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)L. 10, NO. 48.
SPRINGS
LAKEVIEW
MANI.EY
PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
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of the Sandhill Territo. V V Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 31, 1930.
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FIVE CENTS
i)NE KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
NORTH OF VASS
(' ry Teal Killed When Ford
He Is Driving Collides
With Truck
Plant of the Pinehurst Silk Mills Located at Hemp, N. C*
PARKED CAR BLAMED
Carey W. Teal, 32, of McFarlan
killed instantly and two others,
’ elderly man and his daughter
names have not been learned
■ ere, said to be from New York, were
' hired in an automobile-truck colU-
.11 three miles north of Vass on route
.0 shortly before 12:00 o^clock Sat
urday night. It is the general opin
ion that an old car with both front
tiies missing, which was abandoned
n the side of the highway a few min
utes before was the cause of the fatal
accident.
Mr. Teal, who was an automobile
salesman with headquarters at Dur-
Imm, was driving southward on his
way to his home at McFarlan, while
the truck was proceeding northward,
and they met opposite the abandoned
a-r. It is thought that the truck driv
en' did not see the car parked on his
side of the road until he was almost
upon it and there was not room for
him to go between the two cars. The
front of Mr. Teel’s car was demolish
ed and he was killed without being
thrown from his seat.
The body of the deceased was car
ried to McFarlan on Sunday and fun
eral services were held from the
Methodist church at 3:30 Monday af
ternoon. Surviving are the wife and
two children, a little six-year-old hoy
and a baby girl, the mother and fath
er, Mr. arid Mrs. C. G. Teal of Mc
Farlan, and other relatives. John
Gaddy of Vass is a cousin of the
accident victim, and attended the fun-
•ral.
A passing bus carried the New York
ouple to a Sanford hospital. Their
injuries are not thought to be ser
ious. A coroner’s jury exonerated the
driver of the truck from blame.
Carthage Vets Plan
For Armistice Day
Joseph G. Henson Post Will
stage Celebration in Court-
hoiie, Orga^iize Auxiliary
The Joseph G. Henson Post No. 12,
A nerican Legion, met on October 27
iit the Carthage Hotel with B. C.
A'allace, commander, acting as host
0 the legionaires, their wives and
f iends. Hon. U. L. Spence was a
^^ iest and the speaker of the even
ing.
The Joseph G. Henson Post, spon-
or of the Moore County Agricultural
Fair held October 14-18, expressed a
esiie to thank the citizens of the
county for their loyal support to the
and went on record as standing
ieady to sponsor the 1931 fair should
t’ ' people so desire. Criticisms and
>uj>-gestions will be welcomed.
A motion that the Joseph G. Hen-
s .n Post No. 12 hold an Armistice
I'ay celebration at the court house
.! Carthage on November 11, begin-
n;ng at 11:00 a. m. was made and
carried and a committee composed of
G. Wallace, O. B. Welch and the
Hev. W". S. Golden was appointed to
orange a program for the celebra-
n. The speaker will be announced
^*r.
'■Vives and mothers of the legion-
aires began the organization of a le-
gioii auxiliary and elected Mrs. John
’ asley president and Mrs. Gart Wal-
€ secretary. Plans for completing
organization at an early date are
* oing forward, and all who are eligi-
th to membership in the auxiliary are
ur^ed to communicate with the olfi-
in order that they may become
barter members.
i>ORRIS GREY PLUMMER |
BRIDE OF J. S. RUGGLES
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Plummer, of
Wilmington, last Sunday, October 26,
announced the marriuge of their
<laughter, Doris Grey, to John Sum-
^«er Ruggles, of Southern Pines. The
<^eremony took place Friday, March
at the First Presbyterian church,
Haeford. The young couple will re-
in Southern Pines.
County Political Situation
Awaits Election Returns
Hemp Silk Nllls Purchased by
Spencer Love and Associates
Wants New Hat!
Claude Leavitt Wants Head-
Piece Which He Can
Color
Over at Black’s mills, Tom Ca
gle came down from Carthage to
get a little meal. He has a knack
abuot a grist mill and he turned
in to help Claude Leavitt with the
grinding. He says Claude runs
night and day, grinding a peck of
corn after breakfast another peck
after dinner and a peck after sup
per. He mentioned also that the
meal is ground so scientifically
that the bag holds the grist when
the grain comes in will not hold it
when it is ground and put back,
which brought up the question of
taking more toll, but of course too
much is not to be said about toli.
Leavitt says he has to get a new
hat as the one he has is white and
it does not show the flour color
that an industrious miller should
constantly wear. He wants a new
one that is black to color well.
Assures Permanence of This In
dustry and Plant Will
Be Enlarged
D. A. R. Win Meet
Next Tuesday Evening
Make Appeal for Supplies for
Imigrant Work at Ellis
Island
The Alfred Moore Chapter D. A.
R. will meet with Mrs. S. B. Rich
ardson at her home in Southern Pines,
luesday, November 4, at 2:30 p. m.
The members are urged to bring
thread, worsted and lengths of cloth
a yard or more in length. These are
to be sent to Ellis Island, New York,
where they will furnish woik for im-
igrants who are being detained there
pending outcome of their applications
for entry into this country. It is
stated that employment of this kind
does much to keep these people con
tented while thus detained. If you
are not a member of the D. A. R.
and ’mave something which you wish
to contribute to this worthy work,
you may call Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson
over the telephone and she will see
that your contributions are called for
and delivered to the meeting.
Bion H. Butler
For some weeks negotiations have
been going on which have just cul
minated in the purchase of the silk
mills at Hemp by Spencer Love, of
Burlington, and associates, who have
among them ample caprtal, ample
experience in the manufacture and
handling of rayon silk goods, and a
place in the rayon industry that gives
to the mills a prospect that looks
more than ordinarily good.
The mill, which has been running
Vv’ith 96 looms, is to see its capacity
increased at once, as an equal num
ber of new looms has been bought,
and are now on the way, and it is
expected that with a month or so they
will be in operation. Ultimately it
is- the expectation that the mill will
be enlarged to carry on its work.
About 100 hands are employed now,
and with the additional looms to be
installed that number will be increas
ed to two-thirds as many more. By
the Christmas holidi^vs it is believed
the force will have reached that num
ber, and the output of woven goods
wiW reach 65,000 yards a week of
rayon dress goods, crepes, spreads,
draperies, eac., of a high type. Help
is plentiful in the neighborhood, of
good quality, and with experience and
training. S. A. Lovelace, who has been
with the mill for some time, and wlil
continue, is a rayon man of scientif
ic training, coming here from Ten
nessee where he has been in the tex
tile industry for a number of years.
He says the quality of the labor in
this section is of the best, coming
from the homes of the vicinity. Nel
son H. Harte, who is another rayon
man. with training at Gastonia and
Burlington, is also a technical man.
The organization which secures the
mill has mills at Burlington, Fayette-
KIWANIS NOW
ARRANGING m
“XMAS DADDF
Annual Distribution of Necessi
ties and Toys is Planned by
Committee
PUBLIC MAY HELP
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Sandhills Winter
Resident Weds
The Kiwanis Club is arranging for
its annual “Christmas Daddy” distri
bution of necessities, toys and Christ
mas good things to a limited number
of the needy poor throughout the
county, and the committee in charge
v/ould appreciate it if those over the
county knowing of families (especially
with children) in need in their com
munities and who rnigh': be helped
with clothing and for whom there
would probably be no Christmas ex
cept for outside aid, they would
communicate this information to the
chairman of the committee, P. Frank
Buchan of Southern Pines, giving him
fi.ll information, including names and
lesidences of the proposed objects of
this charity, with names and age^ of
children. Please be sure to give as
nearly as'^ssfb^e'all the desired in
formation -and especially the exact lo
cation of the families.
It is quite possible that there will
be more needy whose names are furn
ished than can be helped, and it is
requested that those furnishing names
make no mention of having done so
to those whose names are furnished.
Also, it is hoped that the residents
of the section will collect cast off
toys that may be easily mended i.nd
; save the same to be turned over to
I the representatives of this committee,
which will arrange to call at the dif
ferent homes in the section for them.
The committee will also collect suit
able and practical articles of wearing
apparel, especially children’s cloth
ing. It will not be interested in fin
ery, evening gowns and the like, but
those having outgrown or cast, off
articles of children’s clothing, which
may be serviceable, will confer a great
favor if they will have the same col
lected and cleaned up that the com-*
mittee may later make a collection
and distribute to needy families.
Vote Early!
It is to the interest of all con
cerned that voters next Tuesday
vote as early in the day as possi
ble. The election officials will es
pecially appreciate it if you get
your vote i!n early thus aiding
them in the performance of their
duty. The candidates, regardless
of party, are anxious that the vot
ing be done as early as possible
in the day thus advoiding a big
rush during the last few mmutes
of voting, which might give rise
to irregularities as apt to work
against your favorite candidate as
for his. Vote early!
Pilot Observer Reaches Conclu
sion That Election Will Be
Closer Than Usual
On to Raleigh” Slogan
of Local Kiwanians
Invitation Will Be Extended for
Next Year’s Convention to
Meet In Pinehurst
Miss Katherine Williams Be
comes Bride of Capt.
Robb MacKie
Moving Pictures Being
Made of Quail Hunting
Grantland Rice Outfit is Making
Series of Pictures at Moss-
giel This Week
The fine -art and sport of quail hunt
ing will be depicted in its every de
tail as the Grantland Rice Sportlight
Motion Picture Company under the
direction of their producer. Jack Ea
ton, makes a series of hunting pic
tures this week at the Mossgiel Hunt
ing Club Grounds at Blue’s Bridge on
Drowning Creek, near Aberdeen.
There will be ahout a dozen local
hunters represented in these pictures,
and about 35 of their choicest bird
dogs, and a typical hunting scene. One
of the choicest of North Carolina’s
sports, will be shown from start to
finish in every detail.
The weather is fine for this work,
and some excellent pictures are ex-
pected to be made, which will be
shown on the screens of our moving
picture houses this fall and winter.
Miss Bessie Cameron, second grade
teacher in the Vass-Lakeview schools,
has been in since Tuesday with in
fluenza. Her many friends hope that
she may be out again soon.
Miss Katherine Elizabeth Williams,
daughter of Mr3. Alfred Henry Wil
liams, 1408 Genesee street, Utica, N.
Y., was married to Capt. Robb Steere
McKie, son of Mrs. Robb MacKie, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Montclair, N. J.,
Saturday, October 25 at 4:00 o’clock
in the First Presbyterian Church of
ntica.
The ceremony was performed by
Dr. Louis H. Holden, Ph. D., D. D.
of the Theological Seminary, Naw
Brunswick, N. J., assisted by the Rev,
Theodore Spears, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church.
The bride, given in marriage by her
brothjfer, Harold Darrow Willia|m3
wore a gown of ivory satin. Her tul’e
veil, was capped with Alencon lace
and orange blossoms. She carried
white gardinias and lilies of the val
ley.
The matron of honor, Mrs. Ray
mond Miller Howe, sister to the bnde,
wore a gown of deep gold velvet and
a hat of golden brown velvet. She
carried an arm bouquet of bronze
chrysanthemums.
The bridesmaids were the Mispe.
Marguerite F. Williams, sister of the
-bride, E. Janet Low and Mae Swan-
cott, all of Utica, and Mrs. Earl L.
Edmond of Norwalk, Conn. They
were gowned in a golden-yellow crepe-
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RED COTTON ON McNEILL
FARM YIELDING WELL
Dune McCrimmon was down from
Vass Thursday forenoon, and he says
of his red cotton that he picked and
ginned so far 38 bales, averaging
about 525 pounds each, and that he
expects to take off probably fifteen
to twenty bales more, which would
make over a bale to the acre from
the entire 55 acres. He also says that
he does not know another cotton field
, of that size that will produce as much
cotton this fall any place in this sec
tion, nor cotton that is of the charac
ter for the spindle that this seems to
be. Examination at the mill at Vass
gives it a good reputation, putting it
in the class of inch staple. The seed is
being kept separate and recleaned,
and a large amount of it has already
been sold, Mr. McCrimmon says he
expects to plant freely of the cotton
for next year’s crop, and that his ex
periment so far appears to be a de
cided success.
VASS BAPTIST CHURCH
GETTING COAT OF PAINT
The Baptist are treating their
church building to a new coat of
paint, which is greatly improving its
appearance. When they succeed in
carrying out the plans they have made
for planting the church grounds, the
Baptists will have a most attractive
place. The church is beautifully lo
cated on the hill.
At this week’s meeting of the Ki
wanis Club of Aberdeen, whose mem
bership is made up of men over the
different communities of the Sand
hills section, it was enthusiastically
agreed that the Club should be repre
sented as nearly one hundred per cent
as possible at the District Meeting to
be held next week at Raleigh, and a
large majority of the members have
expressed their intention to attend this
convention; an “On to Raleigh Com
mittee” is actively functioning and the
Aberdeen Club is certain to be well
represented there.
The club also determined to extend
I?, pressing invitation for the 1981
j>istrict Convention to be held at
Pinehurst. A like invitation was made
at the Greenville Convention last year,
and in the voting, it being a three-
cornered contest, Raleigh having just
a few more votes than Pinehurst, the
Aberdeen invitation was withdrawn
?nd the representatives of the club
moved the unanimous vote of the
convention for Raleigh, and since last
year’s invitation was so well receiv
ed and since Raleigh will now have
had the convention, it is believed that
the District will be glad to hold its
1931 meeting at Pinehurst.
The extraordinarily fine lacilities
afforded at Pinehurst for conventions
are too well known to need advertise
ment. Theofficials of this resort have
been consulted with reference to the
invitation and have expressed them
selves as hoping that the invitation
v/ill be accepted and, as usual, promise
to afford every possible facility for
the convenience and enjoyment of the
delegates.
The club had been boosting Lieuten
ant Governor Robert N. Page, for Gov
ernor of the Carolinas District and
promises of support had been receiv
ed from all over the district, but Mr.
Page hias .announced that on account
of his many other engagements lor
next year, he would be unable to
serve, and his name will not be offer
ed to the convention.
The meeting, which was held in the
Gichner-Johnson Building at Aberdeen
was enlivened by a number of vo
cal selections beautifully sung by Mrs.
Kennedy, accompanied by Mrs. Els-
worth Giles at the piano. This is the
second time that the club has been
favored by Mrs. Kennedy and she was
enthusiastically received. Arthur
Newcomb made a most interesting
talk on psychology.
I This week closes one of the most
J novel political campaigns Moore coun-
I ty has known in recent years, and at
^ the same time one of the most per-
I plexing, for so many features enter
i that are not familiar in local politics
^ that it is • a good guesser, who, like
old Tom Watson, knows whore he is
at. In the good old days Moore had
a fashion of turning up a Republican
majority, without any frills or trim
mings. Then it fell into the habit of a
Democratic majority. The principal po
litical creed was to stand by the
party, to turn the rascals out and to
save the county for democracy or
Republicancy, or whatever might be
the turn of the cards. Then the war
injected some new things, and then
came the prohibition influence, which
is still getting livelier, and the various
other matters that have made new
alignments, and this fall .more vigor
ous prophesyings concerning next
Tuesday’s results are in evidence than
most of the old timers can recall in
any previous elcetion.
The Pilot has it on reliable author
ity that Colin Spencer v;ill carry the
county, and some folks say :he dis
trict. Reliable authority also says
that he will not. Equally good author
ity says Bailey will have a big run
away with everything, and equally
good authority say he will find his
hide on the fence, and this complica
tion is mixed farther by Rascob’s ut
terance of Monday night in which he
advocates the repeal of the prohibition
measures and the sale of liquor to pro
duce a tremendous tax for public rev
enues. Different reports are made on
the different candidates for commis
sioner, which seems the most ener
getically contested portion of the
county ticket. Taxation and county
' expenses have been discussed vigor-
, cusly, some times without sufficient
I information, and at other times with
i pretty full knowledge of the situation.
, Personalities have not entered the
I matter to an ap;:reciable extent, which
, is an agreeable phase of the cam-
I paign. No one has been accused of
crookedness or unfitness or undesir
able character.
Nobody, as far as The Pilot has in
quired, seems to expect an easy vic
tory, no matter who wins. A close
observer who says Bailey will tmve
a sufficient margin, is balanced by
a close observer who says Pritchard
will lead his ticket in the county.
Some predict that Spencer will have
easier sledding with two newcomers
in the field, while others say that
Hammer would have been easier for
him to defeat than the new men. The
presumption is that Spencer will get
the votes of many of his friends who
are politically of the other faith, the
motive being to show county loyalty.
Both sides are w^orking, and perhaps
more than at any time in the past
for a long time to hold the congress
man. Spence seems to be looked on as
reasonably safe, and Murdoch John
son equally so unless the other coun
ties revolt. Wilcox, Harrington, Hum
ber and Boyette have plain siailing.
McDonald, for Sheriff, has been
criticised by some who insist that the
sheriff’s office is a sinecure, with lit
tle to do, and that he should get the
BOYD IMPROVED IN HEALTH
James Boyd, who has been abroad
fc.ll summer, has not been very well
during part of his visit to Europe,
but recent letters say that he is in
much better condition now, and will
come home shortly with prospect of
better health than he has known for
some time.
GETS AUTO AS PRIZE
Friends are congratulating Mrs.
Fred Weaver on winning a Ford Car
for obtaining 155 subscriptions to the
News & Observer. Mrs. Weaver went
to Raleigh on last Tuesday and drove
her car back.
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RED CROSS WILL MEET AT
PINEBLUFF, NOVEMBER 4
Mrs. R. P. Gibson, Red Cross se«3-
retary, makes the following announce
ment:
The Moore County Chapter Amer
ican Red Cross will meet at the Bap
tist church in Pinebluff on Tuesaay,
November 4, at 11:30 a. m., at which
time supplies for the Annu»al Red
Cross drive will be given out to the
local branch chairmen.
The regular meeting will be preced
ed by a luncheon to be served by the
Pinebluff ladies. A cordial invitation
is extended to those interested in tlie
work to attend this luncheon and
meeting. Luncheon will be served at
12 noon. Let every village in the
county send as many representatives
as possible.