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>100RG COUNTY’S leading news weekly A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 9, NO. 44, VIEW MANUCY PILOT Aberdeen, North Carolina of the Sandhill Terrif Friday, October 4, 1929. SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN ABERDEEN h Carolina FIVE CENTS DR. MONROE OF SANFORD SHOT BY CRAZED MAN Well Known Physician in Criti cal Condition with Five Bullet Wounds >V. A. MANESS ARRESTED County Moore Mills Acquired by New York Interests BULLETIN Thursday ^ after^oonf Dr ^^Monro^s * Plant at Hemp to Manufacture Rayon a Silk Products under name of Hemp Silk Mills condition was reported to The Pilot as distinctly favorable. Dr. John P. Monroe, of Sanford, one of the leading physicians of fKrs section of North Carolina and well known throughout the state, was shc>t five times by W. A, Maness of San ford, a former patient in the State Hospital at Raleigh, late Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Hawkins avenue and Carthage street. Dr. Mon roe lies in a critical condition at the Central Carolina Hospital of which he is the owner. Maness Is under arrest. The nursing of an imaginary griev ance in the diseased mind of the as- PEACH INDUSTRY RECEIVES BOOM FROM THE WEST S. A. Gerrard Co. Baclcs Up Op timism by Taking On 1,000 Acres Here INSTITUTE TALK TIE VIVED Spelling Bee Kiwanians Choose Up Sides and Attempt to Answer Ed ucational Questionnaire rim of the cloud which settled over Sanrdhills peBch belt following sailant is responsible for the shoot- ^ , , ouuuL recent rather disastrous season. Maness .s smd to have made the ; ^ ^^e form of ar, announce- statement that Dr. Monroe had tried g ^ to poison him and his whole family.; (j^„ard Company of Cincinnxifi, He has also been heard to have made companies which If a stranger had chancsd into the Church of Wide Pellowship about 1 ''•Vlock on Wednesday afternoon he ''^'ould have thought he was back in the old country schoolhouse. Ten ^rood Kiwanians and true stood up on A silver lining has appeared on the : ®f the room in what look- ' "d for all the world like an old-fash ioned spelling bee, and it was almost that. DMGHT AGAIN HEADSSUNDAY SCHOOL ass:n. Hemp Mill Acquired by New York Interests for Manufacture of Rayon Operations to Be Resumed at Once in Plant of County Moore Mills, With New Machinery and New Management SEVENTY-FIVE TO BE EMPLOYED Annual County Convention Held at West End is Great Suc cess INTERESTING ADDRESSES threats against the lives of dttiher citizens of Sanford, but he was be lieved to be harmliBBS. Dr. Monroe, who was bom near played an importaTit part in the mar keting of the 1929 crop here. The Gerrard Company states that it is not discouraged as a result of Vass and whose family has long been t 4. 4. -4. • « u , ! this year s market, that it is sold prominently identified with the en on the future of the peach industry Secretary Herbert Vail was put ting the boys through a catechism of Kiwania, in an endeavor to find out how much they knew about their club. Twenty questions were asked, ten for each side, one for each member of either team. John Bloxham chose one team, Frank Buchan t he other. John’s team won. When a memb:r missed a question, he was ordered to sit down. tire^ Sandhills conntry owning much | ;^ the ■'o’”’’® "" * present the time “to play hall,” and questionnaire, that it will bacT. up its optimism in ^ Frank’s. Now all the Kiwanians Icnow more land in and near Southern Pines and Manley, had stopped at a filling sta tion when Maness approached him and started to shoot. J. C. Boone, one of the operators of the filling station, attempted to intervene but was threat ened with his life. Five shots were fired, lodging in one hand, one arm, the side of the face, neck and in the thigh. One bullet passed dangerous- about their organization. Dr. L. B. McBrayer was appointed chalrma.n of the pi'ogramme oom- the Sandhills peach belt by “taking on” 1,000 acres for next season. If properly handled, the future is all right, the company states, ex- - 4.1. -u 1- j it. 'i- 1 ' i ^ Imittee for tne rest rt{ the year, pressing the oelief that last season | ^ was the “darkness before the dawn.” | WTiere is Institute? j A R PTA1Vf^l70l? , , _ , . The Pilot has interviewed other li/* XlL* i 1-iriLi 1*3 ji. Iv near the spinal column. An arm was , , • xi. x j? ‘ , j X i local growers during the past few broken. Dr. Monroe was rushed to , i j. j i. - x- • ,, , . 1 , . I I weeks and found a note of ootimism the hospital in an army truck which , ^ , ^ breaking through after the despair chanced to be passing, and Maness xx. x- • t i -.1 , .7 TT i which settled on the section in July M’as apprehended at the Maness Ho- : , , rx u- i j X 1 / -1 - . .1 and August. One big grower asked tel, of which Mrs. Maness is proprie- afxi. ^ what had become of the campaign tor. CONVENTION ON NOVEMBER 1ST. Some fifteen relatives and friends of Dr. Monroe were in Jack’s Grill, Southern Pines and had just order- started by the Kiwariis Club during National Officers Will Attend I the close of the season to organize a I “peach institute"” for the purpose oi ed dinner when the telephone rang and a member of the party informed | of the shooting. The dinner, which i was to be in honor of Miss Laura | Ray, niece of Dr. Monroe, who is to | be married Saturday t Dr. George} cooperation among growers that each might benefit by the mistakes and successes of others, making for a better fruit generally from this sec tion, and <?oing away with the pests which practically rained the 1929 cron insofar as scientific cultivation Southern District Session To Be Held Here 4TH DIST. MEETS OCT. 18 Edward Romame Harvey, was immed- ; , . . - . ^ . , , , , , 3 ’ . .,^^x I can do away with them. An enthusuis- lately abandoned and the party le^ft, ^ for Sanford. Dr. Monroe is well known and much beloved by a large mimber of resi dents of this section who are hop ing for his rapid recoTery. tic meeting of peach growrs and rep- I resentatives of State agricultural i bodies was held some weeks ago out j of which something definite in the I way of organization was expected to I come, but this grower, who attended I that meeting, stated that insofar as HEALY AND PAGE TO HANDLE knew, nothing had been done fur- DESOTO IN TWO STATES , expected that the matter will be brought up at next week’s J. V. Healy and Jesse W. Page, Jr-. I „,eeting the the Kiwanis Club lor ^is- have formed a partnership to be „eans of pro- known as the Coastal Motor Company for the distribution of DeSoto auto mobiles, products of the Chrysler Cor- cedure. The importance of the peach indus try to the Sandhills merits every pos- poration, in a large territory oi 'North jg gx- and South Carolina, with offices andj^^^^.^^ interests will unite on distributing points at Fayetteville, | points in the right direction. C., and Florence, S. C., C. W. Spears of Southern Pines will be man- ^ LOCAL SHRINERS INVITED The general office will be main- j SHRINE MOVIE SUNDAY tained in Fayetteville, in addition to j a salesroom, and at Florence the firm | ghriners have bsen invited to will handle both DeSoto and ; attend a showing of the Shrine mo- Iin cars from its retail agency. picture, “An Equal Chance’,’ to ■ ' ' ^ ~ j be given by the Sanford Shrine on 10 HOLD FOOD SALE FOR Sunday next, October 5th, at 2 o’clock BAPTIST CHURCH BENEFIT The ladies of the Baptist Church ^'ill hold a Food Sale tomorrow mom- i’lg (Saturday) in the vacant store in the Gichner-John son Building, next door to the Postoffice. The proceeds will be used for new pews for the church. The Rev. C. K. Proctor, superin tendent of the Oxford Orphanage, was elected president of the North Carolina Orphan Association at the annual meeting held Wednesday in Raleigh. The Rev. L. B. Compton, of Ashe ville, well known in Southern Pines, was elected first vice-president. in the afternoon at the Temple Thea tre. They are asked to bring any crip pled children they know of to the picture show, and to wear the fez. A large number from Aberdeen are plan ning to motor to Sanford for the event. Plans for the annual Harvest Ball, the first of the larger social events of the winter season, are being made by J. V. Healy, Charles W. Picquet and others. No definite date or place has been set as yet, but the ball will be either the last week of October or the first of November, it is said, and will probably be held at the Pinehurst Country Club. Mrs. James B. Swett, chapter regcTrt of the Alfred Moore Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, acting as hostess for Mrs. Hoyt! Shaw, opened her town residence on | Ridge street, Southern Pines, Tues- i day afternoon, and, with the assist ance of her daughters, entertained very delightfully the members of the haptsr at their third meeting of this season. Plans for the Southern Dis trict meeting here on December 1st and 2d were discussed. The presence and words of greet ing from Mrs. Allen, the mother of :fhe ‘‘‘History of Moore County,” now Johnson were appreciated and en joyed by the other members and ^>:uests. After the opening exercises, conducted by Mrs. B. W. Leavitt the chapter treasurer, the business for the day began. Exceedingly important national and local constructive work is being con stantly planned and executed by the many chapters of the D. A. R. One single Item—reforestation and forest conservation—seems alone an excuse for the existence of the society, and a D. A. R. forest in each county of each state in the United States of America, is not a dream but will soon be a realization. Driving from Carthage on a day such as last Tuesday, might have been • he occasion to present to Mrs. H. F. Seawell, Mrs. L. P. Tyson, Jr., Mrs. J. L. McGraw and Miss Williams, medals for bravery, or at least for faithfulness. Miss Williams was a guest from the Cornelius Garnett Chapter of Dunn, N. C. Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker, North Carolina State Regent, whose pres ence at the meetings is always a pleasure and an honor, requested that the excellent paper on Defense of Cultural Relations, by Mrs. Melvin Sanborn, be preserved and placed in Under the auspices of the Moore Countv and the North Carolina Sun day 'School Associations the annual bounty Sundav Scholl convention was held at West End Methodist Church ''^est End, last Saturday night and Sunday. September 28 and 29. The State organization was repre- r Fen ted by Miss Daisy Magee, of Raleigh, superintendent of Children’s Division, North Carolina S. S. Asso ciation, who gave a splendid address each session of the convention. At Sunday morning session W. D. Matthews of Vass very ably discussed “Practical Plans for Building Up the Srncay School.” The devotional exprcises at the af ternoon session were conducted by '''iss Alice Wheeler in a most rever ent and impressive manner. M. G. Bayette, teacher of a large men’s class at Carthage, spoke on “Effec tive Organization and Activities of the Adult Class,” at the afternoon ses sion. The pennant, whieh is given annu ally to the Sunday School having in the session of the convention the lar gest average attendance of represen tatives, sixteen years of age an-d over, ■^"•^ording to miles traveled, was awarded to Yates-Thaggard Baptist Sunday school, which is located be tween Southern Pines and Carthage, near the ole Thageard Mill site. Officers Elected F. M. Dwight of Lakeview was re- ^‘I'^cted rresident of the County Sun day Schodl Association and M. G. Boyette of Carthage, vice president. W. C. Wicker of Aberdeen was re elected secretary-treasurer for the en suing year. A bountiful dinner was served at the noon hour Sunday on the church grounds. Everything that could be de- <5ired was on the menu, including pi nty of delicioas hot coffee. All the sessions of the convention ne^e well attended by a representa tive number of the Sunday School workers of the county. The spirit of the convention tended to show that interest in Sunday School work is in creasing very satisfactorily in Moore county, and those in charge of the work feel that even more will be done during the coming year. The next session of the convention goes to Southern Pines Baptist church. ANNUAL HOME-COMING AT BETHESDA SUNDAY Negotiations were completed at Pinehurst early this week between the Bank of Pinehurst and prominent New York interests involving the sale of the textile mill property formerly known as Counjty Moore Mills at Hemp, a transaction which will be of inestimable value to Moore county in qrereral and the development of the section around Hemp in particular. no definite facts have been known. However, applicants for work in the mill have besieged Mr. Mesimore ta the number of thirty or more daily. Some few old workers have been re engaged, but for the most part, those who apply for jobs must prove theiir ability. Hemp is to be congratulated upon this sale to a national organization. Under the name of Hemp Silk Mills, This means that few lay-offs and shut- incorporated, New York capitalists I downs due to lack of orders will re will immediately complete the equip- suit. It means that capital will be ment of the mill by the in.stallation of new machinery and necessary ma terial to carry on the manufacture provided to assure the success of the project and it means that hundreds of persons in the commi:tbity will of silk and rayon products, running have certainty of a good living. The the plant at full capacity. The new i whole town will be better off and the interests hope and confidently expect [factor of the weekly payroll, running to have everything in readiness to op-1 into hundreds of dollars, is not light- '^rate before the first of the year and ^ly to be considered, will give employment to a large num- i Little information is at present her of textile workers. They have al- j available on the details surrounding ready taken possession and will pro-1 he purchase. It is thought that the ceed with the rehabilitation of the i Hemp Silk Mills is only one in a chain property as rapidly as possible. ' of several others. The vrhole output Mill Built in 1924 the Hemp mill will be purchased County Moore Mills, Inc., was or- j regularly by the corporation, or a ganized in 1924 and the mill and ten- ' subsidiary. This same concern buys at present the output of other North Carolina mills, so the Hemp mill will, merely be added to the list. Tobacco Prices Jump on Warehouse Floors ant houses were built under the sup ervision of Lockwood, Green & Co., w:ll known engineers, of Boston, Mfis^s. The construction and equip- '•'.i^nt were of the very best, and the "o^t''n an: ravon rroduced were of the ’"■ghest q-ality, but the depression th: trxtile business through which' j T a '’ountrv has rWently passed com- ' “^8^“ Grade Leat App^|\rs OJl. pelled the cessation of operations and | Local Market and Good ‘^e nroT)ertv passed into the hands j Sales Result f the Bank of Pinehurst, from whom a?o’'ired by the new firm. No The most encouraging tobacco mar- an"ouncement of the purchasers has from the standpoint of prices since ^'-^en ^-!ade, and The Pilot was unable opening on Tuesday, September to ascertain the names of the new ^4th, was that of yesterday when operators either at Hemp or from vnces were running on an average of the Bank of Pinehurst. nround 18 cents on the floors of Aber- The hum of machinery will be music <^een’s two warehouses. After two days to the business men of Hemp, and curtailed the activity -o-umotion of operations will un- local market the farmers coubtedly result in substantial im-; ^^^ught in loads of high grade leaf -.-•nr-o 1 in th? vHlage and its en-! y^^serday, and th= better quality, ‘.o- ' iron? in the western part of the "^^her with nossiblv some influence county. due to the Washington price confer- Interview by The Pilot at Hemp. ' ence early in the week, resulted in Superintendent Mesimore, who is best bi-^ding on the part of the charge of the mill, stated-that Hemp ^’’vers thus far this season. Silk Mills, Inc. will formally open i The Saunders Warehouse had sold its doors to begin business “at the ^^-000 rounds before noon, a’ld there old stand” within a fpw weeks. The a good sale at the Aberdeen m.ill, he said, was being completely re- Warehouse. novated and a gang of men is en gaged in removing the machinery Reports from Washington were to the effect that the conference there which will not be needed by the new of prominent tobacco growers, man- corporation. This includes all ma- ufacturers and federal officials had chinery formerly used in the manu-! Proved most satisfactory, and that facture of materials others than ray- ! ^he direct exchange of views was on. Only high quality rayon and silkjl k'lv to lead to better conditions, nroducts will be made in the plant, I Provisions was made for future dis- Mr. Mesimore said. New Machinery Ordered Machinery to replace that being re- cussions and for the adoption of a farm policy that will tend to prevent over-production of tobacco. These moved is now being ordered in the points were highly recommended as northern markets and will be put in vital to relief. Study of the needs of place early next month. Production will be under way soon after. T. T. Lucus of Charlotte will be the world and diversification of crops; co-operative marketing organizations, backed by U. S. funds, that the grow- (Please turn to page 4) The Annual Home-Coming for Be- thesda Church will be held at the eld church near Aberdeen on next Sunday, October 6th. The Rev. Mur doch McLeod of Pinehurst, one of our best and most popular ministers in the state, will preach at 11:30 in the morning, at which time the reg ular quarterly Communion services will be held and the Rev. Make Mc Neill, of Cameron, likewise one of our most beloved preachers, will preach at 2:30 in the afternoon. A basket lunch will be served in the church grove between these services, and a joyful home-coming of the rriends of Old Bethesda is anticipat ed. The Walter Hines Page Memorial Highway is now open to traffic. ^ he officer of the company in charge j may have some voice in fixing the rf operations and management of | price of their crops; tobacco grading, the plant. He is at present attending | Poor quality tobacco and over-produc- to the outside connections and pur-1 tion were the reasons advanced for chasing the necessary supplies, ma-j^^e low prices thus far this season. chines and other equipment. He plans | r— to move to Hemp just as soon as pos- CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR sible, taking his family there to re side. At the present time the mill con tains 100 looms, but if the plans of those in charge materialize, it is prob able that a few months will see anoth er hundred machines added as there is ample room for this additional equip ment and it is hoped that the near future will warrant the installation. Seventy-five persons will be employ- MEETING AT VASS, OCT. 13 The' Moore County Christian En deavor Union and Sandhill District Christian Endeavor Union will hold a joint convention in the Vass-Lake- view School building, Sunday, Octo ber 13th. This will be a two-session convention, the afternoon meeting to begin at 3:00 o’clock, the evening session at 6:4.5, with a “model” ed at the start, it is stated, and spec- j Christian Endeavor meeting. This ial consideration will be given those ! will be followed by a report of the found to be well suited to textile op eration. The same wage scale as was formerly in force at the County Moore Mills will prevail, it is stated. Rumors have swept the Hemp com munity for the past few weeks, re delegates who attended the Interna tional Convention in Kansas City. Mr. Breg, the All-South Secretary of Christian Endeavor, from Atlanta, will deliver an address at the even ing session. An announcement in de- garding the opening of the mill, hut' tail will be made next week.
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