MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
OL. 10, NO. 31-
ASHLEV
H&ICHTS
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, July 4, 1930.
FIVE CENTS
MKE YOUR WILL
FRANK PAGE TELLS
KIWANIANS HERE
Banker Stresses Need of Proper
ly Safeguarding Property
Against the Future
HAVE LAWYER DRAW IT’
The importance of making a will
and the value of establishing trusts
for the safeguarding of one’s property
were pointedly told members of the
Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at their
weekly meeting Wednesday by Frank
Page, former head of the State High
way Commission, now .vice president
the Wachovia Bank & Trust Com
pany at Raleigh. That the talk was
rlanted in fruitful soil was revealed
when a display of hands showed that
not more thjan cmeJtliird of those
piesent had made their wills.
Mr. Page told of what becomes of
ne’p life savings if one dies with-
it leaving a will, showing the un-
s^atisfactory distribution of property
r. nine cases out of ten. He pointed
lit the advantages of a trust com
pany as executor of estates as against
^dividual executors, citing exper-
ences of his own in untangling estates
handled by individuals and telling of
savings to estates administered by
trust companies. “A man capable of
handling your estate must be a suc-
essful business man, and a success
ful business man is too busy to give
the necessary time to it,” he said. “A
trust company has a trained force for
he sole purpose of handling estates;
•t never dies, is efficient and is econ
omical. Its fees are saved many time
over as compared with administration
by individuals.”
The importance of having a lawyer,
•‘the best one you know,” draw your
will for you wa»^ another point em
phasized by the speaker. The proper
ly drawn and executed will saves
many entanglements, embarrassments
and expenses after you are gone, he
?aid.
The Living Trust
On the subject of living trusts, Mr.
Page told his hearers of the possi
bility of judicious investments of one’s
funds through a trust company which
has the knowledge and ability to keep
the “catt and dogs” out of your safe
deposit box and securities yielding
an average of six percent in their
place. He spoke of the value of life
insurance trusts which provide for
the judicious investment of funds left
in the form of insurance, “cash
which is the easy prey of relatives
ond friends with ideas of their own
ior its investment.” Mr. Page told
of the experience of one widow whose
$35,000 received in life insurance last
ed but two years because of poor
advice and judgment.
Mr. Page bemoaned the fact that
he saw so many unfamiliar faces at
r weathering in his own home town,
showing what an absence of ten years
t 'ingpj about, and expressed his pleas-
-^e at being able to be here at this
ime to renew acquaintances and meet
^he newcomers. He was graciously in
troduced to the Kiwanians by Mur-
0 >ch M. Johnson of Aberdeen. The
uncheon was held at the residence of
Ir. and Mrs. J. R. Page.
James McClamrock, a young attor-
nty of Greensboro, will discuss legal
: ; actice in the minor courts of the
tate at next week’s meeting, speak
ing along the lines with which he
n ade such a distinct impression at the
annual meeting of the State Bar As-
ociation held recently in Pinehurst.
“State’s Biggest Man”
Mrs. Jane McKimmon’s Work
Among Farm Women Wins
Her Wide Recognition
Mrs. Jane McKimmon, who was
a speaker at the meeting of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce, Tuesday, is one of North
Carblina’s most valuable workers
in the general welfare of the
state. For years she has been help
ing th*^ women, especially those in
rural sections, to know better how
to care for themselves and their
families, andi she has been spoken
of as the most valuable citizen and
“the biggest man” in North Car
olina. Her efforts among the farm
homes have been phenomenal, and
she holds the confidence of the
farm women to an extent that is
/emarkable. Other states have at
tempted to get her away, but she
is a North Carolinian and she says
she proposes to stay among her
own people and serve them as long
as she lives. A fitting tribute to
her work was a building for wo
men at the old State Fair Associa
tion grounds in Raleigh which was
named the McKimmon building.—
—Editor.
00 SEE SMALLEST AUTO
ON EXHIBITION IN ABERDEEN
Some 500 people visited the Frank-
in Sales Company showroom in
^-i-berdeen yesterday to see the new
baby” automobile, the Austin Ban-
am, on exhibition for the first time
n this section. One’s first impression
s that the car is a toy, but upon
loser inspection it is found to be an
automobile complete in every detail,
J^nd with plenty of room for two peo
ple inside the coupe.
Tiie car will be on exhibition here
i'll wefek, and will be shown in Ham
let Monday where Jesse W. Page, Jr.,
of the Franklin company has estab
lished a branch office. After next
Monday the car will again be here
for demonstration purposes.
County Gains 7,021 in
10 Years, Census Shows
Final Figures Received Show
Mineral Springs Township
4,294,, Pinehurst 234
The total official population of
Moore county under the 1930 Federal
census is 28,408, as against 21,387 in
1920, a gain for the ten years of 7,021
persons.
Delay in the returns from Mineral
Springs township have made the fig-
un»3 for the county incomplete up to
this time. These figures were receiv
ed by The Pilot this week from A.
I. Ferree, Asheboro, supervisor of the
census for this district. Besides show
ing Mineral Springs township as hav
ing a total of 4,294 against 2,890 in
1920, they show the following for
Mineral Springs and Pinehurst towns:
Mineral Springs, 267; Pinehurst, 234.
The balance are outside these towns.
In the figures in The Pilot last week,
Mineral Springs township was esti
mated at 3,500, 794 below the official
tally.
There were 218 farms enumerated
in the township, making the total
number of farms listed in the county,
2,051.
There were but 189 “unemployed”
persons in Moore county at the time
of the taking of the Federal census,
according to figures just received from
A. I. Ferree, supervisor of the cen
sus for this district. The figures giv
en below represent the number of per
sons “reported on the unemployment
schedule as usually working at a gain
ful occupation, without a job, able to
work, and looking for work, as deter
mined by a count of the persons re
porting ‘Yes’ both in Column 12 and
in C, column 13, on the Unemploy
ment Schedule.”
Carthage township 61
Bensalem township None
Sheffields township 9
Ritters township 10
Deep River township 1
Greenwood township 12
McNeills township 59
Sandhill township ^ 37
Mineral Springs township: No report.
These figures are preliminary and
subject to correction, and will be sup
plemented later by data for other
classes of persons not at work at the
time of the census, such as those who
had a job but were sick or temporar
ily laid off. ^
COMMERCE BODY
HEARS VALUE OF
CURB MARKETS
Mrs. McKimmon Tells Southern
Pines Chamber of Success
in 24 Counties
REAL COMMUNITY ASSET
NEW ORGAN ISTALLED
IN COMMUNITY CHURCH
The new organ was installed in the
new Community Church in Pine
hurst during the past week, one of
the finest instruments in the state,
according to George W. Dunlap, who
heard it played at the Aeolian factory
before it was shipped here. It is one
of the latest model instruments and in
keeping witK the handsome new edi
fice in which it is installed. The Rev.
Murdoch McLeod announced this week
that the church would be in readiness
for dedication and use by the middle
of August.
The greatest jag^^mcy for social,
economic and educational good in the
development of relationship between
paoples of the city and those of the
country is the curb imarket, Mrs. Jane
McKimmon, State Home Demonstra
tion Agent, told directors and guests
of the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce at their regular meeting
held in the Southern Pines Country
Club Tuesday noon. Mrs. McKimmon
addressed the meetingj on the invita
tion of Shields Cameron, secretary of
the organization, and in the interest
of the possible develo-pment of a
curb market in Southern Pines, a mat
ter which is having the serious at
tention of the Chamber of Commerce
and merchants at this time.
That the usual objections raised to
curb markets, principal among which
is the possible loss of trade by groc-
-^rs and produce merchants in a town,
have in all instances where such mar
kets operate been proven unwar
ranted, and that in all instances the
markets have become assets rather
than liabilities was Mrs. McKimmon’s
statement.
Sales Amount to $300,000
“Twenty-four marlcets operating for
the most part one day a week in
twenty-four counties of the state last
year returned $300,000 to farm wo
men—and some men—-for surplus
products of the farms. This money
for^he most part stays in the town
where the market is located. The mar
ket brings the people in to sell and
produces the money with which they,
in turn, can buy from the merchants.
Without a marfcst they do not come
to town, nor have they the funds with
which to buy.”
Mrs. Kimmon told of the success
of the largest curb market in the
state, that at Rocky Mount, which op
erates one day a week except during
three months of the summer when it
operates two days a week. Last year
those selling their excess farm pro
duce on this market raceived $35,000
lor their offerings. The offerings of
the various farmers—mostly women
—included chickens, eggs, butter,
sausage, greens, canned vegetables,
lettuce, bread, flowers, nuts, shrubs,
mayonnaise, turkeys and potatoes.
Th*9' vault to the town promoting
such a market was stressed by Mrs.
McKinnon. The market, she said,
soon becomes a social gathering place
for the women from miles aroxind.
They drive in each Saturday morning,
bringing their baskets of whatever
they have to offer. They learn sales
manship through the systematic m-eth-
ods employed on the market; they
learn economics in the matter of rais
ing what will sell and getting the
proper price for it; education in the
comparison of their methods with
others, in the exchange of ideas with
I others; good will in the 2lcquaintan,*e-
fehips engendered. More people be
come acquainted with the town and
its m'erchants and people, more goods
are sold, more money placed in cir
culation. More people stay for the
movies.
Mrs. McKinnon paid a high tribute
to the Chamber of Commerce and to
the women of Southern Pines for th*e
planting of the town’s highways and
streets and expressed a wish that
more towns of the state would follow
the example. Dr. L. B. McBrayer, in
introducing the speaker referred to
her as “having done more for North
Carolina than anyone he knew,” and
after her talk expressed the thanks
of the Chamber for her visit and sug
gestions. E. H. Garrison, county farm
agent, and Mrs. W. L. Ryals, county
home demonstrator, made brief re
marks on the subject of curb mar
kets. /
The possibility of the establishment
of a market in Southern Pines will
be further discussed and possibly act
ed upon at a future meeting o^ the
Chamber of Conrmierce directors.
Meanwhile ?l(he cooperation of tjbe^
merchants in the movement ds being
sought.
PAGE TRUST CO.
LOANS TO STATE
AT RECORD RATE
Buys $2,000,000 Highway Anti
cipation Notes at Two and
Three-Quarters Percent
O’BERRY PRAISES BANK
The Page Trust Company of Aber
deen was the purchaser on Tuesday of
an issue of $2,000,000 in State high-
v;ay serial bond anticipation notes at
the remarkably low figure for the
state of two and three-quarters per
cent. The/notes are dated July 10 and
due April 7, 1931, and are in antici
pation of an authorized issue of high
way bonds to be siold next year.
This is the second time within a
year that the local institution has
been the low bidder on State financ
ing issues, the Page Trust Company
cn June 20, 1929 being awarded $4,-
000,000 in notes issued to take up
maturing obligations, the interest rate
at that time being five and three-
quarters per cent.
The present interest Fate is the low
est in the state’s history and is slight
ly lower than the rate at which the
United States government recently
sold a four million dollar bond issue.
“There could be no better evidence
than this of the financial stability and
strength of North Carolina,” Govern
or Gardner said, while Captain Na
than O’Berry, state treasurer, laud
ed the Page Trust Company, saying
it is a source of gratification that the
state has a bank of its character.
These notes anticipate bonds which
ar^ a part of the $4,000,000 author
ized by the 1927 general assembly for
road construction. The money will be
used on projects contracted for but
not completed.
In bidding for this note issue the
Prga Trust Company was in compe
tition with some of the largest fi
nancial institutions in New York. The
First National* Bank of New York
was second low bidder, offering 2.80,
the Bancamerica-Blair Corporation
third with 2.90, followed by Lehman
Brothers and other important Wall
street houses.
Motor Revolutionizes
of Peach Crop
As Opens Here
Puts Business on Cash BiJ .is and Opens up Hith
erto Unexplored Fields For Distribution of
Fruit From Tree to Consumer
NO UNCERTAINTY NOW ABOUT PRICES
Delegates Elected to
Dem. State Convention
M. G. Boyette Presides at County
Meeting to Select 20 to Go
to Ral^eigh
The principal business of the Dem
ocratic county convention at Car
thage on Monday was the election of
delegates and alternates to the State
convention held yesterday at Raleigh.
The Moore county meeting was called
to order at 1 o’clock. County Prosecut
ing Attorney M. G. Boyette was elect
ed chairman, Miss Bessie McCaskill
secretary, and after Chairman Boyette
spoke of the record and aims of the
party in the county the following were
elected as delegates and alternates
for the Raleigh meeting:
Delegates
D. A. McLauchlin, Vass; John
Beasley, Carthage; Donnie McDonald,
Cameron; Thad Page, Aberdeen; M.
C. McDonald, West End; B. H. Lewis,
Southern Pines; Gordon Cameron,
Pinehurst; N. J. Muse, Carthage; E.
J. Tillman, Vass; Dunk McCrummon,
Vass; Edgar Brown, Hemp; M. M.
Johnson, Aberdeen; D. G. Stutz,
Southern Pines; O. U. Alexander,
Deep River; W. D. Matthews, Vass;
J. W. Pickier, Pinebluff; Stacy Brew
er, Vass; Jesse Page, Eagle Springs;
Geo. H. Humber, Carthage and N. I.
Fimiison, Highfalls.
Alternates
Mrs. Howard Bums, Southern
Pines;; Mrs. Edwin McKeithen, Aber
deen; G. C. Muse, Carthage; Mrs. Will
Keith, Vass; Mrs. J. D. McLean, Cam
eron; P. A. Fisher, Carthage; D. Al.
Blue, Southern Pines; W. B. Graham,
Vass; Mrs. C. C. Fry, Hemp; Mrs.
Lessie Brown, Carthage; Mrs. J. S.
Milliken, Southern Pines; Miss Bertha
Monroe, West End; G. A. Charles,
Aberdeen; Mrs. A. P. Thompson, Pine
hurst; Fuller Monroe, Eagle Springs;
Mrs .Fannie Downing, Carthage; Mrs.
j. F. Davis, Highfalls; P. H. McDon
ald, Carthage; W. C. Leslie, Vass and
W. H. McNeill, Lakeview.
By Bion H. Butler
The peach industry in Moore county
was never in a more promising con
dition in its history, an optimistic
brother remarked to me Tuesday, and
here are the Conditions that led him
to his prophetic mood.
The fruit is in healthy condition
this season, and under control as far
as insect pests are concerned. Or
chards are handled with more econ
omy this year, and cost-cutting has
been scientific and effective. Keeping
down costs of 'production is almost an
obsession in all farm operations this
year, but not to the point of neglect
ing anything that can help production
and quality of product. We have
made a better crop for less money
than was nrobably ever known in
peach histo y. That is one thing in
favor of the industry. At least that
is the way my informant told the
story.
Marketing Simplified
Fruit is beginning to move, and the
early stuff has already brought a
lot of money in to the ccynmunity.
The early pick is selling for $1.75 to
$2.00 a bushel at the orchards in
baskets. At the orchard, mind you; not
at the track. The stuff is selling to
trucks and there is one of the biggest
innovations that have come into the
history of the peach industry. All
over this peach district trucks are
coming in from distant points, and
th - trucks buy pjeaches and go away
with them. They are not merely com
ing after defective fruit as was^ the
case for a few years, but they are
coming now for the best there is and
paying a price for good fruit. Then
they start out with that fruit and
■o to all the towns and cities in their
lange, and the range is as far as
New York and Pennsylvania, and they
sell the fruit direct without any other
distributors. They take fresh peaches
from the trees, deliver to the city
they go to, or to the towns they pass
through, sell as many baskets as are
wanted, sell out completely perhaps,
or sell a smaller number, and then
pass on to the next town, or come
back and get another load.
The result is that they have found a
market for less than car loads and
have made an outlet into ev^ry town
in their range. They can deliver stuff
as far north as Baltimore for less
than express rates, and they deliver
at the door of the fruit store or the
house or anywhere else they sell, and
they can bring into the Sandhills mar
ket every village cross roads along
their lines of travel.
Orchard to Consumers
Here introduces a marketing fac
tor that has in the past been impos
sible, for it opens a new world, which
is dual in its character. It is a world
of less than carload shipments, and
a world of isolation from the railroad
service. In the past New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania have taken
over half of the crop of North Caro
lina peaches and they have been con
signed to five big towns in those
states. The cities distant from these
five points have been forced to get
along with limited shipments, because
only a limited number of concerns
will take) a carload or more of fruit.
So the towns of from five to forty
thousand people have been supplied
with few North Carolina peaches. But
now with trucks coming after them
and taking them away in lots of 150
to 175 crates, and driving past the
doors of the consumer, it becomes
possible to put a basket or more or
a full truck load, in the hands of a
buyer in any place along the road.
The result is that a big opening has
presented itself, %and the truckmen
have appropriated it. So far this
year we have not figured very big on
the shipments in the government re
ports, nevertheless the banks report
a large amount of preliminary money
already coming in for peaches, and
the movement has not begun.
Trucks ’come on their own initia-
I tive, but the fruit, take it way, and
j the transaction is finished. There is
I no waiting for returns, no uncertainty
i about what the commission house will
j say, no consigning cars to New York
I or Boston or to the Potomac yards,
j and getting disappointing information
later from the shipment. Cash is left
when the fruit goes away with the
trucks, and the trucks are coining in
large numbers. The truckman takes
the responsibility of being the mar^
ket man, and he does not have to set
his truck on the track any place and
wait for buyers to come. He goes to
his buyers and all the world in a ra
dius of 500 miles is his market. And
this market does not in the least in
terfere with the ol&er rail market.
The big cities will still buy their
Jarge receipts of carload stuff, and
the commission house will continue
to handle the trade that comes
through their channels. But the
truckers will go out into all the lit
tle and big towns that do not have an
organization for handling fruit in big
shipments, and they will deliver their
loads at such economic figures that
many people who in the past never
saw a Sandhills peach can liave them
in quantity. They can be sold in a
large number of places that never
fcaw a Carolina • peach before and at
a price people can pay to buy them,
freely."^ The truck promises to do for
the peach man what the automobile
has done for the traveler.
Tobacco Market Opens
Here September 23
Official Opening Dates for Five
States Set at Meeting of To
bacco Association
The Aberdeen tobacco market will
open this year on^ September 23, one
aay earlier than last year.
Re-electing A. B. Carrington, of
Danville, Va., as president, the To-
ba?cco Association of the United
States closed its annual convention
last week after approving the date
for the opening of the tobacco mar
kets of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Greorgia and Florida.
The nominating committee recom
mended re-election of all officers and
governors in its report, which was
adopted as follows; first vice presi
dent‘W. T. Clark, Wilson, N. C.; sec
ond vice president, E. J. O’Brien, of
Louisville, Ky.; third vice president,
J. A. Clark, Bedford, Va.; chairman
of the board, T. M. Carrington, Rich
mond, Va.; secretary-tre.'/surer, R.
T. Corbelle, RichmorwJ.
All members of the board of gov
ernors were re-elected. Opening mar
ket dates agreed upon in the various
tobacco growing states affiliated with
the association were as follows.
Georgia—July 29, six days later
than the opening date last year.
South Carolina—August 5, six days
later than the opening date last year.
Eastern Carolina—September 2, one
day earlier than last year.
Middle belt—September 23, one
day earlier than last year.
Old belt—September 30, one day
earlier than last year.
Dark Virginia belt—November *4,
eight days earlier than last year.
William L. Cooper, director of the
bureau of foreign and do>mestic com
merce of the Department of Com
merce in an address before the as
sociation, said that the tobacco sec
tion of his bureau would be enlarg
ed to become a division of the Com
merce department this month.
REV. W. C. BARRETT DIES
Many in this section are mourning
the death of the Rev. W. C. Barrett of
Laurinburg, who died last Sunday.
Mr. Barrett was bom and raised in
the Bethlehem community. The fun
eral at Laurinburg on Monday was
widely attended, many from Moor©
county being present.
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