstra tions. 6. Average 85 on year’s work in agriculture. 7. Keep accurate records of all projects. 8. Hold regular meetings monthly. 9. Conduct vacation tours and en campments. 10. Hold public debates on agricul ture topics. There are three grades of member ship in the Young Tar Heel Farmer organization, namely: Green hand, Farmer and Carolina Farmer. Green Hand. To become a Green Hand the student must be 14 years of age or the mental equivalent, en rolled in an all-day course in agri culture, possess suitable facilities for carrying out satisfactory supervised farm practice and receive a majority of the votes of the members of the local chapter. Farmer. To be elected to the de gree of Farmer the student must have completed one year’s work in agriculture, incli|iing satisfactory supervised farm practice, at least $40 earned and on deposit or otherwise productively invested, regularly en rolled in an all-day class with plans for an enlarge program of supervis ed farm practice, lead the class in a five-minute discussion when called upon to do so, recite to memorfy the County Boy’s Creed and receive a ma jority of votes from the members of the chapter. Carolina Farmer. The qualifica tions for the degree of Carolina Far mer, the highest rank in the organi zation, are as follows: The student must have completed at least two years of agriculture with outstanding supervised farm practice, at least $300 earned and on deposit or other^ wise productively invested, to be able to lead a group successfully for 20 minutes, possess outstanding quali ties of leadership, make the high school judging or debating team, make an average grade of 85 or more, pass a subject matter test on agriculture given by the State' super visory staff, and be familiar with parliaiQentary pro^dure by having held office in the local chapter. The meml^rs for this degree will he elect ed annually at the Stote meeting, the number receivi|ig degr^s each year being lindted to 25. (Please turn to page 2) Some of the best yields of tobacco recor<^#^ P9«t ymr were secured where dolemitic limefltone W9^s used on thd laid tlmig with good fertilizer, cultivation and varieties.
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