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VOLUME THE mnmFIl 'li NIin^EK 25 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill TerriiiS Address all commiwications to the pilot printing company, VASS. N C. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928 rth Carolina • - = SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 Plans Ready or Making for Fine Group of New Homes on the Ridge. Five Buildings death op lydia "wr If 'j McDONALD BLU£i. For KnoUwood „ , -— A if?* McDonald Blue, wife of Archie L, Blue, died at her home in burry county last Thursday, May 17 Mrs. Blue was a native of Moore County. She married to Archie Blue April 22, 1868, who also was a Moore County citizen# and they moved to BION H. BUTLER. Su^ county in 1870. The one tra>‘t of character that I ® j were born nine chil- Dossess and which I value above all o the others is optimism. I think I find, oTiinvment in lookincr intn thp - Surry, and William M. Blue, 01 Vass, and two daughters, Mrs. more enjoyment in looking into the future and assuring myself that God is in the heaven and all is well with the world than in anything else under the sun. From the night I landed in • x" r~ '— the embryo village of Southern Pines . ijf. oi^ meniber all her .^4 vears ago I haye had a confidence „ ^ ^md neighbor, Kiwanis Meets In County Seat Some of the Boys Pull Some Thrilling Stories of Adventure. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. Laura Venable and Ella Blue, of Surry county. Mrs. Blue joined the tresbyterian church at the age of 17 vears ago i haye naa a connaence « i fn the elaboration of the North Caro-j® “<>t*>er. -B. lina Sandhills because it seemed to me then that Nature had been kind to this particular area, and witb’n three days after landing in the hope ful straggling, sandy little settlement I had my acreage of sand, and I have never yet thought I could have made „ , a better selection for a permanent, ^ Uneral Services Held in the home. Passing of Beloved Carthage Citizen Methodist Church Wednes day Afternoon. Many a wagon has gone down the t road in those 34 years, but always) with the rising of each successive sun i some little or h'g achievement in the Carthage lost one of its most be- direction of community progress has loved and well-known citizens Tues- been noticeable, and always I could day when F. C. Adams passed away see with each new development what in a hospital -'n Wilson. Mr. Adams, could be done here if the people could who was a traveling salesman, \'^as realize what is here to do with. Year away on a business trip for his firm by year more people came and ap-, when token ill in a hotel in Wilson preciated the opportunities for home, on Friday night. He was removed making ’n a genial climate with the to the hospital where he died shortly attendant conveniences in transporta-, after noon on Tuesday. Relatives tion, nearness to centers of popula- were with him during his illness and tion, dry ground thanks to the sand, at the end. and the incomparable pine and dog-. Mr. Adams was unmarried and wood forests. Each year registered j niade his home with his sister, Mrs. its progress until we all began to Ida Bryan, and her children, Miss see that the future is one promise and Kate Bryan and Rod Bryan. He had of continual development and crea-1 been in failing health for some time tion. I ®nd had been uriEred by his relatives I never dreamed out the courses to give up traveling, but the end was that have been followed, for that is unexpected, nevertheless, an impossibility. But I always felt] In early manhood he started on his confident that ' we were destined to | career as a traveling salesman, work- gather around us a highly desirable 1 ing for the firm of Charles W. Lord, people ,and to make a garden of the! of Baltimore, until its failed, after gods in due season and that with or | which he represented Messrs. C. H. without our own efforts would come : E. S. Goldberg, of New York, vv'th this way and put a finger to the wheel j was connected at the time and presently create here a delightful! Jiis death. He was very popular, place to live and be glad of life. To- | and had a host of fnends on the road day it is easy to look back and see | who will regret to learn of his pass- the way we have come forward, and ' ^ ^ to see the why of it. And the min-1 Franklin C. Adams was the son of ute we see the why we see also why the Rev. S. D. Adams, a beloved we are going forward farther and faster and more decisively than we Methodist minister, and Mary B. Ad ams. He is survived by two sisters. have come so far. When I first saw j Mrs. Ida B^an, of Carthage, and Southern Pines little was in sight to J. D. Creech, of Norfolk, and hold the development in line. Now ®ne brother, Judge W. J. Adams, of we have the fine village of Southern the Supreme Court bench. One half Pines, the marvelous Pinehurst, wh'ch brother, H. u. Adanis, and one half has commanded the attention of the | swter, Mrs. Bett e Stuart, preceded entire world, for golfers and polo ‘ „ . . , . ^ , players and others come here froml He was generally telov^ in Carth- the four comers of the globe, theja^e by a large number of friends m Mid Pines, the Pine Needles, the oth- ^ f very warm and personal way, as he er growing and promising centers of i people and social contact with various things in the ne'ghborhood, | the™- He was noted for his generos- and influences that are now working ^ty to his family, his friends, and tc with the things that have been ac-1 Philanthropy A charmmg gentle- complished still have all the primary the old school, he was the soul aids that were here when Southern :<>* honor and of courtesy—the cour- Pines commenced. 1 which comes not only from gentle Thirty-four years ago the resources i breeding, but from a large and noble were here. nature. He will be deeply naissed in Today those same resources are home and in a very definite circle The Kiwanis Club held its Wed nesday meeting in Carthage and the event of the occasion was a number of personal narratives of exciting mo ments in the memory of the mem bers. Arthur Newcomb told of a n’ght realistic meet with a crazy housebreaker who had escaped from custody, and paid a night visit to the Newcomb home, where he furnished, a half hour of fast work before he i was apprehended by a bunch of his | keepers. | Bob Page, when he was campaign ing a few years ago had a bullet hole shot in his hat, cutting his scalp and making a hole in the windshield and! he does not know yet what it was for. | Herbert Seawell, now a candidate. for Governor, says that story ofi Page’s is about as exciting as any thing he knows, for Bob was candi date for Governor at the time. Seawell also was waked up one evening when lightning ripped up things at his house and he told of that. Claude Hayes had a snake story but he was lectured so much about it that Fr^\nk Buchan was too modest ^ tell his yam and Talbot Johnson told it for hitn. Nobody believed it either. Even Frank said it was not*correct. But the speakers were properly ap plauded, and they had a lot of fun. John Bloxham presided, and dragged the vicfc'ms in. The Republicans of Moore County | will. have the following ticket to op- j p^se the Democrats in the fall elec- I tion: 1 Donald Eifort, for the house; J. M. Lewis, for sheriff; John A. Thomas, R. B. Reynolds and L. A. Lang, for commissioners. A. G. McDuffie was elected chairman of the executive committee and J. M. Fields, secre tary. Old Time Map Of Pinehurst Interesting Piece of Wwk by Francis Deaton More Than Thirty Years Ago. NOTICE. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Lakeview Presbjrterian church will present a pageant at the church Sun day evening, April 27, in celebration of the society’s 16th birthday. Pro ceeds of the offering will be sent to Spillman Institute. Sells House In Southern Pines W. C. Arkell Gets Pushee Stone Building in Weymouth ^ Heights. Corn club boys of North Carolina j are offered $300 in gold coin as prizes I for heavy yields this season. However, the boys must be enrolled before June 15th. Indications are now that North, CaroVna will have a large crop of I pea.ches this year. Better quality of fruit is secured when the peaches are thinned, say horticulturists. 1 Shields Cameron announces the sale to W. C. Arkell, secretary of the Beechnut Products Company, of Ca- nojoharie, N. Y., of the Pushee stone house on Weymouth Heights in South ern Pines. Mr. Arkell, whose family has heretofore spent the winters in Bermu4&) was attracted to Southern Pines by the cIinaate~aftdthefOH?(;^p- Hies for outdoor sport life, cooped wth the short distance of only one night’s run from New York, per mits him to spend a few days with the family and yet keep in touch with business affairs. He became inter ested in the Pushee house when he saw the attractive stone exterior, which ’s one of the first houses in this section to make such fine use of native Moore County stone. The loca tion on the ridge is one of the most desirable in the neighborhood, with many excellent folks on all sides. The newcomers are highly desirable as new settlers. THE TREES OF BY J. McN. JOHNSON. MOORE COUNTY Chapter VIIL “He who lives after Nature Shall never be poor: He who Lives after Opinion shall Never be rich.” here, along with the further attrac tions that men have added, and also of good friends here. Funeral services were held in the the tremendous energy that an in-1 Methodist church Wednesday ^^t^- creased and wealthy population has ^ ® ^ ^ | ^ added. ^ ^ Buffalo, and were marked by the ut- , ... ,. i most s'mplicity and dignity. One fel^ j ifw optimistic, j eulogy. His life spoke for j Knoll wood Heights and j unuiually lovely array of| me Needles look so promising. A | ^^s sent by friends at home year ago that section wias in the j abroad woods,^Ith a beginning on the Inn. j *,j bearers were: Messrs. Today the Inn has a winters business' q. d. Wallace, R. G. Wallace, M. G. behind It and two new houses are j palrymple, S. H. Miller, W. J. Har- - already j ^ington and P. K. Kennedy, initiated, roads, water lines, sewers, j - planting, and this week Knollwood an-1 (Please turn to page ; nounces five new houses to be built at I — once. ' MOORE COUNTY Donald Ross, on lots 465 and 466, j SHARES IN DUKE FUND. will build a duplicate of h;s handsome I home at Pinehurst, George Van Keu- adjoining the Ross home, will build on the other front of the block on lot 470, Richard Tufts will build on 141, on an attractive site immedi- Moore County’ Tubercular Sanator ium has recently received a check from the Duke Foundation for $1,- 105.50 to assist in its maintenance. - Last year $671 was rece'ved from this ately opposite Van Keuren, Robert | same source. Moore County has been Olmstead will build on 5.t3, adjoining the house he built on 516 and sold to John Bloxham, and Talbot Johnson build on 464, opposite the Ross nouse. These houses will be a fine type of modern homes, costing fro*n to twenty thousand dollars, and all designed to fit into the commun the recipient of other cash gifts re cently, among them being $2,500 from the State Board of Health and $1,- 600 from the Pinehurst branch of the Health and Welfare Association for the county health department; $1,- 250 from the State Board of Health and $125 from the Pinehurst branch ity scheme that has been adopted for | of the Health and Welfare Associa- ivnollwood. This is probably the most tion for a maternity and infancy agmssive movement that has been JJpaertaken at any time in the Sand- pills, for it starts off with a commun- a unit instead of a a’ngle house, comes this community Will be a neighborhood quite self-de- Pendent. It will have its excellent ^otel m the Hne Needles, its golf ourse at its doors, its utilities, its j?55^^nity bonds by which each in- is tied in as a part of a big -ganization of home-making neigh- 1 don’t know of anything that (Please turn to 5) nurse. This county receives annually $495 from the State Mother’s A'd fund which is met by a like^ amount by the county, the whole being used for deserving widows with chil^n. The Moore County Health and Wel fare Association at its last meeting appropriated $1,075 to be used lor a whole time san-’tary inspector.for ^e county for six months. All of this help gives the county conaderable service along health luae* with but little expense to the coDOty. LUOH.E M. EIFORT, Supt. Welfare Moore Co. BEECH: Fagus Americanus: Buck- nut: This is one of the very finest of our Moore County Trees, but it is not generally distributed. It grows to its greatest perfection in the creek bottoms and river low grounds of the northwestern part of the county; but I have never seen a Beech Tree in the Sandhills. You w’'ll notice from the botanical name it is conceded by the botanists to be an American tree; but our Beech Tree is so similar to the fine Beech Trees that flourish in England it would require a more discerning botanist than I am to distinguish the difference. The smooth, white, symmetrical body of the Beech Tree where it is given room to freely develop is one of the most admirable sights in the woody world. He is a strange man who does not feel ecstacy at the sight. Wh’le our Moore County Beech Trees do not grow so lar^ as those around the Great Lakes, still they are sizable trees in Clegg’s “Big Low- grounds” on McLendon’s Creek. The wood of the Beech Tree is much prized in the manufacture of furni ture, especially chairs. It also excels for novelty works, and al wooden ware used in our kitchens—such as bread trays, wooden mortars and pestles, and planks for toasting the justly celebrated planked steaks and Johnnie Cakes—not to ment’on “Roll ing Pin” (with apologies to Mr. Jiggs.) But it is the younger trees that are most sought for their fine white wood for ornamental and novelty works. The old trees have a much larger proportion of red heart wood. How ever, the red heart wood is more val uable from the viewpoint of the lum berman, as one of the very best woods for fioonng wEere something “a little better” is desired.; Among the many myths of Old England, there w one to ^e effect that St. .Leonard* whose cell was. m j —Seneca. the midst of a dense Beech Forest, once prayed that the serpents that crawled about the roots of his Beech Trees, and the nightingales that swarmed in their branches, disturb ing his rest, might be removed by DMne command; and that since that time no serpent has ever been seen under a Beech Tree, and no song bird seen in its branches. Nearly all persistent stories that are based on superstition can be ex plained on Natural lines; and possi bly this myth may be so explained: The Beech Tree in full fol’age is the densest shade in our forests; and it is reasonable to suggest that the song birds evade the Beech Tree is that the foliage is too dense to allow the bird free use of his head for the usual gestures and postures that are always made use of when the bird is singing. Besides, when a bird is singing, he is at his prettiest, and naturally wants to show himself, which he cannot do if hid away in the dense leaves. Then as to the absence of snakes: There is no grass nor weeds under a Beech Tree, nor is there any under growth of any fc'nd, and snakes have long ago inherited the instinct that there is no safety from their enemies, except under cover. Of all our trees the Beech has the smoothest bark; and makes the most tempting mark for the country boy with his hew Barlow, to carve his name—and that of his girl—^to grow and enlarge as the tree grows. I am here tempted beyond ray iww'- ers of resistance to quote (w"‘th slight changes) a few lines from Jean In- gelow’fl Four Bridges:* A carved bethrothal and a pledge of “A simple custom this: I love it well; truth; How many an eve their linked names to s^U Beneath the Beech Tree sat our vil lage youth. For none’could carve like-me; there (Please tom .to pagM 8) The other day in digging up some old documents at the Pinehurst Gen eral office, James Tufts came across some maps that mark the beginning of the villa^, one, a pencil sketch, being a preliminary job, and the oth er one an "nk drawing made in 1897, when the place was beginning to take shape. Francis Deaton did the work, and that same careful precision that marks everything he does is notice able On the maps. Main street is the main street on the old map. A few other roads are indi cated, and a very few buildings. The Carolina is shown, but not on the same extended scale as now, and the golf layout is covered by one course of 18 holes, embodying the No. 1 course of the present. In the main the roads are rather similar to the present plan, although some changes were made as the village grew. Out the road near by the McDonald farm is shown the old gold mine pit, and in the other direction near the junc tion of the Roseland road and the Morganton road is desiraated the In dian graves. Here and there are brick yards, and not far from the McDonald farm is the Dr. Smith nut farm. Van Lindley’s peach orchards were far enough along to be shown, and down the road toward Aberdeen the Mur ray v-*neyard was in existence. The Van Lindley orchards were practically the beginning of the peach industry in this section, but about the time the map was made the scale had reached the Sandhills, and the peach men had a hard struggle to overcome it. Many of them were wiped out, but the Lindley orchard hung on, and made some money later on peaches and pears, being at the t'me one of the biggest fruit propositions in the State. J. Van Lindley was a well- informed and capable fruit man, and he knew the kinks connected with fruit production better than most men of his day. Another industry that is shown prominently on the map is the old turpentine distillery in every comer. James Tufts, the grandfather of the young man who has the maps now, had bought the land from the Page interests, and the Pages had made the whole territory lively with, its turpentine and lumber plants, and not long before the sale of the Pine- (Please turn to page 8) Unveiling of The MacNeil Memorial Festive Occasion for Flora Mac donald College, Wednes day, May 23rd. Last week The Pilot received the following invitation from the only Scotch college in America: Flora Macdonald College joins The Clan Macneil Association of America in requesting your presence at the unveil'ng of the Macneil Memorial Mav 23, 1928. Program Dr. Vardell presents Mr. Malcolm McNeill, president of the Clan Mac neil Association of America. Address—“What Scotland Has Con tributed to America,” by Colonel Wal ter Scott, of New York, past royal chief, the Order of Scottish Clans. Historical address, by Robert M. McNeill, Esq., of Washington, D. C., past president. Procession to Macneil monument, led by Pipers. Dedication of Memorial, by the Macneil of Barra, XLV, of New York, chief and honorary president. Unveiling of memorial. Acceptance of memor al, by His Excellency Governor A. W. McLean. Lunch. Meeting of the Clan Macneil As sociation of America. Prior to this program, a part of which was held in the chapel, the 44 graduates of Flora Macdonald Col lege, was presented with diplomas and bibles by Rev. Mr. Hammer, vice president of the college, and H's Ex cellency Gov. A. W. McLean. Then followed the program as above, its participants entering with full Scotch fervor. Macneils and vis itors from distant states came to re joice, to take part in that day of all days for the Scots and many a hand could not refrain from keeping t’me to the lilting tunes sung by Flora Macdonald’s Scotch lassies. The memorial is a bronze tablet set in a huge boulder of native granite, placed on the right side of the cain- pus, as one faces the huildingi—or bet ter still for the daughters ctf "Flossie Mac"—directly in front of West hall, a desirable and suitable place.
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