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10. NO. 23.
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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, May 9, 1930.
B. G. WHITE BUYS
200 ACRES SOUTH
F MIDLAND ROAD
FIVE CENTS
Oi
\( V York Lawyer to Build an
{:-tate Between Pinehurst
and Southern Pines
Mayor Blue Calls Upon All Good Citizens
to Lend Hand in Spring' Clean-up Week
On Petition of Business Men and with Co-operation of Civic
Organizations, Week otMay 19 is Set Aside for Beautifica
tion of Public and Private Property.
Hv)l SE ON HIGH RIDGE
By Bion H. Butler
f the most important sales of
n the Sandhills in recent years
r Pinehurst, Inc., of some 200
< on the east side of Aberdeen
south of the Midlands road, to
-lie G. White, of New York. The
> is back of the McDonald
' . .1 and the property of Col. Hawes,
ip i.;lng‘ down the creek almost to
road between Pinehurst and
jti.irn Pines, taking’ the eastern
*■;: 1 of the Pinehurst .property as
. \vs the east side of Aberdeen
t k. It adjoins Judge Way’s or-
1 on the east. The selection is
f the most interesting sites in
- , ommunity, having a large pro-
• rt -n of high ridge land, accessi-
the Midland road, convenient
1 inehurst. Southern Pines and
llwood and of a surface type that
itself to anything desired in
- way of home construction.
White has selected a site for
j ouse to be built on the top of one
+he high ridges,where he has an
iook that covers the valley of
. >erdeen creek and the hilltops for
'les in all directions. His plans for
house are not yet definite, but it
] be one of simple style, fireproof
construction, possibly of native
rone, a little south of the center of
ne plot, and with access to the Mid-
nds road to the north, and by way
^he Williams road to the old road
vnt^cting Southern Pines and Pine-
ur^t. The older types of architecture
'be utilized, with modem adjuncts
provide the comforts of present
ay custom. Stables for a number of
lorses will be a part of the plant, as
i»ir. White is fond of his horses, hav-
j]g among his string some of the win-
t s of the big prizes at the recent
j‘inehurst horse show. This phase will
Di'.^minent in his new place.
Begins Work at Once
n will be set at work immediate-
. t;. clear out the undergrowth that
: t be removed and to prepare for
and rural drives and walks,
"e istreams will be crossed with
■i’tiyes and foot walks. One of the
! I tasks will be a topographic sur-
ty of the land, to enable the land-
‘-■ape architect to prepare the pre-
minary drawings and designs for
‘'i 'instruction job, and it is hoped
Ira" work on the buildings can be
^ rway early in the summer. Strict-
a country place will be the aim.
'1 . White is a prominent lawyer of
ew York, but he is lessening his
acts with business affairs, and
■'! devote his time for the present
'•renting what will be his perma-
nt winter home. He has learned
' - ut tha Sandhills through several
’■’nters here, and is pleased with the
t ;^hborhood. He has been hunting
ut a location that would meet his
< and he has finally found it.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF ABERDEEN
WHEREAS, last year, through the united efforts of
the Town, its business people, the Chamber of Commerce
and the ladies’ civic organizations, a “CLEAN-UP WEEK’^
was inaugurated and carried to a splendid conclusion in
Aberdeen, and
WHEREAS, the business people of the Town have pe
titioned that the w^eek beginning May 19, 1930, be again
proclaimed as the annual “Spring Clean Up Week’' of the
Town, and
WHEREAS, the Chamber of Commerce, the women’s
civic organizations, the Boy Scout organization and the cit
izens generally have promised full co-operation.
NOW, THEREFORE, the week beginning May 19, 1930,
is hereby proclaimed and declared to be a Spring Clean-Up
Week, during which time, and whenever it may be necessary
during that week, the people of Aberdeen generally are re
quested and urged that, all other business being laid aside,
they devote the time, attention and means toward clean
ing up and beautifying all the public and'private property of
the Town; and to the end that this Clean-Up Week may be
as splendid a success as the one 'held last year, the whole
hearted co-operation of all the people of the Town is re
spectfully and earnestly urged.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Town, at Aber
deen, North Carolina, this 7th day of May, 1930.
—HENRY McCOY BLUE,
Mayor.
SOUTHERN PINES SENIOR CLASS
TO HAVE BROKER’S PLAY AT HIGH
OFFICE THIS F ALL SCHOOL TONIGHT
POLITICAL POT
BOILS AS PRIMARY
DAY APPROACHES
Supporters of Candidates For
Contested Places Now Hard
at Work
Mr. and Mrs. J. M of
Pinehurst Killed ^ \uto
Accident at Wilmington
Automobile Misses Approach to Bridge and Plunges into Creek
Below Where Bodies Are Found Among
Floating Logs
PETITIONS CIRCULATED
Augustine Healy Will Represent “The Whole Town’s Talking’
Gammack & Co., N. Y. Stock Starts off Aberdeen’s Com-
Exohange House mencement Program
LEASES OFFICE N. H. AVE-
17 TO WIN DIPLOMAS
W^ith the opening of another win
ter season. Southern Pines will have
£. brokerage office, Augustine Healy
cf Southern Pines, has signed a lease
for Gammack & Company of 39
Broadway, New York, members of the
New York Stock Exchange, for the
eastern half of the Burgess-Perkin-
son Building on New Hampshire ave
nue, formerly occupied by the “Mid-
South Daily.”
Mr. Healy announces that the office
will be opened early in the fall with
V complete wire ticker service and
quotation board. He will be in charge
of the office, and associated with
him will be an experienced broker
Irom Gammack & Company’s New
York office. This firm has two other
branch offices at pr eesnt,neov9999
branch offices at present, one at
Pittsburgh and one at Southampton,
N. Y. Mr. Healy leaves next week to
spend the summer in New York fa
miliarizing himself with the opera
tion of a brokerage office.
This will be the second branch office
of New York brokerage houses to be
established in the Sandhills, Munds
& Winslow having maintained an
office in the Carolina Hotel at Pine
hurst for several years. These offices
will be operated only during the busy
vinter season.
TATE BANKERS GATHER
AT CAROLINA, PINEHURST
Injunction Against
Advertising Taxes
Thf- North Carolina Bankers Asso-
is holding its 34th annual
i-n £ ntion at Pinehurst, the meeting
called to order yesterday mom-
r i,y President John W. Simpson
Greensboro. Benjamin M. Ander-
Jr., economist of the Chase Na-
f nal Bank, New York, was the iprin-
' pal speaker at the opening session.
T^ie meetings run through Saturday
• h a busy program each day and
on the side.
< M.Y ONE THROUGH TRAIN
SCHEDULED BY SEABOARD
' hanges in the Seaboard schedule
iective Sunday next leave Southern
*'mes with but one limited train each
ay each day, the New York & Flor-
■a Special. Efforts to have other
■iirough trains stop on signals there
to be made by the Chamber of
' ommerce, a committee having been
ppointed to confer with D. G. Stutz,
-cal agent, and Vice-President Capps
the Seaboard.
McLean Temporarily Restrained
with Hearing Slated for
May 19
J. D. McLean, Moore county tax
collector, has been temporarily re
strained from advertising for sale
land on which the taxes for the year
1929 have not been paid.
The matter will come up for a
hearing on May 19 at 2 o^clock, when
Judge Walter Moore will give a rul
ing on the subject.
Publication of the county delinquent
tax list was postponed last year by a
similar move on the part of certain
taxpayers, who secured a tempor
ary injunction against advertising
the list. The list was eventually pub
lished, but through the temporary
injunction time was gained for a few
to get together the necessary funds
to meet their overdue taxes before
their names appeared in print. The
present restraining order was un
doubtedly slapped on the tax collec
tor for the same purpose.
The Senior Class play, “The Whole
Town’s Talking,” starts off the 1929-
1930 Commencement exercises of the
Aberdeen Grammar and High schools
tonight, Friday, at 8:00 o’clock in the
High School "Auditorium. From now
until the final exercises of the grad
uating class on Wednesday, May 28th,
there will be continual activity for
the pupils of both schools.
Seventeen are being graduated
from the High school, those to receive
their diplomas being the Misses Lou
Martin Miller, Lucille Brooks, Fannie
Morton, Stowe Peele, Margaret
Pleasants, Frances Pleasants, Alice
Wilder, Hazel Smith, Elizabeth John
son and Grace McBryde and Lacy Ad-
cox, Wodrow Bobbitt, Clyde Boyles,
Edson Gregory, Bradford McLean,
Raymond Wicker and Bill Smith.
Tonight’s play promises to be a
most entertaining one, with plenty of
fun in store for the spectators. A
iarge crowd is expected.
On Thursday evening. May 15th the
Primary and Grammar grades will
hold their exercises as follows: The
primary Department with the Fourth
and Fifth Grades are giving the op
eretta “Farmerette.’' This operetta
takes place in a garden where various
vegetables are grown by the Farmer
ette and her assistant for the Horti
cultural Show. The Fairy Queen and
her court appear in the gorden at dif
ferent times to help beautify the veg
etables for the show. Visitors come
on the scene to view the beautiful ar
ray of vegetables. Judges meet in
the garden and award the prize to the
winning vegetable.
Doctor Cure-all
Pupils of the Sixth and Seventh
grades will give a short two act play,
“Doctor Cure-All.” The doctor prom
ises a “positive and speedy remedy
for all the ills to which flesh is heir.”
Faith is all his patients need. They
prove to have enough and more. The
cast is as follows:
Dr. Cure-All, who has a remedy
for everything, John E. Pleasants.
Marie, maid of 14, who has a ipecu-
liar gift, Pauline Adcox, Mrs. Brown,
who.wants to reduce her flesh, Betsy
Jean Johnson, Miss Jane Scrimpins,
who desires to bleach her hair, Mary
Cameron,; Alphonso De Jones., who
wishes to raise a mustache, Abram
Von Boskerck; Mrs. Rotchkins, a fond
mother, Frances Lee Cavin'ess; Misis
Kate Rotchskins, her daughter who
is bashful. Dee Batcheler; Miss Ser-
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With the primary less than a month
off, supporters of the various candi
dates for offices in this section are
getting busy, and candidates them-
s^elves are making the most of their
time in letting their friends and
neighbors know that votes are want
ed. The contests are for the Demo
cratic nominations for the State Sen
ate, for sheriff, for Judge of the Re
corder’s Court and for county com
missioners.
There is a three-cornered fight for
the State Senate, this being Moore
county’s year to send a man to Ral
eigh from this Senatorial district.
Murdoch M. Johnson of Aberdeen,
Dan A. McLauchlin of Vass and
Shields Cameron of Southern Pines
are all seeking the nomination on the
Democratic ticket. A petition pledg
ing support to Mr. Johnson went into
circulation this week and already con
tains large numbers of names. This
document reads:
“Whereas the Honorable Murdoch
M. Johnson of Aberdeen, Moore
county, is a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the State Sen
ate from the 12th Senatorial district,
and whereas we, the undersigned, be
cause of his character, his ability, his
sympathy with the masses who be
lieve we should have relief from the
burdensome land taxes; and believ
ing by training and legislative ex
perience he is equipped to render the
c-istrict and state a distinct service
at this tir:3, hea^'tily commend birr
lu the Democratic voters of the d»s-
II ict, an ] hereby pledge him our loy
al and hearty support, and pledge
ourselves to work from now until the
close of the campaign for his nomi
nation.”
Several Contests
She: iff Charles J. McDonald has
opposi.ion for renomination as sheriff
in the person of W. M. Sea well, of
near Carthage, but friends of
the prc'sent incumbent do not feel that
they have much to fear in putting
their man across on June 7th.
Pitt I'd against Judge George H.
Humber for the Recorder’s Court is
D. A. McDonald, of Carthage. Be
cause of his splendid record in of
fice friends of Judge Humber p.re
rallying around him and working hard
fo» him with the expectation of re
turning him to the bench.
No one can tell what will happen
III tne four-cornered fight for the
three county commissioners, the can
didates being G. C. Seymour of Aber
deen, G. C. Shaw of Highfalls, Wil
bur Currie of Carthage an'* p. C.
i^iattheson of Eagle Springs.
Much Seymour Sentiment
Though there is no sectional feel
ing in the campaign, the voters of
the Sandhills section of the county
are rallying around Mr. Seymour, the
immediate vicinity of Aberdeen,
Southern Pines and Pinehurst not
having had a resident representative
on the Board of County Commission
ers for some time. Mr. Matheson is
one of the preseiit commissioners and
is the only one of the present board
seeking reelection, Moses McDonald
of West End having announced his
retirement some time ago, and D. A.
McLauchlin of Vass being a candi
date for the State Senate.
U. L. Spence of Carthage has no
opposition for the Democratic nomi
nation for Member of Assembly from
this district. W. J. Harrington is alone
in the field to succeed himself as
Register of Deeds, John Wilcox
of Carthage as Clerk of Court and M.
G. Boyette of Carthage as County
Prosecuting attorney.
There is much activity in the fight
for the United States Senatorship
from North Carolina, with consid-
eralble Bailey sentiment developing
as the campaign progresses. Peti
tions supporting Mr. Bailey are in
circulation throughout this section.
The Simmons supporters claim to be
working quietly and keeping their
forces in line, and the returns from
the June primary in Moore county
will be watched with unusual inter
est. It looks like anybody’s fight.
((Special to The Pilot)
Wilmington, N. C., May 8. — The
bodies of Jack V. Hurd, steel magnate
of Pittsburgh and noted' amateur
golfer, and his wife, killed in
stantly last night when their car
failed to take the curve approach to
the Smith creek bridge at the north
ern city limits and catapulted down
a 20-foot embankment and through
a raft of logs, will be forwarded to
Pinehurst by motor hearse this af
ternoon.
Coroner Asa W. Allen, who with
his jurymen visited the scene of the
fatalities last night and thoroughly
examined the physical surroundings,
said that there were no grounds for
an Inquest.
Nat Hurd, brother of the dead man,
and his wife’s son-in-law, Jesse W.
Page, Jr., are expected to arrive here
by airplane from Pinehurst some time
this afternoon to arrange for the
forwarding of the bodies.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurd are believed to
have been killed in^itantly in t{he
crash last night as their skulls were
horribly fractured and their bodies
mangled.
Diligent inquiry has revealed that
there were no eyewitnesses of the
tragedy, but indications are that the
car, a heavy Piackard touring with
the top down, was traveling at a high
rate of speed when it failed to make
the curve into the northern bridge ap
proach, “missed” tjjle entrance,
ploughed through a guard rail of
bulky timbers braced by six upright,
and catapulted into the creek at the
bottom of the embankment.
It is more or less established that
the car, striking a raft of logs afloat
on the river, pitched its occupants
out on another raft. The first of
those to arrive dragged the bodies to
a secure position immediately upon
their arrival.
A negro watchman of the lumber
and box mill on the left side of the
bridge approach heard the crash from
a distance of some 40 feet. He advised
his foreman, who gathered a crew
together, sent one man to notify the
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(iIRL KILLED AS I ACCIDENT ROBS
CAR TURNS OVER NOELLAINGOF
NEARLAKEVIEWI GOLD CUP WIN
Carolina Waitress Dies, in Hos- i “Ballast” Breaks Leg With Vie-
pital, Result of Ac*
cident
WERE ENGAGED TO WED
tory in Sight in Warren-
ton Race
HORSE TRAINED HERE
Miss Virginia Gonyer, waitress at
ihe Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, was
killed and her escort, Jimmy White, a
ellKoy at the Carolina, was serious
ly injured when the car in which they
v.eic riding to Lakeview Park turned
turtle on the side of the road just
south of the Lakeview village limits
at 11:30 o’clock last Friday night.
Bliss Gonyer, who was 22 years of
age, died from a concussion of the
bi-ain, at 2:30 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon in' the Moore County Hospi-
ral. White, 25 years old, is still in
the hospital, suffering from a frac
tured skull. Both came here from
New Ha^ipshire.
The Qj^r, a Ford coupe, was com
pletely demolished.
Just how the accident occurred is
not known, but it is probable that
young White misjudged the extent
of the curve in Highway No. 50 just
south of Lakeview, and that the car
tipped over when he endeavored to
negotiate the turn.
The young coif^le, bound for^ the
opening dance of the season at Lake
view Park after completing their day’s
work in the Carolina, are said to have
been engaged and to have planned an
early marriage.
Mayor Stutz and
Commissioners Elected
Again Chosen to Rule Affairs of
Southern Pines at Tuesday
Election
Mayor Dorsey G. Stutz and the en
tire board of Commissioners of
Southern Pines were reelected to serve
another year at the village elction on
Tuesday. The commissioners are E.
C. Stevens, L. V. O’Callaghan, GJeorge
W. Case, Alfred Yeomans and Charles
Patch, all of whom were nominated
without opposition at the caucus held
in the High School last Friday night.
COMMISSIONERS FAIL TO
INCREASE WATER SUPPLY
At a meeting of the Mayor and
Board of Commissioners of Southern
Pines held Wednesday night the re
quest of citizens to increase the wa
ter minimum now instead of waiting
until July 1st was denied on the
ground that the town’s exchecquer
would not stand the loss of revenue
involved. The minimum until July is
5.000 gallons, after which it jumps to
10.000 through the summer months.
Within fifty yards of the finish of
the biggest steeplechase event he had
ever participated in, and as he was
i bout to pass the o;.e lone lider
who stood between him, victory and
the coveted Warrenton Gold Cup, Noel
Laing, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Laing of Southern Pines and
Amissville, Virginia, felt hii favo
rite mount, Ballast, suddenly slow up
and come to a halt. Dismounting
hurriedly, he found Ballast with a
broken leg. He had stepped in a wag
on rut and fractured the bone in two
places.
Brave to the end, and shov ing the
^tuff which had won him two recent
steeplechase events, one at Camden,
S. C., the other at Middleburg, Va.,
Ballast remained standing and young
Laing had to force him to the ground.
There, within a stone’s throw of the
finish line, his life was ended. ^
Ballast Schooled Here
Noel Laing spent much of the past
vdnter training Ballast for the stee
plechase. The horse was quar
tered in the Laing stables in South
ern Pines, and whenever Noel wasn’t
whipping in for the Moore County
Hounds, he was off over the sandy
trails of Weymouth Heights school
ing his racing mount. He took him
down to Camden at the end of the
hunting season here and rode Ballast
to victory over some of the best
horses in this part of the country.
Many residents of Southern Pines
went down to Camden to witness the
race. A few weeks later Ballast was
shipped up to the Laing farm at
Amissville, in Virginia, and entered
in the classic steeplechase event held
annually at Middleburg, the heart of
the Virginia hors^ country. Again,
Noel rode him to a glorious victory.
But the race of the year for young
l^aing and Ballast was to be the War
renton Gold Cup event at Warren
ton, Virginia, a race over timber
which each year attracts some of the
fastest steeplechase horses in the/
country. Those who saw the race say
there was no doubt of Ballast’s vic
tory, that he had taken the last jump
almost neck and neck with the winning
horse and was passing him in the
last fifty-yard stretch when the ac
cident occurred.
Another Horse Killed
The course was very hard, no rain
having fallen there for several weeks.
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