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[ebniary 17, 1928 pTTmnniiiuiiiiii. AY ig Race t! ;ialties ii 2nd of the s . . Mr. PcrioQ years I •ertilizer of sn~ tred T€- tst right would J i seems of ihe ty mind \ether m§ >end on on the id 20% make I IRS’ EX- lartin of .. Mys: Fertil- I and on time I and I |»«i> any jjooJ >ite the JZERS . . . G. V»nce tobacco Fertil- )feraging te acre, for my iobaceo, ILITY‘ tnt than used.'* Mr. tranville \d Fish JTY’) |i»'Ai7e I Ire crop k $10,- fer fer- tat Fish 30% II hsve VOLUME 8 THE 5 ^ C *r NUNBER 12 ^ Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company. VASS. N C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928 i/s* t SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 MEETING NEAR |UVELY ACTION EAST REUEF AT KNOLLWOOD I I Held in Durham—Many State The Turners and A. B. Yoeroans Figures Were j Join the Colony of Lot Present. | Owners. preparations for the ■ State cam-' bION H. BUTLER. paign of the Near East College Asso- The enthusiastic action in the elation in North Carolina were made Knoll wood Heights lot development is Thursday, February 16, at an enthus- a surprise in the oldest inhabitant, iastic meeting of the volunteer work- for never before has such a compre- ers and other leaders interested in hensive movement been known in Cen- this cause, says Miss Loula Eastwood, tral North Carolina. Since the sale who attended the meeting in Durham, of building sites was announced a few sessions being held at the Washington weeks ago the transfers in the neigh- Duke Hotel. Miss Eastwood is chair- borhood of Pine Needles Inn have man for Moore County. Well known passed a hundred thousand dollars in leaders in State affairs, including Dr. values, and it looks now as though W. P. Few, president of Duke Uni- interest is just now wakening up. versity; Dr. Harry W. Chase, presi- type of buyers is one of the most dent of the University of North Caro- significant features of the movement, lina; Josephus Daniels, Raleigh pub- women of the best char- lisher and secretary of the Navy un- ®^ter are becoming owners of Knoll- der the Wilson administration, and Heights building locations, others have given their support to But there is nothing about it that this cause. might not have been expected. On the A purposeful morning session was day when this paper announced that followed by a luncheon at the hotel, the Pine Needles was a positive pro- with strong endorsements being vol- ject the future of that section was de- unteered by those interested in the cided, and it needed but a single Near East College Association cause, thought to realize that there a new Governor A. W. McLean, although un- community had begun which must able to attend, sent his strong per- grow to be one of the most outstand- sonal endorsement to Lt. Governor J. members of the Sandhills resorts. Elmer Long, State chairman, declar- The Pine Needles was planned with ing that he knew of few more worthy all of the experience that goes with enterprises. ^ years of successful hotel and resort An interesting prospectus of the sit- operation, and with the facilities con- uation and problems was presented venient that all the years of the past by Albert W. Staub, American direc- have afforded architects and builders, tor of the association, and Captain whole thing started with a clean Claude W. Hopper, Southern director, | slate, right out in the untrammeled each telling of the progress being forest, with nothing to remodel, or PUSIflNG OUT Oi^ MIDLANDS ROAD Working Itself Through Wey- Mouth and Toward Fort Bragg Section. CHANDLER WINS HANDSOME CUP Carolina Power Company Recog nizes Southern Pines Office. Bankers of Group 7, which will hold a meeting in Sanford Saturday. BANKERS COMING TO SANDHttLS made and the obstacles to be over come. Numbers of State chairmen were present, the attendance for the conference being about seventy. A strong plea for the support of the Near East College cause was (Please turn to page 7) IS WAR NEARING ITS FINAL DAYS? inject or in anyway interfere with a wholly new creation from wholly new plans on unsettled ridges among the|^|*iicial affairs, pines. Every new idea could be add ed to every acquired item of accum ulated knowledge, and the result is the fine new Inn. Around that new hotel the same liberty for making homes and village was permitted by all the conditions. So the Knollwood Heights proposition was all ready through its own influences and when the roads were plotted and the build ing sites indicated and the water lines When Manning and Deaton nine years ago projected the Midlands road from Pinehurst to Southern Pines the original draft laid down a line mtich the same as the State en gineers have followed until near the top of the hill coming into Southern _ Pines. But there a route was consid- iered which would go under the rail- I ' ,road near the filling station at the I curve, and continue through the pine I woods of the Boyd estate around to D. A. McLauchlin, chairman of the I Highland Pines Inn, with another branch crossing through the Wey mouth slope by D. C. Lemons, and both the roads going into the road that now goes past the Grover vine yard out into what was then Knoll wood territory, but now belongs to James and Jack Boyd. Much of the scheme has material ized far faster than was anticipated, for Mid Pines and the Pine Needles have arisen since that time, and Wey mouth Heights has come forward with a delightful home development. Also out beyond Weymouth men of means have been securing lands, and the acreage from Ridge street in South ern Pines clear out to the Fort Bragg boundary is in strong hands, the Boyd interests being the bigger holders, hut all leaning to the one general idea of making that part of the com munity a rural reserve which is to afford ground for the hunts, for homes on tracts that are big enough to afford ample ground for those who care to maintain the country atmos phere and to have plenty of ground around the houses and buildingrs for the comfort of the isolation that room a good country neighbrhood af- Meet Saturday in Sanford, and Make Trip to Moore Coun ty in Afternoon. On Saturday the bankers of Group 7, composed of eight counties of which Moore is one, and of which D. A. McLauchlin, of the Bank of Vass, is chairman, will hold a meeting in Sanford, closing with a banquet in the evening, which will be attended by a large number of state bankers and a visiting delegation of twenty or more from other states. State bankers from other sections will be with the bankers from Group 7, of the counties in this section, and the event will be one of importance in m After the morning meeting and a dinner many of the visitors will be brought down into Moore county to I fords. see Pinehurst, Southern Pines and the! xu u i. ^ . J ^ . The Weymouth home scheme other centers of mdustry and enter tainment, probably taking the Car thage road one way and the Vass road the other so that as wide a glimpse as possible may be had of the region. They will be back to on lots of an acre or so is progressing out over the ridge, and out the exten sion of Connecticut avenue past the fine hotises that have been built out that wayy, and also along the exten sion of Massachusetts avenue, until Ralph Chandler, head of the South ern Pines office of the Carolina Light and Power Company, is walking on his high-heeled shoes this month. His department won a silver cup in a con test carried on during the year 1927 by the various stations of the com pany in North and South Carolina. Twenty-seven different offices com peted in an efficiency program that extended over the year and the South ern Pines division won by a margin of five points, having a record of 87.07 of a possible 100. Cheraw was sec ond in the rating, and Sumter third and Maxton fourth. The Southern Pines area embraces all the territory including Raeford, Southern Pines, Cameron, Carthage, West End, and lines irregularly drawn from these points to each other, with the towns in the territory. This award is based on following: Appearance of sales room. Appearance of store room and sub stations. Collections of both light, power and merchandise accounts. Minimum loss of uncollectable lights power and merchandise accounts, which are charged off as uncollect able. Gross merchandise sales (a quota for each office is set at beginning of year.) Net profits on merchandise sales. Turnover of merchandise stocks, per annum. Turnover of material stocks dur ing year. ^ Promptness in forwarding all reg ular reports. Promptness in furnishing special information and miscellaneous infor mation. Dr. Archibald Currie Thinks the roadways graded and surfaced and Conditions Indicate Much some landscape work accomplished. Better Prospects. buyers were ready to select their building places. The Kiwanis club on Wednesday at i gi^ce John Bloxham bought the the Congregational church in South-1 fi^st block more than thirty pieces of ern Pines carried out a programme' property have passed into the hands 1 J J J xu -1 . Sanford in time for the banquet at i laid down and the sewers in place and • . u • the Merrill house is nearly half a mile seven in the evening. ‘ AUCTION SALE OF DIMICK LANDS that made a feature of George Wash ington and of our government af- of new owners there in the vicinity of the Inn, and each week has noted ad- MEETING HEALTH WELFARE ASS’N beyond the Highland Pines Inn, which when the road was planned was in (Please turn to Page 3) ANNIVERSARY WEEK AT THE CAROLINA THEATRES. fairs. Dr. Currie did not talk very; (jitional sales, following with definite long about Washington, but he did precision one after the other. Buy- talk about the American republic which arose on Washington's suc cesses. And then he turned his at tention to the progress of men in re cent years. He spoke of leadership, beginning with the day w|ien the men of the church were leaders, and j xhe week of February 26, is the an- he showed how they lost their lead- ’ niversary week of the opening of both ership because they dealt too much | pinehurst and Southern Pines in doctrine and not enough with civic t theatres and this week will be cele- affairs. They were followed by|^,rated this year with the greatest lawyers who were powerful leaders attractions-that have ever been for a time, but ’they surrendered to ghown in either theatre in one week, the teachers. The lawyers were too l Qn Monday and Tuesday, February narrowly held to the right of men, 37 and 28, the world’s premiere of the and not enough to the broader phases aviation picture, “The Legion of the of life. They gave way in turn to Condemned,” will take place. This is the teacher who undertook to broad en the understanding and the rela tions of men in various ways, but they were moved to one side by bus iness men, who are now in control. Wars have been a heritage of man kind from’ the beginhingl Four classes of wars have been prominent —^religious, dynastic, polotical and economic. Religious wars are prac tically ended. Dynastic wars are also of the past, as people are no longer concerned to fight over the claim of kings to thrones. Political wars are drawing to their close, and the one thing that still threatens is econo mic war, the wars that represent business. Tariffs, boundaries, inter national claims of one sort or another are the dangers now, and they are as unreasonable as ever. War is now Much Important Business Was Transacted at This Meeting. In spite of threatening skies, the February meeting of the Moore County Health and Welfare Associa tion and the Moore County Chapter of the American Red Cross, which was held at the Community Club; elapse until building will get under House in Pinehurst on the afternoon way on rural homes out toward the of the fourteenth was- very well at- camp line on property that of late has Property Between Aberdeen and Southern Pines Offered Tuesday. the fringe of the woods on top of the , .. hill and away from everything. Now j ^n interesting sale of land at auc- Weymouth Heights drops over the{tio„ held on Tuesday, Febru- east side of the ridge, and the lights 28, when the old Dimick farm, b'e- of the village are seen at night from Southern Pines and Aberdeen, far down in Fort Bragg and as far ,yjjj offered at auction for its new away as Montrose and the Johnson G. C. Seymour, of Aberdeen, mountain. ^ Johnson and the American The Boyd estate which owns Wey-s Realty and Auction Company will con- mouth, has opened roads, put down duct the sale. The offering will water lines, cleaned off building sites, | start at 10:30. and made it possible to make attract- j more than, ordinary ive homes beyond the summit, and it | interest, for it involves several things does not appear that wiuch time will j ^.oncerning the status of land in this section. The Dimick farm has been a great story of the famous French Escadrille during the World War which is interpreted by an all star cast. On Wednesday and Thursday, Feb ruary 29 and March 1, none other than the great and only Charlie Chap tended, over 50 members being pres ent, with Mrs. F. T. Keating presid ing. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting by Dr. Presbrey, Miss Eifort gave her report of the month’s work, which has been large- been going into the ownership of men of means. The signs are that two or three years more will see the Wey mouth development spread pretty well down toward the Duncan Shaw home and the Watch Hill orchard, but be yond that the indications are that ly concentrated on bettering the at- the land will be preserved as a vast tendance at County schools. It has been found that many of the absences have been due to lack of proper clothing, for which reason all contri butions of any clothing which can possibly be made over for the chil dren will be most welcome. In re gard to hot lunches. Miss Eifort (Please turn to page 8) lin in his newest and greatest com- ■ stated that a school in Bensalem and edy “The Circus,” will be presented, i also the Dover school, as well as a “The Circus” is now running in New colored one, have instituted them. York where it is unanimously ac claimed his best comedy of all time. On Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, the famous “lit’* girl of the screen, Clara Bow, will be seen in “Red Hair,” written by Elinor Glyn, and, by the way, her hair will be red in this picture. Anniversary Weew will be a week long to he remembered this year and reserved seats had better be engaged well ahead of each performance. forest park given over for the immed- one of the principal landmarks of the neighborhood for years, and a good farm at that. It has passed from hand to hand under varying conditions, but finally it comes into the possession of G. C. Seymour, of Aberdeen, a man of financial strength and of high standing, and he has decided to offer it for sale at auction for a variety of reasons. One is to dispose of the property, which has been plotted into iate future for hunting and driving j huiijjiug sites, and turn some^atten- and rural pleasures. Hugh MacNair|tion of the growing communities to Kahler, who owns a tract near the j this mid-section between the two Fort boundary, figures on a country; towns, and another is to awaken the In opening her report, Miss Merry- man further elaborated in regard to the hot lunch question. Some of the teachers have found that the burden of supplying the materials for these lunches has been falling on a small proportion of the children, so that the few have been supplying the many, and it is usually the few who stand least in need of the nourish- (PleAse turn to page 7) home there some day, and Howard Fisher is also looking over his land out that way and thinking what a fine place to put in some of the win ter months. Other building plans are talked in a desultory way, but all in dicate the future of the neighborhood. Each season sees new owners in pos session of Weymouth building sites and new houses following the—pur chase. Building is indicated down the Grover road and down the Ma ples road. . , , ' I have no idea how the Midland road will be connected with the Wey mouth extension now that the road (Pleaae turn to page S) possibilities that exist along this high way and in the fine area in which the tract is located. The farm includes 118 acres, lying in excellent form for homes or other uses. It has been cut,into several hundred lots, streets laid out, and It is expected that before long arrangre- ments will be made for a water line from Southern Pines, and electric light service as building takes place so that all the conveniences will be afforded. The titles to the property have been cleared up, and everything of fered will be backed by Mr. Seymour*a i I ; ^ S1 I I i 1 ■ I I I V I ! In II I) If / * I* (Please trn^ to page 8) if J
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