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A Paper D^oted to the Upbuilding
VOL 10, NO. 26.
SPRINGS
MANUCY
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
1
of the Sandhijl Tt. ’^^orth Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, May 30, 1930.
FIVE CENTS
ABERDEEN HIGH
SCHOOL AWARDS
17 DIPLOMAS
auditorium Crowded for Final
Kxercises of 1930 on Wed
nesday Night
MANY PRIZES AWARDED
Shields Cameron Would Shift Burden of
Taxation on Bankers and Lawyers
Senatorial Candidate Thiniis Dan McLauchlin and Murdoch
Johnson Have Edge on Him Because One Can Lend Money
and the Other Can Bring Suit
With the auditorium crowded to ca
vity with their relatives and friends,
.rventeen members of the Senior
of the Aberdeen High School
..tived their coveted diplomas after
■reresting and enjoyable graduating
xercises Wednesday evening. Those
. * aduating with the Class of 1930
. ere:
Lacy Barrett Adcox, Wilson Wood-
•.V Bobbitt, Clyde Edwin Boyles, Lu-
ile Brooks, Elizabeth Willis John-
• ■n. Bradford McLean, Lula Grace
j.IcBride, Edson Gregory, Lou Mar-
Vn Miller. Fannie Mae Morton, Sar-
• Stowe Peele, Margaret Pleasants,
■'ranees Pleasants, Hazel Ellen Smith,
' vilnur Moore Smith, Raymond Black-
eh Wicker and Alice Wilson Wild-
; ne exercises started with the pres-
^ation of prizes by the President of
- . Board of Education, Murdoch M.
"nson, and the County Superintend-
' t of Schools, H. Lee Thomas. After
est* honor students had been hand-
; their awards with fitting congrat-
iatory remarks, the curtain rose on
- stage set for a picnic amid profuse
-".rubbery and stumps of trees. The
-eniors filed in, sat on the stumps,
; ened their picnic baskets and began
unching, during which the following
ogi’am was put on by the class:
Salutatory, Margaret Pleasants;
"rtiling, Class; History, Frances
easants; Tribute to the Colors, Lacy
v; Mascot’s Speech, Russell
I rtchelor: Tribute to the Flower, Lu-
Jlle Brooks; Beyond the Gate of
' aduation, Class; Class Poem, Fan-
ie Mae Morton; Prophecy, Alice
Vilder; Mascot’s Song, Bettie Bar-
'>er; Last Will and Testament, Lou
Martin Miller; Giftorian’s Remarks,
Hazel Smith; Valedictory, Bradford
.''.Lean; Farewell Song, Class.
Following this, Supernitendent of
'f^'hools X. E. Wright presented the
■plomas.
The various medals and prizes for
xcellence in work were awarded as
' ^-ws:
List of Prizes
A gold medal given by Masonic Or-
■ for exemplary citizenship, to Miss
-Iar«aret Pleasants.
Medal given by the D. A. R. for
-ii.hest average in American History,
Lucile Brooks.
Science prize given by G. C. Sey-
ur to be awarded for highest av-
age in Science classes, Richard Col-
English prize given by the Aber-
-‘ n Book Club for highest average
year’s work, Billy Bowman.
Latin medal given by Dr. A. H. Mc-
, as a memorial to his father and
To the Editor of The Pilot and Dem
ocrats of Moore County:
Since telling some of the boys over
at Carthage last fall that I would
I be a candfdate for the State Senate
from this district, if the former sen
ator from Moore did not choose to
contest my candidacy, I have had two
surprises. Both of them have been
candidates for the said office. I
thought I was about the only man
around who didn’t Rave much to do
during January and February, but
it seems that the money lending bus
iness must be kinder slow down
around Vass with Dan McLauchlin
and the lawyer business in the same
fix with Murdoch Johnson dowTi in
Aberdeen. Anyway these two fellows
started firing the woods on both
sides of me, and unless I do some
! mighty fast back-firing am afra:-d
I they will run me out of the wire
I grass and into the swamp.
I Mr. McLauchlin kind of has the
I edge on both Murdoch and me on
account of him having a bank and be
ing able to lend a little money around
at strategic points. I sent him w’ord
myself the other day that I knew a
mighty good man w’ho might vote for
him in the primary if the proper dis
count could be arranged for a certain
slow note I Lnew of. Haven’t heard
any favorable reply so guess I might
as well go ahead and plan to vote for
myself.
Murdoch Johnson, though. has
brought a scheme up from South
Carolina that I believe will beat any
thing either Dan or I can think up.
That is a pledge card with a whole
lot of lawyer-like whereases and in-
asmuchases in it that he is getting
all the folks down in Aberdeen to
sign. Guess that he intends to sue ’em
for breach of promise after the elec
tion if he don’t win. I thought once
of doing the same thing l)ut decided
not to because I would have to hire
me a lawyer to do the suing and then
I’d be worse off than if I hadn’t sued
at all, because the lawyers might
think I was a big corporation and
make me put up a big retainer^ fee to
keep them from suing me for the
thing I was about to sue somebody
else for.
Politics is a queer thing. When I
started out I was determined I was
going to lower the taxes on farms and
homes, boarding houses and hotels,
tut immediately found out that we
had voted a whole lot of bonds on our
selves to build school houses and
roads and things, and that these bonds
bad to be paid back from somewhere,
so I went to looking for the man to
put the taxes on, but so far I haven’t
been able to find him. Everybody
wants it put on somebody else, and
somebody else wants it put on every
body. But I haven’t given up yet. I
have one more plan and I believe it
SOUTH CAROLINA
TO IMPROVE U. S.
HIGHWAY NO. 1
Peaches on Move
Prospects for Real Old-Fash
ioned Sandhills Season Said
to Be Bright
Roads to Which Tourists Have
Objected to Be Rebuilt
Before Fall
BIG AID TO SANDHILLS
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j. A. McPherson
DIES AFTER TWO 2.525, ABERDEEN
WEEKS’ILLNESS 1,382 IN CENSUS
Prominent Young Business Man Former Shows Remarkable
of Cameron is Victim of j Growth of 1,777 in Ten
Pneumonia I Year Period
SERVED IN GREAT WAR
VASS POPULATION 606
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*K\V berry SEASON ON,
BRING 38 CENTS NORTH
- i dewberry season is on in the
'"andhills and by next week will be
' full swing. The first shipment of
rje season to go out from the express
^tice in Vass started on its way to
New York on Friday of last week,
^^ay 23. It consisted of three crates
hipped by H. C. Vetterlein of Nia-
-ara. Eight Vass growers sent ex
cess shipments on Monday and for
he next three or four weeks many
rates will be handled daily.
The first sales in the northern
Tjarkets brought 38 cents a quart,
>ith subsequent sales running around
cents. Several shipments have been
made from the Hoffman section as
■veil as the Cameron and Vass terri-
■ory.
Rowe V. Clark, “the berry man”
'om Rochester, N. Y., has arrived in
Vass for the season and is being wel-
omed by the many friends he has
•^ade during his annual visits to this
'immunity for the past several years.
Clark is very optimistic in re
gard to the dewberry situation. With
'be strawberries out of the way, he
tes no reason why the growers
ould not realize good prices on their
'Hit.
James Alexander McPherson, prom
inent young business man of Camer- .
on, passed away at 1:30 o’clock Tues
day afternoon in the Central Caro
lina Hospital in Sanford, following an
illness of almost two weeks of pneu
monia. Mr, McPherson’s condition had
been alarming from the beginning of
his illness, causing relatives and
friends intense anxiety, and w'hile
they were in a measure prepared for
the outcome, yet his passing was a
great shock and has cast a pall of j
gloom not only upon Cameron, but
upon the neighboring communities
where this popular young man num
bered his friends by his acquaintances.
Alex McPherson was the son of
I Mr. and Mrs. H. P. McPherson who
I have been leaders in the social and i
I business life of Cameron for the past
I generation. He was born Nov. 29,
1892, and grew up, along with two .
sisters and a younger brother, in a ^
home of culture and refinement. He I
v,'as educated at State College in Ral- j
eigh, and in December, 1917, answer
ed his Country’s call by enlisting in ;
the aviation department of the army :
as a mechanic. He served first at
Fort Thomas, Ky., then, in recogni- |
tion of His skill and ability, he Was |
!
promoted to the position of intsruc-
tor in the school for aviation me
chanics at St. Paul, Minn., where he
remained until the close of the war.
Upon his return to Cameron he was
for a time associated in business with
his father, and later started up a
business of his own where he contin-
The population of Southern Pines
has jumped from 748 in 1920 to 2,525
in 1930, a gain in the ten years of
j,777 persons, according to the offi
cial Government census figures an
nounced by A. 1. Ferree of Asheboro,
supervisor of the census for this dis
trict.
The population of Aberdean is of
ficially reported by Mr. Ferree as
1,382, and of Carthage as 1,129, mak
ing Southern Pines the largest,
Aberdeen second and Carthage third
in size of the towns of the county.
The figures for Pinehurst have not
been released. Vass is credited with
GOG persons. Sandhills Township out
side of Aberdeen is given a population
of 2,803.
The census in Southern Pines was
taken by Mrs. S. B. Overton, and the
figures include only those residing
within the corporate limits, and do
not include West Southern Pines. The
figures are the official accepted fig
ures, and mean that Southern Pines
will rank among the highest in the
country in per.centage of growth for
the decennial period. The Aberdeen
growth for the ten years is around
500 persons.
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SOUTHERN PINES DEFEATS'
ROCKINGHAM AT GOLF
ASHE LEAVES, BOYETTE
JOINS KIWANIS CLUB
Southern Pines Country Club golf
ers gave their Rockingham guests a
rather severe drubbing when the
teams met on the Southern Pines
course Wednesday afternoon, winning
the match 16 to 6 under the Nassau
system of scoring. Those playing for
Southern Pines were Woodward, Tarl-
ton, Medlin, Bowman, R. N. Page,
Daniels, Jordan, Bloxham, Clark,
Healy, Keith, Montgomery and Davis.
John Bloxham talked about insur
ance problems, Miss Maidie Lee Wade
sang and played the piano, and Ed
Ashe bid farewell ,to the club at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the Ki-
wanis Club on Wednesday at the
Civic Club in Southern Pines.
Ed Ashe, who has represented the
Standard Oil Company in this immed
iate section for some time, has been
promoted to a responsible position
with the company’s office at Char
lotte and will make his headquarters
there. His loss in this section will be
keenly felt, as R. N. Page told him
as the spokesman for the club in bid
ding him adieu.
M. G. Boyette, County prosecuting
attorney, was inducted into the club
as a new member, J. Talbot Johnson
extending the official welcome.
Every once in a while some brother
rises up to say, “Thank the Lord for
South (Carolina,” and frequently the
gratitude arises because South Caro
lina by standing next below us saves
us from being at the foot of the class.
But South Carolina is not all foot of
of the class, by any means, and in
some respects by its activity it stim
ulates North Carolina to do some
lively sprinting to keep from having
its heels trampled by the neighbor to
the South.
Just at the present South Caro
lina is statring a road campaign
that is regarded highly in this belt
of ambition for the summer will see
a large mileage of hard road laid on
Federal highway No. 1, that great
loute of travel through the Sandhills
connecting Miami with New York and
Boston. South Carolina has been a
little more cautious about jumping
jrto road construction than^ North
Carolina, so when the tourist hit the
boundary down below Rockingham he
said some rude words about South
Carolina roads, and as a consequence
the southbound traffic has been fil
tering by devious ways down through
our neighbor state, which means by
devious ways through our own state.
But the news comes that some forty
miles of hard road will be built on
Route 1 in South Carolina this sum
mer, and that during the progress of
the building the existing roads will
be maintained in good shape and that
by fall the new highway will b? ope^.i
l‘oi‘ the increasing traffic steadily of-
fei ing and Moore county Sandhills
can announce to their patrons who
make this section a stop over in their
Florida travel that Florida routing
will be of the finest character for
the coming season.
From the South Carolina line
northward the Federal route No. 1 is
a hard road to the North. Also a
choice of hard roads offer, one by way
of Durham and Henderson getting
back to Route 1 at Henderson, or by
way of Oxford and South Hill reach
ing Route 1 at South Hill by way of
a hard road all the way. The an
nouncement this week is to the ef
fect that the work at Moncure has
been completed so that Route 1 is to
be open at once for travel to Raleigh
and up that way. This will avoid the
aetour by Pittsboro, aud make things
much better for travel to the Sand
hills as both Durham and Raleigh
will be again on the map. From Dur
ham north the road by Oxford and
up through the heart of Virginia by
Farmville and Culpepper to Washing
ton or to Frederick, Maryland, is open
and in good shape. The road by Roa
noke and that by Lynchburg also of
fer choice of routes north.
A meeting of the people along the
road from Augusta, Ga., to points on
Federal Route No. 1 up this far is
planned some time in the early fu
ture to discuss plans to bring this
route more emphatically before the
travel from the North to the South
and announcements will probably be
made pretty soon as to what is con
templated. All in all it is evident that
no lack of facilities for highway traf
fic are to interfere with the outlook
for the coming season.
THIS IS MEMORIAL DAY
WITH POSTOFFICE CLOSED
Peaches have begun to move from
the Sandhills peach belt, and the first
shipments brought high prices in
notthern markets, some crates selling
for as high as $6.00.
Twenty-nine crates were shipped
out one day last week, coming from
the Candor section through Aberdeen.
By Wednesday night of this week the
traffic had grown to 250 crates.
Throughout the entire section come
reports of good fruit and splendid
prospects for a quality crop. Some
have even gone so far as to predict
one of the best seasons since the “big
years” of the industry in the Sand
hills. Reid Page, the Vetterleins and
other local growers as well as the
peach farmers of the Candor section
seem more optimistic than they have
been in several years, claiming more
justification for optimism.
18SENI0RST0
WIN DIPLOMAS AT
SOUTHERN PINES
Class Day Thursday Will Be Fol
lowed by Graduation Ex
ercises Friday
JUNIORS GIVE BANQUET
Commencing with Class Day events
at 10:00 o’clock Thursday morning
and followed by a banquet to be ten-
derad to the Seniors by the Juniors
of the Southern Pines High School in
the Civic Club and graduation ex
ercises in the schfjol auditorium Fri
day evening the school year will be
; nd:d for the eighteen members of the
giaduating class of 1930.
With two'more than the class of
’29 the proportions are almost the
same, six boys and twelve girls; Mar-
o-avet Carman Adams, Martha Cro-
martie Campbell, Carolyn Jane Drew,
M'^ry Elaine Fisher, Mary Hall, Lil
lian Rebecca Johnson, Emma Chris
tian Hewitt, Mary Scott Newton,
Sarah Keith Patterson, Roselind Lela
Stroud, Iris Lillian Tate, Natalie Le-
naete Wheeler, Archible Chase Cam
eron, Elmer Merritt Donaldson, An
drew’ Morrison Eadie, Jr., William
Ayott Pye, George Henry Schaefer
and Charles Paul Stevick,
Charles Paul Stevick will be class
valedictorian, Sarah Keith Patterson,
salutatorian; Carolyn Jane Drew,
historian; Mary Elaine Fisher, pro
phetess; Andrew Eadie, grumbler;
Natalie Wheeler, testator; Lillian
.Johnson, giftorian, and Roselind
Stroud, musician,; Sarah Keith Pat
terson is president of the class.
While many details of the momen-
teous occasion remain to be worked
out it is now understood that the Rev.
J. F. Stimson will deliver the invoca
tion and that State Examiner John
H. Highsmith will present the diplo
mas.
Seeks U. S. Road to
Little River Town
This, Friday, May 30th, being Me
morial Day, a national holiday, post-
offices in the various towns of the
Sandhills will be closed from 10:00
o’clock in the morning for the remain
der of the day.
GROVER TENNIS CHAMP
Malcolm Grover is the new singles
tennis champion of Southern Pines,
winning the tournament just complet
ed and the new E. C. Stevens trophy.
Miss Lillian Johnson won the ladies’
singles and a tennis racquet donated
by C. L. Hayes. The men’s doubles
and mixed doubles have not been com
pleted.
Hammer Introduces Bill to Tie
Together Loose Ends of
Hoke County
Ever cince Fort Bragg was estab
lished Little River township in Hoke
county, lyirg north of James creek
and Little river, has been cut off from
the rest of the country by the military
reservation. It has been inconvenient
for the people of that section to get
to Raeford or to the rest of the
county, and talk was heard occasion
ally of joining that part of Hoke
county to Moore. But that would not
help much. Now a bill has been intro
duced in Congress by Mr. Hammer
to appropriate $200,000 to construct
a road from Little River township
through the reservation to Raeford
that the two portions of the county
may be united. Should such a road be
built it would strengthen the efforts
to extend the road now building in
Little River toward Manly from the
Lobelia and Overhill direction, and it
might signify considerable develop
ment in all that section of the coun
try.
SEYMOUR OUT OF
RACE FOR COUNTY
COMMISSIONERSHIP
Former Mayor of Aberdeen In
eligible Due to Late Filing
of Candidacy
ONLY THREE IN FIELD
One scrap in the forthcoming Dem
ocratic primary has been automatically
removed from the slate due to the
enforced withdrawal of G. C. Seymour
of Aberdeen from the ranks of those
contending for places on the County
Board of Commissioners. Due to the
recent death of his father and his
j enforced absence from the county to
j attend the funeral, Mr. Seymour fail-
■ ed to file his candidacy for office be-
i fore the time for filing under the
j election laws of the state had expir-
! ed.
Regrettable as it is that the former
Mayor of Aberdeen is restrained from
making a fair bid for one of/ the
three county commissionerships, and
general as is the feeling of regret
on the part of his many frier.ds in
the section, the fact that in the re
maining three candidates, whose elec
tion is now as good as over, the
county has men of caliber and fitness
for the management of its affairs
removes any feeling of rancor or
ccncern from Mr. Seymour’s with-
i drawal. With but three candidates
1 left in the field, G. C. Shaw of High
I Falls, Wilbur Currie of Carthage and
j E. C. Mattheson of Eagle Springs
j are assured of the commissionerships
j for the next term of office.
No Sectional Feeling
Mr. Seymour was the only candi
date from the Sandhills section of the
county, which has not been represent
ed on the board for a considerable
j eriod of time, and but for the confi-
aence placed throughout the entire
county in the men now to be elected
there would be a deeper feeling of
] egret over the unfortunate situation
vvhich has arisen. However, Messrs.
Shaw, Mattheson and Cuirie aie all
\\2ll known in this immediate section
and aie known to be men interested
in the county as a whole, irrespective
of section, men who will give the en
tire county the best of their time and
energy during their tenure of office.
Mr. Mattheson ,is a member of the
present board, the only member seek
ing re-election. Moses McDonald of
West End letires at the end of the
piesent term due to pressure of bus
iness affairs, while D. A. McLauch-
lin announced his retirement in order
to seek the Democratic nomination
for the State Senate.
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Other Contests
With the primary but nine days
off candidates for various county and
state offices are speeding up their
campaigns locally and the street cor
nels and drug store crowds are talk
ing about little else. The three-cor
nered fight for the State Senate from
the 12th Senatorial district enters its
final week with Murdoch M, John
son of Aberdeen, Shields Cameron of
Southern Pines and D. A McLauchlin
of Vass all confident of nomination.
Sheriff Charles McDonald is not wor-
lying much about the opposition in
his campaign for reelection, standing
on his record in office as his biggest
campaign asset. Judge George H.
Humber is expected to win a renom
ination to the Recorder’s Court des
pite opposition from D. A. McDonald
of Carthage. Other Democratic can
didates for county offices are without
opposition.
How the county will go in the pri
mary fight between Senator F. M.
Simmons and Attorney J. W. Bailey
of Raleigh for the United States Sen-
fatorship is causing much conjecture,
with both forces predicting they will
carry it for their man. Frank Buchan
of Southern Pines is heading the
Hailey campaign in Moore, with the
Simmons leadership in the hands of
Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberdeen.
This race is attracting nation-wide
attention, being listed as one of two
Senatorial fights involving the wet
and dry issue, the other being that in
New Jersey w^here Dwight Morrow, a
pronounced wet, is competing for the
Republican nomination against Rep
resentative Franklin Fort, one of the
(Vy leaders of Congress.