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hVitiay, March 8, 1929. McKeithen and Page Argue Hancock School Bill Before Kiwanis THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vass. North Carolina Will Reduce Number of Teachers! But Put Less Responsibility on Counties WISCONSIN MAN TALKS SKETCH SHOWING FRONT VIEW OF NEW COUNTY HOSPITAI -A tr^>M - doUKn • ifo^PlTA S'SsiijeJ Jionrurfenfd £.H,UJi.ST XX McFarland Rides Broadsilk to Win Secretary’s Cup Smashing Finish Brings Victory to Miss Nightingale’s Mare in Feature Race. FREDDIE FISHER STARS. The Hancock school bill before the legrislature at Raleigh brought out a little discussion before the Kiwanis Club lit the Wednesday dinner in the Southern Pines Congregational church in which Ed McKeithen and Bob Page were the chief speakers. ' Mr. McKeithen pointed out some of the objections to the bill, one being the likelihood of cutting down the number of teachers so that the classes ' would too big to handle success-' fully. Mr. Page touched upon thid j feature, but also said that the wholG consideration from many sides. The. matter was s© big that it needed' constitution makes the states respon sible for a school system, but too I much has been put on the counties, and especially the matter of taxing j and financing the schools. Mr. Pagej thought the bill good in some ways, i especially as it is a start in the right | direction of putting greater I'espon- sibility on the state for financing the schools and caring for them. SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, TO ASK SEABOARD TO SOUND MOVIES START The speaker of the day was Paul | MEETS IN CARTHAGE SUNDAY ! ELIMINATE SWITCHES AT CAROLINA THEATRE B, Jenkins of Wisconsin, who talked i of the remarkable solidarity of Amer-, There will be a meeting of the Further discussion of planting: The first sound movie at the Car- ica. He said friends m Illinois and | Moore County Sunday School Asso- problems and of elimination of freight olina Theatre in Southern Pines was New York had said to him in Wis-1 ciation, at the Methodist Church in; car switches in Southern Pines were given last evening when a full house cousin to m^t them this week m Carthage, Sunday, March 10th, at 3:00 the principal topics of the members | saw and beard Douglas Fairbanks in North Carolina. This countrj^ is ©’clock. of the Board of Directors of the “The Iron Mask.” Mr. Picquet work- big, but so little that the three of | There will be an interesting pro-! Chember of Commerce of Southern ‘ ed feverishly for two days to assem- them could gather at any ^int in it ^ gram, also the Sunday School work ‘ Pines at their weekly meeting Tues- ble his new DeForest Phonofilm pro in a few days at an hour’s nottic-'. i the county will be discussed ' day noon in Jack’s Grill. Struthers jector in time for the Fairbanks pro- Hoover s inaugural address on Mon-; especially request the County, Burt and Frank Buchan were ap- duc-uion, and) the presentation ,was and Township Officers, Sunday' pointed a committee to take up with ^ voted a great success by those pres- School Superinftendents and officers, j the Seaboard the question of having: ent. Sound and talking pictures will spoken before by man. From the. teachers, and any others interested' one instead of thn e freight switches! be a regular feature there from now Byrd expedition in the Antarctic to - Sunday School work to make a iri the town. 1 Work is progressing rapidly on the new Moore County Hospital at Pinehurst, which Dr. Rankin, head of the Duke Foundation says will be the finest in North and South Carolina. A benefit concert for the hospital building fund is to be held in the Carolina Theatre in Pinehurst next Thursday evenSng, March 14th, when famous radio stars of the National Broadcasting Company will appear in person. Forty thousand dollars is the amount still needed for the completion and equipment of the hos pital. — MISS JONES BUYS SITE FOR HOME ON MIDLAND ROAD A smashing finish to a dramatic race brought victory to Broadsilk, a chestnut mare owned by Miss June Nightingale, of Victoria, B. C., in the feature first annual seven furlong running race for the Secretary’s cup in the eighth race meeting of the sea son staged by the Pinehursr Jockey Club at the race track Wednesday. The winner, cleverly ridden by Jockey McFarland, broke the tape barely a head in the lead of Steinway and Galiano, two entries from the Dennis Bauer stables of New Orleans, La. Charles Picquet, secretary of the club and donor of the cup, presented the trophy to McFarland. The five and one-half furlong run ning race was won by Paul Hahn’s Son of Hope, who made a slashing spurt down the stretch to win by half a length from J. J. Kenney’s Perre ' Rhue. The five furlong event for non- winners went to Prank Murphy’s Lit tle Thicket. Herman Tyson made a clean sweep of the harness races, driving Packey T T , i Ritts to a closely contested victory in L. L. Biddle, 2d, announces the sale ,, ^ i ^ j. * ' j I the seventh annual Daffodil trot and at Pinehurst of a large building site j jijg Judge taking first money in the on the Midland Road just beyond the | seventh annual Sandhill pace. day was heard by more people over a wider area than anyt-hing eyier Batson house and facing the No 5 golf course to Miss Addie A. Jones of Massachusetts. Miss Jones has been a Pinehurst visitor for a couple of seasons and is so well pleased with the Sandhills that she wanted a Pinehurst home. She expects to build right away. Freddie Fisher, youthful equestrian of Greenwich, Conn., starred in the gymkhana numbers, placing first in the balloon contest and musical stalla specialty. Only rarely is it worth what it costs to tell a man just what we think of him. the Philippines, Alaska and all over spgcjaj effort to attend the meeting. I Secretary Burns reported a satis- the earth the new president was heard by people everywhere. We are a nation from sea to sea and from lakes to gulf. The Ford car, th^ ra dio, the good roads and similar agen cies have united our 125,000,000 peo ple, and there are no longer marked ’ B frontiers in different sections. We all ‘ g talk the same language, have the g same aims, and work for the same j purposes. The speaker cites the great prog ress foreigners have made in becom- ! ing part of this nation and the good effect. Hie compared this country j with the old world, with its differ ent languages and dialects, and noted i our great accomplishments through. our united efforts. He was well re ceived. F. M. Dwight, , factory condition of the treasury, with President, j many contributions coming in as a W. C. WICKER, j result of the membership drive now Secretary. \ being held. SPRING HATS NEW SHADES NEW SHAPES ONE PRICE $5.00 GREY’S SOUTHERN PINES star Attractions Coming to Theatres Colken Moore in her latest and j best comedj’, “Why Be Grood,” which I is coming to the Carolina Theatres, j Friday and Saturday, maintains that | if a girl stays out after midnight, | she’s a iiinaround—if she doesn’t | she’s the loser. If she attempts wild ! parties, she w'on’t get the right kind j of a husband and if sh? doesn’t she I I won’t fret any at all. If she walks ' home from the last auto ride, and 1 tells about it, she’ll never be asked on another. If she smokes, she’s wild and if she doesn’t she’s a prude.! How she gets around all these things! is best told in “Why Be Good,” which is considered Colleen’s best comedy in | some time. ] In “Desert Sands” which is the at- | tracticn for Monday and Tuesday, | John Gilbert steps out on the desert I and do..s some real trouping and he is most ably assisted by the Sandhills’ j favorite character actor, Ernest Tor-1 rence and the generous blonde lead- j mg lady, Mary Nolan, who is rapidly j coming toithe j coming to the front as a rival of the famous Greta Garbo. There is no doubt about the excellence of the en tertainment offered in “Desert Sands.” On Wednesday and Thursday, an all star cast including such sterling stars as Renee Adoree, George Fawcett, Fred Kohler, Georgie Duryea and Wil liam Collier, Jr., will be seen in the picturization of the well known Peter B. Kyne story of the California Gold Rush, “Tide of Empire.’1 A fijie story and a great cast assures a splendid picture. Sandhills residential and business prop erty represents an unusually good invest- GRAND CONCERT Benefit of Noore County Hospital by famous artists of the National Broadcasting Company ment. BUY IT THROUGH Paul T. Barnuih Real Estate—Rentals—Insurance Southern Pines, North Carolina ttttxmntntntnixtttttttnmnmuttm The entire proceeds of this concert, outside of the ex penses of the Artists, will go to the Moore County Hospital Fund. Here is an opportunity to hear a great concert and help the most worthy enterprise in the Sandhills. Whoopee Minstrels Tonight at So. Pines Tonight is the night of the big oiin- strel Show, the “Whoopee Minstrels” at the Carolina Theatre in Southern Hnes. The Alpha Lodge No. 182, I. 0. P. of Southern Pines are put ting on the show, a real old time min strel with all the trimmings, includ ing a male quartet, olio, vaudeville numbers, concert violinist, xylo phonist, etc. The curtain rises at 8:20 o’clock, and there are a few ®eata left if you haven't procured yours. r y 7 GUISEPPE DE BENEDETTO Tenor The housewives of the Sandhills are discriminating s^hoppers—they know values. And that is why, when Spring is just around the corner, they send their clotnes, rugs, etc. to us for complete rejuvenation. You, too, will be pleased wiith our quality and dependable service. = MONTESANirS Dry Cleaners Southern Pines Mr. Benedetto, Tenor, was leading Tenor with the San Carlo Opera Company of Italy and the Chicago CMc Opera Company, and is now famous all over America for his broad casting. w Si E*N a /^ PRICES Rows, D to J Orchestra $5.00 Rows A A to D Or::hes'.ra $4.00*^ Rows K to N Parquet : $4.00 Rows 0 to Q Parquet $3.00 - Rows A to C Balecyny $2.50 I Rows D to G Balcony $2.00* Boxes $150.00 \P A RCA DIE BIRKENHOI^ VIOLINIST Mr. Birkenholz ftas been dubhad “the at*e violinist of the air” by- the New York Daily* i^(6ws. His technique shows poHsh and his .one flows smoothlv. tt tt LOLITA ABRARE GAINSBORG PIANIST PINEHURST Thursday, Narch 14th, at 8 P. M.
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