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THE NEWS-WEEKLY
OF
MOORE COUNTY
G0MMERCE UB;
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOLUME 9, NO. 12.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929
VASS. N. C
STATE AID FOR
COUNTY ROADS
IS APPROVED
Senate and House at Raleigh
Vote Increase in Gaso
line Tax
House Committee Votes
Eight Months Term Bill
RAISES $2,500,000
The State Senate on Tuesday pass^
ed to final reading the administration
road bill, already passed by .he
House, to increase the gasoline tax
from four to five cents a grallon and
Halbert J. Blue
Plans New Home on
Knollwood Heigrhts
SEEK SlINMER
BALL LEAGUE
FORSANDfflLLS
Equalization Fund of Ten Mil
lion Dollars from State Es-
timated _^uirement I chamber of Commerce Appoints
V * TT- ! The house committee on education i J.® f‘S’' J"*®
)Teo^ns, Architect, Preparing Tuesday voted 12 to ii to report fav- of Paul Roche.
^igns for House at Mid- orably the MacLean bill providing for NEW ADVFRTimiVr
land and Crest Roads ! a minimum eight months school trm i AUVERTISING SIGNS
i North Carolina.
CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK”; The bill, sponsored by Representa-
D. MacLean, Democrat, of
(By Bion H. Butler) Beaufort, would extend the present
The Chamber of Commerce direc
tors held a meeting Tuesday at
Jack’s, and along with their serious
A R i A • , i X ' work th*2y managed to stake a lot
to use ap^orfmately $3,000,000 a | for a fine new houte toT^huilt o" | baLd moX''schri Paul Roche, of Pinebluff was
year on maintenance of county roads Crest road and the Midland road in j cover the lonjrer term. Officials of
by the State and $500,000 a year as i Knollwood for Halbsit J. Blue, and [the state department of public
a fund to equalize the amounts spent'the work will begrin on the structure I struction have estimated that it
on the State highways in the nine about the first of April. Mr Blue' would reanir#» nn ^ ^
highway districts. The bill will be-j has an excellent location ihere o.i the I from the state of ten million dollal and
come a law as soon as it shall have i top of the hill, surrounded by a j instead of the present three and
present with a proposition to organ
ize a Sandhill baseball league. The
matter was discussed to some length,
and was left in the hands of a com-
quarter million dollars fund.
The measure would prohibit a tax
levy of more than 40 cents on the
been formally ratified. I group of desirable people, and he says
This is the Legislature’s first re-! that he looks for others of his friends
duction of al valorem tax on land. to follow his example and join the
For the extra cent per gallon tax j pioneers who have given Knollwood $l6b of propert^ valuat'ior bv the
levied, it is expected that a'bout $2,- j Heights its vigorous start. Mr. Blue
500,000 will be raised. To this | is one of the you«g men native to ihs
amount $500,000 will be added from I Sandhills. I have watched him sine?
the regular hiighway funds secured | he was a little chap around Aberdeen,
from the four cents a gallon tax. The i watched him develop into a man who
$500,000 equalizing fund to benefit i in many ways, calls to mind his
counties where construction costs are! father, John Blue, one of the big men
excessive also comes out of the reg-|of ihis part of the state, who camp
ular funds. The bill provides that i back fron^ war m the sixties and
ccunties must reduce their ad valor-1 commencea the recreation of a
em road tax by the amount of money! region that had been desolated by
they receive from the State. The;wai. For Sherman and his army
WEREIN CLAUDE HAYES
GETS ’EM COMING AND GOING
In thej window of the Hayes-
books.tore in Southern Pines during
the week has ibeen an unique trap
to catch all of them,—saints and
sinners. On one side of a little
fence is a collection of religious
publications of wide variety, while
acros.s the dividing line which is
about a foot high are pictures of
Jack of Clubs, red chips, three of
a kind, bridge, Old Sledge, seven-
come-eleven, and the rest of that
family As Mark Twain said one
time when the preacher came to
his sick bed and asked him where
he expected to go when he died,
“I have friends both places.”
Hayes never loses a bet. He always
hedges before the game is play
ed.
KIWAMS CARRIES
MASTER FARMERS
TO STATE
Arrangements for Annual Dance
Made at Wednesday’s
Meeting
ROY PUSHEE IN CHARGE
see what can be done. Mr. Roche
one was right enthusiastic, and thought
such an organization would attract y m-- i.
the people of half a dozen of the vil-| McN. JOlinSOIl
lages and give some life to sports ContlnUeS Battlftb-^
durinig; thi summer. ! ^ .^iiaFkS
counties, the state bearing the costj Frank Buchan came along with a I Wltll Ldl''
of the eight months’ term above this report on planting and told the di-!
levy. It would give the state boardi rectors that the work is procee<^p{r|’
of equalization power to determine I at lively clip on Broad X,. '
the true propertv valuation in each near thp '-ouni y ciuo.
and at
pomts on the streets.
propertv valuation in each
county and would forbid participa- , ., • i j
tion in the state-paid fund unless M- money was m hand
the county was maintaining ar ^
months school and coi' —40 don.?, and the prospects are favorable j
cent levy.' for more planting. It appears that'
Pr«»»faes Purchasing Agent public interest in what the Cham-
^1^11 Lawyer Claims Inter-
^t Paid Almost Totals Sum
Borrowed Originally
SUGGESTS A REMEDY
State is to maintain certain roads i swept
rm>mmended by the county.
In addition the measure would pro-
:hrough this neighborhood. Unde for a state purchasing agent for
ber of Commerce is doing continues
to awaken, and money is coming in
Recent Property Sales
Enlargre The Winter
B. E. borrowed $500.00 for a term
They gave him only
$431.50, and required him to exe
cute a mortgage on his home, secur
ing the payment of sixty notes of
$12.50, payable monthly: This is an
average of 2 1-2 years. B. E. is
supposed to enjoy the possession of
$431.50.
The interest on this $431.50 for
At the Kiwanis dinner Wednesd^
afternoon at the CSvic Club in South
ern Pines the agricultural committ^
announced that it had taken to Ral
eigh one day last week the Masfter
Farmers who won the premiums in the
club contests, and showed these mem
the various things of interest ip ■
there. The points viaited includ^
the State College farms and othef
features, as well as the govA’^good
estafblishments in in the next
list of fap^ear.
main event at the Wednesi^y
was the arrangements for the annu^
dance which is referred to the dance
committee with Roy Pushee as its
head. Mr. Pushee was so success
ful last year that he was named
again this year in spite of his pro
tests. The object of the dance is
to olbtain money for the hielp of
students of limited means, and at
the pnesent time the club has a re
volving fund of about $2,300 which
is keeping several boys and girls in
college. The^ hope is to increase this
fund from year to year, and many
and where an army of 60,000 men! the schools, to be selected by the' niore freely for the needed expenses. E Ts dano? tickets who do not
I works its way over the country, sub- board of equalization. It would also The question of signs indicating „ , . attend the dannce. But they ir. that
L,- 4.* i-u ^ XI . - ... ^ ^ supposed to enjoy the possession of , ,
I sisting on the country to the extent r give the board of equalization power t1ie location of some of the utilities way help with this deserving por-
I the country can provide, there is no to standardize salaries of all school of the town brought out much talk, | ' interest on this $431 50 for
j plethora of anything left when that employes from superintendent to ‘ but the important di«^losure was that! 2 j o ears at the highest legal rate Those who care to enjoy the dance
Colony at Pinehurst J^^^tors and bus drivers. ji siP-n of some magnitude at thej;; Deduct this from who m^reh^ desire to help
I after his days of service and took j A provision of the bill would per-1 south end of the town and another | required to pay back! worthy fund can secure tickets
Residents Greet Newcomers 1 in.mit the eight tnonths term in agri- at the north end will in short | gg Now deduct the! Pus’::e, Dr. George H«n-,
From New York and i course of time he had worked curtural districts to be divided so as; be ready to tell travelers where tb*ey | $685 28 and you '’^®^^^ Heal|:y, Liv. Biddle, Gloma
to allow children of farmers to at-1 can find what they are looking } j.^ve the amount of $253 78 which ^ George Moor?,
tend school without interfering with | and these .signs will bf something on. ^ ^ to pay to satisfy the ” " ‘ '
farm activities. tl wo^iW tallow the j the order t'rat Pi.i:hui |t h^as lender’s usury. ^ ' later.
The boy followed in the father’s | county board of educaton“ of any* to tell about the hotels dver there,! jsjow let us add the lawful interest f
Massachusetts
,L(»« taim a decade ago.Mr^
Mrs. Chester M. Williams of New
his way to a place of prominence and
; had become a factor in his commun-
mjd I itj^’s w#lf«r«.
Further information will be ^j.ven
Yo rk City, and Hot Springs, Va.,! fo<>tsteps, not walking along the same county to limit the school t3rm In any, and rot objectionable in their location! ,?64 72 to the amount of which FlCFStOIlC fOF
made a short visit in Pinehurst being thorny road, but taking to his jobs, special district to six months ,on pe-1 or general appearance. So that is, rcbbed $253.78, and we have Co HoSDltal
guests at the Carolina Hotel. AI-|and doing his work, making friends: tition of officials of the district if ;pr-?ity well settled. , sum of $318 50 he must pay for " ’
though but little time was spent here land getting on in his business mat-1 they deemed the longer term unwise. Incidentally Dr. McBrayer is de-ij^.^ of $431.50 for an aveiaire
at that time, it was sufficent to ters. He made friends also among 1 In this case, aid would be received v'loping into a tanful and capable ^ i_2 year
Soon to be Laid
'S—that is to say.
make a most favorable impression, the visitors who come this way in i from the state only on a six months presiding officer who handles thei^^ percent for .he 2 1-2 years or
and before leaving the village Mrs.' the winter season, and in accord wi;h 1 basis.
nork of the board in efficient manner.
The MacLean bill carries no pro- and as ha is a leader who holds his
29.6 percent per year.
Williams received a promise from f'e decree of the fates he took to him-1 iiie i»i»ci-.ean i>ui camts no pro- iv.ui as irr a ic«uci wi»u uwiuo ma j another Case: Joltn Ulac'*
Mrs. H. W. Priest that if at any fu- self a Pittsburgh wife. Not a bad, visions for raising the tremendous | following the year gives promise of j $500.00 on five years’ time,
ture time the Priest residence might | "love at that. I brought a wife from | equalization fund that school officials U lo. of good things for the commun- ^*^^^ $410.30. The '
be for sale she should be at once Pittsburgh to the Sandhills. It is a! have estimated it would require. The ity. 1 ‘^^tes of $12.50 each, one
good place to get a wife. 1 budget revenue bill fixed the equali- Complain of Playground ! payable each month, making
On Crest Road ' ' ‘ ’ — , . . - . . ^
Con er* Rpiio Stars
Pasfp'>'‘fd to March 14th
Seats Nov/ on Sclo
advised. On account of Mr. Priest’s
failing health, it seemed advisable to
give up their Pinehurst property and
And so he is buildiixg a house on 1 biennium at $5,000,000.
Charlie Picquet, manager oi the
Carol’ra Theatre in Pinehurs'., an-
FGunces that t’ e c ^nceTt of musical
, stars from the Nationah Broadcast-
lage park came up, and it was pro-' ““eragr t^™ of 2“r-2Tea^ Coinpany ^ven for-the teneM
zation fund for each year of the neirt; The subject of im^provinfr the vil-
Mr. Williams very quickly became j the Knollwood hills. “A good place | The Beaufort representative, how-j posed to emrloy a man with some I The full lepal intere-.t of the $410.30,
^ ... to make a home, he said. Good I ever, has estimated that one million! authority with teeth in it to handle - - . . will Kp Tv^stnnTTPd until thp ^Ath tri
surroundings. Good neighborhood.
Nice folks about in all directions. And
more coming. “Mr. Blue has a good
the owner of it
Mrs. Williams, a wonderful hostess,
had entertained much at Hot Springs
and White Sulphur Springs, and up
on leaving these resorts was impor-'
tuned by her host of friends remain
ing there to return to them. In-_
stead of returning Mrs. Williams |
urged these friends to come to Pine- I Refrigeration Rates
hurst and today the cottage colony i All Frillts
and the Carolina Hotel owes many! XVCUUCCU Ull
of its most charming members and anCl V egetaDleS
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dollars would be raised by strict- [ matters there. Complaint was made
er enforcement of the income tax, * that a group of young men appro-
another by raising certain brackets priate the children’s playgiound. It
j in the income tax, two millions by a j was decided thav. this would have to
two per cent tax on electric light con-1 be remedied, and was so ordered,
j sumption. Half a million by raising Howard Bums, the secretary, re-
the franchise tax on power com
panies and a million and a half
throiKgh a state automobile drivers’
lifcense fee.
Other proponents of the bill have
ported money coming in right well
10 care for the current needs, and it
(Please turn to Page Four)
for the term he enjoys the possession
of the money he borrowed is $61.55
(giving the Shark the fraction). De
duct this legal interest from $750.00
he is required to pay back, and we .
, 0.^00 u J. jr I.- ' vise that vou make vour reserv;ytions
have $688.45 he must pay for hi =; .
$410.30. This shows usury in the
will be postponed until the 14th «f
Marc’T. Ticket are on sale at thg
Carolina Hotel and the Carolinr.
Pirehu^st. and the Broac Strept
Pharmacy, Southern Pines, and w nr-
early.
amount of $278.15. Now add this
i With the return of fine westher
1 i- jf nr work on the construction of thtv tios-
ujiuiv 10 the lawful interest of $61.55, i , . , . ,
J u rrn tti ^ pit^l IS advancing ra*pidly. T e fraiae-
and we have $399.70 Ulace hai had ^ x ^ ^
! work now towers to three stones ana
urged a sales tax on cigarettes, the- -|^.|| jq
JViii 4o on oiaie
to pay for the loan of $410.30 for th‘
average term of 2 1-2 years—that is
Peach and Dewberry
Growers
proper sources for the needed reve-j
nue A bill to provide such a taxj
BERRIES BY EXPRESS
guests to Mrs. Williams and her
family. A portion of the two recent j Pavorably Affects Sandhills \ tickets and bottled
seasons have been spent by Mr. and ^
Mrs. Williams and their son Win-j
throp touring Europe, and at the j
close of the season here last Spring
definite plans were made to spend
this winter in France, and for this The Interstate Commerce Commis-
reason their Pinehurst home was sion has just issued orders reducing
rented to Mrs. E. W. Hale. Late in railroad refrigeration rates on fruits
the summer their plans for touring and vegetables moving from the south-
were given up and a home taken in| east to northeasfJern points. These
Palm Beach for the winter. That j new rates become effective April 15.
a recurrence of the situation might Of especial interest to our readers
not happen, Mrs. Williams who spent j are those reductions which apply to
a week here recently on her way to fruits shipped from the Sandhill sec-
Palm Beach, completed negotiations tion. On berries the reduction or-
commenced last Spring and bought; dered is 19 1-2 per cent. For North
from the Barber estate thru the of-j Carolina vegetables and melons a 10
fice of Harry B. Emery, the platearj p^r cent reduction was prescribed,
garage and adjoining lot. Upon this j and a six per cent reduction was giv-
property will be built a residence |en general fruit from North Caro-
smaller than the present Williams ^ lina.
home, so that in the future a home The complaints as to peaches from
in Pinehurst will be available for the
Williams family even though they
may not wish to spend the entire
season here and occupy their larger
home.
Pew winter resorts have as loyal
friends as Mr. and Mrs. Chester M.
Williams.
Charles E. Muman, of Brookline,
Mass., registered in Pinehurst for his
first time in 1916 and 1917 and Mr.
Muman and his family have never
missed a season up to the present
time.
Mr. Muman is a former official of
the United Drug Company wit'h of-
Roads in Month
on Thursday the superin teij dents
to say: 82.5 percent for 2 1-2 ; Panned to start pouring the roof
. In a short time the skeleton loomimg
or 33 percent per year. j ^ ^
m. , • • 1 i. 4. 1 J. wp on the Carthage road will take ®n
These two incidents are not isolat-' ^ ^
, , 1 , J. r 'the rec'gnizable outl nes of a large
ed cases, but are only two of hun- j
has been introduced in the house by j Motorists’ February Death Toll rirsds thai are being perpetrated Mar?h M the
Representative Halstead, Democrat, Smallest Since June, ! the poorer people of North Carolina: "
of Camden, a member of the education j 19^8 continually ' Newcomb is maki!*;-. n|r«-
committee. ! Now, you Legislators, what the-'“V"*
Tobacco Specialist
CominST to Moore Co. 1 half the number, 83 killed during
I December, and the smallest number
Those farmers who are interested j killed in a single month since June,
in the growing of tobacco this year j according to the report issued by the
will no doubt be interested to know j motor vehicle bureau of the State
that E. J. Floyd, extension tobacco I Department of Revenue. |
The report showed.. 338 persons; of a country you destroy the country
killed and injured, 19 of those killed itself, and no country has ever long
being pedestrians. Seven lost their j systematic robbery of the
lives in collisions with other auto- ,
.... ‘1.U ^ common people. The Upper Crust
mobiles, one in a collision with a
the corn'rston? wh'ch will take placo
Devil are you minking about that between the 14th and 31st
j The State's death toll from auto-
I mobile accidems last month dropped ^ _
'to 43, Which was slightly-more than arise in your wrath, and {of March. The date and program’of
wil h your combined fists give tke j this event will be announced mow
Behemoth a solar plexus that will
put an end to this unconscionable
crime ?
When you .destroy the Peasantry
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Georgia and Carolina points to wes
tern territory were dismissed, but
peaches moving to northeast areas
from these points are included in the
cut rates.
A news dispatch of last week also
stated that express service had been
ordered on carload shipments of
dewberries from the Vass-Cameron
section for the coming season, thus
enabling the local growers to take
advantage of more remote markets
and also making it possible to put
the iberries on the market fresh from
the fields.
Both the peach and dewbr^y in
dustries should be materially improv
ed by these concessions.
specialist will speak here in the
Court House on February 26th at
10:00 o’clock. Mr. Floyd will discuss
the growing and fertilizing of tobac
co, the use of lime and any other
phase of the work which you are in
terested in. Having had the oppor
tunity to watch all the experimental
work being carried on as well as hav
ing demonstrations in practically all
the counties, Mr. Floyd is in position
to give us first hand information on
practically any of our tobacco prob
lems which confront us today.
On account of lack of time it will
be impossible for Mr. Floyd to do
much, if any visiting of farms, but
he has always been glad to answer
any questions which are asked during
the meetings. If you are uncertain
about the kind and amount of ferti-
b'zer to use this year It will pay
you to be on hand on February 26
and find out about all of those
things.
horse drawn vehicle, four in collis
ion with railroad trains, two in col
lision with fixed objects, and 10 in
non-collision aocidents.
As to the causes resulting in fatal
accidents, the report showed that in
eight instances cars were exceeding
the speed limit, in three instances
they were on the wrong side of the
road, four did not have the right of
way, two were passing on a curve
or hill, one car ran away with no
driver, five drove off the roadway,
four disregarded sigiiais, and one
car was at a standstill. Drivers were
intoxicated in three of the fatal ac
cidents, and 244 of the 287 cars in
volved in fatal and non-fata! acci
dents, were apparently in good condi
tion.
must have a foundation to rest upon,
or it too, topples in with the inevi
table debacle.
Now is this wrong to be remedied?
I know twenty senators and repre
sentatives, among them Spence of
Moore, McQueen of Hoke, McKeithen
of Cumberland, Person of Franklin,
Poole of Hoke, Speaker Sandy Gra
ham (God bless his honest Scottish
heart). Fountain, Johnson of Robe
son, Nash of Richmond, Broughton of
Wake, Clark of Mecklenbui^p—any
half dozen of .the twenty, if they
work Ghuaillibh na Ghuaillibh, the
remedy will be immediately forth
coming in short order.
definitely as soon as the bl v.k ar
rives. A. L. Miller, superintendent
of the construction, has o-derer* Wio
stone from Bedford. Indiana.
As soon as the weather conditio»s
are right ?nd some of the debris has*
been cleared awav, shrubs and twses
will be set out so that when the hqs-
pital is officially opened it will have
the homely comfortable ai'* * that
planting always lends.
C. M. T. C. ENROLLMENTS
BEGIN MARCH FJKST
Applications for attending^ tlie
Citizens’ |fflitary Camp^ next s»|n-
mer will be accepted beginning Maich
1, 1929. The camp for thip 1^i-
tory will be held at Fort Bragi;, for
thirty days beginning June 13th., This
camp will train 800 Field ArtiUery
men.
Any young man of aecept»Wc
character and between the ages of 17
and 24 may apply for the basic
course.
All necessary expense is furnished
free by the government. Those In this
territory should write to AB>ert tu
Cox, Raleigh, N. C.
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