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Page Six THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vasa, North Carolina Friday, March 29, 1929, Pinehurst and Vicinity Rich in Historical Lore Race Track Was Site of Old David Buchan Home stead, and Burned to Ground by Raiders in 1781 (By J. McN. Johnson) A new population is apt to regard the ground on which a new colony is settled, as virgin soil. Valuable his torical data is lost when there is universal consent that the former oc cupation, even of the simplest and inrst unpretentious character be ig nored. Not many people now interested in Pinehurst know that the grandfather of Captain Archibald Ray—also named Archibald Ray, lived and rear ed a large family just on the north side of the Norfolk-Southern Railway Track, and about 200 yards north west from the Pinehurst Depot, just at the west edge of the present pine forest; but such is a fact, and the de scendants of that first settler, Archi bald Ray, have been a power in civic righteousness in Moore County since its creation, as well as in western Cumberland before that date. Nor fleet Ray, the Pinehurst merchant is one. Not many people now connected with Pinehurst know the Pinehurst Race Track was, during the Revo lutionary War, the home and farm cf David Buchan, the great-grand- uncle of our own Frank Buchan; and that David Buchan’s house was burnt by Captain Wade in 1781 when he came down into the Sandhills to avenge the Pines Bottom Massacre; but such is a historical fact. No: many people now connected with Pinehurst know that the John Allen McDonald place just on the east edge of Pinehurst, was during the Revolutionary War, the home of that Daniel McMillan, who was brutally murdered at Old Kenneth Clark’s, by the same Captain Wade on the same avenging raid. You will note I refer to the killing of Daniel McMillan as I a “Murder.” Judge Risden Tyler I Bennett, himself a resident of Wades- j boro, once related to this writer how { old Mrs. Love, mother of the late Wil- ] liam Love of Quewhiffle, told him I how Captain Wade “murdered her I father (Daniel McMillan) in cold ! blood.” As Judge Bennett told me this story he slowly shook his head and apostrophised: “The Damned Old Barbarian!” Yet the town of Wades- boro is named in honor of the same butcher. Not many people now connected with Pinehurst know that the num erous old rifle barrels stamped: “P. C.’’ and still to be found in Moore County, were made by Phillips Cam eron one mile west from Pinehurst, at the place now called the Dock Mc Kenzie Place; but many do know that the land on which Pinehurst is built was granted to this same Phillips Cameron. But they rarely, if ever, think of the fact that Phil Camer on’s profit from the sale of these old rifle barrels enabled him to pay the State of North Carolina the $64.00 that was the price of this 640 acres of land. Still fewer people know that w^hen Aichibald Ray and David Buchan and Daniel McMillan settled at the pres ent site of Pinehurst, the whole ter- I ritory for miles and miles around was thickly covered knee-deep with ! the Patridge Pea, as fine grazing as I th{ alfalfa fields of the Great West; ’ but such is the truth. All this enor mous wealth has been wiped out, lit erally expunged from the face of the i earth by our greatest enemy, the Forest Fire. The reason mankind does not ad- \ance more rapidly is that they re- i fuse to think. Training Camps Offer Boys Rare Opportunity Paul Dana Outlines Advantages to Be /Derived from ,C. M. T. Encampment Mr. Paul Dana, C. M. T. C. Asso ciation’s County Chairman, engaged in C. M. T. C. enrollment of appli cants from Moore County to attend this summer’s C. M. T. Camps, stated today that he is receiving the hearty support of Max Backer and Dr. Mc- Brayer and other prominent, patri otic and well known officials and cit izens in his efforts to obtain the qi.ota desired. They feel, as does Mr. Dana, that several features of the C. M. T. Camps are of particular interest to ihose charged with the promotion of projects beneficial to our commun ities. The camps offer great assistance in the development of our future rep- re- entative citizens into men of char acter. Their attainment of new values of patriotism; loyalty, national and community citizenship; systems, or ganization and discipline; leadership, respect for law and those in author ity and the application of all these to home, civic and national govern ments, benefits our whole commun ity. Our young men returning home af ter a period of contact with young men from every locality, condition and walk of life are more truly dem ocratic. Their advertisement of our com munities among men from other lo- I calitiets met at camp depends upon ! care in selection and local support. I I.ast year a number of fine young men from our area took advantage of the opportunity, nearly every local ity being represented at the camps. Individually, nearly all made excel lent records, not only in the courses of training, but competed againsft members of well organized field, track and athletic teams from other cities, schools and colleges with much cred it. “To promote the C. M. T. Camps ! is to render lasting public service 1 in rounding out our young men by eleme*nts of education which they can not obtain in regular institutions of learning,” said Mr. Dana. “I am ready and willing to furnish information to all interested. I de sire the support and cooperation of all our citizens and hope that they will give their valuable assistance which will be grsatly appreciated.” FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD OFFICE IN STATE DIES Mrs. Emma Spencer MacNeill, said to have been the first woman office holder in North Carolina, died here last week at the age of 81 years in the home of her ison. Ford S. Worthy, member of the State Department of Conservation and Development. In 1874 she married James A. Worthy, of Moora county, and upon his death in 1887 she was appointed to fill his unexpired term as county treasurer. She later married Col. Alexander Hamilton MacNeill. Mrs. MacNeill had lived in Carthage" fcr more than 50 years. Funeral serv ices were held in Carthage. KIWANIS AND LEGION TO HOLD DANCE APRIL .^th The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen and the Sandhills Post of the American Legion will be the joint hosts at a large dance to be given next Friday evening, April 5th, at the Pinehurst Country Club. Invitations have al ready been sent out, and tickets are being sold by members of both bodies. The proceeds of the dance are to be equally divided between the Ki- w'anis Educational fund for under privileged! children of the county and the Home for Disabled Soldiers at Oteen, an institution in whicTi the Le gion is interested. The party will be the best of the season, those in char^re state. MID-PINES ARRIVALS Arrivals at the Mid-Pines Club in- I elude Mr. and Mrs. William Colt, of Bronxville, N. Y.; Mr. and- Mrs, Jos- j eph P. Benny and Edward Sealy, of I Atlantic City; Mr. and Mrs. William I Reynolds, of Winston-Salem, N. C.; I Duval Dunne, of Boston; Thomas I Munds, of New York. Buchan Farm Expects Mexican Quail Are Good Crop of Cotton Liberated in County Robert Stuart Looks for 300 to 400 Bales—Planting Less Tobacco 108 Pairs Received from Mexico by Alex Field for Reelase in this Section Robert Stuart, w'ho plants the big Buchan farm a few' miles out of Aber deen. says he will have the usual amount of cotton this year, between three and four hundred bales, and that his crop will depend on the num- good condition and were distributed Alex Field received this week lOS pairs of Mexican Quail from Mexico by New' Orleans, to be liberated :n Moore and adjoining counties. The birds arrived in Southern Pines m ber of reliable hands he can count on. He continues to plant about his nor ma! acreage, increasing at a fair rate from year to year, and has a pretty substantial faith in he future of the crop. He makes a bale to the acre, of a gcod staple, his farm proLuces corn a" once to the game w'ardens of the neighborhood. Moore county gets about 18 pairs of the birds which V.-. re apportioned among different sections of the county, where Mi*. Fields was advised thev w'ould do and feed in large quantity, and he is the most gocxi. In some par^s of the not worrying g'eatly about the future county quail are already increasins: of the farmer. He say- he is not , so fast that no more are ne?ded, and alai nied much a'bout the boll weevil, i" some of the game sanctuaries car- for by planting his cotton in time *’i&d on by Pinehurst and other large to get i. pritty well along before the i land owners the creatures are mul- vyeev'il comes out in abundance he is | tiplying at such a ra.^ that breed- fairly sure of making his crop, and he | infc stock has been supplied to less believes men will win the battle with fortunate sections of the county to the weevil. Through centuries of war- stock their territory. The es ablish- fars between mankind and the smaller j nitnt of game reserves and the ap- pests men seem to thrive and make | pointment of a game warden to se? the things they need, and Mr. Stuart j that the state laws are complied wi.h is of the opinion they will continu'^ I have changed gama conditions in the to hold their own. He- will probably not plant so much tobacc©, for it is harder to get hands who can make a good crop of tobacco. He bsTieves in tdbacco as a crop for the Sandh^ills, for it brings much more teioney to the acre. With cotton and tobacco selling around twenty cents, v/hich is about the average for the crop of last fall, an acre of tobacco v.'ill bring a bigger average cash re turn than covton. But tobacco takes more work and more skill to make the «roi> and market it properly, and field Rends who can make good tobacco and prove dependable are not very num erous. Y«t the farm will have a share •f tdbacco this year, along with its •ther crops. The Buchan farm is one of the prominent places of the Sandhills, and has^ brought a lot of money into the Aberdeen region since John Buchan «ommenced his first farm operations down there a generation ago. The laziest man in Beacon was dis covered early yesterday morning. He was sound asleep when his wife, awakened by the fire siren, nudged him, and said: ^‘Wake up honey, I think the whole town is on fire. The sky is all lit up. Wake up, wake up!” The husband woke up slowly, indo lently arose, and sleepily felt the four v/alls of his room, yawned and stretched with a grunt and murmur ed to his spouse: “The walls are still cool,” and he returned to bed.—Beacon (N. Y.) county, and it is expected from now on to find a much greater number of wild animals in the woods than has been the case in the past. Mr. Fields says the Mexican quail irf much akin lo the native bird, but that it multiplies somewhat faste:*, /and is a lively game bird. Experience has shown that it takes kindly to the northern climate and that it thrives very well. With the continua tion of control of animal life in the county, and the proper restrictions a 4 to shooting the expectation is a rapid multiplication of the birds. They will hatch this summer, and during the winter shooting they will be forbid den. Next summer they are expected to increase greatly, and probably the season on thehi will be opened in the winter of 1931 if they turn out well. The big land owners who are caring for their birds are taking the trou ble to plant crops in plowed areas in the woods to bring on cowpeas and other things that will provide a feed supply, and this practice has bee;i decidedly effective. If farmers who care to encourage bird culture w?ll plant a few hits of ground with something they can get it will help to establihs the newcomers that Mr. Field has liberated and also to help the native birds to grow in numbers. The inspector was testing the gen eral knowledge of the junior class. Slapping a half-dollar on the desk, he said sharply, “What's that?” Instantly a voice from the back of the school house shouted: “Tails, sir.*’ K$nnnn:::::nn: ttimitmtttxtttttttttttttitiuttitttttmitinmtnttttitzxitmstuxttxtixtxuntt:: OUT OF DIRECT RESULTS Last week THE PILOT carried an announcement of a new Model D-4 Frigidaire just placed on the mar ket and distributed in Moore County by the Southern Pines firm of Gregory and Bushby, Inc. Since that advertisement appeared seven of these new machines have been sold by this firm. “And,” says Mr. Gregory, “four of these machines were sold directly as a result of our advertisement in THE PILOT. We do not cany Frigidaire advertising in any other newspaper. We find the THE PILOT is by far the best medium and that is alone is sufficient. Four out of seven direct results! Four machines costing $190 each sold in one week by a single firm as a direct result of one ad iri THE PILOT exclusively. Con clusive proof that THE PILOT is the advertising med- . r» ium in the Sandhills. This is the peak of the season in the SanHhillR —the time to tell your story. Let The Pilot do for you what it has done for Gregory CS, Bushby, Inc., and many othera —”
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