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THE NEWS-WEEKLY OF MOORE COUNTY THE PILO FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Nort VOLUME 9, NO. 15. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929 MRS. GUY TRACY : SELLS ESTATE I ON YOUNG RDJ Mr. and Mrs. John L. Tonnole Purchase Log House and 18 Acres DUNCAN ROBINSON BUYS E. C. Stevens of Southern Pines i consummated one of the largest real i estate transactions of vhe winter seas- i on in the Sandhills when he sold la?t' week the log: house and eighteen i acres of land surrounding it, the | property of Mrs. Guy Tracy on the ■ Young Road near Southern Pines to | Mr. and Mrs. John L. Tonnale of New I York. • Mr. and Mrs. Tonnale, whose New i ' I York residenice is at No. 133 East 64th slreet, have b.en guests of Mr. and Mrs. Augustin^- Healy. The, Tracy house is attractively located { amid a large grove of tall pines in | the vicinity of Firleigh Farniis, the j Healy estate, and caught the eye of Mr. Tonnale when he drove by. Mr. Healy and Mr. Stevens showed Mr. and Mrs. Tomnale over the grounds and through the log cabin and the deal was consummaied on the spot. Mr. and Mrs. Tonnale plan to make their winter residence in the Sand-, hills in the future. Mr. Toninale is a graduate of Columbia University in the Class of 1905 and a prominent member of the University Club. Another important transaction m the real estate market during the week was the purchase yesterday by Duncan Robinson of Toronio, Cana da, prominent in hunting circlas there and in Southern Pines, of the eight acres on the Bethesda Road acquir ed last winter by James S. Wakis- woith of Geneseo, N. Y. Mr. Rob- AN EDITORIAL No town can function properly without a Chamber of Commerce or some such civic organization. It is \he clearing house of pro gressive action, the liason officer between Citizen and Community. It is the suggestion box, the me<i- ium of exipression of ideas an*i ideals, of complaints. It is concentrated civilian pow'er for concerted civic improvement. It represents no class, creed or color bu. all class-es, crseds and colors. It is YOUR organizatiom for the betterment and upbuilding o>* YOUR community. Are you supporting YOUR Chamber of Commerce or similar civic body? If not, you are shirk ing your duty. You are stealing a ride. The organizations in both South ern Pines and Aberdeen are havinsr their annual membership drives. “Drive’' should not be the v.'ord. Svnd in your check withoui be ing “driven.” The amount will come back to you manyfold, in en hancement of property values, in beautification of your surround- irtgs, in town publicity, which means town adv-ertisinfg, which means town growth, which means progress and spells success. You need the Chamber of Com merce. The Chamber of Com merce needs you. TRAFFIC LOAD HERE TO REQUIRE NEW R. R. YARDS SERVES AS PAGE AT STATE CONVENTION OF THE D. A. E. VASS, N. C Seaboard Considers Expansion Program to Meet Increasing Business of Sandhills TO BUILD FOR FUTURE Of la'-e some talk has been offered regarding the unsatisfactory manner of handliln.g frt-ight for delivery in Southern Pines and the Chamber of Commerce has been discussing the qu^-stion. Recently a Seaboard man was here, and in talking about this matter he intimated that it was a bigger proposition than was general ly suspjcted. For, as he said, the Seaboard has bean looking over the tasks involved, and finds that while something has to be don'3 to sim plify the handling of freight, and to make conditions more satisfactory to the people of the village, tha- some ' thing has to be big onough to meet j the conditions that are to arise in ! the days ahead, not in the present. I And from that came considerable talk i about the future. j The railroad man said that it is not what the people of any town j wants, nor what the railroad wants, but what the traffic compels, and thai the way the traffic in this sec- i tion is growing the needs beforie long are goihg to be so great that any- ! thing planned now must provide for : a new freight yard, in one place, not ! all over town, for new passtViger Pinehurst Will Be Scene of Ac- ‘ ya rds as well as for new freight Big Days Ahead in Golf, Tennis, Polo tivity on Links, Courts and Fields yards, for he pi'edicted that befo»e long Southern Pines will require tracks to handle Pullmau cars .hat will be stored during the day and between i*uns in and out, and for ht-ntinir the curs and atrrvlclng Coming events at Pinehurst include the twenty-seventh annual United iHFon win Degin me coimmciton eotjrtk Oprn stables for his string of hunters March 26th and 27th, wee, and expects later on to build i the pick of the amateurs and a winter residence on the property. ^ of the country are ex- Mr. Wadsworth bought this land, | to compete for the prize money th adjacent to the Tompkins property, trophies offered by the Pinehur.^t i hi formerly the Hamlin farm, from the j Country Club. Boyd estate last winter with the in-‘ Following this will be the twenty- that passenger and freight station lention of building. Since then he has seventh annual United North and v.ill be located with regard to the vol- decided to purchase another piece in j South Amateur Championship for w<;- ume of the traffic in the futuie as the neighborhood which has a house j »*en, scheduled for April 1, 2, 3, liv ell as for ;he inciLase of traffic !n already on it, and when Mr. Robin-1 and 5. Many of the leading women the Pine Needles section and o.i the son made him an offer he accepted, i players of the country, headed by the i Knollwood developments on both sidos The vicinity of the old Hamlin farm, i national champion, Glenna Collett of I of the railroad, and also considering' The indications are that a new yard will b*3 considered, exteftiding down the Manly w'ay, and that it will be big enough for all passenger and i freight traffic for years to come, and TELEPHONE CO. CHANGES HANDS Leavitts Sell System to Central Carolina Company, Owned by Chicago Interests ' BIG EXPANSION PLANNED Sandhills Girls Pages at State D.A.R. Convention Negotiations going on for some time closed within the last few days with the sale of the Southern Piwes tele phone system anid the system at Car thage, by Bernard and Claudfe Leav itt to the Central Carolina Telephone Company, of which George R. Ross is superintendent, owned by the Nichol aind Terry interests of Chic ago and Charles G. Dawes, nephew of the former vice-president of the United States. These are men back ed by ample capital to do anything that is needed}, and money will be available to carry out such improve ments as will be planned. Th'8 transfer is expected to take place within a few weeks. I. T. Hay- iier, the new engineer who will be in chai^ge of that phase of the work in the ddsitrict, has arrived and ig lo cated in one of Mrs. Whittaker’s houses in Southern Pines. He will have under his comtrol a number of I exchanges in surrounding places, and I becomes a permanent resid'ent of I Southern Piies. He is a telephone en- I gineer from Chicago and his firtit work will be a complete survey of the new possession, after which he begin plans for its further expansion and improvement. Claude Leavitt will be retained in the organization with he-^adquarters at Carthage while Ber nard Leavitt will become district man ager of the Southern Pines distric!;. Covers Big Field The new sysi'^m that will be form ed from the consolidation of Sbuther'i on which is soon to be built a spacious, | Knollwood, Virginia Van Wie, fin- clubhouse for members of the hunt-; alist last year, and winner of the ing colony, is rapidly becoming the | recent St. Augustine tournament, horse center of Southern Pines. Helen Hicks of Long Island, who re- S. B. Richardson reports the sale; defeated Miss Collett at St. this week of an acre of land on Wey- ■ ‘“^^^ustine, and Louis'e Fordyce, a mouth Heights to Mrs. Aileen PorJ favorite. McKinney of Titusville, Pa. Th^s . The twenty-ninth annual Unite d property adjoins the present holdings' North and South for men amateur-s of Mrs. McKinney which she has im-1 will follow this, starting April 8th proved by the erection of a winter res-j anci coniinuing through the week, and ide<nce. ‘ bringing to Pinehurst all the prom- inent ajnateurs- of the country. 4-^ annual horse show is booked foi- Women Goll Stars to April 2d and Sd with a Wg entrv Compete at So. Pines i left, and the annual United Nona ; and South tennis championships is Glenna Collett, Virginia Van Wie April 8th, running Helen Hicks, and Others through the week. Enter Tourney March 28 i Besides which the third annual in • I formal round robin polo tournament j many other problems that are not yet plain to the averag'e citizen. Wha: will be done and when the ma'.i talk ing said he did not know, but what he said was a fact is that traffic con ditions are the big factor that will determine every plan, and that the Seaboard has been figuring on ihei-e things loinger than is generally i>nag- ined. Evidently something is in sight that is worth while, and coming becau5<e it has to. Dunlap and Bloxham Kiwanis Delegates Will Represent Aberdeen Club at International Conven tion in Milwaukee Many famous women golfers, many not so famous and hundreds of lovers Two young ladies of the Sandhill 5 j acted as pag. s at the annual meeting | of the North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution at Winston- Sal/ m the forepa'i't of this week. I M iss Mir*iam Converse Johnson cf Aberdeen served as page for the Stale R gent, M’S. Charles R. WTiitaker, of Southei 1 Pines, while Mis Emilie Richardson of Southern Pines was ihe page for tlie Moore County Chap er of the D. A. R. Miriam is 14, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson. Miriam, has several distinctions. Her moth..r 1 was graduated fiom Mt. H'plyoke Col-' le^re at South Hadl y, Massachusetts, in 1912. There is a college custom that the first girl baby born to a giaduatf. of a claA3 is desijina.ed “Class Baby,” and is more or less adopted by the members of the cla^s, who plcc'ge themselv -s to see that <he Cla s Baby has an opportunity for a college education at Mt. Holycoke. Ir> Sept’emb. r, 1914, little Miriam was born, and pi-oved to be the Class Baby, and as such was adop.ed by her Mother’s class. This makes it neces sary that Miriam go to Mt. Holyoke. And already she has been enrolled in advance, to matriculate in the Fall of 1932. Shie has attended all her Pine^' anti Carthage with those ex changes already in poss;ssion of the buyers will cover sixtie-.n or more . points, including Pinehurst, Siler mother’s clasps reunions, and appears to be lov d and greatly aimired by the class of 1912. Miriam is a girl of rather unusut.l, ^ ^ ^ I Pittsboro, Golr^ston, Bonlee, Elon at.ainmen.s for her youthful age. She | ^ is very athletic. She is an excel.ent I swimmer, and worries her mother anJ * father in surf bathing by going be-1 vond the break., rs foi an hour i^t 1 a time. She rides horseback like aji Indian,, and will ride i.i the Horse Show at Pinehurst thi.s ipring. She plays golf and tennis, and cances ' College and Gibson, Kernersville, Hoffman and Marston, Lilesville, Polk- !;on, Peachland, Norwood, Ansonville, Marshville, Wingat., in North Caro lina, Chesterfield, J-.fferson, Pageland snd Ruby in Sou.h Carolina, Fuquay Springs and Varina in North Caro lina, and possibly other points. The hook-up gives an outlet to Raleigh, v»ell, but her b. s. a.coniph^hment i i, , , oi- 1 J ChailoLte, and rural communities and pernaps, her ar . She has drawn some beau iful pictures, and will* doubtless pursue this tak'nt as he! avocation ir. life. ular daughter of the former Mayor of Southern Pines, and is a student at Nor;h Carolina Collegl. for Wo- n:en at Greensboro. She was hon- ( red bv he Moore County chapter by will be held from April 4th to 11th. There will be no excuse for noc LIBRARY CIRCULATION SHOWS BIG INCREASE of the game are expected in South- having anything to amuse one in the ein Pines for the women’s tournament Sandhills for the balance of the seas- 'vhich is scheduled for the Southern on Pines Country Club on March 28th > and 29th. | Mrs. E. Ells>worth Giles appeared before the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Pines at its Tuesday noon meeting and told the boar*d of the plans for the big event, the first of its kind there in some time. She announced that among the entries would be Helen Hicks, the youin.g laxiy from Long Island who defeated Glenna Col- It^tt, national champion, in the re cent tournament at St. Augustine, F’lorida, and Vii^inia Van Wie, Chic ago, who defeated Miss Hicks im the final round. Glenna hers«lf and Louise Fordyce, another noted wo man golfer, are also expecte*d to com pete in the tournanient here. The Chamber of Commerce appro priated $50 for prize money for the tournament, and gave a vote of thanks to Mrs. Giles and the women of the Thistle Club of Southern Pines who have been instrumental in put ting the tournament on. It is ex pected to bring a large number of people to the Sandhills for the two days. Either there are more people in Southern Pines this season or those who are there are reading more. The report of Mrs. Park Fisher, kibrarian, shows both an inci ease in circulation and in num ber of persons visiting the library. In February last year, 1,096 books were taken out of the li brary, and 788 persons visited the library. This February the circu lation was 1,327, and the visitors totalled 1,050. Among them were 234 children. Jevenile circulation was 160 books. The book talks sponsored by the library and being delivered at the Civic Club by Dr. Paul B. Jen kins are meeting with great suc cess. They are highly interesting, those who have heard Dr. Jenkins say. The series includes further lectures on March 21st, 28th and April 4th. At the meeting of the Kiwanis Cidlb Wednesday at Lovejoy’s William Ddfi- lap and John Bloxham were chosen delegates to the International con vention at Milwaukee in the sum mer. The dance committee had intended to hold the Kiwanis dance at the Pinc- hurst Country Club on Friday, April 11, but some uncertainty as to the date arose. W. L. Ennequist, of Mineola, Long Island, a Rotary officer, talked to tho; club largely along the line of the benefits these service clubs are con ferring. Incidentally, Mr. Ennequist alluded to the cordiality with which a club at Red Springs received him arid a number of friends from the North who had gone over there for a visit, and he said the North and South are getting closer together. He men tioned the hospitality of the South as more outstanding than that of the more populous and crowded sections of the North and some of it he attri buted to the close touch of these clubs. “Success in all communities,” he as sured his audience, “means the suc cess of all the people, the help of each to bring success to the others, and the Kiwanis clubs are an agency in accomplishing that.” RANDOLPH CUP FEATURES NEXT WEDNESDAY’S RACES j lo points in South Carolina, which will probably be strenvJthcinieKi by la ter additions. Arrangements to work M- r>- V J ' i.1. the B. 11 long distance lines wiil Miss Emilie Richardson is the pop-,, j ^ , , , , , - I be continued ana broadened and closcr I relacions will be sustained wiuh ail ^ h po^i'itj in the Carolinas. Bernard Leavitt had planned ma terial extension of the South,in P'lW.i ..... . ' I'lant, and a new switchboard was appointment as its page to serve at , , bought some months ago. It was the an.'.ual convention. i j • ^ , 'ready for delivery during the winter, Mrs. Whitaker c'eliVcreid her annual _, , • j t.l • i “ . ^ T, ^ ^ T i arrived. It induces a switch- Kiessage as State K gent at lues-', j -xi. . ^ board with an outlet for 1,600 lines, c.av s meeting of the convention, re „ j j • . * . XU 1 A thoroughly modern in every way, viewing the work of the D. A. R. m ^ , •. , ^ . ^ and It was the expectation that it Nor:h Carolina durini/ the pas. year ■ , , ,, , . , ,, , , would shortly be installed as soon as Mrs. James B. Swett, of Sou.hern ^ j-u • i. j T,. , 4.- • u weather permuted. Also a plan Fines served the convention m her ;a i ^ ^ Vvas considered for a new building capacity as corresponding secretary. . ,i. , , , , * ^ ^ before installing ..he new board and for other improvements, which Mr. The feature running race next Wed-j nc'day which, by the way, is next to' the last Race Day of the season, is the 7th Annual Seven Furlong event! for the P. S. P. Randolph Cup and! those who were fortunate enough to j see the Secretary’s Cup Race ctn^ March 6th will know in advance that, this one event will be worth the trip^ to the race track. I Added to the running program wiilj be a Five Furlong race for Non-Win ners and a Five arid one-half Furlong event. The harness events include the Seventh Annual Outlook pace and the Seventh Annual What-To-Do-troit and the program of Equestrian Gymkhana events will be unusually interesting due to the many added riders who will be in Pimehurst and vicinity during the week. I. O. O. F. BENEFIT BALL AT COUNTRY CLUB TONIGHT I Leavitt was about in position to un- I dertake. It is not yet decided' what Alpha Lodge No. 182, I. 0. O. in the way of improve- Southem Pines is holding a benefit ball this evening, Friday at th ments, as this will all depend on Mr. Hayner’s survey, which will be under- NEW SIGN ERECTS A new sign pointing the way to the business section of Southern Pines has been erected by Mr. Swift an*d the Chamber of Commerce at the inter section of Broad street and Rout?e 50. The sagn is of natural finished hick ory with letters in gold leaf and is an exceptionally atiractive piece of sign work. Southern Pines Country Club. Music taken at once, but Mr. Ross says the for the affair will be furnished by | People of the Sandhills may expect a complete telephone S'ervice, for the new company is backed by men able and anxious to make their new plant cne that will take care of the bui> iness and expand to keep up with all possible requirements. As the lines to be consolidate"d radiate ou>. in three directions, one to Raleigh, one up through Chatham a.id Randolph and one down by Charlotte and into South Carolina, Southern Pines seems tc be about a central point in the system, so that Southern Pines or Pinehurst may become the central lo cation of operation. Mr. Leavitt said that he was not in position to talk as his duties with the new concern will not be defined until the survey makes more specific what is to be done with the consolidated system, but it is understood that he will have a de sirable position of responsibility with the consolidated compaaiy, as will also be the case with Claude Leavitt at Carthage. Both these men are high ly regarded by the new owners and Duke’s “Blue Devils,” of Duke Uni versity. Those who had the good fortune to attend the Medical Ball in Pinehurst last year will remember these boys as some of I he best jazz musicians in the south. The dance is for the benefit of the Odd Fellows Orphan’s Home an'd is deserving of the support of every resident of the community. Tickets may be secured at the door and the organization assures a very enjoyable evening. HARRISON STUTTS BACK FROM WESTERN VACATION Harrison Stutts, head of the Pine- hursit Warehouses, has returned from his extended vacation in the west. Mr. Stutts returns to Pfcehurst in the best of health after his serious illness of last year, and is already picking up the reins at his office, where his many friends have been dropping in to greet him. (Please turn to pw 5)
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