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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the SandhiU TerritorY of North Carolina
Address ali communications to
THK PlLtn PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N C.
ZEBUION V. BLUE
A MASTER FARMER
On Twenty-three Acres He Lives
and Wins Recognition
and Thrives.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928
IN HONOR OF MISS MacNElLL.
Saturday night, Dec. 31, Misses
Loula and Johnsie Eastwood gave a
New Year’s party in honor of Miss
Ruth McNeill, of Vass. Cards and
various other features provided am
ple entertainment until 12 o’clock,
when everyone quietly—almost sol
emnly-watched 1927 become history.
During the evening assorted fruits
and nuts were served and at midnight
tomato and chicken salad sandwiches
with coffee were served by the hos
tesses, assisted by Miss Selma Smith.
Those present were Misses Ruth
McNeill, Frances Blue, Ruth Mclnnis
and Selma Smith, Messrs. F. M.
Dwight, Claude Matthews, George
Haynes, Eugene Keith, Frederick Tay
lor, Herbert and Hiram Mclnnis, Mel
vin Gardner and Robert Leslie.
DEAN H. J. HUGHES
AND EDUCATION
BLUE-HcCASKILU
SUBSCRIPTION S2.C0
has
Harvard Man Tells
Some of the Shortcom
ings of Schools.
Bion H. Butler
When Leonard Tufts delegated G.
W. Crockett to study the Canadian
adapatation of Scotland’s master
plowman customs, and the Kiwianis
club joined in with Tufts and Crock
ett to put the idea over in Moore
county, something was commenced
that looks as if it will set Moore
county folks to thinking The out
come of the work has been told.
Several farmers have been awarded
cash prizes, gold and silver medals,
and diplomas for their successful and
intelligent handling of their farms.
The farmer to win the first prize is
Zebulon V Blue, a man who lives in
the neighborhood known as the Eu
reka section of the Blue section, a
neighborhood that has been progres- “It is a Most Worthy Movement
sive from its earliest days. The Blue j and I Hope it Will Prove
community hag long enjoyed an ex- Successful,” Says Gov.
cellent reputation as the home of
good people, good farmers and good; Durham, N. C., Jan. 3.—The fol-
citizens. The stock is of good ori-ho^vj^g strong endorsement of the
The following announcement
been received:
Mr. Daniel Adolphus Blue and Miss
, Catherine Montgomery McCaskill an-
mwanis j nounce their marriage on Saturday,
ithe thirty-first of December, nineteen
I hundred and twenty-seven, Carthage,
North Carolina.
tUTURAL
WORKERS TO MEET
Meetings to Be Held at Farm Life
School January
17, 18, 19.
All of Moore county will be inter-
MIEAN ENDORSES
NEAR EAST WORK
tr,^‘rlnh of the late .
^ Plnehum Wednesday john W. McCaskill, of the Eureka the biggest pro-
IC ard 'wits presented a speaker, community and is a young woman of nature ever put on in
w o had been one of his instructorg j quality and fine character For county will be held at the
a arvar , and vouched ^ for his i eral years she has held a position i Life School through the united
soundneM of doctrine and i»readth of vrith the Bank of Pinehurst. i efforts of the agricultural workers of
sense. But Dean H. J. Hughes in a | Mr. Blue is a son of the late Neil January 17, 18, 19.
few mmutes proved that good wine.c. Blue and Nancy Blue, whose home' ^gent E H. Garrison and
needs no bush. He stated that much I i3 i„ the Eureaka community also,
money is spent in this country for The groom is a deserving and popu-
education, and followed by the won- ,,ar young man and is part owner in
1 It f the Shields Drug Co., at Carthage
asserted that we ought to spend more, i
but more wisely, all of it. Too many
boys and girls are graduated, but not
educated and not trained to use their
heads, the speaker assured the club.
And before he had finished they were
of his mind.
KEATINGS BUftD
AT PINE NEEDLES
“These young folks,” Dean Hughes • Buy Two Knollwood Lots and,
said, “don^t know what they should
do when they are through college.
Too many are square pegs in round
holes, where they do not fit Too
many are where they should not be.
One Adjoining at Pine
Needles.
Bion H. Butler
The name is encountered j .it,,. There is no longer any doubt but
prominent places in American 4. ^^Bt College Asso- Some who go to school and college | that the joint movement which
Zeb Blue is a man fifty years of
TT C0H"
ciation in North Carolina coming as should p ^who | ters at Pine Needles and Knollwood
Ti • J i.1. 1 does from Governor Angus 'W.
age. He was raised on the place , -n j ,w.
Uio woe ^cLean will doubtless be received
from which his farm was taken. His ' 1 uououess oe received
father lived there before him Zeb "?
Blue maiTied Mary Rankin ten years P * ^
J XU u J J worthmess of the Association’s ac-
ago, and they have made a good ^
team. The pair began their married;
life on the father’s farm, hut soon I enjoy the public confi-
secured a twenty-three acre tract! ^ fuller degree than North
from it, which has since been their Carolina's present chief executive,
home and the scene of their successes | when Grovemor McLean ex-
and of their share of disappointments, j belief that few move-
for all has not been flowery beds of' in the state are mgre wholly
ease and chicken with this success- ^ than that of the Near East
ful pair ! College Association in North Caro-
Zeb Blue has been a farmer all s“ch commendation is fraught
his life. When he set out for him- signi cance.
self he thought tobacco would inter- Lieutenant-Governor, J. Elmer Long,
est him. He found it took to© much j Chairman of the campaign in
work for what it brought him, and i Carolina has been consistent
required too much hired help. He'‘7 praise and untiring in his ac-
tumed his back on tobacco and tried efforts in its behalf. On the
cotton. It suited him better, and j State Executive Committee of this
he still raises a little cotton. This niovement are a group of outstanding
year he had two acres in cotton anjd leaders in their various voca-
raised two bales. Much cotton does 1 » men in whom North Carolin-
not interest him. He has raised as :^^^® have the utmost confidence; men
high as eight or ten acres of cot-i’^^® studied very carefully the
ton, but a bale of cotton to the acre movement and
takes a lot of work, and does not heartily endorsed, and who are ac-
bring as much money from an acre behalf ,
as some other things. So w!hen It is, however, with singular grat-'
the Blues moved to the new house ification and strong appreciation that ^
they built on their 23-acre faim they the Near East College Association |
began to plant trees and to work out! is able today to release the following
a garden and truck scheme that has | endorsement from the Governor of |
been more profitable and more suit- North Carolina. It reads: j
able for their size of farm, which! «‘i (jesire to add my strong per-'
Mr. Blue says is big enough. , sonal endorsement to the efforts of.
As I talked to him about his ex-1 the Near East College Association |
perience I noted several things j now being put forth in this state i
along the course of our discussion. | under the active leadership of Hon.
Zeb Blue is a farmer. He has no | J. Elmer Long, State Chairman,
land in his farm for speculation. He j I know of few more worthy en-
does not pay taxes on a hundred ^ terprises than that of extending edu-
acres and farm 23. He farms 23 i cation to the youth of the world.
do not. That a brick layer in New
York can earn $18 in a day of five
hours while a college professor, high
ly educated in colleges gets maybe
$10 a day for longer hours shows that
some men are progressing without
going to college, while some might
progress faster who have been there.
“The parents are hopeless to right
these things for they don't study
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.—J.
ARCHIE R. BLUE
PASSES IN DEATH
and pays taxes on 23 acres. He did
not secure land to sell some day to
some one else for more money. He
is not a land speculator, but a farm
er. He is not burdened with a
load of idle land that bring him
nothing and takes money to carry.
He is a farmer. That is one point
that impressed me. I think there
is one stone around the neck of far
too many farmers. They have a lot
of land they do not use, nor expect
to use. It keeps them poor to keep it
up, and -adds nothing to their in
come except in the fortunate event
of selling some of it But that is not
farming.
Zeb Blue is a farmer. He figured
that 23 acres would be about as much
as he could cultivate, and that if he
cultivated it right it would makie
him a satisfactory living. So they
planted trees and vines, and garden
stuff. He is much interested in
vegetables. He plants from two to
five acres of cotton to work in » ro
tation that interests him, and to pro-
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Very especially it seems to me is |
such an effort meritorius when the j
light of learning is carried into
these lands bordering Asia, where
the gospel of freedom and the
teachings of westerr civilization are
so urgently needed.
I trust that the Near East College
Association’s campaign in North
Carolina will prove wholly success
ful, as I believe it is an important
and most worthy movement. I sin
cerely trust that all who are appeal
ed to for a contribution to this cause
will, if possible, contribute as gener
ously as circumstances allow.
ANGUS W. McLEAN,
Governor.
Heights has struck its gait. On Mon
day Mrs. Francis T. Keating, who
is one of the shrewest business heads
in the Sandhills, made a deal that
gives that section another decidedly
forward lift. She bought the two
lots No. 500 and 501 in the Knoll
wood Heights plan, and then as No.
500 did not give quite ^ entry to
the fairway of the ei^tffcith hole of
the Pine Needles golf course she
bought the adjoining lot on the fair
way which is a Pine Needles lot. No.
499. It was 139, but as Mrs. Keat
ing is adding it to the lots in the
Knollwood plan she has renumbered
it 499, which makes it a sequence in
numbers with the other two. These
three lots face the Fairway drive, and
Entire Eureka Was Saddened by {the short road, and also faces the
the Untimely Death of I fairway their entire distance, and
This Young Man. lean not be surpassed for location in
I the Sandhills. They look out over
The entire Eureka community was! the golf course, down at the hotel,
saddened during the Christmas holi- ^ out over the whole range of country,
days by the untimely death of Arch'e j including Mrs. Keatings fine holding
R. Blue, youngest son of the late ^ over on the highway near James
John A Blue and Sarah McLean | Swett’s, one of the most desirable
Blue. pieces of property in the county,
Archie Blue was taken ill in the which she has plans for (developing,
early morning hours of December 28,, and they are in that group of lots on
and passed away about 9:30 that , which Mr. Olmstead has already
night. He was a young man of splen-1 commenced the first Knollwood
did character and was greatly belov- i Heights house.
ed by a host of friends throughout the Mrs. Keating will at once corn-
entire county. He was a graduate of rnence the erect’on of a house on lot
the Sandhill Farm Life School, and 499^ and it is an easy guess that that
was bom and reared in Eureka com- , house will be rented or sold or oc-
munity. He joined Union church injcupied as soon as the paint is dry,
his early boyhood and later transfer-1 for being only 400 feet from the en-
red his membership to Eureka Pres- trance of the Inn, and less than 200
byterian church. For the past six feet from the 18th hole, a house there
years he had been a member of the § money in the bank from the min-
Jackson Springs Presbyterian church, | ute it is staked off for excavation.
in which place he \iras engaged as a | significance of this pur-
rural mail carrier. Durmg the World I ^haee and the build. ng project h
War he served his country with hon- 1 Keating is an exceeding-
or in the Navy. jy successful operator in real estate
Mr. Blue was 32 years old at the
HEALTH AND WELFARE
TO HOLD MEETTING.
The January meeting of the Moore
County Health and Welfare Associa
tion and the Moore County Chapter
of the American Red Cross will be
held at the Community House in
Pinehurst on Tuesday afternoon, Jan.
10, at 2:80.
time of his death. He was laid to
rest in the cemetery at Union church
on the afternoon of December the 28.
His pastor. Rev. R. G Matheson, con
ducted the service, assisted by Rev.
Chas W. Worth, of Carthage, and
Rev. J K. Roberts, of South Caro
lina. Mr. Matheson paid beautiful
tribute to the young man's Christian
character and faith. At the end of
the service, the Masonic orders of
West End and Carthage took charge,
and laid the body to rest with Ma
sonic honors.
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CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our most sin
cere thanks to the many frends and
neghbors for the helpful ad, beauti
ful floral offerings and comfort ren
dered us during our recent sore be
reavement.
Mrs. S>arah J. Blue and family.
in this section. Her judgment has
been unusually fortunate! She was
one of the first to buy on Weymouth
Heights, and she came out of there
with a good margin of profit. She
did the same thing at Mid Pines,
where she was among the first buy
ers, and she cleaned up some nice
money in the sale of that holding.
At Pinehurst she made a similar
venture, buying a cottage and lot,
and selling the lot afterward for
about the highest price ever realized
for lots up to that time. These shrewd
investments antd their success in
reaping big profits have given Mrs.
Keating a standng in the Sandhills
as a good buyer, and the prophetf*
seem to think that her venture at
Knollwood Heights and Pine Needles
is the most likely of all of them, for
as her house at Pine Needles will be
the first one in that property, (the
Olmstead house, although only across
the street, is in Knollwood Heights)
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Vocational Teachers R. G. Hutcheson
and H. L. Seagrove, of Farm Life,
and F. C. Winston, of Jackson
Springs, are working together to
brin gto the county during these three
days the best agricultural talent
which the State posesses. The plans
are to have two sessions a day for
each of the three days, with a noon
intermission, at which time hot coffee
and refreshments will be served to the
farmers present through the co-opera
tion of the county’s merchants and
business men.
Since agriculture is Moore County's
chief industry, there should be a
widespread interest in this program,
and the agricultural workers are ex
pecting a full attendance from all
sections of the county. With such
speakers as I. 0 Schaub, State Direc
tor of Agriculture Extension; Dr. C
C. Taylor, Dean of Graduates from
North Carolina State College; Roy H.
Thomas, State Director of Vocational
Agriculture; C. F. Pate, Fertilizer
Specialist; R. W. Graeber, State For
ester; W. W. Shay, Swine Specialist;
E. Y. Floyd, Tobacco Specialist; Miss
Maude Wallace, Assistant Director
of Home Demonstration; O. F. Mc
Crary, District Extension Agent; "J.
M Osteen, District Supervisor of Vo
cational Education; (Jeorge Ross, Di
rector of the Bureau of Markets; and
other speakers of note the program
promises to be a veritable feast for
those interested in the agriculture
welfare of the county.
The second day of the short course,
Wedne^ay, January 18, will be of
especial interest to the farm women
of the county. On this day. Miss
Maude Wallace, Assistant Director of
Home Demonstration, will bring a
message to Moore county women and
the rest of the day will be devoted to
poultry ciscussions in which the far-
ners wives are always deeply inter
ested It is especially urged that the
farmers put forth their best efforts to
bring th"*ir wives and daughters to
this meeting.
Through the three days session
Moore county farmers and prospec
tive farmers will ad/d to the program
by telling some of the things which
are being done over the county which
have proven of especial worth to the
farming interests It wil be a revela
tion to a good many people to know
some of the things which have been
accomplished in Moore county through
the co-operation of the farmers and
agricultural workers.
Letters are now being sent out to
farmers all over the county acquaint
ing them with the nature of this meet
ing and urging their attendance.
Cards are being placed in each letter
which the farmers are asked to fill
out and return, stating whether or
not they will be able to attend. It is
necessary for the agriculture work
ers to have some idea of the number
who will avail themselves of this op
portunity, in order that ample re
freshments may be provided for every
one present. Since the time is so
short, it will be necessary to have
these cards returned immediately. It
is to be hoped that the full benefit of
this‘program to the county will be-
gasped and that a large number will
take advantage of the opportuniy to
meet and hear North Carolina's lead
ing agriculture workers. More re
garding this program will follow in
next week's papers.
....A press agent says of a lecturer
that he never visits the same city
twice. Maybe he doesn't dare to.
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