VOLUHE
8
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communicatioDS to
the pilot printing company. VASS. N C.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928.
SUBSCRIPTION S2.00
Auto Tragedy
Halts Wedding
Jack Latting, Pinehurst Sports
man, Killed in Auto Wreck
Near Carthage.
Jack Latting and Mrs. Marion A.
C. Galey, Southern Pines widow, sped
out of the mid-South section for a
marriage license at Carthage Mon
day morning, but before reaching
Carthage the car ran off an embank
ment, breaking the prospective bride
groom’s neck, and Mi^. Galey was re
ported by Dr. W. C. Mudgett as suf
fering from the shock but only slight-
]y bruised.
Latting, gallant in death as in life,
when his car skidded over an em
bankment, threw himself in front of
Mrs. Galey, breaking the fall for her
but breakking his neckk at the same
but breaking his neck at the same
New Buildings In
Knollwood Section
Fourth New House Now Under
Way and Plans are Mak
ing for Others.
With E. V. Pterkkinson active on
the Pushee house on location 452 on
Knollwood, this is the fourth new
building that has started over in that
section with the new development.
Burgess has the Wood house almost
completed, and it is an attractive and
homey place, on a well chosen loca
tion near the Pine Needles Inn. Aus
tin has the second Olmstead house to
the point where he is putting in the
joists and getting ready for the fram
ing. This house shows up well, and
is particularly fortunate in its loca
tion, overlooking the whole Knoll
wood and Pine Needles territory as
well as the more distant ridges and
the intervening valleys. The Pushee
MRS. NEPsiE KENNEDY McLEAN gaiidhill Fireiq^ '
* Met at 45,^ "V
The Latting family figured that,, . ,
Jack, beloved for his sportsmanship I bmldmg, and Perkin-
in Pinehurst and Southern Pines, had
planned a surprise for the friends of
the two concerned and that they were
to have been married about noon.
J. N. Powell, Southern Pines post
master, brought in Latting’s body.
Mrs. Galey’s family at one time
son has the foundation walls rising,
and showing to good advantage the
interesting plant that will unfold in
two or three weeks more.
Talbot Johnson expects to have his
contractor on his plot in a few days
as detail has been pretty well settled.
held a controlling interest in the Phil- j ordinary preliminaries cared
adelphia Athletics. The Lattings I leaves still four other
have peach interests. Both Southern 1 hands of the architects,
Pines and Pinehurst families are
prominent. Jack was a great lover
of fine bred dogs.
Surviving 'the popular sportsman
or in custody of the contractors for
closing the deals for early start on
construction, and it is not to be doub
ted that others will he forthcoming
I,- jrri Ti.4.* from time to time as fall approaches,
are his father, Edward T. Latting, . ^ . .
for the impetus that has been given
Pinehurst; three sisters, Mrs. Frank
Dudgeon, and Mrs. Theodore Van-
Manen, Pinehurst, and Mrs. W. H.
Shopwell, Brooklyn, N. Y., and two
brothers, E. T. Latting, Jr., Pinehurst,
and Harry DeWolf Latting, of New
York.
The funeral was held at Bethesda
Cemetery Wednesday afternoon and
Knollwood and Pine Needles both is
such that when things start in a
month or two from now a lot of new
workk will be projected.
The roads at Knollwod are among
the best in this section, for they were
built at the start to be good roads
and they have been kept in that shape
Whereas, God in his all-wise provi
dence, has called from our midst our
dear friend and co-worker, Mrs. Nep-
sie Kennedy McLean, we the mem
bers of woman’s auxiliary of the Ben-
salem Presbyterian church, desire to
pay our tribute of love to her mem
ory.
Resolved, that in the death of Mrs.
McLean our auxiliary has lost a loyal,
dependable charter member. Her love
and interest in the work was always
an inspiration to every member of
our auxiliary.
That the heart-felt sympathy of
this auxiliary be extended to the
members of her bereaved family.
That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved family, a copy
be published in The Pilot, our county
paper, and a copy published in the
Presbyterian Standard, our church
paper, and a copy placed on the min
utes of our society.
MRS. G. W. BRUTON,
MRS. V. C. McKENZIE,
MRS. FULLER MONROE.
Mining Engineer
Discusses Mexico
PineblufF Wins Silver
Of
Motor Contest. Southern
Pines Gets Next Meet.
Hafer Tells' Kiwanis Club
^ #ut Our Southern
a Neighbor.
The Sandhills Firemen’s Associa
tion held their second annual conven
tion at Fayetteville on July 4. The
officers for the ensuing year will be:
President, J. C. Worley,
Claude Hafer, the well-known min
ing engineer of this section, who has
been many years in Mexico, is on a
visit home at the present, and Wed
nesday at the Kiwanis dinner at
Aberdeen, he talked about the condi-
assistant encounters down in that land
resources and backwardness. Mr.
chief of Hamlet; vice president, J. tt ^ • j. ^ i
Hafer is not so uncertain about Mex-
T. Ward, chief of Fayetteville; sec-ji^^
retary-treasurer, E. C. McCallum,! about the country and says the gov-
in
In a demonstration conducted
Cabarrus County, 200 pounds of ni
trate of soda on wheat will apparent
ly make more grain than 800 pounds
of cotton seed meal, reports County
Agent R. D. Goodman.
Farmers of Beaufort county have
shipped 73 cars of hogs this year and
most of them brought top prices on
the eastern markets !>ecause of the
feeding methods followed.
chief of Hamlet. The executive board
will be one member from each of the
following towns that compose the as
sociation: Aberdeen, Carthage, Fay
etteville, Gibson, Hamlet, Laurinburg,
Lumberton, Maxton, Pinehurst, Pine-
bluff, Raeford, Red Springs, Rocking
ham, Sanford and Southern Pines.
The convention voted to meet in
Southern Pines the second week in
June, 1929.
The Fayetteville fire department
was host to the attending firemen and
put on a program of entertainment
and refreshment in their usual lavish
style.
The silver cup donated by the Fay
etteville department as first prize »n
the motor contest, was won by the
Pinebfuff^epartment, their time for
the w^ter hose contest was 10 2-5
seconds, and for the chemical contest
10 4-5 seconds.
a host of friends in the Sandhills.
MID-SEASON PRODUC
TIONS IN MID-SUMMER
AT CAROLINA THEATRES.'
. , i.0. J J T 1 T i-i.* 1- the greatest of persistent care,
largely attended as Jack Latting had | nr u i 4.* i. u j
i.u_ c J1-I11,. ! Much planting has been done over
the hills, and the removal of much
underbrush to give a good outlook to
everything has had a decidedly sat
isfying effect. The work on the Mid
land road has gone so far that the
bridge is finished over McDeed’s
Creek at the foot of the hill, and
grading is in progress now at nearly
all points from Pinehurst to Southern
Pines, while the gravel deposit on the
surface for the base of the top finish
has started. The road is making fast
.progress, and will he in condition for
use as soon as the demand calls for
much traffic in that quarter. At the
Pinehurst end of the road the new
golf course is moving fast toward a
condition ready for the players and
fall will see No. 5 course on the golf
grounds instead of the four courses
that have been for several years the
offering of that section. Five at Pine
hurst, one at Pine Needles ,and one
at Mid Pines beside the two at South
ern Pines gives golf a further swing
this winter.
The Pine Needles surface is getting
into excellent shape. The grass has
made good headway this summer, as
rain has been plentiful enough to af
ford good growing weather, and
Frank Maples has lost no time in giv
ing a hand to every influence that
could help to improve the surface of
the courses at all three points. The
golf situation was never so good in
the Sandhills as it will be this winter.
And the hotel accommodations were
never so extensive and the number
of cottages and their facilities
great.
“—A virile and exciting drama,
generously punctuated by moments of
delectable high jinks—entertainment
par excellence and shouldn^t be
missed”—thus speaks the New York
Morning Telegraph of the John Gil-
bert-Renee Adoree production, “The
Coassacks,” which will be seen at the
Carolina Theatres Friday and Satur
day nights. A sincere and worth3^
production which gives us a very
beautiful and, we believe, authentic
picture of the life and customs of a
Cossack village where the women live
to work and the men to fight. Addi
tional local color is lent by a troupe
of genuine Cossacks, who display
some magnificent horsemanship and
other feats of their people. Rare
judgment was shown in giving John
Gilbert an opportunity to do some
thing ~a little more virile than in his
recent parts and Renee Adoree is
particularly well cast and lovely as
the village belle. Excellent direction
and exquisite photography have con
tributed to a p^odtiction which Is
sure to please discriminating film
fans. At its initial showing at the
Capital Theatre, New York, it at
tracted and entertained a vast throng.
On Monday and Tuesday, one of
the best all-round programs of the
year will be shown, especially for the
summer days. Lloyd Hughes and
^ary Astor leads the cast in “Three
Ring Marriage,” which is a genuine
circus story with most of the cast
made up of circus performers and a
real circus was staged intact, from
the opening pageant to hippodrome
races. An added attraction is the
Technicilor subject, ‘Cleopatri,” which
a story of that well-known lady
and, for good measure, an Our Gang
Comedy, “Baby Brother.” Truly a
?reat program for children of all
ages.
THE TREES OF
BY J. McN. J0HNS(»I.
MOORE COUNTY
SO
Tom Tarheel ha« just signed up to
po on another tour 'this summer.
Boll weevils and bean beetles are
now causing much concern over east
ern North Carolina. The bean beetles
are reported as destroying beans in
many gardens while the boll weevil
is appearing in increasing numbers
-
Red letter days on the farmers
calendar for July are those included
in Farm and Home Week at State
College, July 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27
Farm women of North Carolina will
hold their annual short course this
CHAPTER XV.
‘Dark tree, still sad when others*
grief is fled;—
The only constant mourner of the
dead.*
CYPRESS: Taxodium distichum: | course of his great Simplon Road so
Swamp Cypress: Probably the Cy-jas not to disturb this great tree. The
press Tree has the longest history be-! tree is now 23 feet in circumference,
hind it of any tree that grows native and about 125 feet high. This sounds
in Moore County. It was an import- like a big tree; but I think I have
seen Cypress Trees in Moore County
—in the Swamp of Drowning Creek,
or Lumbee River—quite as large if
the measurement is taken near the
ground.
It was in 1854 the Cypress Tree
was carried from America to Scot
land (for the Cypress is not native
ernment is trying to further educa
tion, industry and stable law and or
der and prosperity, and with more
or less confidence of material im
provement. The country is full of
wealth of all sorts, although enorm
ous mineral production has taken
away vast sums of silver and other
products of the mines and oil wells.
But Mexico has yet much that is to
be brought to use. Geologically Mex
ico is among the most interesting
quarters of the globe, and for cen
turies Indian, Spaniard, and every
body has been digging out the treas
ure. Mineral, forest, farm and any
thing are the contributions, and in
spite of the crude ways of the past
and the poverty of the people, and
the unsettled conditions much of the
time Mexico is coming forward stead
ily, improving the condition of the
people, building up schools, industries
on more modem type, and the future
promises much.
Frank Buchan, who is home from
his Seattle trip, gave some enthussi-
astic comments on his visit to the
Northwest, and next week proposes
to go a little more into detail and
tell what he saw and did while away.
He is a pretty good advance agent
for the Northwest, and brought home
pictures and printed stuff to back up
what he says.
Charlie Picquet waked the boys up
to another period of song, which re
called the earlier days.
There’s nothing like seeing what the summer during: Fa™ and Home Week
other folks are doing, he says. 1 State College, u y
ant tree long before the beginning of
the Christian era, and its habitat is
more far-flung than any other tree—
not excepting the Oak.
With slight variations the Cypress
Tree is found—and from time im
memorial has existed—^in China, In
dia, Persia, and all around the shores
of the Mediterranean sea—as well as
in North America, Mexico and Hon
duras.
It probably grows to greatest per
fection round about Constantinople,
where it is a sacred tree, and a sym
bol of mourning. In the Turkish cem
eteries a Cypress Tree is planted for
each grave. The couplet set as a
“skirmish line” at the head of this
letter has reference to this fact.
The Old Latin and Greek fathers
wrote of the Cypress Tree as an em
blem of mourning; and the ancient
Egyptians made use of its wood for
the coffins of their mummified dead.
So you see it is no upstart we are
discussing. We are even told that
the doors of Saint Peter’s at Rome,
made of Cypress wood, were found
to be perfectly sound after being in
use for 1100 years.
Hie Greeks and Romans placed Cy
press boughs on their funeral pyres
because of its sacred character. This
tree, with the single exception of the
giant Sequoya Trees of the Pacific
Coast, is the longest-lived tree in the
world. The encyclopoedia informs us
that there is still standing in Lom
bardy a Cypress Tree that was there
when Julius Caesar crossed the Alps
into Italy; and that out of respect
for this tree, Napoleon diverted the
SURPRISE SHOWER AND
OLD TIME SERENADE.
On Thursday evening last Mr.“and
Mrs. Robert Gouger were given quite
a surprise when in the midst of a
visit from Mrs. F. L. Dupont little
Peter Pan Dupont and Ellis Fields
came in bringing Peter’s wagon all
loaded with numerous mysterious
bundles. Following then came a host
of ladies to watch the fun.
The packages when opened were
found to contain linens, glassware,
kitchen utensils, pyrex plates, canned
fruits, groceries, etc., all of which
added considerably to their list of
household supplies.
to Britian) and it has since that time |, completed the un-
L _ J ' loading of the wagon came another
become a popular exotic in gardens
and parks. Those of us who have
surprise when from some unknown
n 1 • -4. ‘ region Mrs, Dupont, Mrs. J. E. Fields
seen the Cypress only in its native iiyr: d i* •
, . . , , I and Miss Pauline Erwm returned
swamps, have not appreciated the
beauty of this tree when given a
chance to develop under the skill of
the horticulturist; and have some
thing that will make glad the hearts : window
of our descendants, that we passed
by all our lives without seeing.
bringing in refreshments. And at a
given signal bells, bugles, plows, etc.,
were brought into use by the men
who were waiting outside the dining
Thus the' newly weds
were given an old time serenading,
after which all the party assembled
I believe there are very few Cypress | in the living and dining room where
Trees in Moore County north of Low-1 they were served with delicious Sand
er Litlte River and west of the Sea- j wiches, nut cookies, and lemonade,
board Air Line Railroad, but the j A delightful evening was enjoyed
swamps of the streams tributary to * by all present.
Lumbee River, are full of it.
The Cypress Tree is of the same | ^hen Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Burris, of
natural order as the Hne Family | Plylet Community in Stanly coun-
Conifera, for it bears its seeds in j ty, about to lose their entire
cones; but as it is not an ever^een account of sickness and a
—as all pines are—it takes a differ
ent botanical name. The leaves are
feather-shaped, and the mid-rib, cf
stem, falls with the leaves still stick
ing to them in early Autumn.
The old 4;rees, when not rifted by
windshakes, make excellent bridge
timber, and the only reason they have
so long escaped the terrible saw mill
man, is that they grow in inaccessi
ble swamps, and when green cannot
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death in the family, 73 neighbors met
at the farm, worked out the crops,
harvested the wheat and the clover
hay and did other needed jobs about
the place.
Jimmie Holloway has the best acre
of tobacco of any club boy in Dur
ham county, according to his county
agent. The tobacco has made go&d
growth, has a uniform stand and is
of excellent quality.