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NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, January 31, 1930,
FIVE CENTS
PEACH GROWERS
OF THIS SECTION
MET AT CANDOR
1 avorable Response to Idea of
Consolidating with S. C. Grow
ers in Strong Cooperative
ROBLEMS DISCUSSED
With about 125 peach grrowers. in
tensely interested in the proceedings
and evencing a determination to work
themselves out of the hole into which
peach diseases, poor crops and bus
iness depression have thrown them,
he Carolixias Peach Institute held
a meeting at Candor today, the first
of a series of sectional meetings to
follow the general organization at
Hamlet in November. George Ross,
president of the institute, called the
meetings to order in the Candor high
school building, but most of the pro
gram was handled by Dr. J. H. Beau
mont, head of the department of hor
ticulture at State College.
The principal speaker of the day
was Dr. J. R. Magness, principal hor
ticulturist in charge of fruits and
nuts of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, who discussed the impor
tance of the leaf in respect to color
and size of fruit. The other speakers
inc! ded Dr. R. F. Poole, of State
College, who summarized bacteriosis
ontrol knowledge up to date, indi-
ating that little is really known
al)out methods of controlling this di-
ease; Dr. R. W. Leihy who discussed
*he curculio, oriental fruit moth and
the Mediterranean fruit fly and sug
gested control measures for them;
Thomas B. Young, manager of the
Carolinas Co-operatives Consolidated,
marketing agency at Florence, who
explained how North Caroline peach
growers might come into the Sputh
Carolina association and obtain the
Federal Farm Board loans.
At the conclusion of Mr. Young’s
talk some 25 North Carolina grow
ers, repiesenting 241,000 trees signi
fied their intention to sign the con
tract as soon as it is ready. Mr.
Young explained that the directors
of his association w’ould be willing to
change the name to the Carolinas
Peach Growers Association and ad
mit the North Carolina members on
an equal basis, provided enough ton
nage could be signed up. The names
MISS OGDEN APPEARS ON
EDITORIAL PAGE TOD\Y
Miss Harriet Ogden of Knoll-
wood is the author of tTie avticle
appearing this week in The Pilot’s
series of contributions from
writers residing in the Sandhills.
Her article is entitled, “Art is an
Orange.”
Almet Jenks, writer of many
short stories for the Saturday Eve
ning Post, will appear on the Edi
torial Page in next week’s issue.
—THE EDITOR.
SOUTHERN PINES
WILL GO ON AIR
SUNDAY AT FIVE
Chamber of Commerce is Spon
soring Series of Programs to
be Broadcast Over WPTF
LOCAL ARTISTS ON AIR
Christmas Seal Sale
Is Very Successful
All Sections cf County and Both
White and Colored Citizens
Contribute Liberally
The first program in a series to
be known as the Southern Pines hour,
will be broadcasted over WPTF from
the Raleigh studios next Sunday af
ternoon at 5 o’clock, under the direc
tion of E. Ellsworth Giles.
DR. LANDRITH
WILL DEI,IVER
ADDRESS HERE
WiL Speak at Church of Wide
Fellowship Under Auspices of
Moore County C. E. Union
FEBRUARY 16 IS DATE
“Young people are tractable, im
pressionable, and they would rather
be right than wrong.”
“All prejudice is the child of sin
and ignorance.”
“The crime of partisanship has
The series is being sponsored by the j been making a political issue of world
Chamber of Commerce of Southern 1 peace, a partisan football of the brok-
i Pines, and the plan is to draw from ! en heart of humanity. The Nero of
The treasurer of the Moore County
Health and Welfare Association, Rob
ert N. Page, reports very gratifying
results achieved fro mthe Christmas
Seal sale in this county. His state
ment follows:
Your paper as the faithful record
er of worth while events in the sec
tion will want to take’ notice of the
Christmas Seal Sale in the county.
Under the energetic leadership of Mrs.
Chsatham of Pmehurst, the total sales
amounted to $1003.00. What 1 want
ed'especially to bring to public no
tice, of this amount .$133.00 was con
tributed by the colored people of the
county, and speaking for the County
Health and Welfare Asi-ociation I
war^^'^d to voice our appreciation.
t V lows the names of the chairman
in the several communities of the
county with the amount contributed by
each:
Aberdeen, N. E. Wright, $81.70;
Addor, Mrs. Henry Addor, $5.75;
Cameron, Miss Very McLean, $3.50;
Carihage, Mrs. Herbert Seawell, $48,-
00; Eagle Springs, Mrs. Jesse Page,
$28.55; Eureka, Miss Maty Black,
$10.00; Glendon, Mrs. Walter Slock-
don, $3.25; Hemp, Mrs. Edwin West,
$14.54; High Falls, Mrs. India T.
Price, $10.00; Jackson Springs, Mrs.
G. R. Matheson, $5.07; Lakeview,
Mrs. W. L. Gibbon, $8.75; Manley,
Mr.s A. W. McNeill, $10.00; Niagara,
Mrs. H. S. Stanvan, $4.60; Pinebluff,
Mrs. Phillip Cranford, $27.25; Pine-
hurst, Mrs. John Fitzgerald, $542.56;
Southern Pines, Mrs. W. C. Mudgett,
$180.00; Vass, Mrs. W. H. Keith,
the wealth of talent in the Sandhills
to provide a weekly program which
will give pleasure to radio audiences
everywhere and attract attention to
our musical and cultural facilities and
attractions here.
Featuring the first program will be
several numbers which the Sandhills
Sixteen have made familiar here
abouts, including the popular, “Goin’
Home by Dvorak” and several spir
ituals.
Charles Pier who has recently at
tracted attention will bo along a>
cello soloist and plans are in the
making for the appearance of vocal
soloists as well.
The men who have been asked to
sing include S. B. Richardson, A. L.
Adams, W. L. Dunlop, Thad S Page,
Garrett, D. S. Packard, Levi Pack-
Partisanship has been fiddling while
the world burns.”
Typical of the strong and epigram-
matical address of Dr. Ira Landrith
are these quotations. Dr. Ira Landrith,
citizenship superintendent of the In
ternational Society of Christian En
deavor, one of the best known public
speakers of America, will speak at the
Church of Wide Fellowship at South
ern Pines, on Sunday, February 16th,
1930 at 8:00 p. m., under the auspices
of the Moore County Christian En
deavor Union. A native of Texas, Dr.
Landrith is home in any part of the
United States, following 25 years of
supreme activity on the platform and
in the van of progressive movements.
He was formerly president of Ward-
Belmont College and in 1916 was a
candidate for the vice-presidency of
ard, T. A. Kelley, Shields Cameron,; the United States. For the past few
John Bloxham, Lester Putnam. J. B.
Gifford, P. F. Buchan, M. G. Adam.s,
Dr. L. M. McBrayer and Lewis B. Mc-
Brayer with Mrs. Giles at the piano.
Arrangements have been made with
the vestry of Emmanuel Episcopal
church to open the doors of the Par
ish House on Massachusetts avenue
to the public where a radio receiving
set will be installed for the occasion.
listed today represent about 400 cars jg ^
m an average crop year and it is
t>eiieved that this will assure the
To Make Employment
Survey of This County
Committee to Meet This After
noon at Office of County
Superintendent of Schools
son, $11.45. Total, $1,003.00.
In compliance with the request of
the State Commissioner of Public
„ I ^ , Welfare that a cereful survey be
have I U* D. C. Undertaking made in every county of the state to
^ tt* 1 i ascertain as nearly as possible the
3,y B0BlltlllCd.tlOri | extent of unemployment, suffering
'and destitution prevalent, County
consolidation scheme going through.,
The Carolinas combined will
more weight with the farm board
han if they acted separately, it was
said.
Luncheon was served to the visitors
i-i the basement of the school build
ing by the senior class.
Just before adjournment a resolu-
:on was unanimously adopted ex
pressing appreciation of the paach
growers for the services rendered
and to be rendered by State College
authorities, the State and Federal de
partments of agriculture and other . , -kt ,
agencies and to the Candor school for , ferson Davis Highway through North
Chairman Calls Upon Farmers
and Civic Organizations to
Aid in Work
The North Carolina Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy has recently appropriated $1,-
600 for the beautification of the Jef-
its -‘ourtesies today.
amLer of Commerce
Committees Selected
D.-
• ectors Met at Jacks Grill
Tuesday and Transacted
Routine Business
l^irecr-ers of the Southern Pines
' ai iber of Comm-^rce met in Jack’s
nil at noon Tuesday, some fourteen
ctor3 aid officers bemg present, ^sks that some organization
Carolina in honor o fthe heroes of
the war between the states. Mrs.
John H. Anderson of Chapel Hill is
chairman of the committee that will
soon begin to plant the route with
red and white crepe myrtle.
In a communication to The Pilot she
asks that farmers and others residing
on this road begin to plant their
roadsides and suggests that they drop
a few flower seed such as begonias
and cosmos as a start toward a flow
er border. They are especially asked
to help in the work of decreasing the
crop of billboards.
The ten mile markers on this
highway are near here a^nd Mrs.
Supt. H. Lee Thomas has named a
Survey Committee to assist him in
securing correct information as to
conditions in Moore coi;nty. This
committee is made up of well quali
fied persons representing every sec
tion of the county. A meeting has
been called for 2:00 o’clock Friday af
ternoon, at the office of the County
Superintendent at Carthage.
years much of his time has been de
voted to writings and addresses in pro
motion of the Christian Endeavo:
movement, which he regards as the
distinctive Christian youth movement
for all nations and branches of the
Christian church. Dr. Landrith was
trained for the law, but in eaily man
hood entered the ministry. He has
^ince been a writer, an educator, and
editor, and a distinguished and cap
able Christian statesman, known best
in his campaigns for civic righteous
ness.
The Kansas City Gazette recently
described him in these terms: “As s
platform man. Dr. Landrith is un
surpassed. His style min^lts the
elusive plantation melody, quietly p r-
meating as the moonlight and soft a
the scent of magnolias, with the ]:re-
cipitous fire of a soul that instantly
flames out against injustice, wheth
er it be individual or national.
Knollwood Airport
Center of Activity
Cuban Plants Land for Re-Fuel
ing and Others Make Stop
on Way South
American Cotton Body
To Meet in Pinehurst
Secretary Announces that An
nual Meetuig' Will be Held at
Carolina Hotel May 13-14
h Dr. McBrayer presiding.
.'M VPral important committies were
^ 'Pointed, a “Broadcasting” Commit-
e S. B. Richardson, Frank Buchan
ard Shields Cam'ron, chairman, to
f' ange broadcasting through Raleigh,
this committee Mr. E. Ellsworth
'^Tles is to prepars a program.
A road sign committee, Struthers
B -H;, chairman, A. Healy, G. L.
^^ebbins, Frank Buchan to confer
ith property owners on all roads
-'iding out of Southern Pines,
finance Committee, Ralph Chandler,
' lairman, George Moore, ^ugh
^etterly and M. G. Nicholls.
Committee on Planting, Dr. R. L.
'ait, chairman, G. L. Stebbins,
Prank Buchan, D. H. Turner, J. M.
'Vindham, and Ashly Jackman.
here take it upon itself to maek thees
markers attractive.
Forest Association to
Hold Annual Meeting
Col. Harrelson and Others Will
Address Meeting at Aberdeen
February 5
RETURN TO NEW YORK
The annual meeting of the Moore
County Forest Protective Associa
tion will be held in the Gichner-John-
son building, near the Post Office, in
Aberdeen, at 1:30 on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 5th.
Col. J. W. Harrelson, director of
the Department of Conservation and
Development, J. S. Holmes, State
Forester, C. H. Flory, Assistant
Forest^^, and W. A. Peterson, Dis
trict Forester, will all be present at
this meeting, and we expect the
The Pvcv. William Pierson Merrill
the Brick Presbyterian Church,
^'ifth Avenue, New York, and Mrs.
Merrill, guests of Miss Mary Mer- i meeting to be a very interesting one.
rill of Massachusetts Avenue, South- ! We hope that all land owners in
Pines, have returned to New | Moore County will arrange to be
^ork. present at this meeting.
The annual meeting of the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers’ associa
tion will be held at the Carolina ho
tel in Pinehurst on May 13 and 14,
it was announced by W. M. McLaur-
ine, secretary of the organization.
The meeting of the board of gov
ernors will be held Monday night,
May 12. Tuesday, May 13, will be de-
voteil to discussions of problems oJ:
the industry with the banquet session
in the evening. The last morning of
the convention will he given over to
executive session, it was stated.
Arthur M. Dixon of Gastonia is
president of the organization. Other
officers are B. E. Greer, Greenville, S.
C., first vice president and Cason J.
Callaway, La Grange, Ga., second
vice president.
ANOTHER SOUTHERN PINES
RESIDENT PASSES AWAY
Henry D. Silver died at 11:00
o’clock Thursday morning in Moore
County Hospital after a short illness.
Mr. Silver, coming from Rochester,
New York, has been a resident of
Southern Pines about 11 years. He
leaves a wife, Elizabeth J., three
sons, Henry, Earl, and James, two
daughters Margaret and Florence.
The I»urial will take place in Mount
Hope Cemetery in Southern Pines
Saturday morning.
Mr. Silver was horn at Sodus, N.
Y., in 1865.
Over one hundred cars were
grouped about the hangars of the
airport Sunday ajfter*n£>on, ma*ny
attracted by our own flyers, Major
Yost and Pilot Colton, and others by
the lancing of the Cuban Air Service
Lieutenants Saturday. Flying Cui'tis
Hawks from New York to Havana
the?e officers, Hodgson, Marlotte and
Alonzo, stopped to refuel. Fied M.
Lanter, Department of Commerce
Inspector, made his regular monthly
visit on Monday. Mr. George Zinn of
Philadelphia, flying a Pit.aiin Sport
Mailwing, stopped Sunday taking off
for Savannah Monday. Student-pilot
Blossom took “movies” of the local
formation flight Saturday, and the
Pope Field ship 0-2 flys over frequen
tly to “shoot” the field. Major Yosc
flew a Waco up from Waycross Fri
day landing at Savannah, Columbia
and Camden on the way the ship
having been left at Waycross owing
to impossible flying weather.
Thirteen Curtis planes from Roose
velt Field remaining over night in
Raliegh passed over Monday, flying
high and bucking a strong head wind.
MISSIONARY SCHOOL SUPT.
STUDIES MOORE CO. SCHOOLS
It is quite a distinction for Moore
county that Miss Hulbert, who is
superintendent of schools for the
Congregational church in Arfica,
came here to study and observe the
methods of teaching used in the
schools of Moore county. Miss Hulbert
spent a day with the teacher train
ing department here, and has also
observed the method used by the
graduates of the Moore county teach
er training department. She is study
ing the new methods used by the
teachers in the class room, who re
ceived their training in the Moore
county teacher training department.
Miss Juanita McDougald and G.
H. Ferguson of the Department of
Education accompanied Miss Hulbert
to Moore county.
Hndhill Shrine Club
^etes Clinic Program
An Appeal
To the Members of t he Aberdeen
Good-Fellows Club and the Pub
lic of this Community
By reason of the very poor crops
and the great financial depression
now existing, many unfortunate col
ored families in this community are
now in dire circumstances. Dadly,
and sometimes several times daily,
different citizens of the community
are appealed to by unfortunates, who
are without means to provide the
veriest necessities of life for their
little ones at home.
80
Tonsil and Adenoid Cases
31 Eye Cases and One
Relief Case Treated
CHARITY BALL FEB. 28th
With the opening of the Moore
County Hospital at Pinehurst, the
Sandhill Shrine Club gave a clinic
for the underprivileged children for
the section. This movement wa^
decided upon by the Club in the early
part of 1929 with the view of being
ready to hold the clinic with the
opening of the new hospital. Then too,
it was necescary to start the work
in order thrt the Charity Commit-
When the permanent organization ' tee of the club could be assured not
of the Good-Fellows Club was affect- only of the necessity of a tonsil and
ed in December, situations, such as
now confronts us, were foreseen and it
was provided that through the med
ium of this organization food and
clothing might at intervals during the
year be furnished to those in the
community in distress; and it was
provided further that the members
of the Club and others, should contri
bute at needed intervals during the
year to the Cause. Stark want now
sits in many humble homes in our
community and I am confident that
every member of the Good-Fellows
Club, and other good men and women
of the community, will want to help
to alleviate this suffering. Please do
not wait to be approached, but call
on D. I. McKeithen, treasurer of this
fund, and make your contribution
through him. Mrs. J. R. Page heads
the charity committee and you may be
sure that only needy and worthy
cases will be proposed to our Exe
cutive Committee.. No funds will be
squandered and no money spent, ex
cept for plain food and the most
’eeded c\ )thing.
adenoid clinic, but that in every case
the subject was entirely worthy of
chairity and that unless the Shrine
Club sponsored and paid for the
operation the chances were that the
children would be neglected. Eighty
cases of tonsils and adenoids were
operated on successfully at a cost
of one thousand dollars; aside from
the transportation of the children
to the hospital and their return. In
this work the club depended entirely
upon Miss Hilda Merryan, County
Red Cross Nurse. The club recogni
zing the excellent and efficient ser
vices rendered by Miss Merryman
uanimously adopted a set of resolu
tions in appreciation of her assistance
and the great work that she accom
plished in assisting the club to make
this clinic a success.
In addition to the tonsil and adenoid
clinic the club also treated thirty-
one eye cases and one relief case, a
tubercular patient. These casos were
both operative and the correction of
defective vision. In this work the
Many poor were made comfortable h'"'’ assisted by Miss Merryman
and happy at Christmas by reason Moore County Health
of your generosity. Please i t us Department. The total expenditure
now not tuin a deaf ear to this cry »’> charity cases by the Sandhill
of distress. i Club for the year 1029 was
MURDOCH, M. JOHNSON, j ?1»413.20.
President Aberdeen Good-Fellows ! This charity as explo’ted by the
club.
School Authorities
Make Preparations
To Carry Out Provisions of
Spence Bir Passed by the
Last Lesrislature
Sandhill Shrine Club is made pos
sible by the proceeds obtained
from their annual charity ball which
is held at the Pinehurst Country
Club each year and donations that
are made to the club at that time.
The club also undertakes to expend
^he money made available by the
dance the succeeding year. This
m^a^'s that the purpose for which the
Ball is giv:n is made available and
effective for this section before the
next succeeding event.
Pursuant to Chapter 96, Public
' aws of 1929, Supt. H. Lee Thomas
is distributing to the teachers of
th^ elementary schools * of More
County, State Educational Publicati')n
No. 145, on Health p]ducation, which
is a suggested procedure for teach-
mg the effects of Alcoholism and [
Narcotism. The courts is designed to j The death of Miss Cattie Harring-
.^■tve graded instruction to all chil-1 occurred' Saturday, January 23,
:iren of the elementary schools and i ^tat the home of Misses Ida and
will be incorporated into the. regular j p;]ia Harrington. The death of Miss
J?tate Elementary School Cour?t of Hairington has saddened ths entire
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WELL KNOWN NURSE
DIED LAST SATURDAY
Study in time for the beginning < f
the next school year. lion. U. L.
Spence of Carthage, Representative
Irom Moore County in the lower
house of the General Assemble of
1929, is author of the law. The ob
ject of the law is to stimulate great
er temperance among the growing
youth of the state.
MRS. M. B. CLARKE BURIED
IN SOUTHERN PINES
community, for she numbered her
friends by the score. She gave her
entire life in service for others, never
spaiing herself when she could help
“"ome one in need or bring sunshine
into some unfortunate lif". She was
one of the most capable of nuises and
there are numbers who will always
remember from some act of kindness
or help during the illness of some
loved one.
Miss Harrington was born in the
! White Hill community July, 1854, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Har
rington. She is the last of a large
family. Interment was in Center
Mrs. M. B. Clarke of Sanford, was
buried in the Clarke family plot in
Southern Pines Saturday. Mrs. Clarke
was the wife of M. B. Clarke, foand-1 church cemetery, where she had been
a member since childhood. The ser
vice was conductd by Mr. Buffaloe,
pastor. The large attendance and the
lovely floral offerings was evidence
of the esteem in which she was held.
SQUASH COURT ADDED TO
EQUIPMENT AT PADDOCK
er of what is now the Citizen in
Southern Pines, and twenty-odd years
ago he was active in Sandhills life.
His father was Capt. A. M. Clark, one
of the best known men in this com
munity in the early days.
M. B. Clark had been for years
in the government service in Wash
ington, but early in January had
reached the retiring age, and he and
his wife came to a new home they
were creating just north of Sanford.
They had been tl»ere but a few days,
in the new house they had built,
when Mrs. Clarke complained of ser
ious discomfort in her throat. A doc
tor was summoned and within a few
minutes after his arrival she died.
The complaint was an acute form of
diphtheria. Mrs. Clarke was a native
of the Washington neighborhood, and
known in this section only as she
visited friends at times. The husband
had a wide range af acquaintances
among the older folks, as he was wide
ly and appreciately known here in his
'"ounger days, although much of his
life was spent in other sections. At ■ Yorkers who will spend the month
the time of the funeral he was sick in of February at The Paddock. Mr. AVil-
Sanford and unable to be present letts is vice-president of The Pad-
They leave no children. dock, Inc.
E. V. Perkinson, Southern Pine.s
contractor, is building for William P.
Willetts of New York a squash tennis
court on land of The Paddock, Inc.
The building, located not far from the
clubhouse, is 40 by 20 feet, with a
small entrance hall and balcony above
it from which spectators may view
the game. The rest of the building
is one big room sealed with wod
throughout, squash tennis requiring
the use of all four walls, the game
being in the nature of handball play
ed with small racquets and a hard
r bber ball. The building will be com
pleted within a few days, in time for
the arrival of a large party of New