VOLUHE
THE
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NUMBER
33
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
the pilot printing company, VASS. N C.
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928,
SUBSCRIPTION S2.00
Knollwood Swift
Summer Expansion
No Dull Season at This Aston
ishing New Section of the
Sandhills.
BION H. BUTLER.
1 have watched the development of
the Knollwood area since the days
when Frank Buchan sold the first bit
I of that territory for Henry Page, and
' while it all looks now like an ordin
ary affair, the development over there
in the last few years has been aston
ishing. But there is nothing about
it that is really hard to understand.
It is an attractive bit of the Sand
hills, and the world has been observ
ing that in the Sandhills is a region
that has many advantages for several
purposes. One is a winter vacation
place, while still another is an all the
year home spot. Along with that is
the opportunity for profitable invest
ment if the investments are chosen
with any degree of care. And hav
ing seen these things people are com
ing in greater numbers year by year
to take advantage of what they find
here. So many things are now possi
ble in making an attractive home or
temporary stopping place in the Sand
hills that the world has been telling
ite neighbor. And that is what is
developing the Sandhills.
We hear a lot about the hot air and
the optimism and the exaggerated
picture presented by the enthusiastic
Sandhillers. But it is not the en
thusiasts who are doing this thing,
but the outsiders who come to this
neighborhood and see things that
please them. These folks come here
fend they see the things that we have
seen so often that we fail to realize
what those things mean. To the
stranger a new and marvelous world
is opened. He notes a hundred fea
tures- to him,' snir the
first thing you know he has hunted
put an attractive location and he is
preparing to create for himself a
lodgment in the Sandhills, and at once
he begins to tell his friends and
Stakes Set For
New Reed House.
Location Amid Dogwood and
Pine Trees and Rugged
Surroundings.
The new Reed house, south of
Pinehurst, has been staked out, and
excavation will probably be under
way by the time this is printed. The
location about three miles south of
Pinehurst is one of the most fasci
nating spots in all this neighborhood
of fine home locations, for it is amid
one of the most dense clusters of dog
wood and pine trees in the country,
and just under a ridge of broken
knobs that give a picturesque flank
on three sides. The varieties of pine
trees are many from the long leaf to
the short straw, and many individ
uals of the mountain and pitch pines
that are not often seen in this part
of the country.
Nearly two miles of fire lanes have
been cleared around the property, and
that will be ployed and planted as a
protective feature as well as for the
landscaping effect it will give. The
house will be one of the most con
spicuous in the community, with a
length of over 150 feet on the larg
est dimension, and it will be one of
Yoeman's best jobs. Colonel Hawes,
who is looking aflter Mr. Reed’s af
fairs here, is a retired army officer,
with the thoroughness of training
that a man in the engineering serv
ice of the army gets, and he is an
enthusiast over the prospect this job
is offering for this type of construc
tion.
This new house moves the frontier
of Pinehurst three miles out into the
country, for Mr. Reed will make such
a home that it will be the sought for
haven of many enthusiastic polo
players and followers of other out
door sports, and many will travel in
that direction. Its influence will
\>ring neighbors of his kind ?nto the
surrounding country, and ths begin
ning means more for the suoth side
of Pinehurst than can be imagined.
Daniels Resents the^^w
York World’s Black '
Bethesda Cemetery
Sees Improvements
The News and Observer of Sunday Pay.4^
’*'he Walter Page Plot to Be an
Outstanding Feature of
the Place.
This Tribute to the New York World
in a long editorial on “The South
As a Battle Ground,” the New York
World has managed to include more
studied contempt for the men of the
South who have kept the rudder true
for progress and morality than any
paper has yet compressed into one
column. Writing of the men in the
South who do not approve A1 Smithes
stand on prohibition and his selection
of the vice-president of the Associa
tion Against Prohibition as campaign
chairman, it says their “chief motive
is bigotry’^ and to “a lesser degree
honest prejudice and honest disagree
ment.”
Its whole article is based upon the
taxes into the Federal government
than any other State except New York
anjd Pei^nsylSrania—^that these m)en
and women who have had chief part
in the achievements, which The World
praised last week, are bigots. It
adds that there “is no better way to
cure it (bigotry) than to force it into
the open.'*
The World, having falsely declared
that the South is stagrnant today,
though it once produced leaders, at
tributes “the submergence of leader
ship” to “the long bondage of the
South, first to slavery, then to its
grievances, then to Bryanism, and to
Volsteadism and Ku Kluckery,” and
premise that all Southern prohibition- | says this bondage has been “an in-
ists are “bigots.” It goes on to say
“bigotry flourishes best in stagnant
places, in communities where the nat-
ui*al leaders of men, the intelligent,
the spirited and the generous are not
aroused to action.” This is an in
sulting way of saying that the men
in North Carolina, to speak only of
our State as a Southern State, who
have led in clean government, in in
dustrial progress, in educational ex
pansion, in road construction and in
intensive farming, in religious breadth
and devotion until it has taken lead
ership in the Republic, and pays more
tellectual disaster,” and declares it
has “suffocated the young men who
in a more normal political atmosphere
would have risen to leadership.*' It
declares, in defiance of the education
al advance being made that “they have
no incentive and no opportunity to
develop their powers.” It also tells
its readers that when Governor Smith
comes personally in the South “and
talk? as he would to any other val
uable and respectable section of the
county, that the Democrats will not
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neighbors hack home. Then they
drop in to see, and the story is one j FIVE FARM WOMEN
of continued repetition.
Last year a little later than this
Knollwood started a movement to
prepare some building sites for oc-
'cupation. Roads were laid out, water
mains laid, sewer lines put down, and
the latter part of October a lot was
t»ffered. John Bloxham started the
show by buying the first lot. Today
John lives in a new house in Knoll
wood. Ninety building sites have
‘ been sold there, and half a dozen
houses are now under way around the
Pine Needles Inn. The Inn, the golf
course, the other buildings around
Knollwood, the green house, the new
State highway, the work out the
Pinehurst way, the building in South
ern Pines, the Barber projects that
are pushing ahead, the flying field
across Mill Creek from Knollwood,
the new hospital, and an endless list
might be continued, but they are all
based on the same one thing—the
fact that more and more folks are
daily seeing the many attractions that
Central North Carolina has in store
for people from the North who care
to come this way for their winter
play spell or for a permanent South
ern home to occupy whenever the
spirit moves.
Every week since Bloxham bought
his first lot something new has been
done to emphasize that forward move
ment around Knollwood. Not a week
has gone by without a new invest
ment announcement. This week it is
the staking out of the Johnson house,
which was commenced on Monday
morning and the awarding of the con
tract for the new house for Donald
Ross across the road from the John
son house and the Pushee house, both
310W under way. It is the busy job
of pushing the water lines farther
t»ut to the north and to the west and
the sewer lines into the farther ter-
^tory, for it is imperative now that
TOore ground be made ready to offer
buyers before the winter comes again
TO BE HONORED.
THE TREES OF
BY J* JOHNSON.
MOORE COUNTY
North Carolina will take its part
in a new national movement to honor
farm women and to acknowledge the
importance of their job when five
rural women of the State who have
made outstanding successes of home-
making are honored with the new ti
tle of “Master Farm Homemakers,”
at State College on July 26 during
Farm and Home Week.
The Master Farm Homemaker pro
ject, similar in some respects to the
Master Farmer study, is being spon
sored in 20 states this year by The
Farmer’s Wife, national farm wom
en's magazine, with the co-operation
of State College extension services.
Recognition of the five leading
farm women of the State has the sup
port of the home demonstration de
partment and is sponsored by Mrs.
Jane S. McKimmon, assistant direc
tor of extension.
Any farm woman in North Carolina
was eligible for the honor when nom
inated by five of her neighbors. Then
The Farmer’s Wife sent her a detail
ed questionnaire containing over 500
questions, grouped under these five
headings: physical adequacy of the
home in relation to income; manage
ment of time, energy and income;
health record and living habits of the
family; social development, recrea
tion; family relationships and train
ing of children; and community
work.
Final selection of the five women,
to be announced at the recogmtion
ceremony on July 26 has been made
by a judging committee selected by
Mrs. McKimmon. Each of the women
will receive a beautiful gold pin in
addition to the special honors con
ferred.
CHAPTER XVI.
“And he spake of all Trees, from
the Cedar Tree that is in Lebanon,
even unto the Hyssop that springeth
out of the wall.”—
I. Kings, 4:33.
McN. Johnson, secretary and
treasurer of Bethesda Cemetery, says
the association now employs an all-
time caretaker, and he thinks the
time is near at hand when that old
cemetery will be one of the most at
tractive spots in all the Sandhills
country.
The bequest of this cemetery under
the will of the late John Campbell is
the foundation of a fund that is fast
growing, and justifies the employ
ment of a competent sexton on full
time salary; and the sale of attractive
burial plots is fast becoming such a
source of revenue the present man
agement thinks the feature hereto
fore in effect of an annual charge as
dues by all lot holders may be aban
doned after the present year. One day
last week the receipts from the sale
of burial lots amounted to not less
than six hundred dollars.
A section in the new cemetery has
been purchased in the name of Car
olina Fruit Company, Incorporated,
which is the property of the heirs of
the late Doctor Walter Hines Page,
the distinguished ambassador to the
Court of Saint James; and the body
of Doctor Page will be removed from
its present resting place to this new
section, now being beautified under
the hand of a skillful landscape archi
tect.
Admirers of Ambassador Page
come from all parts of our country^—
from Maine to Mexico—^from Van
couver to Key West—to pay their re
spects to the memory of this gr^t
man, and this Shrine will be made at^
tractive in appearance under this n6w
improvement of the cemetery.
The present officers of the Bethesda
Cemetery Association are Dr. L. B.
McBrayer, president, of Southern
Pines, and J. McN. Johnson, secre
tary and treasurer, of Aberdeen, it
is the ardent wish of the friends of
the cemetery that an endowment of
at least $20,000 may be raised during
the year 1928—^the income from which
to be used exclusively for the adorn
ment of this fine old cemetery.
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J. E. Clark, of Beaufort county, be
gan his tobacco harvest this year on
June 27. Much of the crop is matar-
earlier than usual in Eastern
Carolina this season.
The Cedar Tree—Juniperus Virgin-
iana. Red Cedar, Eastern Red Cedar.
A hundred years ago the Cedar
Tree was more highly prized than it
is today. Then it was planted as a
shade tree in the yard of nearly every
cottage. It was also thought quite
the thing to plant Cedar Trees in all
family grave yards, for their somber
appearance is conducive to thoughts
of sadness and sorrow. But in recent
years there has come a change over
the spirit of the population of Moore
County, and our people have begun
to ask the question. Why? and the
results of such a question are nearly
always happy changes; but some
times the pendulum swings too far,
and then there is a loss of respect,
and a lowering of awe for sacred
things that may prove disastrous to
pure morals.
A Cedar Tree was planted at the
head of the grave of Martha Macon,
sister of United States Senator Na
thaniel Macon, and wife of Henry
Seawell, at Old Feagansville, a mile
south from Carthage, and in recent
years some ghoul cut it down for lum
ber. I am glad I do not know the
name of the vandal that did it, and
I will go further and say I do not
wish to form the acquaintance of such
a monster as the man must have
been to desecrate the resting place of
this great lady, who in life would
have admirably done the honors of
Lady of the White House.
The heart of our Cedar Tree has
lasting qualities superior to any oth
er Moore County Tree—not excepting
the heart of the Long Leaf Pine, and
is free from the objectionable tar
that preserves the *^at" pine. I once
heard the late George Thompson, of
Pittsboro, say that the heart of the
Red Cedar would last as long as a
post in the ground as a solid bar of
iron of the same size. It is practic
ally indestructible.
The wood contains just enough bal-
I samic resin to preserve it, and also
enough to drive off all moths, silver
bugs and other destructive mites, but
not enough to exude from the wood.
However, the green tree, when
scarred, give off quite a quantity of
resin in great opaque tears.
The Cedar is an evergreen, annual
ly shedding its needle-like leaves after
the new foliage has formed, and the
older trees shed such quantities of
this litter as to form the chief ob
jection to the Cedar as a shade, or
ornamental tree.
The inner bark of the Cedar Tree
is practically everlasting. They tell
us that the Indians of the Montezu-
mas in the Southwestern part of the
United States, used shredded cedar
bark as the warp of a wonderful
cloth they wove for wrapping their
embalmed dead. These mummified
bodies are now found a thousand
years old, with the Cedar Bark wrap
ping as fresh and sound as the work
of yesterday.
The wood of the Cedar Tree takes
a wonderful o>,’i^h, and fo** this rea
son bears the highest price in the
markets of any. of our woods—^not
excepting the Black Walnut, or the
Persimmon. It is largely used for
Cedar Chests—^not only because it
I takes such a fine polish, but also for
the reason that its highly aromatic
halsamatic odor is a sovereign pre
ventative against moths and other
pests that infest our wardrobes.
The fruit of the Cedar Tree is a
small blue berry about the size of a
B B shot, and they grow in myriads
Kiwanis Hears of
Health and Travel
Mrs. Keating and Frank Buchan
Talk at Pinehurst Weekly
Luncheon.
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The Kiwanis Club at its weekly
dinner at the community building; in
Pinehurst applauded Frank BucKan
as he told of his adventures durwg
his Western trip as representative'to
the general meet at Seattle, for;he
brought back a romantic tale that
was full of adventure all the way. He
did not attempt to rhapsodize any,
but he touched the high spots in a
way that hit his audience and it was
voted that Frankk had made an ex
ceptionally good representative, and
that he brought home a story that
was worth while.
Alex Fields presented a proposition
from the State to make a fish hatch
ery at Pinebluff, using the pond there,
which John McQueen has put at the
disposal of the movement for five
years, if the people will help ^he
State to the extent of a contribuMon
of 500 to put the pond in better
shape for the purpose. A committee
was asked to scare up the $500, and
it is likely that in a short time the
State will be making the hatchery.
The fish hatched will be for stocking
Moore County streams exclusively,
and the thing will be operated by the
State.
The vocational education commit
tee announced that Vass had proposed
to provide money to carry on the vo
cational school, and probably the mat
ter will be settled by the Vass dis
trict getting the educational feature.
Frank Page is to be invited to come
down and discuss the Midland road
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