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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 10, NO. 39. MAY ESTABLISH A RECORDER’S COURT IN SOUTHERN PINES LAKEView MANUEY JACKSOH PILOT ^ o of the Sandhill Terriu^^<^ North Carolu Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, August 29, 1930. FIVjfi CENTS Naming Recorder at Small Sal ary and Turning Fees into Town Fund Proposed hearing next TUESDAY The establishment of a recorder’s coiiit in Southern Pines may he the utcome of the movement launched nt a recent meeting- of the Southern ines Chamber of Commerce to : 1 ange the fee system now in effect in I he dispensing of justice. It has been ] roposed to institute such a court, name a recorder at a small salary, and -ave all “costs” turned into the court. There is said to be no legal reason v.hy this cannot be done, and the re- >rt current on the streets is that ' > . E. y.. Poate, town attorney, favors Ml ' proposition. The matter came up again at Tues- ay’s meeting of the Chamber of Com- nerce directors, held at the Southern Fines Country Club, and was infor- .nally discussed by the members, in- luding Justice of the Peace Wind ham. Mr. Windham is one of the op ponents of the fee or ‘'costs system now applied, under which “costs” in cases brought before a justice of the peace are pro-rated between ar resting officers and the court. Nothing can be done except by the State Leg islature with regard to changing the ystem as now applied, but a record er’s court can be established and min or offenses tried before a recorder, j the costs in the case to go into the town treasury. It is thought that such costs might amount to sufficient to pay the salary of the recorder. The matter is to be gone over thoroly at a meeting of Chamber of Commerce representatives, the Mayor and members of the Town Board of Commissioners next Tuesday at the office of the Town Clerk. At that ime the question of confining the ac tivities of the town policemen to the corporate limits of the town, except in cases of emergency, will also be discussed. Tobacco Market Here To Open September 23 ( hamber of Commerce Directors Meet Tuesday to Plan for Successful Season Plans for the opening of the Aber- ' :en tobacco market on September 23d are to be discussed at a meeting of directors of the Aberdeen Chamber f Commerce at the office of its pres- if’ent Murdoch M. Johnson, next Tues> day afternoon. Committees will be appointed to call upon tobacco grow ers in the Aberdeen territory to in duce them to sell their leaf here, and plans for the entertainment of the farmers while in town will be discuss ed. Farmers are more optimistic with regard to the returns from their to bacco than they were when reports be gan to come in from the border mar kets. On Monday of this week 411,578 I'Ounds was sold for an average of ?15.16, bringing to the farmers there 409.49. With the prices stiffening as the season progresses, the outlook for a good market in Aberdeen is bright. Both warehouses v/ill be in <^peration, B. B. Saunders’ and Ed- ^\ards, Lewis & Williams. GROVER HAS CLOSE SHAVE IN COLLISION OF AUTOS Alfred Grover of the Southern Pines Country Club had a narrow escape Monday morning when his car and a Ford touring car came together at the corner of Morganton Road and Cross 'treet in Southern Pines. Grover’s car left the road and just missed hitting a telephone pole. The car was hadly damaged but Alfred escaped with a cut on the forehead and reports him self in shape to greet the Seaboard Rolfers when they arrive for their annual tournament. DR SYMINGTON RETURNS Dr. and Mrs. Symington returned from New York last Saturday morn ing. While away Dr. Symington vis ited hospitals in Connecticut and Phil adelphia. An Ace for Ed Genial Manager of Carolina Scores Hole in One at Roaring Gap Ed Fitzgerald, general manager of the Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst in winter and Graystone Inn at Roarpg Ga,p in summer, rejoined the. Hall of Fame last week. He scored a hole in one on the 16th hole of the Roaring Gap course. We say “rejoined” because Ed be came a member of the Hole-In-One Club two years ago at Pinehurst.' This was the third ace of the sum mer season on the Roaring Gap course. SEABOARD GOLF ASSOCIATION HERE FOR TOURNAMENT ABERDEEN PASSES RI€ID TRAFFIC REGULATIONS Cars Must Come to Full Stop on Entering or Crossing Prin cipal Streets 84 Million Tons of Coal In Nines of Carolina Coal Co. Near Sanford NO MORE “CURB DOPES” Over 100 Expectcd For Events at Sodthern Pines Country Club Over Labor Bay UNIQUE ORGANIZATION Marking the wane of summer and the opening of the season of 1930-1931 is the coming of the Seaboard Golf ers for their Fourth Annual Tourn ament to be played over the scenic and sporty links of the Southern Pines Country Club, tomorrow, Au gust 30, 31, and September 1st. Officers and employees of the Sea board Air Line Railway interested in the sport of kings are members of the Seaboard Air Line Golf Associa tion and as we go to press members are already beginning to arrive for the greatest sporting event of the summer in the Sandhills. By Satur day from eighty-five to one hundred and twenty-five of the fraternity are expected to be present for the qualify ing round for the President’s Cup. B. C. Prince, freight traffic mana ger, is president of the Association; E. C. Bagwell, general manager, is vice-president, and William Hodges Baker, of Norfolk, secretary-treasur- er. Mr. Baker is also chairman of the tournament committee. Organized in 1927, with their first tournament in Southern Pines this association is be lieved to be unique in that it is the only golf association formed exclusive ly of those connected with a railway system. While a great number of prizes are awarded the fiercest competition cen ters about the President’s Cup, giv en in 1928 by L. R. Powell, Jr., pres ident of the Seaboard. This prize, awarded for the best medal score for 72 holes, was won by C. F. Blake of Savannah in 1928, and W. H. King, of Hopewell, Va., in 1929. Program Announced Last year the visitors enjoyed three days of the famous Sandhills weather, but the year 'before they proved to be real sports by driving through showers of rain. As usual the Park view will be headquarters for the members and their friends. The pro gram as announced is: Qualifying round, 8:00 a. m. Saturday morning; First round all flights, 1.00 p. m. Sunday, August 31st, 8 a. m. Sec ond round all flights, first round con solation flights. 2:00 p. m., picture. 3:00 p. m.( putting and driving con tests. Monday, (Labor Day) 8:00 a. m. third round all flights, 1:00 p. m. Finals, championship flight. 4:30 p. m. Annual meeting and award of prizes. The course at the Country Club is at its best and the Number 1 course will be reserved for the contestants. MRS MARY PLEASANTS, NATIVE OF COUNTY, DIES If you are driving along Sycamore street, which is the street the postof fice is on, come to a full stop before crossing or entering either Main street or South street. If you are entering or crossing Pop lar street from Maple, Knight or Main streets or Knight Alley, come to a lull stop before proceeding. If you are going south on Poplar street, come to a full stop before turn ing into South street. Keep to the right of all “silent po licemen,” as those warts on the streets are called. If you don’t do these things, you are subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, under a new ordi nance passed by the Mayor and Com missioners of the Town of Aberdeen in regular session on August 18th. At the same meeting action putting a stop to “curb service” from drug stores in Aberdeen was taken, an ord inance forbidding this practice 'being enacted in the interest of more clean ly streets. Both Aberdeen drug stores have been waiting on customers driv- mg up before their stores, serving them in their cars with drinks in paper cups. This practice meant a littering of the streets with the cups and com plaints against the untidy appearance of the downtown section were filed with the town board, with the resul tant ordinance. Elsewhere in this week’s issue of The Pilot will be found official no tice of the enactment of the ordinance with regard to traffic regulations in Aberdeen, cited in the opening para graphs of this article. Rigid enforce ment of this ordinance is to be ob served in the interest of safety, and it behooves drivers of motor cars to take heed, say the city fathers. Poor Pickings! Thie^ Enters Seaboard Station at Vass But His Haul Is Slight The Seaboard station in Vass was entered on Tuesday night by a thie^ who doubtless thinks that the pickings were mighty poor. A $9.00 C. O. D. package of Health-O products and a bundle of advertis ing matter were all that appeared to be interesting enough to take along, and the chances are that they proved very disapponiting. Entrance was gained by prying open a window in the telegraph of fice, and from there the prowler nade his way into the freight room. Stale Geologist Tells Kiwanians of Great Possibilities for Manufacturing Center If 500 tons of coal is mined each day in the Carolina Coal and By-Prod ucts Company’s mines near Sanford, there is enough coal to last 564 years, Herman Bryson, geologist of the State Department of Conservation and De velopment told members of the Ki- wanis Club of Aberdeen at their week ly luncheon in the new Community Church in Pinehurst on Wednesday. He said there were 84 million tons of coal in this field, and that all that was necessary for the development of the GIBSON KnJEn AS AUTO HITS MOORE CENTRAL TRAIN Youthful Salesman of H. A. Page, Jr. Agency in Laurin- burg is ^Victim LEAVES WIFE AND SON Signs North of Town To Come Down Soon Struthers Burt’s Heart Will Glow When He Sees Improve ment on Highway Mrs. Mary Pleasants, a native of Moore county and of late a well known resident of Lee county, resid ing on Route 4, Jonesboro, died last Friday night after a long illness. Be fore her marriage she was Miss Mary Ann Johnson. Her husband died a number of years ago. Funeral services were held at the Johnson family cem etery near Lemon Springs, conducted by the Rev. M. D. McNeill of Cam eron. Struthers Burt’s heart will glow when he returns to the Sandhills. The many billboards along the highway between Southern Pines and Aberdeen have been a thorn in thfe flesh of this mJlitant crusader against desecration of the roads of North Carolina, and rarely has he taken his trenchant pen in hand on the subject without some refernece to the northern gateway to Aberdeen. Last week S. B. Ricardson, acting as a committee of one of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce and with the approval and corisent of the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, waited on those whose advertising proclivities led them to unsightly dis-' play of paint on the above mentioned loute, and with but a single exception all agreed that' the signs should come down. The one exception, a woman, thought her sign was “pretty” and said she enjoyed reading billboards when she was motoring. So down they are to come, before Struthers returns. And to further please his militant highness, we are informed that one Ralph Page, recent ly attacked by Mr. Burt for the Page Trust Company signs at the entrances to Sanford and Raeford, has ordered the immediate removal of those signs, as promised in The Pilot some time ago. SOUTHERN PINES SCHOOLS OPEN WEEK OF SEPT. 15 Southern Pines School will open on the 15th or 16th of September, just which The Pilot was unable to defi nitely ascertain in the absence from town of Superintendent Allen. Vice-principal Frank Gibbon and Mrs. Gibbon of the Southern Pines School returned from their summer vacation spent at Sharon, Mass., on Wednesday of thfs week. J. Claude Gibson, young automobile salesman for the H?^. Page, Jr. Ford agency in Laurinburg, met almost in stant death last Saturday afternoon when the car he was driving from Aberdeen to Raleigh crashed into a Moore Central locomotive at the dan gerous crossing of that railroad over Route 50 near Cameron. This spot has been the scene of many accidents and near accidents, due to the fact that the crossing is at the bottom of a hill, the scene inadequately marked with warning signs and the train service infrequent. Gibson left his home at Gibson, near Laurinburg. Saturday for Ral eigh, where his wife and little son had 'been visiting relatives for several days. The train suddenly appeared as if from nowhere when Gibson was proceeding down the hill in the direc tion of Sanford. He attempted to avoid it by swinging right and following it alongside the track, but there is no rooiTj for this and he crashed into the locomotive. Members of the train crew say they saw the car approach ing and brought the train to a halt but too late to avoid the accident. A sprinkler pipe of the locomotive pierced the young man’s neck, sever- ir.g his jugular vein and puncturing the spinal column. A crowd rushed to the scene and Leighton McKeithen, W. A. Muse and Jack Phillips put the in jur man in a car. He died while be ing rushed to a Sanford hospital. Gibson leaves a wife, formerly Miss Mildred Gibson of Gi'bson, a small son; a sister, Mrs. L. P. Smith of Laurinburg, and four brothers, H. G. Gibson of Laurinburg, E. M. Gibson of Lumberton and Charles and W. G. Gibson of Fort Myers, Florida. The funeral was held at Gibson Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Thieves Make Haul In Vass Residences Enter Homes of W. A. Keith and D. A„ McLauchlin the Same Night An early morning prowler entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Keith just before five o’clock Friday morn ing and succeeded in getting away with seven dollars, a watch, two strings of pearls and two pairs of shoes. Tracks indicated that the thief entered the residence by a rear door, which was unlocked. Mre. Keith heard sounds as of a floor creaking and saw the beams from a flashlight in the hall. She aroused Mr. Keith, but the burglar evidently heading |he sbund, mlnde a hasty exit. The home of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. McLauchlin was entered the same night and around six dollars stolen, without the occupants 'being awaken ed. SCHOOLS HERE TO OPEN WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER lOTH Supt. Wright Announces Fac ulty for Fall Term in Aberdeen NEW COMMERCIAL COURSE Aberdeen schools 'wiill open on Wed nesday, September 10th, Superintend ent of Schools N, E. Wright announced this week. The Pinebluff school will open the same day. The schools will be operated on an eight months basis. In addition to the usual courses, a , commercial course will be added to the section in a way which would make a curriculum in the High school, to be manufacturing center of the Sanford 'territory, was capital. “And,” he said, “northern interests are ‘beginning to take a keen interest ;n these mines.” Mr. Bryson pointed cut that this section had reached a stage of development to furnish a real market for the local mines, with their by-products, and that there is no reason why we should not have china- ware plants, plate glass factories, creosoting plants, brick and tile man- i^facturing and similar enterprise in cur midst. The quality of coal mined by the Carolina company ranks well up with that of other fields, in fact is higher in fixed carbon and in heat units in comparison with coal mined in the better known fields. Transportation costs are not excessive, two railroads running into the mines, and he called the Kiwanians attention to the fact that a large percentage of the cost of coal here is due to transportation charges from distant points. Much could be saved per ton by the use of local coal locally. He said that 1,250,- 000 tons of coal are burned annually in North Carolina. But the by-products of the mines rre the big potential assets in the development of the Sanford section as a manufacturing center, he said. Coke, ^•as, tar and ammonium sulphate from $1,500 worth of coal in the Carolina mines will bring about $20,000, and with this section now sufficiently de veloped to make a market for china, plate glass, brick, tile, etc., all of which require certain of these by-prod- ucts in their manufacture, there is no reason why plants of this type should not spring up in the vicinity and prove profitable, with resultant prosperity for the operation of the mines. in charge of Miss Ellen Butler of Sanford. Stenography, typewriting, bookkeeping and filing will be taught, and the course is open not only to pu pils in High school but to anyone in the section desiring to learn these subjects. Mr. Wright announced the faculty for the local schools as follows: H. C. Fouts, principal; Miss Elva Rosser, Miss Nancy Beddingfield, Miss Annie Grady, Miss Cora Wells, Miss Elizabeth Carawaen, Miss Mary 'Mc Keithen, Mrs. Kate Charles, Miss Ruth Wooten, Miss Mildred Osborne, Mrs. Yarborough, Mrs. Reid Pleas ants, Miss Florence Church, Mrs. Jamie Fletcher Monroe and Miss Butler. The Teacherage will again be in op eration under the supervision of Mrs. J. B. Fagan. Mrs. Fagan has been busy during the past week getting her house in order for the arrival of the teachers. Mr. Wright will arrive in Aberdeen within the next few days to super vise getting the school building in shape for the 10th. He has been spend ing some time at the normal school at Cullowhee. WORK ON NEW WESTOVER HOUSE BEGINS THIS WEEK Jewell-Riddle, the Sanford contract ing company, will build the new West- cver house at Pinehurst. Material is coming on the grounds, and work will start in the next faw days. This com pany is one of the best kno^vn in this part of the state, having to their rec ord in this section the Moore County Hospital at Pinehurst, Mrs. Andrews’ new house at Southern Pires, the Morrison house at Knollwood, Mrs. Mr. Bryson was an interesting speak-! {-[ogg’s house, the Tufts-Johnson cr and had an interested audience. In fact it was a sort of three-ring cir cus day at the Kiwanis meeting. They turned out in numbers firstly to hear Mr. Bryson because it was the first opportunity offered the members to see the inside of the handsome new Community Church in Pinehurst, and thirdly because Herbert Vail, club secretary, had announced squab chick ens as the day’s bill of fare. No one was disappointed in Mr. Bryson, in the church or in the squab. The Rev. house, ten of the new buildings the government is putting up at Fort Brrgg, as well as others in the neigh- boihood. When the start was made to stake out the ground it was found that the building is so large it would be bet ter to change the plan of facing it to- A^ ard the south and it will be set to look out on the Crest road, and over the valley. The excavation which has gone far NEW PINEHURST CHURCH TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 7TH , enough along to indicate the location Murdoch McLeod, pastor, back from , building shows that it will have his vacation, demonstrated the fine ! ^ remarkable setting on the hill top, new organ recently installed in the j |^g dimensions as determined by" church, and invited all the members stakes and the batter boards tell of to the first services to be held in the ; ^here on the church auditorium at 11 o clock on | Already visitors have been Sunday, September 7th. dropping in to see the prospect, and the remarks are interesting. This group of three of the finest houses in the Sandhills, on that rise of ground adjoining eac h other, the Westover house, the Fownse house and the Hal bert Blue house, constitute a strik ing feature of Moore county progress, and clustered as they are in the one spot of Knollwood with Herbert Vail’s house, Mrs. Hogg’s house and Mrs. Neidich’s house just beyond, give Crest road a supremacy that will be noticeable by the time the winter guests begin to arrive. The new Pinehurst Community Church will open for regular services with a special musical service on Sun day, September 7th at 11 o’clock, the Rev. Murdoch McLeod announced this week.-Mrs. Maxwell Grey of Southern Pines will be at the new organ, one of the finest in the south, and Charles W. Picquet is arranging a special chorus of voices for the occasion. Mj. P^IcLeod will preach and an invitation is extended to all in the community to attend this opening service, staying afterwards for an inspection of the beautiful building recently completed. RECOVERS FROM SNAKE BITE What little W. H. McNeill, Jr., of Aberdeen thought was a briar scratch developed into what looked to his phy sician like a snake hite last week, and the family was worried for several days. The youngster has sufficiently recovered from his mishap, whatever it was, to allay the fears of any ser ious ill effects. REV. FRANK BLUE STATE CHAPLAIN, AMERICAN LEGION The Rev, Frank Blue of Carthage was elected State Chaplain of the North Carolina Department, Ameri can Legion, at the convention held Monday and Tuesday of this week in Winston-Salem. Con C. Johnston of Mooresville was chosen Commander, and Morehead City selected for the 1931 meeting. Those attending the convention from the Sandhills post were Max Backer, Tom Black and Paul Dana.
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