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VOLUME
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THE
PILOT
NUMBER
17
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
thk pilot printing company. VASS. N C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928.
JOHNSON STARTS
TALK OF TREES
Wants to Tabulate Moore Coun
ty Forestry Under Bo
tanical Name.
Mr. Editor:
Once a sincere friend of m'ne—
albeit a friend with brutal frankness
said that the most characteristic
trait of my character was my prone
ness to “break out in a new place.”
While the matters hereinafter
stated may appear to be new at
first blush, yet the truth is the
thought has lain dormant in my
mind for three of four decades.
Thirty-five to forty years ago when
I was a student of Pharmacy, the
branch of the profession that appeal
ed to me most forcibly was the science
of botany, and through all the |
changes that have been wrung since j
these early years what little botany j
I learned has clung to me with the i
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
In behalf of the Moore County Health and Welfare
Association, I wish to commend the public-spirited co
operation given us by the Moore County Commissioners
in re-es^blishing a Health Bureau. Through their en
thusiastic support—both active and officially expressed
in writing—it was possible for us this winter to install a
County Physician and a County Nurse as part of the
county’s working force, and thereby greatly to strengthen
a health program which is already showing excellent
results.
One feature of this orderly program is evidenced by
the appended copy of a slip used for more than two years
m the public schools by the Welfare Worker and the Red
Cr^s Nurse co-operating with the teachers. (The Coun
ty Physician now keeps formal record of periodical weigh-
ings of all public school children.)
Moore County Health and Welfare Association.
Report on Hot Lunches.
Week ending 192....
Name of School
Grade
Enrollment
Average attendance for week
Amount spent $
Estimated value of contributions $
Name of Branch
O. K. of Branch Officer
Teacher's signature
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. FRANCIS T. KEATING,
President.
Announcemen
Wednesday evening, April 11th,
at 8:15 o'clock, the Community
Club of Lakeview, will present a
musical comedy in the school audi
torium. The program contains va
ried numbers, numbers and selec
tions that will be sure to please
old and young alike. Choruses ga
lore! One act plays. Duets, solos,
and scenes taken from the “Good
Old Days.” Something for every
body in the family.
The proceeds will go to help buy
a new curtain for the stage in the
school auditorium.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
iseS
«00L APPEALS
ufifered a Great Loss
om Fire a few
Weeks Ago.
JUDGE WAY JOINS
KNOLLWOOD UST
Secures Lot No. 503 and Picks a
Lot of Good Neighbors
Close By.
Facts Every Tax Payer Should
Know About Farm Life School
most persistent lure, and since in
the most vaulting flight of my am-
Commissioners Are Going to Be
Asked to Provide for
Its Continuance.
The rebuilding of the Sandhill
Farm Life School is a topic of inter
est in every comer of Moore County.
bition Moore County has been my 1 There is a growing appreciation for
Wide, Wide World, it has often oc-|the type of work that the school has
curred to me that I would like to tab- i more friends today than it has ever
ulate under proper botanical names | had. There is more conncem for its
and Natural Orders, with some em-* future than ever in the past. Wheiti-
bellishment, the trees indigenous to! ever school matters are brought up,
Moore County. I the question arises as to what is to
MRS. J. McK. HARRINGTON ILL
The Pilot regrets that Mrs. J.
McK. Harrington, the Cameron
Correspondent, is very sick a|t her
home in Cameroiu It is hoped by
all who know her that she will
make a speedy recovery to good
health and happiness.
If I were to attempt to tabulate
and write up the whole flora of
Moore County, including the trees,
shrubs and flowering plants, as was
once my ambition to undertake, the
work would require longer time than
be done at Farm Life. On the first
Monkiay of April, the Board of
County Commissioners is going to be
asked to provide for its' continuance.
Our Present Board of Commissioners
has proved itself progressive and
I can reasonably hope to live; hence! publ’c spirited. However, it is per-
ifectly evident that they must base
MOORE COUNTY
FARM NOTES
Things are stirring agam at Knoll-
wood as is the case every week.
Judge Way has seen the light, and
today he is the owner of Lot No.
502, adjoining the selection made by
Herbert Jackson, the Richmond bank
er a short time ago, and across the
eighteenth fairway from the Pine
Needles Inn.
But Judge Way is doing more than
fortify himself with the ownership
of a Knollwood Heights lot. He is
moving forward on his own big de
velopment across the Midland road,
and at a conference or representatives
of Mid Pines, Knollwood and him
self a plan was adopted for construct
ing a sewer line that will connect all
of Mid Pines and all of Judge Way’s
property, and all of Knollwood in that
section with the Southern Pines trunk
line of sewers on the east side of the
creek.
Surveys have already been made
and the project will be undertaken at
an early date, affowiing a complete
outlet for the whole territory south
of the Midland road in that vic’nity.
The interest Judge Way has in the
progress of Knollwood is appreciated
by those who know what is going on
in that section and his association
w'th the Knollwood Heights develop
ment, when he has a big acreage pri-
The Elise H*gh School has been an
outstanding factor in the educational,
moral and spiritual life of Moore
County for the last 25 years. The
school was established in 1904 as a
home mission project to provide bet
ter educational and religious opor-
tun’ties for the poorer boys and girls
of the rural sections. It met an urg
ent need in this and adjoining coun
ties and was soon crowded with stu
dents. At first all the grades were
taught, but as the school developed
the lower grades were dropped and
the work confined to the high school
department. During the 24 years of
its life more than 1,000 students have
been enrolled. Over 250 have grad
uated and received a high school di
ploma. A very large per cent of these
entered college. Twenty of her grad
uates are ordained m^.nistew, seven
are prominent physicians, a number
are dentists, trained nurses, public
school teachers and engaged in va
rious U)ther kinds of public service.
During the last four years—^which is
a full h'gh school generation—^ninety
students have graduated from Elise.
Forty of these are taking college
courses, of whom five are preparing
fur the ministry, several for medicine,
quite a number for teaching and a
few have not yet decided on their life
work. The present student body has
an enrollment of 116, all high school
students. They represent 11 different
counties in North Car<^ina, and one
in South Carolina. The present senior
dais has 16 members and they come
from six different counties.
The far reaching influence and per
manent value of such a school as
Elise cannot be stated or estimated.
The best of educational advantages
Get Your Soy Beans Early As “terpreted as a
The Crop Is Getting
Short.
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NEW COURSE AT
SOUTHERN PINES
readiness to help in every movement
that will influence any particular
part of the neighborhood.
Another Nine Holes Will Carry
Links Far to the
Eastward.
To tl^se who interealted in
their decision upon what they con- j using soy beans this year, I would
ceive to be the will of the people of, advise that you get them now. The |
Moore County. j crop of Otootans is short and the de- I
As the Director of Sandhill Farm {mand heavy. At present these beans |
Life School, I have earnestly sought can be bought for about $4.50 per'
an expression in regard to the school bushel, f. o* b. shipping points. The
on every possible occasion. It has: Laredo is is selling for about the
been gratifying to see that the work
being done here is familiar to peo
ple all over the County and that
I many are anxious to see the work
continue on a larger and broader
same price and the mammoth yellow
for abopt $1.90.
All these beans are good and each
has its place on a farm. As a strict
ly hay crop there is nothing that will
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RESOLUTIONS BY
KIWANIS aUB
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KIWANIS BACKS
BOY SCOUT CAMP
Joining In Effort to Build Es
tablishment on Cape
Fear River.
The directors of the Southern Pines j before. Many people equal an Otootan. They require a
Country Club have decided to begin
at once the construction of another
nine holes on the golf ground, and
^e work will be commenced immed
iately in the field. The extension
will carry the links well out toward
the Bethesda church road running
from Weymouth to Aberdeen, and
will
all over Moore County have become little longer growing period but pro
acquainted with the aims of the duce on enormous amount of good
school, as well as its future ambi- hay. The ^enis are small which
tions, and are standing by ready to makes them very easily cured. One
g^ve a helping hand where needed, 'bushel of these beans when planted
I feel that the friends of the in drifts will plant five acres. They
school would like to have some facta should be planted in rows about three
and figures to use in convincing! feet apart and cultivated about twice
occupy practically all the land i QfUgrs that the county cannot af- for planting between the hills of
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between that road out by the Morri
son farm, down to the creek toward
the lake and fishing club grounds,
and back with the older courses to
the present club house. Irving
Johnson has prepared working maps
of the whole area, and men will be
on the ground possibly by the time
this is printed.
The expectation is that by the time
the season opens in the fall the
Southern Pines club will have two
full eighteen hole courses, arranged
in more suitable shape than at the'
present, with a further nine hole
course designed for construction la-
and the miniature eighteen hole
course also to be constructed in the
future. Mr, Johnson has planned the
detail of the entire tract, which will
ford to lose this valuable institution, com or in the middle. They are ex-
With this in view, I submit the fol- cellent as a soil builder,
lowing information which should he The mammoth yellow is excellent
in the hands of every tax-payer. j for grazing or hogging down in the
1. The Sandhill Farm Life School is field. , They are particularly adopted
and has been from its begrinmng anjto this because the stems ar« |»rge,
accredited State High School, griving' causing them to stand up well and
Make Drive Against Indescrim-
inate Use of Road
Signs.
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full preparation for college entrance.
However, training for college entrance
is not the scliooFs chief aim. Its
most important work is of a vocation
al nature—with the end in view of
training the boys and girls who are
unable to go to college useful oc
cupations and employment when they
leaVe school. To this ^d, depart
ments of agriculture, home economics,
teacher training and bti«in6«s tssiii-
ing have been established. Stadefttt
in these departments leave the school
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The following resolutions have been
sent out by the Kiwanis Club of the
Sandhills:
Be it resolved by the Kiwan’s Club
of Aberdeen:
1. That the roads of North Caro
lina are among the greatest assets
of the State and most greatly promote
its development;
2. That we are opposed to all use
of road signs, save those necessary
for traffic;
3. We consider the indiscriminate
use of road signs tends to greater
danger on our highways and they se
riously mar the beauty of the land-
scai)e and the country traversed, and
particularly the neatness and beauty
’soirtallder”they tw “P'
proaches to them;
4. That road signs not only mar
the beauty of the country but they
injure the reputation and good name
of the towns and of the State;
5. That road signs do not usually
accomplish any legitimate purpose,
for—
(a) There is no guarantee back of
thetfi;
(b) They are dfteh filse in fikct;
they produce a large quant ty
beans. As a
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LAST BABY CLINIC OF YEAR
IN PINBHURST ON APRIL
The last monthly Baby Clinic of the
year will be held at the Pinehurst
High School under the auspices of
i^e Association on
Wednesday afternoon, April 4th at
8 o’clock.
At the dinner by the Kiwanis Club
in the Civic building in Southern Pines
Wednesday, Edw'n McKeithen pre
sented the plan of the Boy Scout
leaders to secure funds to build on
the Cape Fear River near Buckhom
a club house to accommodate the boys
of the three counties adjoining, and
he said that for about $8,000 four
hundred acres of ground could be se
cured and a suitable building put up
that would be sufficient for several
hundred boys for camping.uses. The
project is backed by prominent people
of the d’strict, and Mr. McKeithen
says it has a hopeful outlook. '
The dance committee which gives
the annual club dance March 30, re
ports a good outlook, with a good
orchestra, many tickets going, and a
popular enthusiasm that has the right
sound.
The committee that has in hand the
reduction of the number of signs
along the highways brought up the
matter, and it was further discussed.'
Also attracting considerable interest
was the renewal of the war on van
dalism along the roads toward the
shrubbery and trees planted or grrow-
ing there native. How to stop some
of this destruction of plants seems to
be a difficult matter, but Fnmk
Buchan has a proposition. He says
'f we will plant more trees iJong the
roads in an orderly way, indicatfng
that the tms are really cared for by
the people he thiid^s travelers will let
them alone. Fra^k anticipates no
miirattditig In the pines and other
tms planted along the Abehfeen and
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