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VOL. 9. NO. 45.
CARTHAGE
VIEW
MANUEY
PINE.
PILOT
SOUTHERN PINES
RESORT
NUMBER
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 11, 1929.
FIVE CENTS
MILLIONS SPENT
ON NEW WINTER
RESIDENCES HERE
'.andhills Growing in Popular
Favor as Ideal for Per
manent Location
ON THE CREST OF WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS, SOUTHERN PINES
irCH BUILDING ACTIVITY
The proof of the pudding is in the
Jilting. The surest test of the popu-
■arity of a town or section is made
wiien erstwhile visitors become perma-
I'pnt settlers. Which leads to the con-
ilasion that we of the Sandhills are
living in a community constantly
growing in popularity.
Why? Because during the summer
?eason just closed ever one million dol
lars has been invested in new con-
1 ruction work in Pinehurst, Southern
Pines and Knollwood. Practically all
of this has gone into new homes,
winter residences for persons who
have spent winters here and so fallen
in love with the place, the climate and
the life that they have elected to
make the Sandhills their permanent
winter abiding place.
Some beautiful residences, many of
t’lem large and costly ones, are num-
bored among the buildings completed
of late or now nearing completion.
Among these is the new home of Mr.
and Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, of Denver,
Col., who plan to spend much of their
times on their estate outside Pine
hurst hereafter. Besides a spacious
and stately house, Mr. Reed has con
structed large stables, kennels for
his pack of hounds, a superintendent’s
cottage and other minor building. He
has recently added to his real estate
holdings by acquiring the adjoining
property of Beverly Walter. Mr. Wal
ter, in turn, has purchased a new
home on the Midland Road.
Many New Hobes
Among others is a new residence
for Charles H. Pray of Boston, to
cost in the neighborhood of $50,000.
This is under construction on land
near the home of Mrs. M. B. Rich
ardson and Simeon B. Chapin in Pine
hurst. The new Lloyd residence v/ill
cost approximately $50,000 when com
pleted, it is said. Other new Pinehurst
homes are the following: Campbell
residence, $25,000; Buckminster resi
dence, $60,000; Given residence, $70,-
000; Judd residence, $25,000; Williams
residence, $25,000; Jonies residence,
810,000; Hersloff residence, $75,000.
Other recent Pinehurst building in
cludes the new Moore County Hospi
tal, at a cost of $200,000, and the
Holly Inn addition, around $25,000.
Many new residences have been
springing up in Southern Pines as
well, prmciple among them being “The
Paddock,” the winter home of a
group of New Yorkers, just com
pleted on the Bethesda Road. Among
those who will share this picturesque
building of whitwashed hollow tile,
set among the pines of the old Ham
lin farm, are Mr. and Mrs. Williani
P. Willetts, Mr. and Mrs. Landon K.
Thorne, Mr. and Mrs. B. A .Tomp
kins, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Delehanty
and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W.
Ecker, all of New York. Expansive
stables and a four-car garage have
also been built on the property, which
comprises some 140 acres.
“The Ark” About. Completed
The new “Ark,” the boarding and
day school just completed by Mrs. Mii-
licent A. Hayes on the Grover prop
erty on Indiana avenue is another val
uable building asset to Southern Pines.
Mrs. Hayes’ school has been growing
in popularity each year and will this
year have some fifty pupils, many of
whom will reside at “The Ark.” The
school opens October 21st.
The beautiful residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry M. Vale, “Loblolly,” on
Weymouth Heights has been complet
ed since last winter and will be oc
cupied by the Vales all winter. Mr.
and Mrs. Vale formerly lived in
Princeton, N. J. Mr. Potts, editor of
“Baseball Magazine,” has just com
pleted an attractive house on Indiana
avenue in which he and Mrs. Potts
will spend the winter. On the attrac
tive grounds of the Southern Pines
Country Club several new residences
have been built during the summer
months. W’ith the laying out of new
drives through the grounds and the
Climate, Accessibility
Chief Factors in Steady
Growth of Southern Pines
Northern Visitors Find in Mid-South Resort the
Ideal Environment for Rest or Recreation,
Summer in Winter
FACILITIES FOR SPORT ARE UNEXCELLED
Southern Pines has come to be
known as “The Mid-South Resort,”
and as the mid-South has been grow-
Southern Pines. Washington is now
regarded as an easy drive from these
points for one day, and many drivers
ing ever increasingly in popularity make points farther north between
curing recent years, Southern Pines | sunrise and sunset. Automobile tour-
has sprung into nationwide repute. ! ists may come south by way of Wash-
The Highland Pines Inn, around which much of the Winter Life in Southern Pines and vicinity
I revolves.
SOUTHERN PINES
I like Southern Pines.
I like her ways.
I like the friendliness of her greet
ing.
Her hospitality, warm, soft, per
manent as the sands about her.
Her people are real people. There
I is no sham in them.
I They are not the aristocracy of
I wealth, nor the Babbitts of Gopher
I Prairie.
j They are the happy medium—
America at her best.
Moore County Third of a
Century Ago As Gleaned
From Old State Directory
Interesting: Information Revealed in Days Before
Tobacco or Pinehurst Played Leading Parts
in Life of the Sandhills
MATHESON COMMISSIONER IN ’96 and ’29
With the rest of the Sandhill section
of North Carolina, it savours of the
ideal for recreational winters, and its
steady growth as a northern colony
put down here in the sands and pine
woods is due to healthful climatic con-
I ditions plus accessibility to the busy
I marts of trade northward.
This section of the South has much
1 to offer those seeking surcease from
the rigors of northern winters, those
seeking homes permanent or tempor
ary, those in quest of athletic activity
during months when such is not avail
able elsewhere. Peace and quiet reign
Pinehurst does not appear in the
book, though it was just breaking its
shell at that time.
Among the churches in the county
listed there were 20 Presbyterian, 22
^Tethodist, l2 Baptists, eight Christ-
A copy of Branson’s North Caro- Commissioners, W. E. Poe, O. T.
lina Directory of 1896 has fallen into ! Johnson, I. L. Hamlin; Clerk, B. H.
our hands and is an interesting docu-| Burroughs; Treasurer, Philander
I like her freedom. Dress as yoUj^^ent. We turned at once to Moore ! Pond,
please, do as you please, go where i County, and find among other things
you please. Nobody cares. jthat one of our present county com-
Your peculiarities are not faults i ^ commissioner then,
but characteristics. You are not an! Matheson. The other mem-
oddity but a personality. i board were John Shaw,
chairman; J. A. Mclver, H. A. Page
All men are free and equal. | j ^ Wright.
There is no nervous strain^ No D. G. McLeod was coroner, D. S.
worry about what the other fellow ' Ray, register of deeds, John L. Cur-
thinks of you. Everybody likes every- ; rie, sheriff; H. F. Seawell, solicitor
l)ody. j of the seventh district; H. C. Stutts,
T o. i surveyor; Dr. K. M. Ferguson, treas-
I like Southern Pmes. -.r -1 , ^
•urer; W. N. McNeill, superintendent
I like her folks. schools, and Dr. G. M. McLeod,
I like the Mayor. He speaks well superintendent of the board of health,
and means what he says. i Tobacco was not listed among the
I like Jim Boyd, than whom there is ! staple crops, which the book gives as
no better sportsman. cotton, wheat, oats, rye, min-
I erals and naval stores. Gold, copper, John Blue. At Carthage, A. McMillan
I like Struthers Burt, keen, brilliant; very superior millstone and soap- and Currie & Rowan ran distilleries,
lending marked talents to the better- j g^Q^e” are the minerals listed. t McDonald Brothers operated one at
ment of the community. | population of Aberdeen was West End, Dr. J. A. Leslie at Vass,
I like the Chamber of Commerce, 1 given as 1,000, of Cameron as 450, J. E. Buchan and Duncan Blue at
the Kiwanis Club. They are building | of Carthage as 1,200, Jackson Springs i Manly, M. Britton and Muse Broth-
without booming, on a firm founda-140, Jessup 650, Manly 275, Sanford I ers at Cameron. Many were in the
tion. I (then in Moore county, as was Jones- 'saddle and harness business. Two wine
|boro) 700, Southern Pines 750. The ' merchants were listed, N. G. S. Mar-
population of many of the towns was , ley at Carthage and H. T. Petty at
not given. j Cameron.
R. N. Page,Mayor I Business in Aberdeen
The town officers of Aberdeen were: | Aberdeen merchants and tradesmen
Mayor, R. N. Page; Commissioners, | were listed as follows:
N. A. Page, A. C. Campbell, F. A. | Aberdeen Drug Company, D. D. &
Ordway and T. B. Creel, David Knight | L. S. Blue, general store; John & H.
was marshal. In Carthage H. A. | S. Blue, general store and turpentine;
W. D. Cameron & Co., general store,
ington and Richmond to Raleigh and
Southern Pines, by the Shenandoah
Valley from Harrisburg, Winchester,
and Roanoke to Greensboro and Pine
hurst, by the Shenandoah from Hag
erstown, Harper’s Ferry, Staunton
and Lynchburg to Durham and South
ern Pines and Pinehurst, all hard road
all the way, and open all the year.
These lines of travel lead through the
historic centers of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia and North Caro
lina, and cover the story of America’s
great Civil War of the early sixties.
Hard roads pass all the big battle-
for those seeking relaxation and con- , fields, which are still of surpassing
tentmenfc. Sporting activities of every interest to the citizen, the school chil-
name and nature are here for those
dren, the students of American his-.
One can watch or one ! tory, and everyone.
so inclined
can play.
Winters here are summers. Which
explains why so many northern peo
ple ar^ acquiring the habit of taking
their annual vacations in the win
ter months instead of when remain-
America’s Golfing Center-
Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Abfer-
deen are the chief villages of the
Sandhills neighborhood, and have^
grown from the one influence, that of
making a desirable place for the vaca-
ing at home and the office is less a | Zionist who has learned that the time
hardship. No longer is one oblipd
to accept summer as the vacation during the colder weather, when he
period. The sunny South is too near ^e out of doors just as he can at
at hand. Tha escape from snow and nortjiern home in the summer, and
ice and sleet too inviting. | Y^7hen he can fall in with an army of
4. AT\yTT7' + AT\/rT7>r7- Sandhills sectlon of North companions from all over
T> Carolina embraces a region that hasjj,,g country in this playground of the,
Prn.c . altitude of from 300 to 700 feet I United States.
above tide-water, a sandy surface, j leading pastime. The
with just enough of clay and humus | goy|;}iern Pines Country Club has two
to maintain a soil that encourages the ^ gig^teen-hole courses unequalled
growth of pine forests, dogwood, scenery and for playa-
hickory and other interesting biuty anywhere in America. Within
one Catholic, at Southern Pines; a
Congregational church at Southern
Pines, and two Episcopal churches, the
Emmanuel at Southern Pines and one
at Sanford.
Blacksmithing and wheelwrighting-
was one of the principal industries in
those pre-automobile days, and no less
than 19 turpentine (distilleries' are
mentioned. At Aberdeen were those
of W. A. McKeithen, N. S. Blue and
I like the horses and hounds—sport
for many, color for all.
I like the coca-cola gatherings be
fore Broad street bars.
I like the wanton black-ja^k and
the trim hedges of Weymouth Heights.
I like the girls—but I always like
che girls. | Foote, Jr. was mayor; in Manley J.
I like Southern Pines. ; e. Buchan. The officials of Southern
I like her ways. i Pines were: Mayor, Dr. L. T. Smith;
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ground hilly enough and rolling and
flat enough to permit of delightful
sites for the pleasant villages that
comprise the community; rainfall suf
ficient to stimulate proper vegeta
tion; a climate that knows neither ex
treme, a dry, sunshiny air; ground
that is porous so that rainfall is |
promptly absorbed, and the out of
door games may go on within a few
minutes after a severe shower.
Southern Pines and its neighbor
villages of the Sandhills are but a i
three miles is the new Pine Needles
course, the home course last winter
of our national women’s champion,
Miss Glenna Collett. A stone’s throw
from Pine Needles’ picturesque eight
een holes is another Donald Ross
course, that of the Mid-Pines Club,
and but seven miles from Southern
Pines are the four famous courses of
the Pinehurst Country Club, where
throughout the winter tournaments
for all and sundry are held.
More sporting news originates at
night’s travel from New Yor or | pj^^eiiurst and Southern Pines than
Washington by the Seaboar Air me other similar spot on the con-
Railroad. One may put in a u ay every day the papers are
in his office in New York or a reports from the links, the polo
points, and tee off on one of the eight
8-hole golf courses hereabouts in time
for a full round the next morning.
During the season several trains each
v/ay daily afford quick transit, and
hard surface roads over three sepa
rate routes connect the North and
South, converging at Pinehurst and
THE HAVEN OF THE GOLFER IN SOUTHERN PINES
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The Southern Pines County Club House from which many of the 36 holes surrounding it may be seen.
fields, the race tracks, the tennis
courts and trap shooting grounds..
Polo, Hunting, Racing
Polo is a favorite game, and draws
contestants from civil life in all di
rections as well as from Fort Bragg
and other military posts in this coun
try, and occasionally a foreign dele
gation comes across to try a tourna
ment with riders of our own country.
I The race tracks are active all fall and
: winter and large numbers of stables
of prominence have strings of horses
j in the Sandhills during the winter,
j Fox hunting brings many horses,
j There are two packs of foxhounds
here, the Moore County Hounds and
the pack belonging to Verner Z.
Reed, of Pinehurst and Denver, Col.
Hotel Accommodations
The hotels of Southern Pines of
fer ample, spacious and comfortable
accommodation to the town’s winter
guests. The Highland Pines Inn, with
its stately setting on W^eymouth
Heights overlooking the piney country
for miles around, enjoys a national
reputation and is filled throughout the
season, as are the many other inns and
hostelries in the village. The Caro
lina at Pinehurst is the largest hotel
in North Carolina, and the new Pine
Needles Inn on Knollwood Heights
is the last word in hotel con'struction
and operation. Boarding houses and
cottages are available for those de
siring accommodations of this type.