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NEWS AND
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THE
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CAROLINA ROOM
PILOT
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AN
INDEPENDENT
WEEKLY.
VOL. 8, NO. 46
iS a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory^^?A^orth Carolina
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928
VASS, N. C.
UNPRECEDENTED IFRIENDS HONOR
VOTE FORECAST H.F.SEAWELL
NEXT TUESDAY AT CARTHAGE
Record Registration for Nation- Six Counties to Pay Homage to
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“THE HOUSE IN THE HORSESHOE.”
al. State and County
Elections
both PARTIES HOPEFUL.
Moore County Canuidate
Monday.
MR. NEWELL TO SPEAK.
With the National registration in
excess of 43,000,000, the registation
in North Carolina at approximately
700,000, and Moore County figures
topping all existing marks, a record
Election day approaches to determine
who shall govern the Country, State
and County in succession to the pres
ent incumbency.
Definite figures are not available as | olina
to the total registration in Moore Representatives
County as The Pilot goes to press,
but from scattered districts the lists
of eligible voters aPPear to have swol
len to undreamed of proportions. In
many instances the percentage of
Republicans and supporters of Her
bert Seawell for Governor, regardless
of party, will pay him homage at a
gathering in Carthage at 1 o’clock
next Monday afternoon. The elans
will meet at the Court House to cele
brate “Seawell Day,” and do honor to
Moore County's candidate for the
high office of Governor of North Car-
and delegations
from Moore, Richmond, Randolph,
Chatham, Lee and Harnett counties
will be on hand to help the home folks
show their leading citizen they are
with him in his Gubernatorial fight.
rc*gistrations is about the same as in The American Legion Band will ren-
m.
kMi
^ JUrc«tiU will ICIl-
the district of Southern Pines, where | der martial music and Jake F. Newell
Bruce H. Lewis informs us that of a | will be the speaker of the day. The
total registration of 980 names, no I candidate himself will be on hand to
less than 357 are newly enrolled on I accept the inspiring confidence his
his election books. This proportion ^ supporters have in him, and all in all
would seem to have carried pretty j it is expected to be a gala occasion
much throughout the State, the fig-j in the county seat,
ures for North Carolina showing | Busy Campaign
700,000 registered as against a total ^
of i bed after an operation for appendici-
tis, has waged a strong campaign
since the first of October, speaking
throughout the State on State and
; National issues. He has been well
1924 of 482,687.
Both Claim New Voters.
Both parties are claiming benefits
from the increased registration, the
Republicans believing that, in this | received at all points and is confident
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State particularly, many are prepar
ing to vote for their candidates in
the belief that the time has come
when they can turn the State into the
Republican column. On the other
hand, the Democrats believe that the
personal popularity and effective cam
paign waged by Governor Alfred E.
Smith of New York is responsible for
the great influx to the polls this year.
A few days will tell which prognosti
cation is correct.
Tomorrow is Challenge day, but it
seems to be generally understood that
neither party will take any unfair
advantage or split straws this year.
For one thing, neither party is sure
just how any given person is going
to vote, party ranks having been
“shot to pieces,” as it were. No
risks of challenging anyone’s right to
vote when his vote may be on your
side will be taken, it is believed. Nev
er before has there been such a lack
of party solidarity as this year.
Landslide Unlikely.
Polls will be open next Tuesday
from sunrise until sunset. When the
election results will be known is prob
lematical, but it is figured that cer
tain pivotal states which should be
heard from reasonably soon will fore
cast the final outcome with a fair de
gree of accuracy, so that it should be
known by niidnig^ht Tuesday whether
the country is to be governed during
that he will poll an exceptional vote
next Tuesday. That he will be ably
supported by his friends and neigh
bors of Moore County is a foregone
conclusion
Oil on Way for
New Double Road,
Kiwanians Hear
Rev. Murdoch McLeod’s Con
quest of Movie Magnates in
Canada Reported.
A. B. CAMERON SPEAKS.
At the Kiwanis Club dinner at the
Civic Club in Southern Pines Wednes
day the pleasing information was
given out that the Highway authori
ties have the oil on the way for the
new double road from Southern Pines
to Pinehurst, and that as soon as it
arrives the finish will be put on top
of the road.
Talks on Sandhills.
Charlie Picquet told of a great con
quest in Canada when the Rev. Mur
doch McLeod in an address to the
congress of moving picture men at
Toronto talked Sandhills of North
Carolina to the 800 delegates from all
over creation. The convention soaked
up information regarding this section,
Scene of Early Battle of Revolution. This House, Where D. A. R.
Will Place Marker on November 10th, Still Bears Bullet Scars
of Battle for Freedom.
Daughters of Revolution to
Commemorate Scenes of Fight
for Freedom in Moore County
To Place Marker at House in Horseshoe Where
Fanning’s and Alston’s Men Waged Bitter
Battle in Early Days of War.
CELEBRATE EVENT NOVEMBER lOTH.
HOUSE In the horseshoe.
Program for the Unveiling.
Bugle Call Scout Robert Abel
Song—“America” Fort Bragg Band
Invocation Rev. Mr. Cheatham
Salute to the Flag Mrs. Sidney Cooper
Address of Welcome for Moore County John Wilcox
Address of Welcome for Alfred Moore Chapter—
Mrs. James Swett
Song—“Dixie.” Fort Bragg Band
Resume of Battle of House in Horseshoe Judge W. J. Adams
Greetings—
War Department Col. W. H. Butner
State Historical Society James Boyd
American Legion Roy E. Fushee
Poem J. McN. Johnson
Presentation of State Regent Mrs, N. 0. Spencer
Address Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker
Song—“Carolina.” Fort Bragg Band
Presentation of Boulder Mrs. James Swett
Unveiling ^ By four young girls
Acceptance Mrs. Charle.n R. Whitaker
Benediction Rev. Mr. Cheatham
Here occurred the skirmish be
tween a band of Patriots under
Col. Philip Alston and the Tories
under Fanning on July 29th, 1781.
Erected by the Alfred Moore Chap
ter, D. A. R.
1928
(The above is the inscription on
the bronze tablet set in a granite
boulder to be unveiled Saturday,
November 10th.)
M’DONALD DIES
AS AUTOMOBILE
HITS ROAD BANK
Carthage Man Instantly Killed
in Accident Near
Biscoe.
FRIENDS ARE INJURED.
and applauded until they nearly wore
the next four years by Herbert Hoov- j h2ir\ds.
er or Alfred E. Smith. ,
Election odds have narrowed boys was proposed because
<ept,bly durmg the past two weeks,
and the landslide which was being; ^ ^
girls to join the association and be
come thrifty savers, and some of them
to get to college as the result of their
accumulations.
Occupational Report.
A. B. Cameron, of the county
schools, read the result of a tabula
tion of questions he had given the
members concerning their occupation,
and he reported answers from thirty-
nine. Of these the largest number,
five, were engaged in real estate or
insurance, and the others were scat-
James Jarrelf^Thomasville, N.jtered over twenty-three other occupa-
won first prize in the American; tions. °
egion High School Oratorical con-I answered had chosen the line of wm^
predicted when Wall Street wagers
were being made on Mr. Hoover at
odds of four to one has gradually
'diminished until even Republicans are
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Jarrell Wins Prize
in Oratory Contest
Will Represent This District in
American Legion Finals
at Raleigh.
Charles McDonald of Carthage, en
gineer on the Norfolk & Southern
Railroad, was instantly killed when
the automobile which he was driving
left the road and pitched over an em
bankment four miles from Biscoe on
the road to Carthage last Tuesday.
F. S'. Cole and Doug Shields, who
were with McDonald at the time of
the accident, were both severely in
jured, Cole suffering a broken arm
and Shields a badly lacerated hand
and arm.
“Charlie” McDonald was a son of
J. H. McDonald, and was 35 years
old. The funeral services were held
yesterday morning at Union church.
Hoover Qualifications
Superior to Smith’s
Judge Way Declares His Inten
tion of Voting for Repub
lican Candidate.
Editor of The Pilot:
It seems customary before an elec
tion for citizens, prominent and oth
erwise, to make public through the
newspapers their choice of candidates.
Personally my selection of a candi
date is not based on the preference of
my neighbors. Learning their views
through the press simply satisfies
idle curiosity. If there be merit in
this latter, I wish to state that I am
going to vote for Herbert Hoover in
the coming election because I believe,
from the evidence at hand, that his
qualifications for Pres'dent of the
I United States are superior to those
i of Alfred E. Smith.
Yours truly,
W. A. WAY.
Southern Pines, N. C.
October 30, 1928.
JUDGE CHEATHAM DIES
AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS
est for the 7th district held last
Monday night in the Pinehurst High
they are engaged in. Thirty would
follow the same calling if they had
■'V
Chool, taking the $25 in gold offered’to choose again and
. the Sandhills Post, No. 134. Sec- j advise a
nd prize of $15 went to Miss Daphne | occupation. T 'r y- »•
— willingness to talk to the school cnil-
dren about their lines of work. Thirty-
four confessed to following a hobby,
one despised hobbies, and four said
they had none. Mr. Cameron said he
expected to make use of these answers
in helping the boys and girls in school
to gain some idea of the line of work
they will follow after leaving school,
and he will also undertake to study
occupations more in school work with
the hope of doing more to fit the chil
dren for what they may seem inclined
for in life.
panhour of North Wilkesboro. The
ther contestants were Herbert Ehr-
ardt, Jr., of Pinehurst, and Edward
ionroe of Biscoe. Commander Roy
Pushee of Sandhills Post, Past
‘ ommander Max Backer and A. P-
^ hompson acted as judges.
The final contest will be held at
Haleigh next Monday evening, No
vember 5th, when the winners of the
various district contests will com
pete for the State championship. The
'Ubject of the contest is, “The Citi
zen’s Duty to Vote.”
Virginus T. Cheatham, familiarly
known to his many friends of Moore
County as “Judge” Cheatham, died at
his home in Manley last Saturday af
ter a long illness. He was 59 years of
age.
Judge Cheatham, a resident of this
section for some ten years, had long
suffered from heart trouble and last
year his illness was aggravated when
he was struck by a railroad train at
the Pennsylvania avenue crossing in
Southern Pines. He was at one time
Justice of the Peace in Southern
Pines.
Judge Cheatham was a native of
Granville county, eldest son of the
late Theodore Cheatham. His wife,
formerly Miss Lizzie Leach, and nine
children survice. The funeral was
held Sunday at Oxford, with burial in
the family lot at the old Cheatham
place where lie his ancestors of the
past hundred years.
ABERDEEN WOMEN IN
AUTOMOBflLE. ACCIDENT.
PARTY AT WHITE HILL.
There will be a Box Party at White
Hill School House , Saturday night,
November 10, at 8 o’clock. Old time
banjo and fiddle music will be fur
nished.
Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield, Mrs. R. N.
Page, Mrs. J. R. Page, all of Aber
deen, and Mrs. J. M. Fairley of Rae-
ford, were the victims of an automo
bile accident while motoring to at-
ten the State Synodical meeting held
last week at Statesville. Due to the
wet pavement, their car skidded and
turned over. Mrs. Fairley suffered a
broken collarbone, while Mrs. Sutten
field had three ribs broken.
Mrs. Fairley was taken to the hos
pital in Charlotte for treatment, but
Mrs. Suttenfield was able to attend the
meeting and make a report. How
ever, since her return home she has
not been as well and has been con
fined to the house for several days.
COUNTY SPENDS $30.06 ON
EACH RURAL SCHOOL PUPIL
Moore County spent $30.06 as cur
rent expense on each child enrolled in
its rural schools during the fiscal year
1926-27, according to figures compiled
by the Department of Rural Social
Economics at the University of North
Carolina. The County’s rank in the
chart is 26th. Durham county led
with an expense of $50.16 per child.
Alleghany comes last with $17.98 for
each pupil.
When the Daughters of the Revo
lution gather next week to dedicate a
marker to revolutionary valor in the
Horseshoe they set up a plate and a
monument that tell of one of a num
ber of important acts that marked
the beginning of this nation. The
fight between Alston and Fanning at
the place where John Wilcox lives
now is only one of a long string of
events that permitted the Deep River
valley to be in at both ends of the
Revolution, for Greene’s campaign
which climaxed at Guilford Court
house, three or four miles from the
Deep River in its upper reaches, drove
Cornwallis out of the State, and to
his surrender at Yorktown a few
months later, which practically termi
nated the efforts of the British to
subdue^..the colonies. Likewise the
agitation by the dissatisfied people of
what is now Chatham, Randolph,
Moore and Orange counties opened
the fight, for the Battle of Alamance
shed the first blood in that great war.
Trouble Started Herj.
In 1768 Orange county extended
across the upper part of the State
until it reached Rowan. South of
Orange was Cumberland, reaching to
Anson. Moore, Randolph and Chath
am counties were made by the Eng
lish governor later than this to split
Orange county, which was alive with
resistance to the officers of the gov
ernment under British rule. So it was
that while the resistance to objec
tionable taxation started in Orange
county it was in that part of Orange
which is now Randolph, Chatham,
Moore and Lee and in ths country
fronting on Deep River. For on Sandy
Creek the trouble began. Sandy Creek
is a small stream enti'ring Deep Riv■^
er on the east side, and there in the
early days of North Carolina a con
siderable r;roup of Quakers, Baptists
and others, many from Pennsylvania,
settled, and made a rather progres
sive community. Herman Husband,
William Butler, James Pugh, the
Coxes, Hendrys, Fudges, Hunters,
Howells, Martins and other families
seem to have been people of character
and resolution. At any rate the
“Regulators of Sandy Creek” assured
by the support of Rowan and Anson
counties, determined to pay no furth
er taxes until they had passed on the
levies and approved of them. Col.
Edmund Fanning brought matters to
a focus by asking for the militia to
enforce the laws. The militia came,
and encountered so many of the reg
ulators that the troops were so few
in numbers they were helpless and
hopeless. Nothing was done.
The regulators pressed their de
termination to pay no taxes that were
not regarded as fair and finally in
May, 1771, the antagonism was so bit
ter that Gov. Tryon, with about 1,100
troops came into the region to enforce
the laws. He was met by two or
three thousand of the Regulators, a
considerable portion not armed, but
they put up a right good fight. The
number killed and wounded on both
sides seems to have been about a
hundred. To make it more impres
sive Gov. Tryon had a number of
others tried in the courts and a dozen
were sentenced to be hanged. The
army stayed in the corner of Ran
dolph county about a week, and then,
with terror reigning, the inhabitants
were left to their bitterness.
Frightened by their experience they
were amenable to the law for a while,
but never was the affair forgotten,
and Deep River from that day in 1771
until the closing climax of the Revo
lution, was a disturbed quarter of
North Carolina. The British author!-'
ties found trouble enough in the val
ley, and the settlers lost no chance
to add to it. So war raged on big or
little scale through much of the Rev
olutionary period.
By the time the New England folks
brought matters to a crisis there in
the battle of Concord and Lexington
in April, 1775, the Deep River folks
had arrived at a point where they
were ready for anjrthing, and as the
influence of the regulators reached
from the eastern extremities of
Orange county to the boundaries of
Anson and Rowan in the west, a wide
territory was involved in the disaf
fection. At the same time many had
been forced to swear to loyalty to the
British authorities after the battle of
Alamance already mentioned, and
they attempted to maintain that loy
alty This divided the whole neigh
borhood, and in a territory fifty miles
wide and seventy-five miles long, ex
tending practically the full length 6f
the Deep River disturbance was ac
tive. Marauding parties moved in
from the outside, and as the war final
ly broke, and dragged its ruinous
course through the eight years of its
existence guerrilla work was the com
mon procedure.
Fanning's Raids.
\mong the adherents of the Brit
ish cause was David Fanning,
who is set down as a man of
cruel and quarrelsome characteristics.
He was successful in securing an ap
pointment as a colonel of the forces
that he could gather about him, and
he made frequent incursions into the
Deep River country. It is to be said
of the resident people who took sides
I with the regulators that they gave
I Fanning excuses for his aggressive-
I ness for the settlers were fairly ac-
j tive in paying Fanning for his atroci
ties, and some times they paid him
in advance. The situation was by no
means one-sided, and Fanning made
frequent sallies into the Horseshoe,
and the country around Carthage,
Coxe’s mill, farther up the river, on
Sandy Creek, on Brush Creek, and
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CAROLINA P. & L. CO. SELLS
ISSUE OF PREFERRED STOCK.
A couple of weeks ago the Carolina?
Power and Light Company announced
the offering of a limited number of
shares of six per cent preferred stock
in the company to hel l finance the-
big dams on the Pigeon river. This,
stock is scattered among the natrons:
and employes of the company. On
j Monday Ralph Chandler received no-
, tice to accept no more subscriptions
as the allotment had been fully taken.
' The Carolina company has a fairly
^ large number of small stockholders
Jn this community, and the regularity
I of its dividend checks is appreciated
I by those holding the securities.
PATRONAGE WARRANTS EARLY
I OPENING OF THE CAROLINA.
I The early opening of The Carolina
iat Pinehurst has attracted a good
business, and Mr. Fitzgerald says the
I bookings indicate that the moving up
|of the opening date is working all
j right. Year by year the season is
! lengthened in that way, and the vis-
i itors seem to be ready to turn South-
|ward when they find that conditions
are ready to take care of them and
provide the Carolina sports
amusements.
and
DEEP RIVER STONE IN DEMAND.
Colin Spencer announces that he
has another car of his famous Deep
River stone on the siding in Southern
Pines and is loading another for use
in the Knollwood development. This
stone has been making a hit since the
first lot of it was shipp,ed out, and is
apparently to prove a staple article
of building supply in the Sandhills.