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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
THE
AddreM^ll communications to
PILOT PRINXmG COMPANY. VASS. N C.
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928.
SUBSCRIPTION S2.00
Sandhill Progress
Surprising: Gait.
Building Wave Manifest on All
Sides, and Involving Hun
dreds of Thousands.
:t
Home-Making In
The Sandhills
Possibilities That the Knobs of
This Country Offer
the Builder.
Address To The
Kiw3.nis
(By MRS. FRANCIS T. KEATING.)
The summer’s building program years the builders of the Sand-
has reached such magnitude that it! living in the darkness,
ig no longer feasible to try to keep '^^^^.ware of the infinite possibilities
tab on the work in progress. Only the rugged knobs offer the man
the bigger houses now are conspicu-! wants to make a picturesque
ous enough to be prominent in the ^ome. Of late the builders have be-
coiHit, and anything under twelve or an<i broken ridges
fifteen thousand dollars is rated as house sites, and the effects have
among those that will “also be built.” astonishing. At the present
Several jobs run above twenty-five or valuable asset is in process
thirty thousand, and few of the demonstration at four or five
houses fall below eight or ten. The P®*”ts in the community, and the re
outstanding work this summer is at the most effective
Knollwood Heights, largely because ^®^tures of Sandhill development. At
of the magnitude of the construction McKinney home on Weymouth
plan there in a wholly new field. In ^®*gbts the treatment Yoemans has
the past two weeks the four new the location is a dream. He has
houses staked out for Johnson, Ross, ^tted a house to one of the most
Vail and Van Keuren embrace a spots in the whole region, and
group that is unusual. With the sweep of picture, the
Pushee house immediately across the knobs and coves and the
drive from three of these the group' ®<^®Ptation of varied materials to the
includes five buildings that are nota- building he has accomplished a work
hie for their architecture, price, loca- worth a big potential
tion and their community relation, that does not come from the
Close by is the second Olmstead ®^tlay of money but from the utili-
house. The six of them under con- ^^tion of those natural conditions
struction at once within seeing and heretofore have been overlooked
bearing distance, involving a cost of particular spot,
above a hundred thousand dollars, is The Robinson house farther down,
an affair of note. is another house similarly located,
A pha|^ of this work is the outside Picturesque in the extreme, lookking
capital that it brings in to the de- the fairways of the golf
velopment, and the outside interest hilly, pine-clad, and attrac-
I't adds to the Sandhills. Mr. Van '^®»e two buildings are doing
Keuren came down here from New to call attention to charms of
York, stayed a couple of days, went section that have been unsus-
back home, and left a contract which P®^ted than anything that has been
will provide for him when he comes time. Tlw gtoup
down again in the fall, a home ready houses on Knollwcwd Heights is
to go into and which InvolveB ari'^otit- bringing out the possibilities of the
lay of about 27,000. Donald Ross similar manner, and- the Reed
cabled from Europe to go ahead and |'®'^se beyond Pinehurst is emphasiz-
build his house, another one that will same phases of adaptation of
mean the outlay of a somewhiat simi- building. A new world has
lar sum. Mr. Johnson is a Sandhiller. opened in the Sandhills this
He is building a handsome house that summer by this new work, and it is
will be of the same quality as the say that few people have had
neighbors, but across the road Mr. conception of the vast field that
Poushee, another Northern man, is is now standing out clearly for the
getting the same high type of build- builder in the next two or three years
ing ready for fall. Vail and son over i^ utilizing the knobs that are abund-
on Crest road, two more Northerners, i^ directions,
are adding their harmonious scheme,; "
and Olmstead, out the Fairway drive, AirpOrt C0Hipa,Iiy
Is another man from the North, as is
John Bloxham, who bought the first
Olmstead house close by. Northern
money is doing a big share of this
Knollwood home-making.
This is the side of it that expresses
most emphatically the virtues of the Thursday night of
Sandhills as a place to live, especial-
)y in ^nter. If we permanent resi-1 Commerce at Southern Pin^s a
dents had to depend on oureelves for: Midsouth Airport Corp-
temporary organization was effected
oration, with Richard Tufts presic «nt
Will Immediately Build Another
^ Unit to Shelter Increasing
Industry.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the | both, but a separate treasurer
Kiwanis Club: | each. ] Beyond a peradventure one of the
I feel presumptuous trying to make i When I became connected with the • most interesting industries in the
any sort of talk for you. But you * Association, nearly four years ago as | Sandhills is the orchid greenhouses
have asked for enlightenment regard-' chairman of the Pinehurst branch, carried on by Judge W. A. Way at
ing our cause which has now attein-j (Mrs. Leonard Tufts being then pres-1 bis Knollwood home, and it is inter-
ed a growth that makes it, if perma-^ident), the County Commissioners jesting not only through the character
nently successful, to be your cause, were paying half the Red Cross of the product but also because of the
Judge Way Adds
To Orchid Plant.
too. ! nurse’s salary of $1,800 out of the
I had thought to give you a brief tax collection. Apparently the coun-
swiftly expanding development it is
steadily showing. Unfortunately for
history of the Moore County Health ty “fathers’* had began to feel them- j the purposes of description the work
and Welfare Association, started I selves in the immemorial situation of is so highly technical that it is hard
some six or seven years ago by a lit-! fathers everywhere—expected to put j to tell what is going on except to
tie group of women under Mrs. Whit-|'^P the money to pay for things but | those who are familiar in some de-
aker as president, anxious to give expected to give one yip as to I iTree with orchids, but in a way it can
how that money should be spent. And understood that the Judge is start-
what aid and encouragement they
could to the public health nurse and
the welfare worker.
But time presses and today I would
rather have you meet our present
working staff and perhaps if there
are a few moments left, ask them
questions.
I have been specially asked to ex
plain the connection between the lo
cal Red Cross and the Health and
Welfare Association. You see, Idle
same group of women were working
for both these causes and the objects
of both were mutually sympathetic,
and not infrequently identical. So to
save time and trouble for these busy
women it was decided to hold joint
executive meetings for the two or
ganizations—one set of officers for
the county fathers have rebelled, at
ing to add another unit to his new
any rate they have withdrawn this i pl^^t, and that next year he will prob-
allowance.
The American Red Cross, you see,
has its own carefully trained workers
and there is always a national officer
higher up who directs how each thing
shall be done, until all centralizes in
the executive board at national head
quarters. This is entirely right, fit
ting and necessary.
Yet I too am one of those who feel
that, while every district everywhere
should have its active Red Cross chap
ter, yet everjrwhere too the Red Cross
should be definitely self-sustaining.
In other words, the moneys given in
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THE TREES QF
BY J. McN. JOHNSON.
MOORE COUNTY
To Seek Charter
Temporary Organization Formed
and Incorporation Will Fol
low at Once.
CHAPTER XVII.
(For want of a more appropriate
skirmish line:)
‘*'What, shall this speech be spoke for
our excuse.
Or shall we on without apology.”
—Shakespeare.
f>ur development and utilization of the
territory the outlook would he for a
slower progress and a greater Hmita- "dn'owari BunTs "secretary. ^Talbot
tion of expansion. But this is a
movement of people from outside.
Johnson, Dr. Mudgett and James
Tufts were made a committee to aid
SWEETGUM: Liquidamber Sty- em countries, where the burning of
raciffiua: This tree is a native all over incense is a part of the religious
Moore County, but grows more per- ^ rites. And probably this botanical
fectly in loamy soil. It has a tall, name suggested by a description of
straight trunk, and sometimes at- the sweetgum tree given by an old
tains to three feet in diameter and Spanish Explorer in Mexico about the
a hundred feet high. The young, middle of the Seventeenth Century,
slender branches or twigs, are cov- He wrote home of finding. Large famous live stock fam-
ably have to add another, and likely
this addition will keep up for several
years. The reason is the growth *of
the young plants to call for added
room, but also the frequent purchase
of new stock calls for a place to
house the arrivals.
The orchid is a king among flowers,
and many of the finer types are
brought from the tropics, where they
have* thrived under conditions not
known here. It is therefore neces
sary that much care and attention be
given them, and to give this care re-
cfuires much study to know their hab
its and their needs. In grrowiag
orchids only the ordinary varieties
are possible for the ordinary lover of
flowers. The orchid is the job for the
man of means, patience, and fondness
for his game, for the orchid takes sev
eral years to develop to its limit, and
an orchid greenhouse is about t^e
next thing to a sanatorium. It fe-
quires mighty few hands, but that^t
shall have nurses and professional
guardians is as assential as that the
sun shall rise. Before he started to
raise orchids Judge Way accumulated
a wife and daughter, who accordin'^
to Abraham Lincoln^s way of esti
mating the assets of a man whose
financial rating had been asked by a
commercial agency said he had a wife
and baby worth at least $50,000 to
any man. That gives the Judge a
good standing, and anybody who
notes the interest this wife and
daughter show in the greenhouses
would put their value still higher than
Lincoln’s. :
^ >
Raising orchids as Judge Way
raises them is about like raising Ayr
shire cattle and Berkshire hog^ at
Pinehurst. Orchids have been bred im
by patient students of plant life Until
certain types and varieties ari as fa-
people of means and appreciation of ^ ^ ^
this section, and that is of boundless!
^gnificance. Outside money has put organization as fast as the legnl
Knollwood where it is, and will put: squired will permit. The basic
Knollwood where it is going.
ilies, and at the Knollwood green
houses the highest names are on the
roll book. Mankind is never satisfied
until it is controlling other forms of
creation, and orchids come under that
scheme is that the American Airport
The clearing out of surplus trees I Corporation, Pinehurst, Incorporated,
ftnd undergrowth, and the location of, ^nd Southern Pines, through its
the new houses with regard of foliage Chamber of Commerce, will become
and trees and with the'topography of associated in the issuance of a eer-
the Knollwood surface changes the | tain number of shares of common
whole aspect of the ground. The men | stock of no par value, each to have
who have drawn the plans, and whoi^qual allotment and voting rights,
have located the buildings are experts j which will be the foundation of the
in this work, and it is easy to see j organization, and with that as a
now, with eight houses underway, j working footing prefererd stock will
what building is destined to do with | offered for sale to further finance
the hills around Pine Needles. No i project and to carry out the plans
new scheme has ever been commenced j ^j^^t have been fairly well discussed,
in the Sandhills with so much money | Th^ Airport Corporation will under-
invested on such elaborate scale at | ^ake to place the preferred stock, and
the start as in the Knollwood Heights | f^om what can be gathered it will be
movement around and including Pine
ered with corky ridges of dead bark, trees that exude a gum like Liquid
a feature that is truly distinctive to Amber.”
this tree alone. The farther North one goes the less
The younger sweetgum tree, when resin we find in the sweetgum tree,
given space to grow freely are reg- although the tree itself grows to per-
ular and pyramidal in form; but old fection as far North as Maine. Trans-1 rule. Everything at Knollwood is an
trees become irregular and sloven in versely, the farther South you go the \ artificial creation, starting vnth the
shape. The leaves are star-shaped— richer you find this tree in resin, natural ancestry of course at some
like the maple leaf—^but more regu-> There is quite a commercial amount 1 point, and'then breeding and experi-
larly five-pointed. Beautifully green of sweetgum resin shipped to Europe i menting until the fine plants now
in summer, they become streaked from New Orleans and Galveston, as | conspicuous in orchid culture have
with yellow and crimson as autumn i well as from Mexican ports. The j been created. Judge Way breeds
approaches, and a little later resem- commercial name of the product is: | flowers with the same care and pre-
ble a gorgeous sunset in splendor of “Copalm Balm.” This resin is large-1 eision that stock men breed horses,
color. One botanist has said: “The ly used in the manufacture of cough ^ Every plant in the green house has a
tree is not a flame: It is a conflagra- remedies, and is also the standard pedigree that has been as carefully
tion.” The sweetgum leaves retain j perfume for ladies' gloves in the, watched as the geneology of kings
their rich color even after they fall | fashionable bazaars of Paris. ! and Tootsy Mitchell. Every plant has
to the ground. 1 The common name of sweetgum is j its record, and the Judge knows all
The seed of the sweetgum are en-1 given this tree, not from any sac-! of them by name. He knows the rel-
closed in little spiny balls about an charine taste of the tree sap, or of its atives of all of them, and the great-
inch in diameter that hang from the, resin, for there is no sweet taste i great grandfathers and mothers,
branches by slender stems like the about it; but it is called sweet in con- ! An orchid is a slow grower. It takes
sycamore seed balls, only the gum tradistinction of the bitter taste of' several years for It to come to flow-
balls are covered with curved horns, the resin that the pine tree exudes: | ering stage, so to raise the flowers
Needles, and with so many outsiders
taking hold on so definite a plan for
a broad creation of a pleasing com
munity.
One of the interesting situations
over there is the large number of the
original lots closed out, and the large
crew of men now on construction of
sewers and water lines to provide for
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ICE CREAM SUPPER.
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There will be an ice cream supper
at the home of Mrs. H. A. MacCallum,
Carthage, Rout 3, Saturday evening,
July 28, from 7 to 10:30 o'clock, for
the benefit of the Culdee Auxiliary.
The public is cordially invited to
come.
The seed are shaped like the maple
mast, but very much smaller. They
are winged for the wind to carry them
far away for re-forestation.
albeit the resin of the sweetgum is! is like running a steel mill. The seed
decidedly plasant to the taste, and it j is sown in one building, where the lit
is much “chewed” by children. The! tie plants for a year or so can be at-
wood of the sweet^m was formerly 1 tended in limited space, and U iSkt&f
The sweetgum tree gets its botan- I thought to be worthless, as it cannot grow they are transferred to bigger
ical name, Liguidamber Styracifflua,
from the fact that the tree when
scarred, exude a liguid gum resin,
which resembles amber, and has the
taste and aroma of styrax—a resinous
substance taken from a similar tree
in Asia, and largely used as incense
by the Roman Catholic church and the
Greek Orthodox church in the East-
be split for rails, and even if it could i pots and moved to another building
the lasting qualities are so poor that
it was thought to be of no account,
but now the wood is much prized for
inside flooring, and for veneering for
fruit baskets.
It is only within the last few de-
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where they have more room. Later
they go to another room, with more
space, and as they flower they require
still more room and facilities, and
they go to another building. As the
plants increase in numbers and size
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