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MAHUEY
PINE
PILOT
SOUTHERN PINES
RESORT
NUMBER
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 11, 1929.
100 MASONS AT
SESSION HERE OF
12TH DISTRICT
Presides Over Masons
Southern Pines Lodge Host to
Grand Lodge Officers
and Others
m. PROCTOR IS SPEAKER
j
G. A. CHARLES
District Deputy Grand Master
Southern Pines Lodgre No. 484, A.
F. & A. M. acted as host to the 12th
Masonic District meeting held at
‘^■?uthern Pines last Monday with
Distiict Deputy Grand Master G. A.
Charles of Aberdeen presiding. One
lundred Masons attended. Two Grand
Lodge officers were present, Grand
Master John J. Phoenix of Greens
boro, and Grand Secretary John H.
Anderson of Raleigh, and two District
Deputy Grand Masters, Charles of the
24th district at Asheboro. Other dis
tinguished visitors in attendance were
the Rev. C- K. Proctor, Superintend- j i ^
cnt of the Oxford Orphanage; F. M. i H|?ADn
Pinnix, editor of the Orphan Friend | ^ ^
12th district and W. H. James of the
and manager of the printing depart
ment and Dr. N. C. Daniels, physi
cian of the Orphanage.
D. I. McKeithen of Aberdeen acted
as chairman of the program commit
tee and L. W. Bredbeck of South
ern Pines as chairman of the enter
tainment committee.
Nine of the ten lodges in the 12th
district were represented. Hamlet
lodge No. 532, Rockingham lodge No.
495, Roberdel Lodge No. 507, South
ern Pines lodge No. 484, Carthage
lodge No. 181, Eagles Springs No.
47, Elberta Lodge No. 654 West End,
Glendon lodge No. 610, and Roman
Eagle No. 550 Aberdeen. Elise lodge
Plillion Pound Nark Reached
by Aberdeen Tobacco Market
Farmers Encouraged Over Prospect as Prices Jump with Arrival
of Better Grade of Bright Leaf on Local
Market
One million pounds of tobacco have
been sold on the floors of Aberdeen’s
! two warehouses since t^e opening
■ Tuasday, September 24th, according
lots of high grade leaf have been
sold at as high as 40 cents during the
week. On Tuesday some 75,000 pounds
were disposed of at an average of 19
I to approximate figures given The Pi- | cents. Monday’s average was given as
I lot yesterday by B. B. Saunders and |18 cents. Farmers are encouraged over
I Edwards, Lewis & Williams, local
j warehousemen. Tnis compares favor-
i ably with a year ago at this time, in
the price now being paid here, and
the sales for the remainder of the
week and from now on during the
OF NORTH-SOUTH
BUS LINE HERE
Southern Pines to Be Main Office
for Southern Transit Co.
System
. spite of the several rainy days on ! season promise to be even better. A
which practically no tobacco came to igood quality of leaf is being brought
I the market. j in and a higher price paid for all
} This week prices have jumped up grades,
considerably over sales during the I Mr. Saunders gave his sales to date
early weeks of the market here, and I yesterday as 650,000 pounds. The
the average for the week to date will, i Aberdeen Warehouses announced sales
it is said, run over 19 cents. Many i of 350,000 thus far.
Paul Jackson, Actor, Now a Minister;
Converted by Father, Local Pastor
Son of Rev. Charles L. Jackson, Baptist Minister in Aberdeen and
Carthage Preaches in His New Pastorate
in Boston, Mass.
FIVE CENTS
JAMES R DUNN
FOUND DEAD IN
ABERDEEN HOTEI
Auctioneer on Floors of Local
Tobacco Warehouses Dies
of Indigestion
RETIRED IN GOOD HEALTH
MISS GLENNA COLLETT
OPERATE YEAR ROUND
Southern Pines is to be the head
quarters this winter for the Southern
Transit Company, which will operate
pullnian auto bus service from Wash
ington to Florida. Seven of the finest
buses obtainable, some of them sleep-
° “* ! ing cars, others chair coaches, have
No. oDo Hemp, was not represented, , .
Southern Pines, Romatn Eagle and
Hamlet lodges had the largest attend
ance in the order named.
Six Masonic districts were repre
sented and nine Grand Jurisdictions:
been ordered by the company, offi
cials of which have been in Southern
Pines during the past few weks ar
ranging for offices and ^ garage.
Regular service will be maintained,
and Southern Pines will be a transfer
New Hampshire, California, Louisiana, . , mi ... 11 , .
■n -VT V Cl J Ti;r • rni- pomt. The Comfortable chair cars sim-
Pa., N. Y., S. C., Fla. and Mame. There
was also one foreign jurisdiction rep
resented, Scotland. Twelve Masters,
seven Past Masters and five Secre
taries were present.
Grand Master Speaker
ilar to pullmans of the rails will leave
Washington in the morning and arrive
late in the afternoon in Southern
Fines, w’here passengers will be trans
ferred to the night pullmans, sleep
ing sixteen persons comfortably in
The Re'v. Paul Jackson, son of the
Rev. Charles L. Jackson, of Pinebluff,
pastor of the Baptist church in Aber
deen, Pinebluff and Carthage, complet
ed last Sunday his conversion from
the stage to the ministry when he
preached for the first time in his first
pastorate, the Clarendon Street Bap
tist Church in Boston, Mass.
Formerly a Shakespearean actor,
Jackson was converted, studied for
I the ministry, was graduated last
jMay and was chosen by the Claren
don street church to succeed Rev. I.
W. Williamson, who recently resign
ed.
Jaclcson is not a stranger to Clar-
indon street church, however, "be
cause of many associations witb it
and with its famous m^ister of
another day, the Rev. Adonlram Judd
Gordon.
i Mr. Jackson’s father and motber
were members of this church for a
! number of years, while his father,
itTie Rhv. Charles L. Jackson, was an
Evangelist throughout New England.
Mr. Jackson expressed his pleas
ure in coming to Dr. Gordon’s church
s ^
and his desire to carry on the tradi
tion of this great clergyman, says a
Boston despatch.
Paul Jackson did not at first fol
low in his father’s footsteps. After
studying at Dartmouth college, in
face of his father’s opposition he
turned instead to the drama, and for
four years was an actor in Shakes
pearean repertoire. He was also with
several other companies.
In 1924 in his father’s study in
Pinebluff he was converted, and af
ter a struggle between the theater
and the church, the church won. He
entered the Evangelical Theological
college of Dallas, Texas, from which
he was graduated last May.
“I hope in my ministry to make
this church a Bible believing and Bi
ble propagating church,” Mr. Jackson
said Sunday.
Glenna Collett, who has made her
v/inter home in the Sandhills for the
past several winters, won her fourth
national golf cha«ipionship on the
Oakland Hills course at Detroit last
Saturday, defeating Mrs. Harley G.
Higbie of Detroit in the final round,
5 up and 3 to play. “Our own”
Gknna never played better, and clos
ed an eventful tournament with a
twenty-nine foot putt for a birdie 3
on the 15th hole. The finals was a
36-hole match, Glenna leading only
I one up after the morning 18, but
j shooting men’s par or better on each
i afternoon hole.
aEAN-UP WEEK
PMCLAIMEDFOR
WEEK OF OCT. 21
Mayor and Civic Organizations
Urge Citizens to Beautify
Their Premises
LAWNS, FLOWERS ASKED
The meeting was called to order by upper and lower berths. These huge
District Deputy Grand Master G. A. buses will then transport them to. the
Charles. Grand Master John J. Phoe- |Florida state line, where again day
nix made a very interesting and con- coaches will pick up the passengers
structive talk on the workings of Ma- for further points in Florida. Return-
sonry throughout the state and na- ing, passengers will arrive in South-
tion. The Grand Master then intro-'em Pines in time for breakfast, trans
duced Grand Secretary, John H. An- fering there for the day trip north,
derson, whose talk was directed large- Connections are made in Washington
ly to the Masters, Secretaries and!for New York, Boston and intermed-
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officers of the subordinate lodges on , iate points.
Masonic Law and the interpretation of | Families Move Here
the code which was _yery instructive | Leonard Bliss of Southern Pines is
and educational. . the local representative of Southern
Dinner was served in the Lodge Transit Company, and will maintain
room at 6:30 by the ladies of Mag- ,an office in the city. Mechanics will
nolia Chapter, 0. E. S. After a boun- | maintained there to keep the huge
tiful repast W. R. Johnson, Master, ^ caravans of the road in smooth run-
opened Southern Pines Lodge No. order, and the chauffeurs will
484 to entertain the district meeting, make their headquarters there. The
The meeting was then turned over to choice of Southern Pines for the com-
D. D. G. M. Charles who appointed pany headquarters and transfer sta-
P. M.’s E. C. Eddy and D. I. McKeith- ^ion means the moving of several
en to conduct and present Grand Mas- families to the city, it is stated,
ter Pheonix and Grand Secretary An- | The Chamber of Commerce has been
derson. After receiving the Grand Of- ^ working with Company officials for
fleers with the grand honors the | gome time on the project of establish-
Grand Master took charge of the j^g the headquarters in Southern
Dan McKenzie Dies
at Age of 77 Years
i Well Known Resident of Jackson
Springs Victim of Attack
of Appendicitis
Fayetteville Presbytery
to Hear About Elise
meeting and appointed Grand Secre
tary Anderson and Past Master W.
C. Mudgett to conduct and present
D. D. G. M.’s G. A. Charles and W.
H. James, who were also received with
the grand honors.
Past Master W. C. Mudgett made a
brief talk welcoming the 12th dis
trict meeting to Southern Pines and
expressed his gratitude for the re
newed interest in Masonry and the
constructive work that is being car
ried on throughout the state. D. D.
James was then called upon, who ex
pressed his delight at having the op
portunity to attend this occasion.
Brother F. M. Pinnix spoke briefly
of “The Orphans Friend” and request-
Pines, and a committee of directors
including Frank Buchan, Shields Cam-
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COL. HAWES AND LLOYD ADD
TO PINEHURST ESTATES
Ool. T. P. Hawes has purchased five
acres adjoining his property on the
double road between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines from the Barber es
tate, the deal hei^g 'consummated
through the real estate office of L.
L. Biddle, 3d, Pinehurst.
Mr. Biddle also announces the pur-
Sorrow came to the people of Jack-
£on Sprrpgs last week in the passing of
another of the older people of tlie
I community, Don McKenzie. Mr. Mc
Kenzie had the deep affection of all
I those who knew him, and his death
j brought grief to his many friends.
I He had a very serious attack of ap-
pzndicitis and on Wednesday was tak
en to the Charlotte Sanatorium in
Charlotte. On Friday night, October
4, he died.
Mr. McKenzie was born April 21,
1852. His father was for years an
elder in Jackson Springs Presbyterian
church, of which church Mr. McKen-
I zie had been a member since he was
j a young man. For several years, how-
! ever, he has been unable to attend
services.
Those of his family who survive
him are Mrs. McKenzie, his wife, who
before her marriage was Miss Jen
nie Mclnnis; a son, T. S. McKenzie
of High Point, and four daughters,
Mrs. Alice Brown and Misses Ethel,
Monnie and Sallie McKenzie of Jack
son Springs. Their relatives have the
deep sympathy of the many friends
of the deceased. Funeral services were
conducted in the home by the Rev. R.
G. Matehson, and interment made in
the cemetery at Jackson Springs Pres
byterian church.
School Will Be Discussed at
Meeting at Cameron Hill
Church Oct. 30
chase of additional land by Mr. Lloyd,
ed the support of the Craft for the 1 giving the later more frontage on
paper. Dr. N. C. Daniel expressed his j Linden Road and making possible a
appreciation of being present. G. M.} more spacious and attractive entrance
Pheonix presented the Rev. C. K. j to the estate which he is developing
Proctor, the principal speaker of the | just outside of Pinehurst^The ^op-
occasion. Brother Proctor in a stir-
ing address, stressed the needs of
new buildings and equipment for Ox
ford Orphanage and urged that every
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erty was purchased from Harry War
ing, from whom Mr. Lloyd acquired
the extensive acreage on which he is
building a winter residence to cost in
the neighborhood of $50,00, with sta
bles and kennels.
GOVERNMENT IN NEED OF
CENSUS BUREAU CLERKS
Temporary positions i nthe Bureau
of Census at Washington are avail
able for those successfully passing
Civil Service examinations. These are
in connection with the 15th decennial
census, and are for junior clerks,
salaries ranging from $1,260 a year
to $1,440. Examinations are open to
both men and women, and a large
, number of appointments will be made.
For information apply U- S. Civil Ser
vice Commission, Washington, D. C.
The group conference of District
No. 7 of Fayetteville Presbytery will
I be held at Cameron Hill Church on
I October 30.
j Mrs. W. M. Fairly, Presbyterial
1 President very earnestly requests that
j each Secretary of the various causes
i of the Auxiliary attend this confer-
I ence as the Presbyterial Secretaries
.will each make a talk upon her re
spective cause. Other auxiliary mem-
ibers are also urged to be present.
I “Elise” will be the keynote of this
conference and W. Stuart Evans, bus
iness manager of the school and others
I will tell the ladies of the work this
I year and of the beautiful $30,000 Ad-
! ministration Building which can be
I made ready for use as soon as the
remaining $7,000 of the $30,000 is
raised.
Miss Sara Williams, secretary of
Elise is asking that the ladies give
generously to the annual “Pantry
Shower,” as this year with the ex
pense of the new buildinf it is badly
needed.
The friends of the school greatly
appreciate the former gifts to the
school and trust that none will forget
this shower for “Evil is wrought, by
want of thought as well as want of
heart.” This school has a just right
ito ask contributions from all denom
inations as it has ministered unto
all creeds joyously, so lets ask Every
body to help make this pantry show
er a “landslide.”
Those desiring to help a good cause
may send gifts directly to the school
or to Mrs. Frank Blue at the Fash
ion Shop in Carthage. Let each gift
bear the donors’ name as the school
likes to know its friends.
The Philadelphia Athletics won the
first two games of the World’s Base
ball series this week from the Chicago
Cubs, the first 3-1, the second 8-3. The
third game will be played today
“Whereas the winter j season is ap-
r.roaching when Aberdeen and the
surrounding towns of the Sandhills
will be hosts to so many visitors from
all parts of the world, and
“Whereas it behooves us in welcom
ing them to present our best front
and look our niatest, I, Henry Blue,
Mayor of Aberdeen, do proclaim the
week of October 21st as Clean-Up
Week in the City of Aberdeen, and
do urge all citizens and property own
ers to maice a pronounced effort to
put their property in order, urging
upon them at the same time the dis
tinct advantages to the community in
artistic planting of flowers, the plant-
liig and maintenance of attractive
lawns and the doing away with such
unsightly objects on their premises
as may be feasibly done awi.y with.”
The above proclamation was issued
by Mayor Blue this week in connec
tion with the program of local organ-
izatins to make a determined effort
to increase the attractiveness of Aber
deen before the influx of winter
guests. The Chamber of Commerce,
the Parent-Teachers Association and
the Aberdeen Book Club are copo-
erating with city officials in the
Clean-Up Week program, and the at
tention of the citizens is called to the
date, the week of October 21st, and
all residents urged to cooperate to the
fullest extent.
TEAM MATCH OCT. 27
AT S. P. COUNTRY CLUB
James Ruffin Dunn, one of the best
known tobacco auctioneers in the Car-
olirias and Georgia and handlingr th#
■ sales on the floors of both local ware
houses since the opening on Septem
ber 24th, was found dead in the bath
room adjoining his room in the Aber
deen Hotel on Tuesday morning. Death
was due to an acute attack of indi
gestion, Dr. Symington, acting coron
er of the county, announced.
Mr. Dunn was 45 years old, and had
lived for several years in Reidsville,
where a wife and three children sur
vive him. In Aberdeen he was well
known and liked, having made many
friends here during the tobacco sea-
: son.
After a busy day on the floors of
both the Aberdeen Warehouse and
the B. B. Saunders Warehouse on
Monday Mr. Dunn retired early and
apparently in good health. He had
complained somewhat of stomach
pains, but not seriously. A maid in
the hotel found him the next morn-
|ing’, and the presence nearby of a
i box of bicarbonate of soda indicated
i that he had suffered an attack of in-
1
^ digestion during the night and had
died during the attack.
I Heart Reported Weak
Mr. Dunn was on the Reidsville*
j market for several years and later had'
j traveled through Georgia and the Car-
olinas conducting auctions in many
jof the leading warehouses. He had
I acted as auctioneer in the Saunders
j Warehouses in Valdosta, Ga., this fall
j before coming to Aberdeen. In the
I off seasons he sold insurance. He is
' understood to have had a weak heart.
I Born in Henry county, Virginia in
i 1884, Mr. Dunn married Miss Annie
I Myrtle Land in 1908 and they had
I three children. Among other surviv-
I iors are the following brothers and
; sisters: J. P. Dunn, Glendale, Cal.;
'Jerry R. Dunn, Augusta, Ga.; R. H.
Dunn, Danville, Va.; B. B. Dunn,
Leaksville; Mrs. Jescs Kirkman and
Mrs. G. L. Hopper, Boxwood, Va., and
Mrs. J. W. Harper, Leaksville.
PROMINENT WRITER JOINS
SANDHILL WINTER COLONY
Southern Pines Country Club will
be host to golf teams from Hamlet,
Badin, Monroe, Rockingham, Laurin-
burg and Hartsvil^e on Sunday, Octo
ber 27th, in the first annual inter-
club match. Qualifying round at 9:30
a. m. for the teams of eight men each.
The four low medalists of each team
will qualify for the team matches in
the afternoon. In addition to this
journey, five professionals will meet
in an 18-hole medal play match, Em
mett French representing Southern
Pines, Mr. Aycock, Badin; Mr. Camp
bell, Monroe; Mr. Spence, Hartsville,
Mr. Farlow, Rockingham.
Mrs. Maud Parker Child of 162
East 83d street, New York, well
, known writer for the Saturday Even
ing Post and former wife of Richard
Washburn Child, recent ambassador
to Italy, has leased the John G.
Nichols residence on the Country
Club property in Southern Pines and
will s:end the winter in the Sand
hills. Mrs. Child takes possession at
once. The lease was negotiated by the
real estate office of Paul T. Barnum,
Southern P.nes, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols
■plan to spend the winter in Aberdeen.
Major T. Donaldson Sloan, former
ly of the 17th Field Artillery at Fort
Bragg, now of Lawrence, L. I., has
leased the Schwarberg house oppo
site the Hollywod Hotel in Southern
Pfnes for the winter ‘through the
Barnum office. Other Southern Pines
rentals announced by Mr. Barnum and
fcis associate, John Ruggles, during the
past week include the Donald Herring
house to George L. Stebbins of Seal
Harbor, Maine; the new Van Camp
house on May street to George M.
' Porges, vice president of the Kaum-
agraph Company of New York; the
j Paul Bamum residence on Country
I Club Drice to Dr. D. H. McKinley of
I Winchester, Ky.; Pembroke Lodge to
I Lawrence Bronson of Whitefield, N.
! H., who will operate it as a board-
iing hotel; the Congregational par
sonage to Mrs. Jessie Knodel of Mid-
I dletown. Pa., and the Irvin cottage on
lAshe street to J. M. Walsh of New
York. A Southern Pines Building
Company house on Indiana avenue
has been sold by Mr. Bamum to Al
bert Lynch of Lewistown. Pa.
R. T. Mills, new superintendent of
the Southern Pines Water Works, has
taken the Harrison house on Vermont
avenue for a year.