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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 9, NO. 42.
EDUCATIONAL
TRUST FUND IS
LAUNCHED HERE
VIEW
MANUEY
PINE. BLUPP
PILOT
SELL YOUR
TOBACCO
IN ABERDEEN
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 20, 1929.
FIVE CENTS
Kiwanis Club Sets Up Machinery
for Aiding Sandhills Youth
Through College
plans easy term loans
The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen in
augurated something” at its Wednes
day noon meeting which, if carried
into successful operation means more
to this community than anything
which has been accomplished by the
organization or any similar body in
a long time. It set in motion the ma
chinery for an Educational Trust
Fund for the aid of the young men
and women of the section desiring
higher or vocational education to
whom such training would be denied
except for outside aid.
An association, not as yet official
ly named, was recommended by the
Public Affairs committee of Kiwanis,
of which Edwin McKeithen of Aber
deen is chairman, which shall com
prise seven members to serve varying
terms from one to five years. Four
of these members were elected from
membership in the Kiwanis Club, and
these four are to elect the other three
members of the board from outside
the club. Upon organization of the
full board, all further details of the
operation of the association will be
worked out by its members, includ
ing incorporation under State laws as
a non-profit corporation.
To Raise Fund
It is the purpose of the association
to raise such moneys as is possible
from the public to incorporate into a
fund to be loaned on easy terms to
prospective college students, to be
repaid by them on completion of therj
college courses, or at such reasonable
time thereafter as may be decided
upon. Applications from residents of
the Sandhills desiring to go to col
lege upon completion of their high
school courses will be considered each
year by the association, and as many
sent away of those entitled to aid
as the loanable funds of the assocai-
tion will permit.
The Kiwanis Club voted to start the
fund with such moneys as it has
ABERDEEN BIDS WELCOME
TO TOBACCO GROWERS
On the eve of the opening of
the Aberdeen tobacco market The
Pilot takes this occasion to extend
a warm welcome to the farmers of
this section who, starting nexit
Tuesday, will be bringing their
truckloads of bright leaf to the
floors of the local warehouses. We
wish for them the success which
they have merited—g-ood prices,
heavy sales, fair treatment and a
good time in Aberdeen.
Come early, and come often.
Aberdeen bids you welcome.
SECOND PACK
OF HOUNDS FOR
THE SANDHniS
Verner Z. Reed Acquires Twenty
Couples to Hunt Country
Near Pinehurst
HUNTING center OF SOUTH
SEASON’S FIRST BALE OF COTTON
BRINGS 19 CENTS AT VASS
£Cord Year
Moses Morrison is Grower of Initial Offering with 540-Pound
Lot from Bynum Place.—Vass Growing as Cotton
Market Due to Ginning Improvements
TO INAUGURATE
RUN OF golfers:
SPECIAL DEC. 19
Crack Train to Leave New York
Daily at 5:45 P. M. and
Arrives 8:10 A. M.
GOES NORTH AT 7 P. M.
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Mr. Gallery Leases
John Y. Boyd House
Son Takes Lachine House far
Winter Season in South
ern Pines
Last week S. B. Richardson nego
tiated the lease of the Mrs. John Y.
Boyd house at Southern Pines to
James D. Callery, of Pittsburgh, and
also the lease of one of the Lachine
houses to his son. The Callerys are
substantial Pittsburgh people, and
wiake a decided addition to the Pitts
burgh colony of the Sandhills, al
though this is not their first season
here. J. D. Callery is much inter
ested in horses, and he says that he
finds through his experience of last
year that he brings his young horses
through the winter in the Southern
Pines section in better shape than in
any place he can find, and that the
young stock comes out in the spring
some weeks in advance of what is the
case when wintered at other points.
He has horses on the track at Pine
hurst in the racing days, and Vf he
finds his views confirmed as to the
advantages in the sandy area for his
s^ock, as w^ell as the attractions as a
home place in winter for himself and
family, he will be inclined toward per-
nianency of winter residence.
The son is a golfer and finds the
Sandhills golf courses to his liking.
is also interested in the schools
jn Southern Pines. Both these fam
ilies have arranged for an early ar-
^ival and will stay all winter, which
is another feature. Instead of coming
a few weeks in the middle of the
season they come at its beginning,
and come prepared for a long period.
The string of horses they will bring
come for training as well as for
the races and other track work, and
things develop as seems possible
now this presages a more important
delation of the well bred horse in the
Moore county region.
“The Carolina Golfer,” Seaboard’s
new crack train for winter services
to the Sandhills, will be inaugurated
with the first trip from New York
December 19th and the first trip from
Pinehurst to New York on December
20th and the following schedule will
be made:
Southbound
Lv. New York 5:45 P.M.
Lv. Washington 10:55 P.M.
Ar. Southern Pines 8:10 A.M.
Ar. Pinehurst 8:45 A. M.
Northbound
Lv. Pinehurst 7:00 P.M.
Lv. Southern Pines 7:30 P.M.
Ar. Washington 4:30 P. M.
Ar. New York 10:10 A. M.
Prior to the inauguration of “The
Carolina Golfer” a New York-South
ern Pines-Pinehurst sleeper will be
inaugurated with the first trip from
New York Southbound October 27th
and the first trip from Pinehurst-
Southern Pines to New York October
28th. This sleeper will be operated on
the regular trains 191 and 192,
schedule of which is as follows:
Southbound
Lv. New York 6:40 P.M.
Lv. W. Philadelphia 8:45 P. M,
Lv. Wilmington, Del 9:20 P.M.
Lv. Baltimore 10:48 P. M.
Lv. Washington 12:20 A. M.
Ar. Southern Pines 9:31 A. M.
Northbound
Lv. Southern Pines 8:12 P. M.
Ar. Washington 5:20 A.M.
Ar. Baltimore 6:45 A. M.
Ar. Wilmington, Del 8:17 A.M.
Ar. Philadelphia 8:53 A.M.
The service mentioned will be op
erated up to and including December
19th when, as stated, “The Carolina
Golfer” will be inaugurated leaving
Southern Pines with its first trip
Northbound December 20th.
SIDEWALKS FOR CROSS ST.
IN SOUTHERN PINES VOTED
The Sandhills is to have a second
organized pack of fox hounds.
With two packs hunting this im
mediate country, and taking in a lit
tle wider territory to include a third
organized pack, Joe Thomas’ hounds
which hunt the Percy Rockefeller es
tate at Overhills, this section becomes
the leading hunting ccnter south of
Virginia.
Verner Z. Reed of Pinehurst has
acquired some twenty couples of fox
hound? which he plans to hunt in the
vicinitv of hi? estate out the Linden
road. There are thousands of acres
of fine hunting country west of Pine-
hiirst, and Mr. R;ed hopes to obtain
permission to cross much of this coun
try, and to fence his own lands and
such others nearby as he may be per
mitted to. He has already put up
some fencing, as has Pinehurst, Inc.,
on some of its land.
Hunts Almost Daily
With the pack of which James and
Jackson Boyd of Southern Pines are
owners and joint masters, this gives
the Sandhills proper two organized
hunts, and means that those invited
by the Boyds and Mr. Reed to hunt
with them may, if they desire, hunt
almost every week-day. The Moore
County Hounds of the Boyds hunted
last season Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays, and it is understood that
when Mr. Reed has his pack suffi
ciently organized he will hunt Tues
days and Thursdays. It is not ex
pected, however, that Mr. Reed’s
pack will be ready for regular hunt
ing this winter. He plans to devote
the winter to training them, and by
learning the country in the hope of
starting invitation hunts the follow
ing season.
There is every indication of the vi
cinity of Southern Pines and Pine
hurst becoming one of the leading
hunting centers of America, second
only to the famous Virginia hunting
country in the vicinity of Warrenton,
Middleburg and The Plains where
there are four regularly organized
The gins of the Vass Cotton Mills
Company went into action on Tues
day of last week, when the first bale
of this season’s cotton was ginned.
The bale weighed 540 pounds and was
bought by the company at 19 cents
per pound. The cotton was grown on
what is generally known as the By
num place, now* owned by A. D. Mc-
Lauchlin and tended by Moses Morri
son. Davis and Snuggs from east of
Southern Pines brought in the sec
ond lot on Tuesday of this week and
received 18 1-4 cents for it.
For several years Vass has been the
leading cotton market of this setcion,
and with even better roads leading
into town now, indications are that
it will continue to grow in popular
favor. At one time it was necessary
for the gins to run day and night,
but in order to better serve the in
terests of the farmers, the Vass Cot
ton Mills Company about three years
ago installed a bigger and better gin
which can readily take care of four
bales per hour, thus saving to the
; farmer many valuable hours that
were, prior to the installation of the
new gin, spent in waiting his turn.
Each year the gin saws are gone over
and put in the best possible condi
tion. A big percent of the cotton gin
ned here is purchased by the mill
company, which always pays the high
est market price. However, if the
grower does not wish to sell, ample
storage space is available with only
a small fee to take care of fire in
surance, thus making the owner of
the cotton absolutely secure so far as
loss by fire is concerned.
It is the opinion of many of the
farmers of the section that there will
be only a 50 per cent crop this year,
j Mr. Graham, of the cotton mill com
pany, says that it can hardly be known
‘ yet how the crop will compare with
j that of last year. He thinks the dam-
I age from the boll weevil greater this
I year than in any previous year, but
I damage from heavy rains has not been
encountered this*year as last.
CALVIN EDSON
DIES SUDDENI,Y
IN PINEHURST
DONATIONS TO
HOSPITAL PUT
FUND OVER TOP
Well Known Resident of South
ern Pines Victim of Acute
Indigestion
Conditional Subscription of $50,-
000 by Duke Endowment
Made Available
Market Opens
Warehouses Are Ready
for Tuesday’s Flow
of Tobacco
PRICES IMPROVING
Reports from Se|;tion Indicate
Bright Leaf Coming into Aber
deen Market in Greatly In
creased Tonnage Over 1928.
DIED WITHIN 30 MINUTES EQUIPMENT IS ORDERED
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100 More Pupils in
Southern Pines School
Session Starts with Greatly In
creased Enrollment.—Fac
ulty Announced
Ashley Jackman and D. H. Turn
er of a committee of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce appear
ed before the city’s Board of Commis
sioners Wednesday evening to plead
for improvements to Cross street,
which since the change in the entrance
to the Southern Pines Country Club
grounds, has become the principal ap
proach to the club from Massachu
setts avenue. The Chamber of Com
merce desires the hard surfacing of
the street and the laying of sidewalks.
The board decided to lay sidewalks
from Massachusetts avenue to the en
trance to the club property, and plans
to improve the roadbed, though no
decision to hard-surface the street
at present was reached.
A. L. BLUE SERIOUSLY HURT
IN CRASH NEAR CARTHAGE
Arpus L. Blue was seriously hurt
last Saturday night when his car
crashed into another car going in
the opposite direction on the road
between Carthage and Pinehurst.
Mr. Blue was taken to Carthage and
Dr. Symington gave him first aid, af
ter which he was taken to a hospital
in Sanford. He was cut about the
head and face and it was feared that
he sustained internal injury.
The Southern Pines School opened
on Monday with a decidedly increas
ed enrollment over a year ago and
with every indication that when all
students have registered the total will
exceed last year’s figure by at least
a hundred.
The faculty, headed as usual by
Prof. W. F. Allen, will this year com
prise the following:
1st grade. Miss Emilie May Wilson
and Mrs. Ellen M. Brown; 2d grade,
Miss Ruth Davenport; 3d grade, Miss
Mamie Love Kimball; 4th grrade, Mrs.
Frank E. Gibbons; 5th grade. Miss
Venice Davenport; 6th grade, Miss
Annie E. Willis; 7th grade, Miss Ann
P. Huntington; High school, Frank
E. Gibbons, Miss Pauline Miller, Miss
Mary E. Montgomery, Miss Mabel E.
Stone and Miss Anne Ford.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
ON WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS
Calvin H. Edson, well known resi
dent of South^ Pines and for many
years a valued employe of Pinehurst,
Inc., died suddenly in O’Brien’s Drug
store at Pinehurst yesterday morning
about 8 o’clock following an acute at
tack of indigestion.
Mr. Edson had gone to his work at
the Carolina Hotel, where he had
charge of the painting, and had just
started in on his day’s labors when
the attack seized him. He went to the
drug store to procure some medicine
which he had been accustomed to tak
ing when he had similar attacks but
his condition continued to get worse
and he died within thirty minutes. Dr.
Munroe, superintendent of the new
Moore County Hospital, arrived on the
scene just too late to be of assistance,
and gave the cause of death as acute
I indigestion. It is understood that Mr.
j Edson had had some trouble with
I his heart in the past.
I The news of his death was tele-
I phoned to the family in Southern
Pines and spread quickly around the
city in which Mr. Edson had long re
sided and where he was held in the
highest esteem by a wide circle of
friends. He leaves a widow and three
children, Clarence Sdson, and the
Misses Algine and Evelyn Edson, all
of whom reside in Southern Pines. Mr.
Edson had been employed by Pine
hurst, Inc. in various capacities for
some twenty years, and of late had
served as assistant head porter of
the Carolina Hotel during the winter
season, and in charge of painting at
the hotel during the off-season. He
was approximately 50 years of age.
The Aberdeen tobacco market opens
for its fourth season on Tuesday of
next week with every indication of the
biggest sale of leaf in local history.
Estimates place the total sales on the
two warehouse floors as high as 7,-
000,000 pounds. Last year’s total was
4,437,157 pounds.
Every big buying company in the
east will be represented on the floors
here. The sales start at 9 o’clock Tues
day morning, a flip of the coin before
the opening determining which ware
house gets the first sale.
Tobacco is coming into Aberdeen
this year from a much wider terri
tory than ever before. Representa
tives of the local Chamber of Com
merce have been making calls on far
mers throughout the section and re
port that large numbers have been
holding their tobacco for the Aberdeen
market, due to low prices prevailing
south and east of here. Banks Saun
ders, head of the warehouse which
beans his name, told The Pilot yester-
The subscription fund for the new! that a better grade of tobacco
Moore County Hospital is “over the|W'^l ^o Aberdeen this year than
top.” been going to the other markets,
I Announcement was made during the | would comn^and betJter prices,
I week that the necessary donations to | though he did not look for any hif !■ -
make available the conditional sub- I prices for inferior grades here than
scription of $50,000 by the Duke En- elsewhere.
dowment had all been paid in, and Buyers representing the big com-
that the completion of the building, Panies will arrive in Aberdeen Mon-
one of the finest of its kind in the ^ay preparatory to Tuesday’s open-
United States, and the installation , ing. All the old buyers will be back,
of the most modern hospital equip- ; several new faces among the
ment, v.ill proceed without interrup- group.
!t?on. Contracts have already been let Both the B. B. Saunders Ware-
for the furniture and medical and sur- house and the Aberdeen Warehouse,
gical equipment. The building itself
is practically completed.
This news will be received with
much gratification on the part of all
citizens of Mocre county as well as
by winter residents and casual so
li journers in the section.
I In talking to a Pilot representa-
itive early in the week, one of those
who has taken a keen interest in see
ing the establishment here of an up-
to-the-minute hospital for county-
v/ide use said:
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Dr. A. A. McDonald of
Jackson Spring^s Dies
Well Known and Beloved Physi
cian Passes Away After
Illness of Ten Days
A great wave of sorrow swept over
the people of Jackson Springs and
, , the county for many miles around
While most of the money has been , Tuesday night wh«n the
given by non-residents, this doesn’t I ... a a
news
came that Dr. A. A. MacDonald was
mean that the people of Moore county
have been indifferent to the under- ' faithfully were filled with
taking or have wilfully failed to do .
their part. It has so happened that j doctor
during the period when funds were I mv i i ^ j • 2.-^ *
I Those whom he attended in time of
being solicited the farmers and bus- . . , u
^ , . sickness and sorrow, remember his
mess men m rural communities tenderness and faithfulness, and
throughout the country were undergo- , ^
mg business readjustment through ^ j ,
period of deflation which has made it
very difficult for them to get hold of
any spare cash.
He was, for nearly two weeks ser
iously ill in the Central Carolina Hos
pital in Sanford, where doctors and
MANY HERE FROM NORTH
TO INSPECT NEW HOMES
Extensive improvements in the
Weymouth Heights section of South
ern Pines are to be started in the next
30 days. A new trunk line sewer is to
be laid through many of the streets,
extending from the Highland Pines
Inn down Morganton Road, thence
through Indiana avenue to Broad
street. Gilbert C. White of Durham,
consulting engineer, is estimating the
costs of this work preparatory to
starting the improvement. It is also
proposed to establish grades for sew
ers, curbs and gutters in many of the
streets which have not thus far been
improved. The work is expected to be
finished by November 15th.
Several prominent winter residents
of the Sandhills who are building
homes here arrived during the week
to oversee the construction which
has been going on during their ab
sence. Among^ those seen in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst within the last
few days were Fleming Popham, who
is representing the Lloyds in their
development on the Linden road at
Pinehurst; John and Richard Watson,
who are developing their land on the
old road between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst; N. B. Hersloff, who is
building one of the largest residences
in Pinehurst; Verner Z. Reed, who
has recently completed a new home
and stables west of Pinehurst, and
Mrs. B. A. Tompkins of New York,
one of the group which is building
“The Paddock” on the old Hamlin
farm near Southern Pines.
“But now that the hospital is an!„„^^^^ constantly kept watch over
assured fact, the people of Moore ,
county may he confidently relied upon |
to do their full share to support and | MacDonald, his wife and Margaret
maintain it by giving not only of daughter, and Carlton, his
their time and hearty cooperation, but, continually with the hus-
of their money as well to the very [ Friends from all
limit of their financial ability. j Qygj section around Jackson
j Springs went to see him, and kept
JUDGE CLEMENTS TALKS in touch with the hospital by tele-
ON U. S. CONSTITUTION I phone.
Doctor MacDonald was bom
Superior Court Judge Clements of
Winston-Salem, who is presiding over
the term of court now in session at
Carthage, was the speaker before the
Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at its week
ly luncheon meeting Wednesday, and
discussed the Constitution of the
United States. Judge Clements, after
telling the Kiwanians how the framing
of the Constitution came about, took
it up article by article and discussed
it, much to the interest and enlight
enment of those present. The meeting
was held in the Community House at
Pinehurst.
and
spent his life in Moore County. He is
a graduate of Davidson College and
studied at other medical schools. He
practiced here for 25 years, going
through all kinds of weather to aid
the sick, so often to his own physi
cal detriment. He devoted his life and
energy to his profession and has a
host of friends among all classes of
people who will miss him greatly in
time of sickness and sorrow. Dr.
MacDonald was an elder in the Jack
son Springs Presbyterian church for
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