Friday, February 22, 1929.
THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Vass. North Carolina
The Week’s News in
And About Aberdeen
Mrs. Marg-aret Jones and Miss Mary
McKeithen s>p^nt a few days last
week in Henderson, visiting friends.
Mrs. Jesse Carter o<f Washington,
N. C., is visiting friends and relatives
in Aberdeen. Mrs. Carter’s old
home is in this city, and she is hoping
to he aible to settle here.
Miss Beatrice Land and Earl Rog
ers went to Bennettsville, S. C., on
last Saturday and were married there,
where they will make their future
home. Miss Land is a popular younlg
lady here, having made her home in ^ stitute work for some of the teachers
Aberdeen for the last six years, whilethe Pinebluff School this week.
Mr. Rogers is foreman of the Car- Frank Cole of Charlotte, was the
olina Power & Light Company in thisj Sunday vsitor last week of Mr. and
section. | Mrs. C. C. Kennedy.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Rosser were I The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
tie daughter, Katharine, spent last
Sunday m Charlotte visiting friends.
H. W. Watson, who has been con
ducting a pool room in the Creel
building next door to Freeman’s Fur
niture store, is making a change this
week, and after some necessary in
terior repairs are made to store No.
6, recently vacated by The Marion
Shoppe, Mr. Watson will move into
this building and open for business
on March 1.
Miss Virginia Gaston is doing sub
An interesting feafture of the Em
pire Builders’ weekly radio hour to be
heard at 10:30 next Monday night is
the short talk on his experiences in
the West while building the Great
Northern Railroad by John F. Stevens.
We are very much interested in Mr.
Stevens because he is the father of
E. C. Stevens, wlio deals in real estate
and insurance in Southern Pines and
is connected with all sorts of local ac
tivities, and because Bion Butler
claims that he is one of the world’s
greatest engineers. Mr. Stevens has
bad a hand in the building of many of
our nation’s rail^oad^, ahiong them
called to Lynchburg, Va., last Friday Clyde Valentine was l^ried in Old I Northern, the Chicago, Rock
on account of the sudden death of Bethesda Cemetery last Tuesday mom. Pacific, and the New York, ^ rntton Planfin<r
Mr. Rosser’s father. Mr. and Mrs.|ing. Mrs. Valentine is quite ill at ^«w Haven and Hartford and has held!
Rosser stayed o^r for ^e funeral, Hamlet Hospital, and will be there much of the cotton seed for thi^
retummg to Aberdeen last Sunday. 1 "or some time yet.
William Carter, a student of Dav-| C. S. McArthur, who has lately
idson College at Davidson, N. C., «™oved his family to Elizabethtown,
was fback in town one day last week.
t'are seven
J. F. Stevens to
l^roadcast Monday
Engineer of International Fame
and Father of So. Pines Res
ident Lestures.
member of some other faith which! The “Ohio” will be almost wholly
pi-oscribed the] swearing of oaths professional. At least two of the
would attain the presidency.
Never before has the eventuality
foreseen of the installation of a
Quaker as chief executive called this
provision into play.
The records show that Washington,
Madison, W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Tay
lor, Pierce and Arthur were Episco
palians; Jackson, Polk, Buchanan,
Lincoln, Cleveland, Benjamin Harris-
son and Wilson were Presbyterians;
Jackson, Grant, Hayes and McKin
ley were M'ethodists; Johti AdiAms,
Jo-hn Quincy Adams, Fillmore and
Tait, Unitarians; Van Buren and
Roosevelt, Reformed Dutch; Harding,
Baptist; Garfield, Diciples; Coolidge,
Congregationilist.
Of the men who have held the
presidency only one, Thomas Jeffer
son, made no claim to membership
in any religious denomination.
musical numbers are by professionals
of the highest type.
Tickets are on sale now by members
of Alpha Lodge, and may be ex
changed for reserved seats on
after February 22, at Broad Street
Pharmacy, Soi.the n Pin.s. Get your
seats early a.ic aVv>id disappointment
as the choicest Gc«t3 will go first and
all seats are reserved.
Bumpmm itnd IFtrm Whmt
Its
wWnDutl. MOVOHP
oilse«Stinitiir Fctfixtmanoe
came home or the last week end.
Jake Maurer has been quite sick
for the past ten days, and absent from
his post at the Seaboard Air Line
Railway freight station.
Mr. and Mrs. Coojper and little
son, Pete, of Raeford, were Sunday
visitors in Aberdeen.
Miss Susan McLean came home
from N. C. C. W. at Greensboro to i urer.
spend the last week-end with her i
parents here. | PARENTS
The Woman’is Auxiliary of tjhe
Presbyterian Church held a n»eeting
last Monday afternoon at the Church,
and elected officers for the coming
than one of them. From 1905 to 1907, , ,
he w*s at work on the Panama Canal ff"* was damaged by con
whose construction he planned and last fall jurt
started. During the war and for sev
eral years afterward he was chairman
ot a commission of American Railway
experts to Russia operating the Trans
opened, that it is in poor condition
and a large percentage will be found
faulty.
“Even though we save the best of
ana e.ectea oiiicers lor the coming Silterian Ra'nroadlntiri92rite;eni.|
E*.* p. s|„.n p. H. Kw. pCC.”'"
at State
TEACHERS ASS’N.
Miss Ave Williams of Zebulon, is | HAVE MEETING AT ABERDEEN
a new-comer in tovim, staying at Mrs.
Ada Weaver’s, while she is working
ident, Mrs. J. McN. Johnson, Vice-!!” Colorado and h^ also been study- •
President and Mrs. S. E. Sloan, Treas-! Mr. kime recommends that a rep-
Mr. Stevens- speech will be broad- f f "Native sample ot the s«d be
cast over WEAF dnd its hookups. Latoratory
of the State Department of Agricul-
i ture in Raleigh and a best made
HOOVER WILL AFFIRM, NOT th^re. This laboratory will test seed
at Pinehurst for Vemer Z. Reed.
Mrs. Charles H. West of Wades-
boro who addressed the Parents-
Teachers association last Wednesday
afternoon, was the luncheon guest of
Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson last' Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Carrie Marsh has returned
from a trip to Montclair, N. J. and
is again at home, in company with
her daughter, Mrs. Daniel at Mrs.
R. G. Farrell’s apartments on Pop
lar street.
Friends of John Blue of Raeford,
are receiving wedding invitations to
his marriage, which will take place on
February 20th at Nixburg, Alabama.
His bride will be Miss Mary Lennard
Smith of that city.
Miss Edna Maurer, our popular as
sistant at the Aberdeen Post office | extending the school
suffered a slight attack of influenza | months, instead of the eight!
last week, and was absent from herj nionths school first decl'ded upon. |
post for a few days. ^ taken as to whether the
E. H. Lorenson, bookkeeper for i term session a day should stand
Jchnson & Johnson, was indisposed t ^
for several days last week, but much ■ back to the two-session day,
better at the present writing. i which is more convenient for some
Friends of Miss Daisy Condor, head majority of votes
clerk at Mack’s Five and Ten Cent j one-day session, 28
store, learn with regret of the death being in favor of the last named §
of her xather, F. L. Condor, at his one-day session.
home near Sanford. Mr. Condor has There was a larger percentage of
been very ill with pneumonia for mothers present representing the J
some time, and Miss Conder had been*^jj.gt g^de present; but since the fifth'
at his bedside for the past ten days.' grade ran so closely to the first grade, i H
Miss Condor is back at the store first grade had already en-
th3 present writing, buv. states that the privilege of the free movie
she will only be here until some one ti-eat so kindly offered by the Res
SWEAR, WHEN INAUGURATED free of charge and will report back to
the owner.
When the constitution became ef-
fective on the first Wednesday in
March, 1789, it contained a two word
optional provision that will be in-
THE WHOOPEE MINSTRELS*
Just two more weeks to wait for
voked for the first tim)e on March 4, the “Whoopse Minstrels,” which will
1929, when Herbert Hoover becomes be presented by Alpha Lodge No. 182,
President. I. O. O. F. at the Carolina Theatre,
The words are “or affirm,” brack- Southern Pines, at 8:20 p. m., March
eted off in the prescribed oath of 8th.
office for the President as an alter- After eight weeks rehearsing and
native to “I do solemnly swear.” the presence of many ex-troopers in
ention * to be' were thus| inserted by the the cast, this minstrel will be the
* framers of the constitution on the as-; best thing sieen in the Sandhills to
sumption that some day a Quaker or date.
HARTSELL MOTOR CO.
Cameron, N. C.
Product of
General !VIotori4
The Parents-Teachers Association
Association of the Aberdeen Schools
met last Wednesday afternoon, Feb
ruary 13, at the Teacherage in Aber
deen, with an unusually large number
of members present.
In spite of the very inclement
weaiher we were so fortunate as to
obtain a speaker from W^adesboro,
Mrs. Charles H. West, who gave us
a most interesting talk on Parent-
Teachers work, and urged each mem
ber to try to go to the National
Parent-Teachers conv
held in Washington, D. C., this spring.
Mrs. Grady Burney rendered a de-
lierhtfui solo, “The Jasmine Hour”
her unusual charming manner.
A committee was appointed to con-
fei with the school board about the
excessive speed of the truck drivers;
truii
itsNei^atid Ori^nal
Tbek«’« no Rt^iment mnfyrbmm. Bn»yliuil|
•StWiS*. Aft unite in
the Ne» AU^Americaii . . . lU WiUA
touni and di»tii%guish0d . • » And ^hn^K9
•re many who go even furtliei. ihb* ipfiway whm
havr dfiven this |i[reat nevr cisr. Th^ rnmidamm
it« puUe-etirrinf;; Ovte lib
flonous ]K>wer, a«eeif€%ratloi^ i|Mii « • • im«
luatobed in any other aar at Miali
inoJorale |>i*ic?el
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Shock Ab»nrlmra a;»rin« indodtJI !»* W»*
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else can learn the work sufficiently!
sers, it was decidied to give this
to take her place. Miss Condor has j ^ grade in the gram-
made many friends here, and all o^fniar grades, and to the tenth grade
them will be sorry to see her leave, j the high school.
Miss Bertie Goodwin, who has been ^j^g g^^ ^.j^g meeting a de-
vi^itin" the family of her brother ijg-htful social hour followed, during
Rahigh for the past six weeks, J*e-i^-}jjch time a dainty salad course was
turned last week. j served, shownfe; Valentine featurcje.
Mrs. Pearl Braswell of Elm Cty, /pj^g hostesses for the afternoon were
is visiting at the home of her par- ^ g Ballard, Mrs. R. P. Ros-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Kent on gg^^ j^^gg Macon, Mrs. W. G.if:
Poplar street. Smith and Miss Elnora Hill.
Mrs. Garland Farrell’s friends sym-
pathise deeply with her in the death ot VIRGINIA BUTNER HAS
her mother, Mrs. Lawrence 'lon-^ BIRTHDAY PARTY
cure. Mrs. Farrell was called to her
mo.her’s bedside last week, and her
death was not unexpected.
Fred Holcombe, who is visiting in
Southern Pines, and who is a cousin
of Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson, was a
dinner guest at her home on last Wed
nesday night, together with Mrs.
Lcuise Hogg of Pinehurst.
Mr. and Mrs. John R. McQueen an
nounce the arrival of a son and heir,
John Thaddeus, on February 13th.
Mrs. B. D. Wilson has been on the
sick list for the past week, but at
the present writing is much better.
Douglass David and family are mov
ing: this week from the house of Dan
Celebrating her 10th birthday. Lit
tle Miss Virginia Butner charmingly
entertained her girl friends at her
home in Pinebluff with a most at
tractive Valentine party.
A heart contest was the main fea
ture of the afternoon, with Miss Hazel
Adcox winning the first prize and j
Miss Mabel Bethune the booby prize. |
During the Valentine hunt which fol-|
lowed the heart contest. Miss Betsy |
Jean Johnson found the most Valen-j
tines.
After several other appropriate]!:
games delightful refreshments wereji::
Allred on the Raeford Road into the served consisting of sandwiches, cut I
heart-shaped, cakes, candies and
home of E. E. Brantley on Railroad
street.
Mrs. S. W. Kent and her daughter,
Mrs. Pearl Braswell, of Elm City,
who is spending some time with her
mother, motored over to Raleigh on
l'(St Monday for some shopiping.
Little Misses Katharine and Marion
Brasington spent the last week-end in
Cheraw, S. C., visiting their grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bras
ington.
Miss Elmer Gibson surprised her
friends last week by announcing her
marriage to “Red” Godfrey, which had
taken place last August. The young
couple are now living in Charlotte,
where Mr. Godfrey is connected with
the Carolina Power & Light Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Foy and lit-
cocoa, all sugfgestive of the Valen
tine holiday.
Those present were Misses Lena
Stewart, Betsy Jean Johnson, Hazel i|;
Adcox, Esther Parrell, Carolyn Wal
lace, Mabel Bethune, Alberta Fletcher, ||:
Lida Duke, and our fifth grade teach-
Gladys Hamilton.
GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
There will be a meeting of Green
wood Township Sunday School at
tJie Presbyterian Church, at Cameron,
February 24, 3:00 p. m. There will
be a very interesting program. Every
body is invited and urged to be pres
ent.
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