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Friday, October 17, 1930. I vVC^TTyf.'?^ PUNCTUALITY PROMPTNESS PRECISION THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Page Nine More Than Five Per Cent Decrease in Moore County Farms in Ten Years Autumn is here. Winter approaches apace. Already, in the “roaring forties” air is permeated with the State Gained 9,960 Farms Be tween 1920 and 1930, But Moore Shows Loss :ic- Notwithstanding the fact that North Carolina lost farms between , 1925 and 1930, she made a substantial va.-ive odor of last year’s moth-balled | nearly ten thousand farms : urs and furbelows, while the heck-' decade, says Vng hack of the hectic cough is! University News-Letter. During : tard on hevery hand. I same period a majority of the 1 states, and the Nation as a whole. But why raise whiskers and suffo-' farms and experienced the larg- a’o in furs and flannels when fori losses in farm population since the price of a coon-skin coat you can census of 1790. When one views V a paper, board the train and ^^tional trend, there is little won- ( sio! by the time you have reach-' farms have not increas- ; U. S. Steel or Vanadium in the rapidly as our population. On ( i k quotations you are in Pinehurst, ■ contrary, considering the enor- 0 land of the free and the home of i gains made by the towns and saved ? •o obey that impulse and com3 on! : ; thing is ready and a warm wel- ' awaits you. won’t be long now before the o; the hunter will echo from hill i ll.iW. while the peripatetic pas- . in '1 players patiently and per mit V cities of North Carolina durine the Inst decade, the wonder of wonders i^ that our faims managed to inci’ease at all. North Carolina is not a large Ftate—twenty-eighth in size — yet ]>robably only two states have more farms. This fact also causes one to wonder how a medium-sjzed state with so many farms keeps on inr-voasing pursue the pertinacious pel- j,, ^ , while‘'the ,'it to putt. It’s a great life akening Nation over farms are declin;>ig in number. ! the way, while you'll need | However, when one stops ^,o con- 10 keep your valuables and' one-fourth of the liepository for your money,! North Carolina i;^ clas<=5od t is our business to provide. I improved land, iind that less thur : nee and the depository we mean ; '^^-f.fth of the land avea is actually maybe the money too, for that jevident that , , .0^'. I North Carolina can add enoDnously either to the number of her farms, or ■'0, as soon as you arrive “come to the size of the average farm. We c, or better yet, before leaving. lank second in farms, yet w'e are a address a letter to us or to the j frontier state when it comes to land -'ation to which you are listening, j still waiting* to be brought unucr cul- B-A-N-K. I tivation. Few states have as much uncultivated land capable of being brought under cultivation. Nash led the counties with an in- That Church Affair Elder Pays $200 to Pastor, Plus Costs, While the Pas tor Gets Off For $16.65 Well, the elder drew a suspended sentence and costs of $200, and the pastor was required to pay $16.65 costs. That is the outcome of the re cent battle at the West Southern Pines colored church, when ser vices were halted while the pastor and the elder “had it out.” C. N. Bogan, colored,, w|as before thle court at Carthage this week charg ed with disturbing religious wor ship. On this charge sentence was siispended on payment of costs. But he was also charged with as sault with a deadly w^eapon, the re sult of his efforts* to settle his ar gument with the preacher through the slash method, and in this case sentence was suspended only upon payment of costs and $200 to the ir iured paity. Pastor P. B. Bynam. The pastor himself w’as then ar raigned on a charge of disturbing religious worship, and let off on payment of the aforementioned $16.65. BANK OF PINEHURST Pinehurst, N. C. crease of 30.9 percent, ^are ranks Ic'st with a decrease of 83.8 percent. ]\Toore ranks 73d with a decrease of per cent, the census sViowin”' a total of 2,058 farms in 1930. Fifty- live counties gained farms; 45 lost. The net gain for the state was 9,960 or 3.7 percent. State total of farms in 1930 279,723. Only Texas has more farms than North Carolina. 81 PER CENT OF TEACHERS IN STATE ARE WOMEN THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. A local bank with wide-reaching relations, and es tablishments in ten different parts of the State. A bank of Strength, Security and Service. A bank that has always used its ability for the ad vancement of the interests and the industries of its com munity. Your account is solicited by— THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. :: Approximately 16 per cent of the teachers employed in North Carolina public schools during 102?-29 were men teachers and 84 per cent women teachers, it is learneJ from a state ment issued by Superiniendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen. Until 1919-20 there was a tendency for the percentage of men ten«*hers employed to decrease. In 1899-1900 ap proximately half of the public school tepchers of this state were men. In 1909-10 28.5 per cent were men, in 1919-20 15.8 per cent were men, and in 1928-29 15.8 per cent of the total 24,115 teachers employed v^ere men. In the United Stater, as a v/hole, ww ' H it is learned from the Office of Edu- ♦♦ jj (ation, Washington, D. C., the per- n centage of men teachers decreased S fjom 1899-1900 to 1919-20: but in t| 1927-28, the latest year for which comparative figures for the states are 55 available, the propostion of men teach- £♦ ers had increased Mkaous The Pause that refreshes xt i goes tune in, TONIGHT! Hour, the the air On the Coca-Cola IN STATION WPTF Every Wednesday new thirtr-one piece, aU-stnos Dance d Hear what £amoaa«portschampionB say to Gran^nd 5^ good enough to get wh« they Delightful entertainment for all the fam%. •MTIWRIIW TOMCHTI On Coca-Cola. That pore drink of natural flavor* fw all the rdL^Tde^ktfuladditio^oo.^^^^^ Tenient way to entertain M«pected ^t8. in . bome« its wholesorje, refreshing quahty vfodd's most popular beverage. has made it the COCA COLA BOTILING COMPANY ABERDEEN, N. C. mttun 9 MILLION A DAY-IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO GET WHERE IT IS ^ ' " Aberdeen High Has New Honorary Club An Honorary Club has been formed by students of Aberdeen High School, and all you have to do to become eli gible is to behave yourself or keep your marks up or both. There are two classifications in the Honor Roll, deportment and scholastic. The first Honor Roll announced lists a large number of students on the deportment side of the sheet, only ten on the scholastic side. These latter are Billy Bowman, Richard Colnett, Jones Ma con, Freda Mae Kirk, Raymond O. Cain, Mildred Brooks, Margaret Mil ler, Elizabeth Ferree, Katherin Mel vin and Harry DuMeer. The club’s officers, elected at a meeting held at the High school Tues day, are President, Laura Gigee; Vice- President, Richard Colnett; Secretary, Harry DuMeer. Here’s the long list of Well Behav- eds (but we are told it changes pretty rapidly from day to day): Mildred Brooks, Julia Weaver, Laura Gigee, Marie Adcox, Winfred Smith, Billy Bowman, Richard Col nett, Carles Buffkin, Marjorie Cliff, Freda Mae Kirk, Charlene Parker, Monnie Monroe, Mable Gregory, Jes sie Carter, Glenn Cavineas, . Lessie Lea, Florence Wicker, Nell Pryor, Ralph Pryor, Drewy Troutman, Mar tin Yow, Margarite De Yoe, Pauline Adcox, Louise Hinson, Lois Tyrer, Stowe Peele, Edna Monroe, Hazel Frye, Dorothy Cole, Fannie Mae Mor^ tan, Josephine Weaver, Pauline But- ner, Katherine Butner, La Nilta Wim- berley,, Margaret McKeithen Jones, Howard Russel, Woodrow Bobbitt, J. K. Melvin, Jr., Robert Maurer, Rich ard Johnson. XHe Arlc Southern Pines North Carolina Country Day School for Children with Kindergarten ITept. A limited number of boarders received. APPLY TO PRINCIPAL WHITBSE/IK. A small deposit is all you need...Only . a few minutes will show you the greatest buy in radio today, the totally new micro^ synchronous, screen-grid five-circuit Victor Radio NEW VICTOR RA- DIO R-35. 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