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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 9, NO. 48.
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LAKE. VIEW
MANUEY
PINE BLUFP
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, Novembber 1, 1929.
D. A. R. DELEGATES
CONVENE TODAY
ATPINEHURST
Ten States and Cuba Represent
ed at First Congress of
Southern Division
TEA AT SOUTHERN PINES
The first divisional congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
convenes at the Carolina Hotel in
PinehxU’St toda^^, FHday, with ten
states and Cuba represented. This is
the first of the regional sessions held
under the new geographical division
which meets here comprising the
states of Arkansas, Alabama, North
and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky and
Tennessee, and Cuba.
President General Mrs. Lowell Ho
bart and other national officers are
among those in attendance. Mrs.
Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Away with the Nub
City Fathers of Southern Pines Sound Death Knell for Those
Humps in the Middle of the Streets and Cheers Are
Offered by the Populace
Aias! Alack! They have caused a lot of accidents.
Southern Pines is to lose its nubs , Motorists have found to their sorrow
We have never known what to call
, -xiij 1 inhere was not sufficient clearance,
them, but we have just looked up nubs^ .v 4.
, Motorists have collided with them at
m Mr. Webster’s book and it says a they have not been light-
H W. CARPENTER
DIES AT HOME IN
SOUTHERN PINES
rub is a “knob, protuberance, lump.”
For years now weVe been dodging
those lumps in the center of the street
ed, and crankcases, differentials and
axles have suffered.
In th*eir place the City Fathers have
intersections, ever fearful of running decreed that four reflector lights shall
into or over them, swearing a little ^ be placed at each street intersection
beneath our breath, wondering to ^ where the nubs are now. These are
ourself whether they did any con- , those warning signs which reflect the
sarned good, and wishing someone | lights from your car. No electric cur-
would arise in wrath some dark night, rent is required to operate them, and
and steal every one of them. And ; the saving in current in a year over
now, bless be the day, they are con- | the nub system will pay for the new
signed to the rubbish head. The City
Fathers have so decreed.
Possibly the nubs have served a
purpose. At night they have warned
motorists that a crossing was at hand.
Charles R. Whitaker of Southern Pines | At least they have so warned them
is State Regent and active in the ar-jwhen the red lights enclosed within
rangements for the Pinehurst meet- i the nubs were burning. But they have
been dangerous things, those nubs.
mgs. Governor O. Max Gardner is
scheduled to welcome the deleg*ates
lo North Carolina. All sessions of the
convention will be held in the Caro
lina Hotel.
The women who are attending the
congress will be honored by the offi
cers and directors of the Southern
Pines Country Club at tea from four
to five o’clock this (Friday) after-
roon, in the club house. In the receiv
ing line will be the wives of the club
officials and a few of the national of
ficers of the D. A. R., including Mrs.
R. N. Page, Mrs. J. N. Powell, Mrs.
F. F. Travis, Mrs. Hobart, Mrs. J.
W. Dickie, Mrs. Ralph VanLanding-
ham, Mrs. Jackson Boyd, Mrs. W. A.
Way, Mrs. Struthers Burt, Mrs. J. C.
Barron, Mrs. R. L. Hart, Mrs. Thomas
A Kelley, Mrs. Charles M. Grey, Mrs.
C. L. Hayes, Mrs. James B. Swett,
Mrs. W. C. Mudgett, Mrs. E. C. Ste-
warnings, it is said. In any event,
there will be nothing to impede your
progress, right in the middle of the
road. The new signs will be on the
four corners, out of harm’s way. The
romoval of the nubs will be start
ed at once, the new warning signals
erected at once. Three cheers for the
City Fathers, say we.
Jugtown Fascinates Members of
County Demonstration Clubs
Fifty Women See Pottery Made
and Hear Talk on Art by
Jacques Bushbee
By Mrs. S. R. Smith
Through arrangements made by
Mrs. W. F. Ryals, county demonstra
tion agent, the home demonstration
clubs of Moore county enjoyed a trip
to Jugtown in upper Moore County on
Tuesday. We had heard for years
about Jugtown pottery, and at our
ciub encampment at Jackson Springs
in August we had had the pleasure
of hearing Mrs. Jacques Bushbee
Representative of
Red Cross Stirs
Kiwanis Members
Well Tieloved Resident Came to
Sandhills from Providence
13 Years Ago
FORMER INSURANCE MAN
speak, so our interest was aroused to
vens, Mrs. Arthur Newcomb, Mrs. E. jthe point that we hailed with delight
Ellsworth Giles and Mrs. Robert A. j the prospect of visiting the pottery
Olmstead will pour tea, and will be and of being shown through the Bus-
Mrs. Mulliken Tells of Work of
Organization Throughout
the World
MR. PAGE ASSURED HONOR
As stirring an address as the Ki
wanis Club has had the privilege of
hearing in some time was that made
by Mrs. Elise Mulliken, district rep
resentative of the American Red Cross
for North Carolina, at the club’s week-
In the passing of Howard W. Car
penter last week Southern Pines has
suffered a great loss.
“Carp,” as he was affectionately
known by all who wer-e fortunate
enough to share his warm and genial
friendship, had endeared himself
alike to intimate associates and cas
ual acquaintances, and his kindly
spirit and cheery temperament will
be greatly missed, though his memory
will linger long in the minds of all
with whom he came in contact as a
cherished asset and an inspiration to
better things.
Born in Providence, R. I., in 1867,
Howard W. Carpenter was educated
in the public and private schools of
that city, and on reaching maturity
became connected with the Provi-
dence-Washington Insurance Compa
ny, remaining associated with this
corporation during his entire business
career until his retirement fourteen
years ago.
Always an insatiate reader with
discriminating taste and extraordin
ary memory, Mr. Carpsnter combined
the happy faculties of retaining and
assimilating the best of what he
found in literature.
Whatever he did he did well, and
FIVE CENTS
GOOD B
MARKET
The sun brought oul
75,000 pounds of tobacco"
sold at good prices on the floor^of
Aberdeen’s two warehouses yes
terday. This was the best day the
local market has enjoyed in some
time, rain having interfered con
siderably with hauling. One of the
warehouses reports an average of
$25.01 per hundred pounds for
sales on its floors throughout the
day.
BIG CONVENTION
YEAR INDICATED
FOR PINEHURST
D. A. R. to be Followed by Golf
ers, Insurance, Cotton and
Theatre Men
DOCTORS HERE IN APRIL
Pinehurst has an unusually good list
of conventions and meets scheduled
so far for the winter months. The
first is the Daughters of the Revolu
tion this week Friday and Saturday,
with 300 or more visitors expected
from much of the South. With them
will be a greater or less number of
interested visitors from various sec
tions, unofficially. This gives a good
start for the opening week, and sets
things in motion with a lively swing.
Next week come the Cleveland and
Pittsburg golfers, 150 or more, who
arrive November 8 and stay until
November 11. This will be a bunch of
good fellows who want to have a few
rounds on the Pinehurst courses and
CLEARING HOUSE
SUGGESTED FOR
PEACH GROWERS
Advisory Committee of Growers
and Shippers, with Central
Office, Advocated
MANY IDEAS ADVANCED
being a lover of games, he grew pro
ficient in chess, billiards, roque and ^ . lu -i-i- i.
, .J J , u J. 1 ^ ,• mcidentally to touch elbows with other
bridge and so, when he took up his . ^ ,
residence in Southern Pines, he be
came one of the leaders in the Men’s
Club, of which he remained a valu- , - - j-i. ij? -n
able and active member dntil within | «««>■ the golfers go will come
The issue of a call for a peach in»-
stitute to be held in Hamlet Novem
ber 14th and 15th and sponsored by
the agricultural committees of the
Kiwanis Clubs in Aberdeen, Hamlet
and Cheraw, S. C., has brought forth
many suggestions for consideratiour
and no doubt the meeting will be at
tended by several hundred peach
growers and others interested from
the two Carolinas.
From an experienced organizer of
agricultdral associations comes the
suggestion that the growers organ
ize a clearing house association with a
Board of Directors and two advisory
committees, one a growers’ and one
a shippers ’ with a central office, and
the growers refuse to ship their fruit
except through an association or
dealer who will agree to report each
night to the Central office his ship
ments for that day.
From a large peach grower in Geor
gia comes the suggestion that the
transportation companies, bankers and
manufacturers have never realized tfie
importance of protecting the South
eastern peach industry but rather
they have placed it in its present de
plorable condition by encouraging:
general farms to be planted into or
chards.
Also the suggestion is made from
Georgia that what North and South
things in this section during this de
sirable time of the year.
Closing the week, on November 14
enact into law their grading law.
few days of his death.
Came to Sandhills in 1916
the Insurance Federation of North
Carolina, a hundred strong, the first
^ . 4. I of the local conventions. Visitors from
Mr. Carpenter first came to this i
other states who have associated re-
A large insurance agent suggests
several things for the re-building of
the peach industry:
First: Such grading rules as will
assisted by members of the club, in
cluding Mrs. William F. Allen, Mrs.
John Bloxham, Mrs. Lucy Cameron,
Miss Anne J. Englehardt, Mrs. Charles
P. Everest, Mrs» Emmet French,
Mrs. Joseph Gregory, Mrs. Hermione
Isles, Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. Henry
Page, Jr., Mrs. E. V. Perkinson, Mrs.
Roy E. Pushee, Mrs. Rachel Richards,
Mrs. D. G. Stutz, Mrs. E. A. Tracy,
Mrs. Frank Welch, Mrs. R. E. Wiley
and Mrs. N. F. Wilson
Dr. Emerson Speaks
in Pinehurst Tuesday
Director of National Tuberculosis
Association On Trip
Through State
High officials in the National Tu
berculosis association. Dr. Kendall
Emerson, managing director and F.
D. Hopkins, executive secretary, both
of New York City, will spend three
days in North Carolina, November
^th, 5th and 6th.
The itinerary includes visits to the
sanatoriums at Asheville, addresses
at Hickory, conferences aft Winston-
^-alem, a visit to the Mecklenburg
Sanatorium and on Tuesday next a
meeting with the Moore County
Health and Welfare Association in
the ballroom of the Carolina Hotel at
Pinehurst, where both Dr. Emerson
f^nd Mr. Hopkins will speak. The next
day the party will call at the State
Sanatorium, and Dr. Emerson will
address the Kiwanis Club at noon at
the Civic Club in Southern Pines.
While on the trip Dr. Emerson and
Mr. Hopkins will be guests of Dr. L.
B. McBrayer of Southern Pines, who
will accomp^any them 'throtigh the
State.
The National and State Tubercu
losis associations are wholly support
ed by the sale of Christmas seals.
PLANTING CAMPAIGN SUCCESS
Grass seed is being sown on both
sides of the street the full length of
Massachusetts avenue in Southern
Pines under the direction of Tom
Burgess. The work, stimnlated by the
Chamber of Commerce, is being paid
for by property owners, who have
without exception fallen in with the
beautification program.
bee home, which we had learned was
a model from an artistic standpoint.
Hemp was the appointed place of
meeting for the clubs and at 10:30
we were read to proceed farther “,up
country.” Here and there attractive
orange black signs pointed the way to
Jugtown.
When we arrived, fifty strong, we
were given a most cordial welcome by
Mr. and Mrs. Bushbee, and invited to
inspect the various places of interest.
Going to the pottery a few yards dis
tant, we were shown the clay from
the vessels are made. Then we saw
one of the potters at work. He would
take a small piece of clay, place it
on his wheel, and in less than five
minutes he had deftly shaped a pitch
er of a jug or whatever he had prev-
er or a jug or whatever he had prev-
there and watched a “little brown
jug” take its shape before our eyes,
we were reminded of the Scripture
verse which says, “ Behold, as the
clay is in the potter’s hand, so are
ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”
These skilled potters are direct de
scendants of two hundred years or
more of potter ancestry, and in addi
tion to the knowledge that has been
handed down to them, they have had
the advantage of art direction giv
en them by the Busbees, both of whom
are artists, and the result is a prod
uct that is known through out the
United States. Every piece bears the
stamp, “Jugtown Ware.” Nearby is
the kiln where the pottery is baked.
“The Cabin”
Of especial interest is “The Cabin,”
which is the studio and exhibit build
ing. It is a log building and the furn
ishings are all products or copies of
products of a bygone day. Every
where is harmony and simple beauty.
Orange colored calico curtains blend
with the orange pottery and the gay
marigolds in the garden outside.
The drapery is in black and white
in one of the old-fashioned patterns
used in the bed spreads of the Co
lonial period. The material was made
at Hemp. A hundred-year-old coverlet
adorns the couch. In one end of the
room is a huge fireplace and on the
hearth stands an iron spider with legs
and a cover, just the kind in which our
grandparents prepared their daily
ly luncheon in the Community House , ^ ^lome on Ashe street in South-
at Pinehurst Wednesday. After win-j^j.^ where he and Mrs. Carpen-
ning the hearts of Kiwanians by tell- [ gj^^ce resided, until heart
ing them of her experience in vnr- from which he had suffered
icus communities before and after Ki
wanis Clubs had been formed, hov.*
the standard of progress set up by
section in 1916,^ and six with the federation will add to|P^«|’“>it the shipment of unclassified
the attendan’9. fiuit.
The week beginning Monday. Nov-1 Second: A clearmg house supported
ember 18, is given up to two conven- ^ crats tax.
lions, the first one, tha Southeastern
them had been followed by higher wife, Mattie R. Carpenter of
Pines, a brother, Sj'dney T.
Carpenter, of Pawtucket, R. I., and
two step sons, Earl S. and Dana R.
Crawford of Providence R. I. Inter
ment will take place in Providence.
A. S. Newcomb Reenters
Real Estate Field
for two years or more terminated ab-
rurtly after but a few days confine-, ^ ., , , , ^
‘ the first three days, unless a change
ment to his home. He is survived I . . ,
Third: An agreement from the com-
Underwriters, with 125 to 150 takirg |merchants to handle only
good fruit.
idealism, Mrs. Mulliken gave the mem
bers a picture of the great work which
the Red Cross is doing throughout the
world.
Founded in 1841 in Geneva, Switzer
land, the Red Cross first engaged the
interest of America during the later
days of the Civil War, since which
time it has been so completely tak-
€n over by the American Red Cross
that today we are contributing $300,-
000 a year toward the support of
Red Cross work in other lands. These
countries, however, are rapidly get
ting their chapters on a self-support
ing basis so that American aid will
not be needed much longer, Mrs. Mul
liken said.
She told of the great work the Red
Cross had done under her own obser
vation, mentioning the tornado at St.
Dean of Profession in Sandhills
Becomes Associated with
Mason & Gardner Co.
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MILAM BUNGALOW BURNS
TO GROUND AT LAKEVIEW
The attractive bungalow owned by
J. E. Caviness and occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. William M. Milam, Jr., in
Lakeview burned to the ground Wed
nesday night, the fire being discover
ed at about 10 o’clock. Some of the
valuable antique furniture of the Mi
lam family was saved, but they suf
fered a loss of some $4,000 to $5,000,
it is said. Mr. and Mrs. Milam lost all
their clothing. The building burned to
the ground in about half an hour. It
is believed to have caught from a de
fective chimney. Mr. and Mrs. Mi
lam were in the house at the time but
escaped unharmed. Mr. Caviness had
the house partially covered by insur
ance.
AMERICAN LEGION POST
PLANS WINTER ACTIVilTIES
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The officers and executive commit
tee of the Sandhill Post, American
Legion, met with the new commander,
Tom Black, at Jack’s Grill Tuesday
noon and discussed plans for the
season.
After a retirement from active par
ticipation in the real estate, and in
surance field for some seven years,
Arthur S. Newcomb of Lakeview and
-Pinehurst has reentered the local
m.arket, becoming associated with The
Mason & Gardner Co., Inc. of Pine
hurst. Mr. Newcomb sold the business
now conducted by Mason & Gardner
in 1924. He returns to the fold not
as a partner but, as he states, “in the
ranks,” because of his desire “to have
a hand in the ever increasing develop
ment which the Sandhills are enjoy
ing.”
Mr. Newcomb is the dean of the real
estate profession in the section. His
activity dates back to the days when
Weymouth Heights in Southern Pines
was developing as the residential sec
tion of that town, and to the infancy
of Pinehurst. He was closely affiliat
ed with the late James Boyd in
Southern Pines and with Leonard
Tufts in the pioneer days of Pine
hurst, and there is probably no one
in the section better versed on the
realty development of either town
than Mr. Newcomb. He was one of the
founders of the Knollwood Heights
development.
In 1916 he organized the firm of
Page, Newcomb & Wilder, an insur
ance agency which later became af
filiated with the Page Trust Company
of Aberdeen. The firm of A. S. New
comb & Co. succeeded this, dealing in
both insurance and real estate, and
it was this firm which was sold to
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in the date is made later, to be
followed the closing days of the week
by the North Carolina cotton men.
They expect to have not less u.an
150 members present.
This gives five big conventions dur
ing Novamber, occupying every week
except the last one, and embraces
probably a thousand visitors.
Theatre Owners Coming '
The North Carolina Theatre Own
ers have December 9 and 10 reserved
for a delegation of 100 members,
when Charlie Picquet will be a big
man in the community, for he is
ranked high among the theatre men.
The Rev. Murdoch McLeod will also
shake friendly hands during that time.
January has a date for the W’’inter
Golf League, who come the 25th for
V week’s stay with 125 to 150 mem
bers. This brings their visit into F’eb-
ruary. They typify the golf enthu-
siastics who have become acquainted
w^ith the facilities at Pinehurst and
who like to bring their own big crowd
for a long season of real enjoyment.
Their meet will be a lively one.
The closing three days of April 300
to 400 of the North Carolina doctors
will arrive, and the doctors are al
ways a welcomed crowd. They are a
good group of men, capable of appre
ciating everything, and probably
they will give Brother Chapin’s new
hospital with the Clarion Bugle says
is a “pleasant call.” The doctors are
right well acquainted with Pinehurst,
for this is not the first time they have
been this way.
The North Carolina bankers, who
have also been in this neighborhood
before and learned the advantage??,
will follow the doctors, taking the
first three days of May and bring
ing 200 to 300 members. Most of these
conventions are business meetings as
well as outings for the visitors and
the discussions are interesting to any
who attend the meetings. Before the
season closes probably other dates
will be announced for other meetings
of a similar kind, yet those so far
scheduled indicate in the total of their
members who will be present a list
of probably a thousand names.
Fourth: An advertising fund.
Fifth: An agreement from commis
sion men and bankers to advance
credit only on orchard's well cared
for.
Centralizing Varieties
Several suggestions from different
sections relate to the cutting down
of some of the trees. Perhaps the most
constructive idea along this line comes
from one grower who thinks if we
could get the Southeastern States in
terested and through the cooperation
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Cook Bungalow is
Destroyed by Fire
Burned on Eve of Occupancy,
with Complete Loss to Own
er and Tenant
One of the attractive bungalows
built by George E. Cook on Weymouth
Heights in Southern Pines in 1916
and remodeled during the past sum
mer, was completely destroyed by fire
Tuesday evening. With the building
the flames took the furniture of Mr.
and Mrs. George T. ChapmaTi, of
N£w York, who had leased the house
for the winter, moving their posses
sions in only the day before the fire.
The fire was discovered by Almet
Jenks, author, who resides in the ad
joining Cook bungalow, shortly after
7 o’clock, and the Southern Pines
Fire Department made a hurried run
to the scene only to find the house
beyond hope of saving. The tons of
water poured into the building made
no impression upon the flames. The
house was of wood construction and
went up like a tinder box. In it be
sides the furniture, much of it new,
of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman w’^ere oil
paintings by Mr. Cook, who is an
artist, and these are believed to have
stimulated the flames.
Large crowds followed the depart
ment to the blaze and others from
miles around were attracted to the
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