the xNEWS-WEEKLY
OF
MOORE COUNTY
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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOLUME 9, NO. iK
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1929.
VASS, N. C.
Nitro-Glycerine Touched Off In
FINALISTS IN TOURNAMENT
IjCOUNTRY CLUB
Aberdeen Blows Ice Co. Well;
mL
FORDUPONTSON
A muffled explosion, a slight
quaking of the earth and a roar of
gushing water in the distance was
ASKS ABERDEEN
Explosiv^ ' BEAUTIFY PROPERTY
DAMAGE IS SLIGHT i Mayor G. C. Seymour of ATberdeen ing which week each and every prop-
I early in th« week issued the follow- crty owner in the Town of Aberdeen,
ing proclamation setting aside today,! and each and every citizen of the
Friday, April 5th, as “Clean-Up Day”, Town of Aberdeen, is earnestly re
in Aberdeen, when all good citizens | quested and urged to clean up and
are called upon to put their property beautify his home, property and sur-
the first intimation the residents of i campaign for improv- roundings as much as he can, and to
Aberdeen had that a charge of nitro- appearanee of the town gen- contribute of his time and means to
glycerine sufficient to blow up a
jiiajor portion of the town was i
touched off at 1:30 o’clock yester-1
day afternoon at the plant of the j
Mountain Ice Company on the out
skirts of the village. Absolute secre- j
cy had veiled the plans for blowing |
the deep well beside the new build* i
ing of the company, in order that
no sightseers be within the danger
zone.
Five hundred pounds of the explo
sive, believed to be the largest charge
ever touched off in this section of
the country, sent tons of water near
ly 400 feet in the air, blowing the
roof off the brick structure which
erally: ths cleaning up and beautificaltiom of i
Whereas, Spring has arrived and the town in gen^eral, and I do further ;
it is the duty of all good citizens to j designate Friday, April 5, 1929, as i
cooperate with Nature in making' a special “Clean Up Day,” upon ■
thsir property and surroundings as v.'hich day it is hoped that all of the •
cleanly and as beautiful as- may be, peopla of the Town of Aberdeen all i
and other business being laid aside, will i
Wheieas, the Aberdeen Commercial devote the entire day to cleaning up j
and Agricultural Club, through its and beautifying their own premises,;
Civic Commit*uee, has been, and is do- and all of the premises, public and |
ing spletidiKi service in making the private, in the town, to the end that j
public spots in the town more pre- the Town of Aberdeen may present,
sentablo to the eye and in impress- an appearance in keeping with the
ing upon the property owners gener- beauty and cleanliness of thie sur-
ally the desirability of cleaning up rounding communities,
and beautifying their property. Given tinder my hand and the seal
Prominent Officials of Chemical
Co^ and General Motors
Apply for Charter
ACQUIRE 3,000 ACRES
Miss Glenna Colhtt, National champion, left, and Miss Virginia Van Wie
Now, Therefore, I, G. C. Seymoui, of the Town of Aberdeen, this 27th | of Chicago, right, who meet today in the fnals of the annual Women's
wall Towtti of Aberdeen, do day of March, 1929. North and South golf championship at Pinehurst. (Hemmer Photo)
covered the well, and hurling: rocks designate the week beginning G. C. SEYMOUR, ! 1 1
and debris in the air, some of which ^929, as clean up we«k, dur- Mayor of the Town of Aberdeen, i .it » mn/\HT r»WTirn
punctured holes m the roof of the — jll/A rv||M |J| Vv
main building of the company. Other-. i i i ^ »* xX OU 1
wise, no damage was done, the ex- V, Orld Traveler StOpS
plosion being ^gineered with un
usual success. How much damage will
result from such blasts is never
known beforehand, and considerably
more damage than resulted was
feared.
Only a dozen persons knew before-
In Southern Pines
Dr. Emma M. Carson Guest of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Shear
Quite a number of world travellers
seem to be making Southern Pines
hand of ihe time for the shooting, j stopping place lately and one
and half of these were employes | interesting of these
either of the ice plant or the Ken • trotters is Dr. Emma M. Car-
tucky Glycerine Company of Win-■ jj d _ practicing phyisi-
chester, Ky., which engineered the ^o^ Angeles, who is a vis-
feat. Aben>en*s rirst inttmatt^H
came with the blast.
Rocks Hurled in Air c^rson is stopping in Southern
Pilot representatives were among ^ on y^er way
those on hand for the explosion. An gj.oynd the world. She started from
itor - at thfc homt of Mr. and Mrs.
.Jerome P. Shear on Illinois avenue.
Edgemoore Heights
Property in Demand
Wadsworth Buys Several Tracts
To Create Rural Esatte
275 ACRES FOR
DEVELOPMENT
Philadelphian Acquires Proper
ty On Old So. Pines-
Pinehurst Road
electric wire was run from a bat-
California in January, planning to
tery some distance away to the cans york to Rio de Janeiro
of glycerine which had been lowered Europe, Africa and
some five hundred feet into the bow- ^ sixty-sixth year she !s
ek of the earth. When those present planning „ew trips to far-away
were all ai a safe distance, or sup-
posefily so, the signal was given and
the contact made. There was a muf
fled sound, then a great roar and
tons of water leapt into the air be
tween 300 and 400 feet high, and
were carried by the wind for a dis
tance of about an eighth of a mile,
water at first clean, then black, mix
ed with rocks, pebbles, sand, twisted
masses of the tin cans which had
held the glycerine. Rocks were hurled
entirely over the huge main build
ing of the ice plant, and water reach-
Unfortunately, or rather fortunate
ly, Dr. Carson was taken ill in De
troit, necessitating a delay of sev-
earl weeks and causing her to can
cel reservations on the ill-fated
“Vestris,” which sank with a loss cl
several hundred lives on that trip.
The doctor made the trip from Los
Angeles to Detroit via El Paso, Tex
as, by motor stage in January and
enjoyed the trip immensely despite
j the winter weather. Crossing the
i spurs of the Rockies in the rain
James Wadsworth of Geneseo, N.
Y., who has been a visitor in South
ern Pines for several seasons, has,
through Frank Buchan, carried ouc REPAIRING WICKER HOUSE
a couple of transactions (hat give-
him a holding of about 35 acres in j The expectation of more country
the Edg*^’noore HeirMs section , in thf- n«ii;hboi*ho<vd tV*
th3 Youiig road just out of the vil-j Sandhill villages* is borne out in the
lage boundaries of Southern Pine.s. announcement this we'k tha. John
Mr. Wadsworth a year or two agoiWarr.n W'atson, of Philadelphia,
bought a smaller tract on Beihesda through the agency of H. B. Emery
road, near the Lemons home, but was ‘ of Pinehurst. has bought a .ract of
not wholy satisfied with the size of land, the Wicker holdings, on the oi l
the plot, and as an opportunity arose road from Pin?hur.'t to Southern
to dispose of it to Mr. Robinson, Pines. The purchase involves aboui blp authority i
wh has already been active in build- ‘’75 acres, which is significant, for
ing new siaibles of magnitude there,' that area is more than a passin-
Mr. Wadsworth bought from Edge- acreage. One tract lies chiefly on
moore a tract lying alongside of a the south sic’e of the old road, an 1
piece of ground that he had previous- | on the three branches of Aberdeen
ly secured and also two or three crcek, which converge about a mile
acres from the Darnell lot in the elow' the road. The surface is roll-
Application has been made for a
charter for a Country Club whose
members will include such prominent
names as John T. Pratt, vice presi
dent of the General Motors Company;
F. V. DuPont of the DuPont inter
ests and of General Motors and other
big concerns; J. Stuart Groves of the
DuPont Chemical Works; Mr. Meeds
of the big New York banking con
cern of Laird & Meeds; J. Talbot
Johnson of Aberdeen, and others.
The club will carry out its plans
on the big Mossgiel farm of 3,000
acres, which fronts three or four
miles on the Lumber river at the
comer of Moore, Richmond, Scotland
and Hoke counties, and they have
secured an ideal spot for the project.
This group of well known men from
the North are much impressed with
the territory in which they have tak
en a decided interest, and it is ap
parent to everybody that the rela
tion which they establish with this'
neighborhood will be of the greatest
I importance to the Sandhill country,
for they are men of the most desir-
j able type to have affiliated with local
I affairs.
(
; New Houses Planned
} The present center of activities on
I the Mossgiel farm, in the vicinity
' of the lake, and of the two club
I houses now existing, will continue to
! be the base of development for the
future. Half a dozen or more new
, club houses will be built for the in-
I dividual membzrs of the club, and
1 they will surround one big central
Th^ Pilot has been asked about i dining hall
CW..t reductions in taxation nay fco: for social affairs
. J . . i.1. ’ of the organization. Then work will
:xp£cted m Moore county as the r?-, ^ ® ,
^ .V 1 • 1 4.- start o make the broad area one
suit of the recent legislation, esps-1 ^ .,.x. i.
- n ... uvu • ! of the greatest possibilities for en-
cially tha. which increases gasolin? ^ ^
TAX REDUCTION
IN MOORE COUNTY
STILL UNCERTAIN
Definite Information Awaits
Action By State Committees
Working On Road Fund
COLLECTIONS ARE SLOW
tax by a cent on the gallon. But so
far it seems that no one is willing
to speak too positively on the mat-
t r. What comes with the most plausi-
that the general
county assessment will be reduced
by about fifteen per cent. This doe-
’’o include the tax levisd for spe-
joyment and recreation. It will be a
place for horses and dogs, for hunt
ing, for woods life and for all those
diversifications that so larg3 a body
of land will suggest. An order of
$2,000 for Mexican quail o stock the
place has been given which will pur
chase nearly 2,000 birds. These will
be libsrated at various points
same neighborhood, making in all | ing and picturesque with the throe eral county tax will apply to only
s reams, and contains much pin- a portion of the total, and in th?
cial school dis.ricts, which varies b ^ j -j-
4. w- 4. • ^ • 4-u 4. 1 throughout the grounds, providing
different districts in the county, ana. „ , , i xi. u- j
J? 4-u J- 4. • 4. V * for breeding places where the birds
a^: some of the districts have a hign , i j
. , ^ will be permitted to multi ly on land
spscial tax the reduction on the gen- , , . ^ i u u-x i. r -i
:hat is the natuial habitat of qua’l,
I and it is certain that in two or three
ed cars which had been parked at, 4-v,^;nir,o-
1 -^ proved a rather thrilling experience.
dis:tances considered entirely safe; ^ iha mcks
X xiT « i * 4.U Marvelous colorings m tne rocKs
from the effects of the explosion.
Several ice company employes who; waterfalls
ihousht they were entirely clear were ^„nderful beauty to the
soaked by the falling water.
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To M. D. Nichols
total of about 35 acres.
The location comes to the road forest, the groves in particular ap- high special districts the reduction
running out toward the Young farm jiealing to Mr. Watson. The streams will run perhaps around six or eight
and the Healy and Halliwell neigh-1 are among the clearest and int-Ves.- per cent, while in the districts with
borhood, and goes back toward the j in? of the neighborhood, affording a lower special tax rate the reduc- (^aJy HoilSe Sold
old Blue farm. It is a highly desir-: good opportunities for artificial tion will be perhaps as much as tan ^ ^ 1
able location, enjoying all the con-i lakes, and with ample flow of water per cen-.
veniences of Southern Pines and with \ to give a good body at three or four Until the committees having i i,
in little more than a mile of the different points if Mr. Watson charge the school award from the New York Man Actively Inter
heart of the town. should, as he probably will, in the state to the county, and the deter- ested in Development of
This purchase emphasizes the ten-1 near future build dams for the im- mination of what sums shall be al- Sandhill Section
dency toward getting to the country^ | provment of the property. ‘ lotted lo the counties from the state
a movement that is going on around On the tract are two or three of j ©ad fund to relieve the county road J transactions of the
scene. | the villages this spring. Mr. j the oldest houses in t^e counltry, tax the question will not be settled j season is the sale of the Dr. Cady
The gusher lasted only a momen ,| interesting side trip from El j Wadsworth has not made his plans the John Wicker house especially be- definitely. Much interest is felt by I Weymouth Heights, to M.
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but was a sight long to be remem-J
bereci. i
For two days and nights Aberdeen
had been serene with the presence
in the heart of the village of enough
ritto-glycerine to blow a big part
of I he town to kingdom come, for |
siort d in one of the buildings there
a truck containing about five
a! definitely for building, but his in- ing of great age. This house was ths peopla over the coun.y in these
j tention is to soon create a rural home moved to its present site from down ‘ subjects, especially as the time comes i secured . possession
! on the new property.
the stream where it stood for a long for the tax listing for the coming
D. Nichols of New York and Lon-
this
Mr. Nichols has been the head
we.'k.
PINEHURST HORSE SHOW
ATTRACTS LARGE CROWDS
was
The twelfth annual Horse Show of
the Pinehurst Jockey Club was held
in the new Pinehurst show ring on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
Last fall the Mountain Ice Com- j largest entry list and great-
pany employed Dowdy & Butler to i numlber of entries of any show
hundred pounds of this terrific ex
plosive.
drill for them a big, deep water well,
the largest in this section. It went
down through the sands and clay.s
and finally struck hard rock without
enough water to supply the plant and
after a long, hard siege at a depth
of .")00 feet in the granite a flo-v | following:
in the club’s history. Society turned
out in force from all over the Sand
hills and from the hotel and cottage
colony of Pinehurst and Southern
Pines.
Championship ribbons went to the
This is the third purchase of rural] ime near an old mill that was one 'season, and also because of the con-, of of the-big insurance compa-
property out the Young road within ! of the local industries. This house i dition of the bridges of the county, | ^i^s of New York, although for many
the last three or four weeks, the I is of substantial character, having which ar3 presenting their repair | y^ars he lived in London in connec-
others being the Tracy place, and ajbren huilt of heweid logs, much of' problem now that summer, the time! the work there. He has
piece from the Healy farm in the | the original work pegged together for repair work, is drawing near. In-1 coming to the Sandhill? and the
same neighborhood. A new house will j with wooden pegs that still serve, quij.y at the office of the tax col-1 neighborhood made an impression on
go up on the Healy farm location. I In other places hand-made nails ‘ lector of the county brings out the | h*”’’ making some
—- ! v/ere used, and the sheeting boards fact that collections are not so lib-1 investments here which climaxed ;n
STATE TARGET TOURNEY i of ;he roof were split out by hand: eral as they might be, and as the i the purchase of ths Cady house.
OPENS HERE APRIL 15 | • ^he fiscal year is reached with | Already the Pijo: has noted the
.. i (Please turn to page 5) ' June 1 here is another phase of the j ^^yin^T of
The eleventh annual United North j .situation. Taxes just now constitut
and South Amateur Handicap and I CHIEF KELLY’S MURDERER : much discussed subject.
was struck that seemed big enough.
The tools were drawn, a pump set,
and the well was put to use. But the
fifteen or twenty gallons a minute
did not afford as much water as the
plant wanted, and after much dis
cussion with the drillers it was de
cided to shoot the hole in the hope
of shattering the rock at the bottom
and increasing the flow of water.
How Wells Are Shot
As the well ig a deep one, eight
inches in diameter, and in hard rock,
the drillers did not care to undertake
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Army Polo Pony—Capt. O’Keefe’s
Lady; reserve to the same officer’s
Chubby.
Polo Ponies—^Verner Z Reed’s Rolls
Royce; reserve to J. Mickley Potts’
Lucky Strike.
Hunters—Mrs. P. C. Thomas’ Slip
per; reserve to Mrs. Harry Vale’s
Sunlight.
Saddle Horses—Albert Handley’s
Glencoe MacDonald; reserve to Al
bert Handley’s King Redvine.
Fort Bragg Artillery teams with
76 mm. guns were shown as a spe
cial feature of the show and were
given a rousing welcome.
North Carolina State Championship
target tournaments, to be held at
the Pinehurst Country Club the week
of April 15th are attracting more
than the usual number of entries and
the events will mark the finest tour
nament of its kind ever held here.
This will be an official American
Trapshooting Association shoot, and
the scores will be included in the
official records.
More than $1,000 in prize money
and trophies are offered this year.
There wiU be trophies for the win
ner of the state championship, the
North Carolina handicap, state dou
bles championship, state all-around
championship^ high Lady contestant,
junior championship and professional
high guns.
IS STILL AT LARGE
Word was received yesterday m
Southern Pines that the man held
at Wilmington, S. C., suspected of
the murder of Chief of Police Kelly
of Southern Pines, was not the man
wanted. Chief Beasley and Sheriff
McDonald hurried to the South Caro
lina city upon receipt of word Wed
nesday that a man was being held
there who answered the description
sent out of the murderer of the late
chief, but upon their arrival they
discovered that it was not their man.
Several suspects have been reported
but none has proven to be the right
one, and there is said to be no defi
nite clue at present as to the where
abouts of the assassin.
AUXILIARY OF FAYETTEVILLE
i PRESBYTERY TO MEET
The fortieth annual meeting of the
Woman’ts Auxiliary of Fayetteville , ^ , .i. .
Presbytery will be held in the Pres- >•<>«"? J>« actively enthusi
byterian church of Laurinburg, N. C.Jafie- ““d energetic enough to U one
Southern Pines Country Club loca
tion, and Mr. Nichols will probably
before long build on one or more of
the lots. He has also secured a con
siderable amount of the stock in the
(Country Club, and will lend a hand
in making the club one of the force
ful factors in winter sports. He is
April 9th-10th. This Executive Com
mittee will meet at 8:30 Tuesday a.
m. The opening session of the Pi«s-
byterial will be at 11:00 o’clock, and
the meeting will close Wednesday at
4:00 p. m. with the Communion serv
ices.
Bagpipe music was broadcast re
cently. Lots of people took their sets
to pieces in an endeavor to locate
the trouble.—Passing Show (London).
of the important acquisitions to the
community this winter.
The Cady house is one of the larger
houses of Weymouth Heights, with
ample grounds about it, and has been
among the places pointed out t©
strangers who are looking over the
village. It is set among other fine
homes, in a commanding location,
and is in all ways a valuable prop
erty. S. B. Richardson negotiated the
sale.